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Chair of Conservation Biology and Forest Ecology

Julia Rothacher

Julia Rothacher

University of Würzburg
Campus Hubland Nord
Emil-Fischer-Str. 32
97074 Würzburg
Building: 32
Room: R6
Phone: +49 931 31 84210
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0083-7893
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  • Forest ecology and nature conservation and biodiversity
  •  Soundscape ecology and bioacoustics
  •  Impact of climate change on insect communities
  •  Microclimatic influences on insect stress responses
  •  Multitaxa approaches to the analysis of biodiversity and ecosystem processes
  • Beetles, birds and bats

2025[ to top ]
  • Nest mass in forest tits increases with elevation and decreasing body mass, promoting reproductive success. Wild, Clara; Brandl, Roland; Decker, Orsi; Hochrein, Sophia; Ingrosso, Andrea; Mallick, Soumen; Mitesser, Oliver; Rothacher, Julia; Thorn, Simon; Müller, Jörg. In Journal of Avian Biology, 2025(4). Wiley, 2025.
  • The impact of tree mortality and post‐disturbance management on insect diversity in temperate forests: Insights from a replicated experiment. Rothacher, Julia; Seidl, Rupert; Thom, Dominik; Kortmann, Mareike; Chao, Anne; Chiu, Chun‐Ho; Heibl, Christoph; Hothorn, Torsten; Mitesser, Oliver; Mori, Akira S.; Morinière, Jérôme; Pierick, Kerstin; Wild, Clara; Wild, Nina; Müller, Jörg. In Journal of Applied Ecology. Wiley, 2025.
  • Testing the soundscape response to silvicultural interventions in a controlled before-and-after experiment. Rothacher, Julia; Mitesser, Oliver; Müller, Sandra; Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael; Buřivalová, Zuzana; Müller, Jörg. In Biological Conservation, 306, p. 111116. Elsevier BV, 2025.
  • A shortcut to sample coverage standardization in metabarcoding data provides new insights into land-use effects on insect diversity. Kortmann, Mareike; Chao, Anne; Chiu, Chun-Huo; Heibl, Christoph; Mitesser, Oliver; Morinière, Jérôme; Bozicevic, Vedran; Hothorn, Torsten; Rothacher, Julia; Englmeier, Jana; Ewald, Jörg; Fricke, Ute; Ganuza, Cristina; Haensel, Maria; Moning, Christoph; Redlich, Sarah; Rojas-Botero, Sandra; Tobisch, Cynthia; Uhler, Johannes; Zhang, Jie; Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf; Müller, Jörg. In Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 292(2046). The Royal Society, 2025.
  • Reply to: Weather anomalies cannot explain insect decline. Müller, Jörg; Hothorn, Torsten; Yuan, Ye; Seibold, Sebastian; Mitesser, Oliver; Rothacher, Julia; Freund, Julia; Wild, Clara; Wolz, Marina; Menzel, Annette. In Nature, 639(8054), pp. E12-E13. 2025.
2024[ to top ]
  • Weather explains the decline and rise of insect biomass over 34 years. Müller, Jörg; Hothorn, Torsten; Yuan, Ye; Seibold, Sebastian; Mitesser, Oliver; Rothacher, Julia; Freund, Julia; Wild, Clara; Wolz, Marina; Menzel, Annette. In Nature, 628(8007), pp. 349–354. 2024.
2023[ to top ]
  • Logging operations creating snags, logs, and stumps under open and closed canopies promote stand-scale beetle diversity. Rothacher, Julia; Hagge, Jonas; Bässler, Claus; Brandl, Roland; Gruppe, Axel; Müller, Jörg. In Forest Ecology and Management, 540, p. 121022. Elsevier, 2023.
2022[ to top ]
  • Forest dieback in a protected area triggers the return of the primeval forest specialistPeltis grossa(Coleoptera, Trogossitidae). Busse, Annika; Cizek, Lukas; Čížková, Pavla; Drag, Lukas; Dvorak, Vladimir; Foit, Jiří; Heurich, Marco; Hubený, Pavel; Kašák, Josef; Kittler, Florian; Kozel, Petr; Lettenmaier, Ludwig; Nigl, Ludwig; Procházka, Jiří; Rothacher, Julia; Straubinger, Cornelia; Thorn, Simon; Müller, Jörg. In Conservation Science and Practice, 4(2). Wiley, 2022.