List of works - Michael Traugott

A broadly applicable COI primer pair and an efficient single-tube amplicon library preparation protocol for metabarcoding

scientific article published on 11 December 2018

A simple and cost-effective molecular method to track predation on Drosophila suzukii in the field

A two-dimensional pooling approach towards efficient detection of parasitoid and pathogen DNA at low infestation rates

scientific article published in 2016

A validation scale to determine the readiness of environmental DNA assays for routine species monitoring

Advances in multiplex PCR: balancing primer efficiencies and improving detection success

scientific article published on October 2012

Amplification facilitators and multiplex PCR: Tools to overcome PCR-inhibition in DNA-gut-content analysis of soil-living invertebrates

article

An assay validation framework to compare and evaluate targeted environmental DNA assays for routine species monitoring

scientific article published in 2021

An effective molecular approach for assessing cereal aphid-parasitoid-endosymbiont networks.

scientific article published on 9 June 2017

Biology, ecology, and control of elaterid beetles in agricultural land

scientific article

Combining molecular gut content analysis and functional response models shows how body size affects prey choice in soil predators

Comparing four mitochondrial genes in earthworms – Implications for identification, phylogenetics, and discovery of cryptic species

article

Comparing three types of dietary samples for prey DNA decay in an insect generalist predator.

scientific article published on 6 March 2018

Consumer identity but not food availability affects carabid diet in cereal crops

scientific article published in 2023

DNA-based analysis of regurgitates: a noninvasive approach to examine the diet of invertebrate consumers.

scientific article published on 23 March 2012

Detecting ingested plant DNA in soil-living insect larvae.

scientific article

Detecting key parasitoids of lepidopteran pests by multiplex PCR

Detecting predation and scavenging by DNA gut-content analysis: a case study using a soil insect predator-prey system.

scientific article published on 29 October 2004

Detection of prey DNA in bat feces: Effects of time since feeding, meal size, and prey identity

scientific article published in 2021

Detection of seed DNA in regurgitates of granivorous carabid beetles

scientific article published on 14 August 2015

Diagnostic PCR assays to unravel food web interactions in cereal crops with focus on biological control of aphids

scientific article published on 11 August 2015

Diet analysis in piscivorous birds: What can the addition of molecular tools offer?

scientific article published on 23 February 2017

Diet of generalist predators reflects effects of cropping period and farming system on extra- and intraguild prey

scientific article

Dispersal abilities of adult click beetles in arable land revealed by analysis of carbon stable isotopes

article

Drought-induced reduction in uptake of recently photosynthesized carbon by springtails and mites in alpine grassland

scientific article

Dwarf shrub litter as a food source for macro-decomposers in alpine pastureland

scientific article published in 2009

Earthworm primers for DNA-based gut content analysis and their cross-reactivity in a multi-species system

article

Ecosystem function in predator-prey food webs-confronting dynamic models with empirical data

scholarly article by Alva Curtsdotter et al published 5 August 2018 in Journal of Animal Ecology

Editorial 2012: shaping the profile of Journal of Pest Science

Effects of plant identity and diversity on the dietary choice of a soil-living insect herbivore.

scientific article

Effects of prey quality and predator body size on prey DNA detection success in a centipede predator.

scientific article published on 3 February 2014

Effects of the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria brongniartii on the non-target predator Poecilus versicolor (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

Empirically Characterising Trophic Networks

scientific article published in 2013

Endoparasitism in cereal aphids: molecular analysis of a whole parasitoid community.

scientific article

Endpoint PCR coupled with capillary electrophoresis (celPCR) provides sensitive and quantitative measures of environmental DNA in singleplex and multiplex reactions

scientific article published on 23 July 2021

Evaluating 15N/14N and 13C/12C isotope ratio analysis to investigate trophic relationships of elaterid larvae (Coleoptera: Elateridae)

article

Evaluation of an automated protocol for efficient and reliable DNA extraction of dietary samples.

scientific article

Evaluation of three molecular markers for identification of European primary parasitoids of cereal aphids and their hyperparasitoids

scientific article

Facultative bacterial endosymbionts shape parasitoid food webs in natural host populations: A correlative analysis

scientific article published on 16 July 2018

Fish as predators and prey: DNA-based assessment of their role in food webs

scientific article published on 22 May 2020

Food Web Designer: a flexible tool to visualize interaction networks

scientific article published on 9 August 2015

Generalist predators disrupt parasitoid aphid control by direct and coincidental intraguild predation.

