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 Dr. Torsten Meiners
Angewandte Zoologie/Ökologie
der Tiere
Haderslebener Str. 9
12163 Berlin
Germany
meito@zedat.fu-berlin.de
tel +49-30-8385-5910
fax +49-30-8385-3897
Life
history traits
Research
Chemical ecology of tritrophic systems. Functional effects of chemical diversity
on arthropod interactions.
I am studying the effects of environmental (e.g.,
vegetation and habitat structural and chemical) complexity on arthropod
interactions. The focus is on behavioural mechanisms in
environment-mediated interactions and their consequences concerning the
function of biotic interactions between herbivores and their natural
enemies.
Induced plant
defense signals in tritrophic systems.
Chemical signals play an important role in
the plant’s defense against herbivores and can asttract higher trophic
levels. I am interested in the
function of induced compounds for the orientation of herbivores and their
natural enemies, the temporal and spatial variability of induced defenses
within and between plants, and how plants regulate the production of the induced volatiles.
Projects
Publications
2013
Herbst, C., Wäschke, N.,
Barto, E.K., Arnold, S., Geuß, D., Halboth, I., Reschke, S., Sänger, J.,
Meiners, T., & Obermaier, E. (2013). Land use intensification in
grasslands negatively affects herbivores and their parasitoid but not the host
plant. Entomol. Exp. Appl. 147:269-281.
Hancock, C., Wäschke, N., Schumacher, U.,
Linsenmair, K.E., Meiners, T. & Obermaier, E. (2012). Fertilizer application decreases insect
abundance on Plantago lanceolata
– a large scale experiment in three geographic regions. Arthropod Plant
Interactions 7:147-158.
Meiners, T. & Peri, E. (2013). Chemical ecology of insect
parasitoids: essential elements for developing effective biological control
programmes. In: Wajnberg, E. & Colazza, S. (Eds.), Recent
Advances in Chemical Ecology of Insect Parasitoids, Wiley-Blackwell, 37-63.
Wäschke, N., Meiners, T. & Rostas, M. (2013). Foraging
strategies of insect parasitoids in complex chemical environments. In:
Wajnberg, E. & Colazza, S. (Eds.), Recent Advances in Chemical Ecology
of Insect Parasitoids, Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 193-224.
2012
Buechel, K., McDowell, E., Nelson, W., Descour, A., Gershenzon, J.,
Hilker, M., Soderlund, C., Gang, D.R., Fenning, T. & Meiners, T.
(2012). An elm EST database for identifying leaf beetle egg-induced defense
genes. BMC Genomics 13:242.
2011
Büchel, K., Malskies, S., Mayer, M., Fenning, T., Gershenzon, J.,
Hilker, M. & Meiners, T. (2011). How plants give early herbivore alert:
Volatile terpenoids emitted from elm attract egg parasitoids to plants
laden with eggs of the elm leaf beetle. Basic & Appl. Ecol. 12:
403-412.
Hilker, M. & Meiners, T. (2011). Plants and insect eggs: How do
they affect each other? Phytochemistry 72: 1612–1623.
Voigt, C., Meiners, T., Ter Maat, A. & Leitner,
S. (2011). Multisensory
non-photoperiodic cue advances the onset of seasonal breeding in island
canaries (Serinus canaria). J.
Biol. Rhythms 26: 434-440.
2010
Collatz, J., Fuhrmann, A., Selzer, P., Oehme,
R.M., Hartel, K., Kimmig, P., Meiners, T., Mackenstedt, U. & Steidle
J.L.M. (2010). Being a
parasitoid of parasites: Host finding in the tick wasp Ixodiphagus hookeri (Howard) by reliable odours from mammals.
Entomol. Exp. Appl. 134: 131-137.
Hilker, M. & Meiners, T. (2010). How do plants
"notice" attack by herbivorous arthropods? Biol. Rev. 85:
267-280.
Randlkofer, B., Obermaier, E., Hilker, M.
& Meiners, T. (2010). Vegetation
complexity - the influence of plant species diversity and plant structures
on plant chemical complexity and arthropods. Basic & Appl. Ecol. 11:
383–395.
Randlkofer, B., Obermaier, E., Casas, J. & Meiners, T. (2010).
Connectivity counts - disentangling effects of vegetation structure
elements on the searching movement of a parasitoid. Ecol. Entomol. 35:
446-455.
2009
Randlkofer, B., Jordan, F., Mitesser, O., Meiners, T. &
Obermaier, E. (2009). Effects of vegetation density, height and
connectivity on oviposition patterns of the leaf beetle Galeruca
tanaceti L. (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Entomol. Exp. Appl. 132:
134-146.
2008
Fatouros, N.E., Dicke, M., Mumm, R., Meiners, T. & Hilker, M.
(2008). Chemoecology of host foraging behaviour: infochemical-exploiting
strategies used by foraging egg parasitoids. Behav. Ecol. 19: 677-689.
Obermaier, E., Heisswolf, A., Poethke, H.J., Randlkofer, B. &
Meiners, T. (2008). Plant architecture and vegetation structure: Two ways
for insect herbivores to escape parasitism. Europ. J. Entomol. 105:
233-240.
Schröder, R., Wurm, L., Varama, M., Meiners,
T. & Hilker, M. (2008). Unusual
mechanisms involved in learning of oviposition-induced host plant odours in
an egg parasitoid? Anim. Behav. 75: 1423-1430.
2007
Fernandez, P.C., Meiners, T., Björkmann, C.
& Hilker, M. (2007). Electrophysiological
responses of the blue willow leaf beetle, Phratora vulgatissima, to
volatiles of different Salix viminalis genotypes. Entomol. Exp.
Appl. 125: 157-164.
