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Heike Feldhaar

Researcher at University of Bayreuth

Publications -  113
Citations -  3326

Heike Feldhaar is an academic researcher from University of Bayreuth. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Biology. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 94 publications receiving 2724 citations. Previous affiliations of Heike Feldhaar include University of Osnabrück & Goethe University Frankfurt.

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Bacterial symbionts as mediators of ecologically important traits of insect hosts

Heike Feldhaar
- 01 Oct 2011 - 
TL;DR: Bacterial symbionts play a prominent role in insect nutritional ecology by aiding in digestion of food or providing nutrients that are limited or lacking in the diet.
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Nutritional upgrading for omnivorous carpenter ants by the endosymbiont Blochmannia

Heike Feldhaar, +6 more
- 30 Oct 2007 - 
TL;DR: Endosymbiotic Blochmannia nutritionally upgrade the diet of C. floridanus hosts to provide essential amino acids, and that it may also play a role in nitrogen recycling via its functional urease.
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Early stage litter decomposition across biomes

Ika Djukic, +309 more
- 01 Jul 2018 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the potential litter decomposition was investigated by using standardized substrates (Rooibos and Green tea) for comparison of litter mass loss at 336 sites (ranging from

Food and shelter: how resources influence ant ecology

Nico Blüthgen, +1 more
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Bacterial microbiota associated with ants of the genus Tetraponera

Sascha Stoll, +3 more
- 01 Mar 2007 - 
TL;DR: The bacterial diversity associated with several representatives of three species groups of the arboreal ant genus Tetraponera was examined based on genes encoding 16S rRNA, citrate synthase and a structural protein of the dinitrogenase complex ( nifH).