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Prof. Dr. Nils Hein

former Coordinator CaBOL Project

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Mail: nils.hein [at] iliauni.edu.ge

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Associate Professor- School of Natural Sciences and Engineering at Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia

Coordinator Caucasus Leibniz Biodiversity Research Center (LBiC) at Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia

Research interests

Biogeography, Biodiversity, Alpine Ecology, Climatology, Life-history traits, Araneae

Projects

2021

Biodiversity Processing HUB™

How to overcome this recent biodiversity dilemma and speed up the availability of material with undescribed diversity?!?

Unit:

Department Arthropoda, Biobank, Chair Systematic Zoology, Mammalogy

Project lead:

Björn Rulik

Funding:

Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig

2020

CaBOL - Caucasus Barcode of Life

A Georgian-Armenian-German initiative to build research infrastructures and to explore and barcode the biodiversity of the Caucasus

Unit:

Directorate, Chair Systematic Zoology, Biobank, Department Arthropoda, Biodiversity Informatics, Diptera, Administration

Project lead:

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Misof

Funding:

Federal Ministry of Education and Research

2017

GGBC: Assessment, Monitoring and Management of Caucasian Biodiversity

A Georgian-German initiative to explore and barcode the biodiversity of the Caucasus area

Unit:

Directorate, Chair Systematic Zoology, Biobank, Department Arthropoda, Coleoptera, Mammalogy, Lepidoptera, Herpetology, Administration, ZFMK International Graduate School, Biodiversity Informatics, Metabarcoding, Myriapoda, Arachnids, Staff Council, Diptera, Hymenoptera, Comparative Insect Genomics

Project lead:

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Misof

Funding:

Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Publications

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2024

Hein, N., Astrin, J. J., Beckers, N., Giebner, H., Langen, K., Löffler, J., Misof, B. & Fonseca, V. G. (2024). Arthropod diversity in the alpine tundra using metabarcoding: Spatial and temporal differences in alpha‐and beta‐diversity. Ecology and Evolution, 14(2), e10969.

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https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10969

Rduch, V., Dey, L.-S., Ghazaryan, A., Husemann, M., Iankoshvili, G., Krammer, H.-J., Lambrecht, M., Marabuto, E., Mengual, X., Müller, B., Peters, R.S., Rulik, B., Salden, T., Silva-Brandão, K.L., Espeland, M., Thormann, J., Töpfer, T., Weiss, C., Żyła, D. & Hein, N. (2024): Exkursion in den Kaukasus: Der CaBOL BioBlitz 2022 in Armenien und Georgien. Koenigiana 18: 21-40

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Salden, T., Müller, B., Japoshvili, G., Hein, N., Ugrelidze, A., & Peters, R. S. (2024). First records of the Hymenoptera superfamilies and families Mymarommatoidea: Mymarommatidae and Stephanoidea: Stephanidae in Georgia. Caucasiana, 3, 145-150.

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Links:

https://doi.org/10.3897/caucasiana.3.e124925

Seropian, A., Bulbulashvili, N., Krammer, H. J., Thormann, J., Hein, N., Karalashvili, E., Kachlishvili, N. & Datunashvili, A. (2024). Picking pearls from the Silk Road: Insights into the spider (Arachnida, Araneae) diversity in Georgia from the Caucasus Barcode of Life (CaBOL) project. Part III. Caucasiana, 3, 89-118.

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https://doi.org/10.3897/caucasiana.3.e120883

Tarkhnishvili, D., Seropian, A., Erhardt, C., Kachlishvili, N., Krammer, H. J., & Hein, N. (2024). How dispersal rates depend on the prey capture strategy: A case study of Georgia's spiders. Ecology and Evolution, 14(5), e11372.

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Links:

https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11372

Wellenbeck, A., Fehrmann, L., Feilhauer, H., Schmidtlein, S., Misof, B., & Hein, N. (2024). Discriminating woody species assemblages from National Forest Inventory data based on phylogeny in Georgia. Ecology and Evolution, 14(7), e11569.

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Links:

https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11569

2023

Seropian, A., Arsenashvili, E., Bulbulashvili, N., Shubashishvili, A., Iankoshvili, G., Todua, M., Ananiashvili, A., Japarashvili, S., Chkhartisvhili, T., Memishishi, A., Balkhamishvili, S., Chitadze, B., Karalashvili, E., Mumladze, L., Hein, N. & Rulik, B. (2023). Into the unknown: the first barcode-assisted checklist of Psocoptera (Insecta, Psocodea) of Georgia with a census on country species richness. ZooKeys, 1168, 77.

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Links:

https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1168.103666

2022

Wehner, A., Hein, N., Beckers, N., Dobbert, S., Pape, R., & Löffler, J. (2022). Early snow melt and diverging thermal constraints control body size in arctic–alpine spiders. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.

