Dr. Simon Ripperger

Publications

Peer-reviewed articles

2016

Ripperger SP, Josic D, Hierold M, Koelpin A, Weigel R, Hartmann M, Page R, Mayer F. Automated proximity sensing in small vertebrates: design of miniaturized sensor nodes and first field tests in bats. Ecology & Evolution 6:2179-2189

Hierold M, Hartmann M, Ripperger SP, Mayer F, Heuberger A, Weigel R, Koelpin A. Low-weight Wireless Sensor Node for Animal Encounter Detection and Dual-band Localization. Proceedings of the IEEE Topical Conference on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks (WiSNet), pp 21-23

Nkrumah EE, Vallo P, Klose SM, Ripperger SP, Badu EK, Drosten C, Kalko EKV, Tschapka M, Oppong SK. Home Range of Noack's Round-Leaf Bat (Hipposideros aff. ruber) in an Agricultural Landscape of Central Ghana. Acta Chiropterologica 18:239-247

Dressler F, Mutschlechner M, Li B, Kapitza R, Ripperger S, Eibel C, Herzog B, Hönig T, Schröder-Preikschat W. Monitoring Bats in the Wild: On Using Erasure Codes for Energy-Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks. ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks 12:1-29 

2015

Dressler F, Ripperger S, Hierold M, Nowak T, Eibel C, Cassens B, Mayer F, Meyer-Wegener K, Koelpin A. From Radio Telemetry to Ultra-Low Power Sensor Networks - Tracking Bats in the Wild. IEEE Communications Magazine 54:129-135

Hierold M, Ripperger SP, Mayer F, Weigel R, Koelpin A. System Design for Encounter Detection of Distributed Wireless Sensors. German Microwave Conference (GeMiC), pp 382-385

Hierold M, Ripperger SP, Josic D, Mayer F, Weigel R, Koelpin A. Low-weight wireless sensor network for encounter detection of bats. Proceedings of the IEEE Topical Conference on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks (WiSNet), pp 11-13

Ripperger SP, Kalko EKV, Rodríguez-Herrera B, Mayer F, Tschapka M. Frugivorous bats maintain functional habitat connectivity in agricultural landscapes but rely strongly on natural forest fragments. PLoS ONE 10:e0120535

Ripperger SP, Heymann EW, Tschapka M, Kalko EKV. Fruit characteristics associated with fruit preferences in frugivorous bats and saddle-back tamarins in Perú. Ecotropica 20:53-64

2014

Ripperger SP, Tschapka M, Kalko EKV, Rodríguez-Herrera B, Mayer F. Resisting habitat fragmentation: high genetic connectivity among populations of the frugivorous bat Carollia castanea in an agricultural landscape. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 185:9-15

Rödel M-O, Demtröder S, Fuchs C, Petrich D, Pfisterer F, Richter A, Stolpe C, Voß R, Ripperger SP, Mayer F, Dittrich C & Thein J. Does intraspecific and intersexual attraction influence newt abundance estimates based on fish funnel trap records? Amphibia-Reptilia 35:141-144

2013

Ripperger SP, Tschapka M, Kalko EKV, Rodríguez-Herrera B, Mayer F. Life in a mosaic landscape: anthropogenic habitat fragmentation affects genetic population structure in a frugivorous bat species. Conservation Genetics 14:925-934

2011

Ripperger SP. Seeds of Amazonian Plants. Review. Ecotropica 17:103-105

non-peer-reviewed articles

Mohr J, Koch von Helversen C, van Schaik J, Mayer F, Ripperger SP, Josic D, Strätz S. Eine neue Fledermausart für Bayern – die Nymphenfledermaus (Myotis alcathoe, Helversen & Heller 2001). Nyctalus (N.F.) (im Druck)

2014

Guest lectures & Conference contributions

Lebenslauf

• Complete Curriculum Vitae

Tasks

• Postdoctoral researcher in the group of PD Dr. Frieder Mayer
• Post-Doc in the German Research Foundation Group FOR 1508

Research

Research interests:

• Next generation wildlife tracking
• Movement ecology
• Habitat fragmentation
• Population genetics
• Neotropical and european bats

Projects:

• Frugivorous bats in fragmented landscapes
• BATS: Dynamically adaptive applications for bat localization using embedded communicating sensor systems