scientific article

Group-specific multiplex PCR detection systems for the identification of flying insect prey

scientific article published on 19 December 2014

Habitat heterogeneity induces rapid changes in the feeding behaviour of generalist arthropod predators

scientific article published on 10 January 2018

Handling of targeted amplicon sequencing data focusing on index hopping and demultiplexing using a nested metabarcoding approach in ecology

scientific article published on 30 September 2021

High Redundancy as well as Complementary Prey Choice Characterize Generalist Predator Food Webs in Agroecosystems.

scientific article published on 23 May 2018

How generalist herbivores exploit belowground plant diversity in temperate grasslands.

scientific article

Identifying plant DNA in the sponging–feeding insect pest Drosophila suzukii

article

Impact of abiotic factors on predator-prey interactions: DNA-based gut content analysis in a microcosm experiment.

scientific article

Increased decomposer diversity accelerates and potentially stabilises litter decomposition

scientific article published on April 2015

Intraguild predation in pioneer predator communities of alpine glacier forelands

scientific article

Intraguild predation is independent of landscape context and does not affect the temporal dynamics of aphids in cereal fields

scientific article published in 2019

Introduction: Special issue on species interactions, ecological networks and community dynamics – Untangling the entangled bank using molecular techniques

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Landscape complexity promotes resilience of biological pest control to climate change

scientific article published on 26 May 2021

Lateral and longitudinal fish environmental DNA distribution in dynamic riverine habitats

scientific article published in 2020

Maximizing dietary information retrievable from carcasses of Great Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo using a combined morphological and molecular analytical approach

scientific article published on 15 December 2015

Molecular analysis indicates high levels of carabid weed seed consumption in cereal fields across Central Europe.

scientific article published on 9 April 2019

Molecular analysis of predation: a review of best practice for DNA-based approaches

scientific article

Molecular identification of adult and juvenile linyphiid and theridiid spiders in Alpine glacier foreland communities

scientific article

Molecular identification of detritivorous soil invertebrates from their faecal pellets

scholarly article by Julia Seeber et al published August 2010 in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Molecular prey identification in Central European piscivores.

scientific article published on 06 June 2015

Molecular scatology: how to improve prey DNA detection success in avian faeces?

scientific article published on 9 March 2011

Monitoring spawning migrations of potamodromous fish species via eDNA

scientific article published on 28 October 2019

Noncrop flowering plants restore top-down herbivore control in agricultural fields.

scientific article

Occurrence of Agriotes wireworms in Austrian agricultural land

scientific article published on 13 October 2011

Optimizing methods for PCR-based analysis of predation

scientific article

PCR-based species identification of Agriotes larvae.

scientific article published in November 2010

Parasitoid control of aphids in organic and conventional farming systems

article

Plant diversity affects behavior of generalist root herbivores, reduces crop damage, and enhances crop yield.

scientific article

Quantifizierung von Fischbeständen mittels eDNA in alpinen Fließgewässern

Rapid plant identification using species- and group-specific primers targeting chloroplast DNA

scientific article

Resilience of ecosystem processes: a new approach shows that functional redundancy of biological control services is reduced by landscape simplification

scientific article published on 16 July 2019

Resolving the predator first paradox: Arthropod predator food webs in pioneer sites of glacier forelands

scientific article published on 07 September 2018

Secondary predation by omnivores: Cereal aphid consumption bears no risk of misinterpretation in <scp>DNA</scp>‐based diet analysis

scientific article published in 2023

Sex-specific prey partitioning in breeding piscivorous birds examined via a novel, noninvasive approach

scientific article published on 14 August 2018

Sparing spiders: faeces as a non-invasive source of DNA

scientific article

Species composition and seasonal dynamics of aphid parasitoids and hyperparasitoids in wheat fields in northern China

scientific article published on 25 October 2017

Structural and functional characteristics of high alpine soil macro-invertebrate communities

scientific article published on 09 April 2018

Testing the validity of functional response models using molecular gut content analysis for prey choice in soil predators

scientific article published on 11 December 2017

The Effect of Activity, Energy Use, and Species Identity on Environmental DNA Shedding of Freshwater Fish

scientific article published in 2021

The amount of environmental DNA increases with freshwater crayfish density and over time

scientific article published in 2021

The effect of plant identity and mixed feeding on the detection of seed DNA in regurgitates of carabid beetles

scientific article published on 25 October 2018

The effect of plant identity and the level of plant decay on molecular gut content analysis in a herbivorous soil insect.

