Peter Schausberger

Univ.-Doc. Dr.

Head of Arthropod Behavioral Ecology  

Office +43 1 4277-76118
Laboratory +43 1 4277-78168
peter.schausberger[at]univie.ac.at

Biosketch

2024               Professor (Invited), University of Kyoto, Japan

2018-2019      Professor (Invited, JSPS-funded), University of Tsukuba, Japan

2016-              University Docent, University of Vienna, Austria

1999-2016      Professor (Extraordinary)/University Docent, Boku, Vienna, Austria

1999-2008      Professor (Contract), Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy

2000-2004      APART Research Fellow, Austrian Academy of Sciences

1998-1999      Schrödinger Fellow (Austrian Science Fund), Oregon State University, USA

1995-1998      Researcher, Federal Office and Research Centre for Agriculture, Vienna, Austria

1991-1995      Head of Advisory Service Biocontrol, Ministry of Agriculture & Forestry, Austria

1990                PhD Zoology (minor in Botany), University of Vienna, Austria

In Numbers

123                    ­­Peer-reviewed publications (41 first author, 80 corresponding, 108 PI of work)
35 to 42­            H-index Scopus (08/23) and Google Scholar (08/23)
2.8                 ­­     Million € grant money acquired
15, 10, 27       ­  Postdocs, PhD students, MSc students supervised

Publications

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Schausberger P, Nguyen TH, MUSTAFA ALTINTAS. Early-life intraguild predation risk produces adaptive personalities in predatory mites. Iscience. 2024 Mar 15;27(3):109065. Epub 2024 Jan 31. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.109065
Sato Y, Egas M, Schausberger P. The operational sex ratio experienced by mothers modulates the expression of sons’ alternative reproductive tactics in spider mites. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 2023 Aug 4;77(8):95. doi: 10.1007/s00265-023-03370-2
Jafari M, Goldasteh S, Aghdam HR, Zamani AA, Soleyman-Nejadian E, Schausberger P. Correction to Jafari et al. Modeling Thermal Developmental Trajectories and Thermal Requirements of the Ladybird Stethorus gilvifrons. Insects 2023, 14, 11. Insects. 2023 Jul 26;14(7):581. doi: 10.3390/insects14070581
Schausberger P, Nguyen TH, Altintas M. Spider mite males undress females to secure the first mating. Iscience. 2023 Jul 21;26(7):107112. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.107112
Jafari M, Aghdam HR, Zamani AA, Goldasteh S, Soleyman-Nejadian E, Schausberger P. Thermal oviposition performance of the ladybird Stethorus gilvifrons preying on two-spotted spider mites. Insects. 2023 Feb 16;14(2):199. doi: 10.3390/insects14020199
Jafari M, Goldasteh S, Aghdam HR, Zamani AA, Soleyman-Nejadian E, Schausberger P. Modeling Thermal Developmental Trajectories and Thermal Requirements of the Ladybird Stethorus gilvifrons. Insects. 2023 Jan 1;14(1):11. doi: 10.3390/insects14010011
THI HANHNGUYEN, PETER SCHAUSBERGER. Diet experiences early in life mold individual foraging niches and personalities of omnivorous predatory mites. Zoosymposia. 2022 Nov 30;22:115-115. doi: 10.11646/zoosymposia.22.1.70
PETER SCHAUSBERGER, THI HANHNGUYEN, MUSTAFA ALTINTAS. Early life experience of intraguild predation risk shifts the personalities of predatory mites along the shy-bold axis. Zoosymposia. 2022 Nov 30;22:123-123. doi: 10.11646/zoosymposia.22.1.75
PETER SCHAUSBERGER, THI HANHNGUYEN, MUSTAFA ALTINTAS. Kinship mediates the expression of alternative reproductive tactics in competing spider mite males. Zoosymposia. 2022 Nov 30;22:109-109. doi: 10.11646/zoosymposia.22.1.64
YUKIE SATO, MARTIJN EGAS, PETER SCHAUSBERGER. Spider mite mothers control their sneaker sons’ reproductive behavior depending on operational sex ratio. Zoosymposia. 2022 Nov 30;22:124-124. doi: 10.11646/zoosymposia.22.1.76
Schausberger P, Rendon Castaneda D. Transgenerational effects of grandparental and parental diets combine with early-life learning to shape adaptive foraging phenotypes in Amblyseius swirskii. Communications Biology. 2022 Mar 21;5(1):246. doi: 10.1038/s42003-022-03200-7
Hosseini A, Hosseini M, Schausberger P. Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria enhance defense of strawberry plants against spider mites. Frontiers in Plant Science. 2022 Jan 6;12:783578. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2021.783578
Schausberger P. Grand challenges and bold opportunities in arachnid ecology and behavior. Frontiers in Arachnid Science. 2022;1:1097945. doi: 10.3389/frchs.2022.1097945
Schausberger P, Yano S, Sato Y. Cooperative behaviors in group-living spider mites. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 2021 Nov 30;9:745036. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2021.745036
Schausberger P. Not Seeing the Mites for the Hairs. Comment on Moth et al. Unexpected Effects of Local Management and Landscape Composition on Predatory Mites and Their Food Resources in Vineyards. Insects 2021, 12, 180: Comment on Möth et al. Unexpected Effects of Local Management and Landscape Composition on Predatory Mites and Their Food Resources in Vineyards. Insects 2021, 12, 180. . Insects. 2021 Aug;12(8):671. doi: 10.3390/insects12080671
Schausberger P, Çekin D, Litin A. Learned predators enhance biological control via organizational upward and trophic top-down cascades. Journal of Applied Ecology. 2021 Jan;58(1):158-166. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.13791
Schausberger P, Seiter M, Raspotnig G. Innate and learned responses of foraging predatory mites to polar and non-polar fractions of thrips’ chemical cues. Biological Control. 2020 Dec;151:104371. doi: 10.1016/j.biocontrol.2020.104371
Schausberger P, Sato Y. Kin-Mediated Male Choice and Alternative Reproductive Tactics in Spider Mites. Biology. 2020 Oct 26;9(11):1-12. 360. doi: 10.3390/biology9110360
Schausberger P, Cekin D. Plastic female choice to optimally balance (k)in- and out-breeding in a predatory mite. Scientific Reports. 2020 May 12;10(1):7861. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-64793-9
Çekin D, Schausberger P. Flexible female choice in haplo-diploid predatory mites Phytoseiulus persimilis. In IOBC-WPRS Bulletin. Vol. 149. 2020. p. 48-49
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