Randlkofer, B., Obermaier, E. & Meiners, T. (2007). Mother's
choice of the oviposition site: balancing risk of egg parasitism and need
of food supply for the progeny with an infochemical shelter? Chemoecology
17: 177-186.
2006
Hilker, M. & Meiners, T. (2006). Early herbivore alert: Insect
eggs induce plant defense. J. Chem. Ecol. 32: 1379-1397.
Meiners, T., Hammer, B., Göbel,
U.B. & Kahl, O. (2006). Determining
the tick scutal index allows assessment of tick feeding duration and
estimation of infection risk with Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in
a person bitten by an Ixodes ricinus nymph. Int. J. Med. Microbiol.
296 (S1): 103-107.
Meiners, T., Randlkofer,
B. & Obermaier, E. (2006). Oviposition at low temperatures - late season negatively affects the
leaf beetle Galeruca tanaceti (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) but not
its specialised egg parasitoid Oomyzus galerucivorus. (Hymenoptera:
Eulophidae). Europ. J. Entomol. 103: 765-770.
Obermaier, E., Heisswolf, A., Randlkofer,
B. & Meiners, T. (2006). Enemies in low places – Insects avoid winter
mortality and egg parasitism by modulating oviposition height. Bull.
Entomol. Res. 96: 337-343.
2005
Meiners, T., Hacker, N., Anderson, P. & Hilker, M. (2005).
Response of the elm leaf beetle to host plants induced by oviposition and
feeding: The infestation rate matters. Entomol. Exp. Appl. 115: 171-177.
2004
Meiners T. & Obermaier E. (2004). Hide and seek on two spatial scales : plant
structure differentially influences herbivore oviposition and host-finding
of egg parasitoids. Basic & Appl. Ecol. 5: 87-94.
2003
Meiners, T. & Hilker, M. (2003). Chemical signalling between host plant and
egg parasitoid of a galerucine leaf beetle. In Furth, D. (Ed.) Special
topics in leaf beetle biology. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia, pp.
227-241.
Meiners, T., Wäckers, F. &
Lewis, W.J. (2003). Associative
learning of complex odors in parasitoid host location. Chem. Senses 28: 231-236.
Olson, D.M., Rains, G.C., Meiners, T., Takasu, K., Tertuliano, M.,
Tumlinson, J.H., Wäckers, F.L. & Lewis, W.J. (2003). Parasitic wasps
learn and report diverse chemicals with unique conditionable behaviors.
Chem. Senses 28: 545-549.
2002
Hilker, M. & Meiners, T. (2002). Induction of plant responses towards
oviposition and feeding of herbivorous arthropods: a comparison. Entomol.
Exp. Appl. 104: 181-192.
Hilker, M. & Meiners, T. (Eds.) (2002). Chemoecology of Insect Eggs and Egg
Deposition. Blackwell Verlag, Berlin, 410 pp.
Hilker, M., Rohfritsch, O. & Meiners, T.
(2002). The plant's
response towards insect egg deposition. in: Hilker, M. & Meiners, T.
(Eds.) Chemoecology of Insect Eggs and Egg Deposition. Blackwell Verlag, Berlin, p.
205-233.
Meiners, T., Wäckers, F.
& Lewis, J. (2002). The
Effect of Molecule Structure on the Olfactory Discrimination by the
Parasitoid Microplitis croceipes. Chem. Senses 27: 811-816.
Ruther, J. , Meiners, T.
& Steidle, J.L.M. (2002). Rich in phenomena lacking in terms - A
classification of kairomones. Chemoecology 12: 161-167.
2001
Wegener, R., Schulz, S., Meiners, T.,
Hadwich, K. & Hilker, M. (2001). Analysis of volatiles induced by oviposition of elm leaf beetle Xanthogaleruca
luteola on Ulmus minor. J. Chem. Ecol. 27: 499-515.
2000
Meiners, T. & Hilker, M.(2000): Induction of plant synomones by
oviposition of a phytophagus insect. J. Chem. Ecol. 26:221-232.
Meiners, T., Westerhaus, C. & Hilker, M.(2000): Specificity of
chemical cues used by a specialist egg parasitoid during host location. Entomol.
Exp. Appl. 95: 151-159.
Rains, G.C., Meiners, T.,
Takasu, K., Olson, D.M., Lewis, W.J., Tumlinson, J.H. & Cardoza, Y.
(2000). Development of a
programmable whole-organism wasp sensor for monitoring crop conditions from
volatile chemicals. ASAE Paper No. 003062 St. Josephs, MI: ASAE.
<1999
Hilker, M. & Meiners, T. (1999): Chemical cues mediating
interactions between chrysomelids and parasitoids. In: Advances in
Chrysomelidae Biology. M.L.
Cox (ed.). pp.197-216.
Meiners, T. (1999): Chemical cues mediating interactions between
chalcidoid egg parasitoids and their chrysomelid hosts. Doktorarbeit, Freie Universität
Berlin.
Meiners,
T., Köpf , A., Stein, C. & Hilker, M. (1997): Chemical signals
mediating interactions between Galeruca tanaceti L. (Coleoptera,
Chrysomelidae) and its egg parasitoid Oomyzus galerucivorus
(Hedqvits)(Hymenoptera, Eulophidae). J. Insect Behav. 10: 523-539.
Meiners, T. & Hilker, M.
(1997): Host location in Oomyzus gallerucae (Hymenoptera:
Eulophidae), an egg parasitoid of the elm leaf beetle Xanthogaleruca
luteola (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Oecologia 112:87-93.
Meiners,
T. (1994). Zur Bedeutung der präkopulativen Phase bei Zipfelkäfern. Diplomarbeit, Universität
Würzburg.
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