scientific article published on 20 November 2012

The effect of predator identity on post-feeding prey DNA detection success in soil-dwelling macro-invertebrates

scholarly article by Thomas Waldner et al published August 2013 in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

The feeding ecology of elaterid larvae in central European arable land: New perspectives based on naturally occurring stable isotopes

The influence of meal size on prey DNA detectability in piscivorous birds.

scientific article published on 04 August 2017

The resilience of weed seedbank regulation by carabid beetles, at continental scales, to alternative prey

scientific article published on 09 November 2020

Trophic and Non-Trophic Interactions in a Biodiversity Experiment Assessed by Next-Generation Sequencing

scientific article published on 9 February 2016

Understanding the ecology of wireworms and improving their control: a special issue

Unveiling soil food web links: New PCR assays for detection of prey DNA in the gut of soil arthropod predators

scholarly article by Bernhard Eitzinger et al published February 2013 in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

When to use next generation sequencing or diagnostic PCR in diet analyses

scientific article published on 04 February 2019

Which prey sustains cold-adapted invertebrate generalist predators in arable land? Examining prey choices by molecular gut-content analysis

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List of works by Michael Traugott

A broadly applicable COI primer pair and an efficient single-tube amplicon library preparation protocol for metabarcoding

A simple and cost-effective molecular method to track predation on Drosophila suzukii in the field

A two-dimensional pooling approach towards efficient detection of parasitoid and pathogen DNA at low infestation rates

A validation scale to determine the readiness of environmental DNA assays for routine species monitoring

Advances in multiplex PCR: balancing primer efficiencies and improving detection success

Amplification facilitators and multiplex PCR: Tools to overcome PCR-inhibition in DNA-gut-content analysis of soil-living invertebrates

An assay validation framework to compare and evaluate targeted environmental DNA assays for routine species monitoring

An effective molecular approach for assessing cereal aphid-parasitoid-endosymbiont networks.

Biology, ecology, and control of elaterid beetles in agricultural land

Combining molecular gut content analysis and functional response models shows how body size affects prey choice in soil predators

Comparing four mitochondrial genes in earthworms – Implications for identification, phylogenetics, and discovery of cryptic species

Comparing three types of dietary samples for prey DNA decay in an insect generalist predator.

Consumer identity but not food availability affects carabid diet in cereal crops

DNA-based analysis of regurgitates: a noninvasive approach to examine the diet of invertebrate consumers.

Detecting ingested plant DNA in soil-living insect larvae.

Detecting key parasitoids of lepidopteran pests by multiplex PCR

Detecting predation and scavenging by DNA gut-content analysis: a case study using a soil insect predator-prey system.

Detection of prey DNA in bat feces: Effects of time since feeding, meal size, and prey identity

Detection of seed DNA in regurgitates of granivorous carabid beetles

Diagnostic PCR assays to unravel food web interactions in cereal crops with focus on biological control of aphids

Diet analysis in piscivorous birds: What can the addition of molecular tools offer?

Diet of generalist predators reflects effects of cropping period and farming system on extra- and intraguild prey

Dispersal abilities of adult click beetles in arable land revealed by analysis of carbon stable isotopes

Drought-induced reduction in uptake of recently photosynthesized carbon by springtails and mites in alpine grassland

Dwarf shrub litter as a food source for macro-decomposers in alpine pastureland

Earthworm primers for DNA-based gut content analysis and their cross-reactivity in a multi-species system

Ecosystem function in predator-prey food webs-confronting dynamic models with empirical data

Editorial 2012: shaping the profile of Journal of Pest Science

Effects of plant identity and diversity on the dietary choice of a soil-living insect herbivore.

Effects of prey quality and predator body size on prey DNA detection success in a centipede predator.

