| Local extinction and the evolution of dispersal rates: causes and correlations HJ Poethke, T Hovestadt, O Mitesser The American Naturalist 161 (4), 631-640, 2003 | 126 | 2003 |
| Annual dynamics of wild bee densities: attractiveness and productivity effects of oilseed rape V Riedinger, O Mitesser, T Hovestadt, I Steffan-Dewenter, A Holzschuh Ecology 96 (5), 1351-1360, 2015 | 118 | 2015 |
| Street lighting: sex‐independent impacts on moth movement T Degen, O Mitesser, EK Perkin, NS Weiß, M Oehlert, E Mattig, F Hölker Journal of Animal Ecology 85 (5), 1352-1360, 2016 | 92 | 2016 |
| Relationship of insect biomass and richness with land use along a climate gradient J Uhler, S Redlich, J Zhang, T Hothorn, C Tobisch, J Ewald, S Thorn, ... Nature Communications 12 (1), 5946, 2021 | 88 | 2021 |
| Saving the injured: Rescue behavior in the termite-hunting ant Megaponera analis ET Frank, T Schmitt, T Hovestadt, O Mitesser, J Stiegler, KE Linsenmair Science Advances 3 (4), e1602187, 2017 | 67 | 2017 |
| Women temporarily synchronize their menstrual cycles with the luminance and gravimetric cycles of the Moon C Helfrich-Förster, S Monecke, I Spiousas, T Hovestadt, O Mitesser, ... Science Advances 7 (5), eabe1358, 2021 | 49 | 2021 |
| The influence of soil temperature on the nesting cycle of the halictid bee Lasioglossum malachurum N Weissel, O Mitesser, J Liebig, HJ Poethke, E Strohm Insectes sociaux 53, 390-398, 2006 | 44 | 2006 |
| Gender-specific emigration decisions sensitive to local male and female density T Hovestadt, O Mitesser, HJ Poethke The American Naturalist 184 (1), 38-51, 2014 | 33 | 2014 |
| The Circadian Clock Improves Fitness in the Fruit Fly, Drosophila melanogaster M Horn, O Mitesser, T Hovestadt, T Yoshii, D Rieger, C Helfrich-Förster Frontiers in Physiology 10, 1374, 2019 | 32 | 2019 |
| Overwintering temperature and body condition shift emergence dates of spring-emerging solitary bees M Schenk, O Mitesser, T Hovestadt, A Holzschuh PeerJ 6, e4721, 2018 | 29 | 2018 |
| Workers, sexuals, or both? Optimal allocation of resources to reproduction and growth in annual insect colonies K Poitrineau, O Mitesser, HJ Poethke Insectes sociaux 56, 119-129, 2009 | 29 | 2009 |
| Availability and depletion of fat reserves in halictid foundress queens with a focus on solitary nest founding N Weissel, O Mitesser, HJ Poethke, E Strohm Insectes sociaux 59, 67-74, 2012 | 28 | 2012 |
| Effect of vegetation density, height, and connectivity on the oviposition pattern of the leaf beetle Galeruca tanaceti B Randlkofer, F Jordan, O Mitesser, T Meiners, E Obermaier Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 132 (2), 134-146, 2009 | 26 | 2009 |
| Weather explains the decline and rise of insect biomass over 34 years J Müller, T Hothorn, Y Yuan, S Seibold, O Mitesser, J Rothacher, J Freund, ... Nature, 1-6, 2023 | 23 | 2023 |
| Tracking the temporal dynamics of insect defoliation by high‐resolution radar satellite data S Bae, J Müller, B Förster, T Hilmers, S Hochrein, M Jacobs, BML Leroy, ... Methods in Ecology and Evolution 13 (1), 121-132, 2022 | 22 | 2022 |
| High female survival promotes evolution of protogyny and sexual conflict T Degen, T Hovestadt, O Mitesser, F Hölker PLoS One 10 (3), e0118354, 2015 | 22 | 2015 |
| The evolution of activity breaks in the nest cycle of annual eusocial bees: a model of delayed exponential growth O Mitesser, N Weissel, E Strohm, HJ Poethke BMC Evolutionary Biology 6, 1-12, 2006 | 20 | 2006 |
| Evolving mutation rate advances the invasion speed of a sexual species MMP Cobben, O Mitesser, A Kubisch BMC Evolutionary Biology 17, 1-10, 2017 | 18 | 2017 |
| Unexpected benefit of a social parasite for a key fitness component of its ant host T Hovestadt, JA Thomas, O Mitesser, GW Elmes, K Schönrogge The American Naturalist 179 (1), 110-123, 2012 | 18 | 2012 |
| Measuring diversity of research by extracting latent themes from bipartite networks of papers and references O Mitesser, M Heinz, F Havemann, J Gläser Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsforschung Berlin, 2008 | 18 | 2008 |