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2021

Anthony, S. E., Buddle, C. M., Høye, T. T., Hein, N., Sinclair, B. J. (2021). Thermal acclimation has limited effect on the thermal tolerances of summer-collected Arctic and sub-Arctic wolf spiders. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology, Volume 257, 2021, 110974, ISSN 1095-6433, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2021.110974.

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2020

Kankaanpää, T., Vesterinen, E., Hardwick, B., Schmidt, N.M., Andersson, T., Aspholm, P.E., Barrio, I., Beckers, N., Bêty, J., Birkemoe, T., Desiervo, M., Drotos, K., Ehrich, E., Gilg, O., Gilg, V., Hein, N., Høye, T.T., Jakoben, K.M., Jodouin, C., Jorna, J., Kozlov, M.V., Kresse, J.-C., Leandri-Breton, D.-J., Lecomte, N., Loonen, M., Marr, P., Monckton, S.K., Olsen, M., Otis, J.A., Pyle, M., Roos, R.E., Raundrup, K., Rozhkova, D., Sabard, B., Sokolov, A., Sokolova, N., Solecki, A.M., Urbanowicz, C., Villeneuve, C., Vyguzova, E., Zverev, V., Roslin, T. (2020): Parasitoids indicate major climate-induced shifts in arctic communities. - Global Change Biology 26: 6276–6295.

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Beckers, N., Hein, N., Anneser, A., Vanselow, K.A., Löffler, J. (2020): Differences in Mobility and Dispersal Capacity Determine Body Size Clines in Two Common Alpine-Tundra Arthropods. - INSECTS 11: 74.

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Hein, N., Merkelbach, J., Zech, K., Weijers, S. (2020): Drought sensitivity of Empetrum nigrum shrub growth at the species’ southern lowland distribution range margin. Plant Ecology (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-020-01107-z

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2019

Hein, N., Löffler, J., Feilhauer, H. (2019): Mapping of Arthropod Alpha and Beta Diversity in Heterogeneous Arctic-Alpine Ecosystems. - Ecological Informatics 54: 101007.

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Hein, N., Pétillon, J., Pape, R., Feilhauer, H., Vanselow, K.A., Löffler, J. (2019): Broad-Scale Rather than Fine-Scale Environmental Variation Drives Body Size in a Wandering Predator (Araneae, Lycosidae). - Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 51: 315–326.

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Thormann, Jana, Dirk Ahrens, Cort Anderson, Jonas J. Astrin, Levan Mumladze, Björn Rulik, David Tarkhnishvili, Marianne Espeland, Matthias Geiger, Nils Hein, Giorgi Iankoshvili, Elisabeth Karalashvili, Ximo Mengual, Carsten Morkel, Marco T. Neiber, Ralph S. Peters, André Reimann, Axel Ssymank, Thomas Wesener, Joachim Ziegler & Bernhard Misof (2019): A prelude to the Caucasus Barcode of Life Platform (CaBOL): Biodiversity Days in Georgia in 2018 and 2019. – Bonn zoological Bulletin 68 (2): 275–296.

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2018

Beckers, N., Hein, N., Vanselow, K.A., Löffler, J. (2018): Effects of Microclimatic Thresholds on the Activity-Abundance and Distribution Patterns of Alpine Carabidae Species. - Annales Zoologici Fennici 55: 25–44.

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Hein, N., Brendel, M.R., Feilhauer, H., Finch, O.-D., Löffler, J. (2018): Egg Size vs. Egg Number Trade-Off in the Alpine-Tundra Wolf Spider, Pardosa palustris (Araneae: Lycosidae). - Polar Biology 41: 1607–1617.

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2015

Beckers, N., Hein, N., Löffler, J. (2015): Klimaökologische Diversitätsmuster von Laufkäfern (Carabidae) im norwegischen Hochgebirge. - Norden 21: 45–53. Bremen.

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Hein, N., Feilhauer, H., Löffler, J., Finch, O.-D. (2015): Elevational Variation of Reproductive Traits in five Pardosa (Lycosidae) Species. - Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 47: 67–73.

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2014

Hein, N., Feilhauer, H., Finch, O.-D., Schmidtlein, S., Löffler, J. (2014): Snow Cover Determines the Ecology and Biogeography of Spiders (Araneae) in Alpine Tundra Ecosystems. - Erdkunde 68: 157–172.

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2020-2024: Coordinator Caucasus Barcode of Life (CaBOL)

2019-2020: Prof. assoc. in Physical Geography, Climatology & Biogeography, Tbilisi, Georgia.

2014: Dissertation at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. Doctoral thesis: “On the ecology and biogeography of alpine-tundra arachnids”

2008: Graduated from Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. Diploma thesis: “Reproduction varies with altitude: Lycosidae in focus”

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