Effects of the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria brongniartii on the non-target predator Poecilus versicolor (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

Empirically Characterising Trophic Networks

Endoparasitism in cereal aphids: molecular analysis of a whole parasitoid community.

Endpoint PCR coupled with capillary electrophoresis (celPCR) provides sensitive and quantitative measures of environmental DNA in singleplex and multiplex reactions

Evaluating 15N/14N and 13C/12C isotope ratio analysis to investigate trophic relationships of elaterid larvae (Coleoptera: Elateridae)

Evaluation of an automated protocol for efficient and reliable DNA extraction of dietary samples.

Evaluation of three molecular markers for identification of European primary parasitoids of cereal aphids and their hyperparasitoids

Facultative bacterial endosymbionts shape parasitoid food webs in natural host populations: A correlative analysis

Fish as predators and prey: DNA-based assessment of their role in food webs

Food Web Designer: a flexible tool to visualize interaction networks

Generalist predators disrupt parasitoid aphid control by direct and coincidental intraguild predation.

Group-specific multiplex PCR detection systems for the identification of flying insect prey

Habitat heterogeneity induces rapid changes in the feeding behaviour of generalist arthropod predators

Handling of targeted amplicon sequencing data focusing on index hopping and demultiplexing using a nested metabarcoding approach in ecology

High Redundancy as well as Complementary Prey Choice Characterize Generalist Predator Food Webs in Agroecosystems.

How generalist herbivores exploit belowground plant diversity in temperate grasslands.

Identifying plant DNA in the sponging–feeding insect pest Drosophila suzukii

Impact of abiotic factors on predator-prey interactions: DNA-based gut content analysis in a microcosm experiment.

Increased decomposer diversity accelerates and potentially stabilises litter decomposition

Intraguild predation in pioneer predator communities of alpine glacier forelands

Intraguild predation is independent of landscape context and does not affect the temporal dynamics of aphids in cereal fields

Introduction: Special issue on species interactions, ecological networks and community dynamics – Untangling the entangled bank using molecular techniques

Landscape complexity promotes resilience of biological pest control to climate change

Lateral and longitudinal fish environmental DNA distribution in dynamic riverine habitats

Maximizing dietary information retrievable from carcasses of Great Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo using a combined morphological and molecular analytical approach

Molecular analysis indicates high levels of carabid weed seed consumption in cereal fields across Central Europe.

Molecular analysis of predation: a review of best practice for DNA-based approaches

Molecular identification of adult and juvenile linyphiid and theridiid spiders in Alpine glacier foreland communities

Molecular identification of detritivorous soil invertebrates from their faecal pellets

Molecular prey identification in Central European piscivores.

Molecular scatology: how to improve prey DNA detection success in avian faeces?

Monitoring spawning migrations of potamodromous fish species via eDNA

Noncrop flowering plants restore top-down herbivore control in agricultural fields.

Occurrence of Agriotes wireworms in Austrian agricultural land

Optimizing methods for PCR-based analysis of predation

PCR-based species identification of Agriotes larvae.

Parasitoid control of aphids in organic and conventional farming systems

Plant diversity affects behavior of generalist root herbivores, reduces crop damage, and enhances crop yield.

Quantifizierung von Fischbeständen mittels eDNA in alpinen Fließgewässern

Rapid plant identification using species- and group-specific primers targeting chloroplast DNA

Resilience of ecosystem processes: a new approach shows that functional redundancy of biological control services is reduced by landscape simplification

Resolving the predator first paradox: Arthropod predator food webs in pioneer sites of glacier forelands

Secondary predation by omnivores: Cereal aphid consumption bears no risk of misinterpretation in <scp>DNA</scp>‐based diet analysis

Sex-specific prey partitioning in breeding piscivorous birds examined via a novel, noninvasive approach

Sparing spiders: faeces as a non-invasive source of DNA

Species composition and seasonal dynamics of aphid parasitoids and hyperparasitoids in wheat fields in northern China

Structural and functional characteristics of high alpine soil macro-invertebrate communities

Testing the validity of functional response models using molecular gut content analysis for prey choice in soil predators

The Effect of Activity, Energy Use, and Species Identity on Environmental DNA Shedding of Freshwater Fish