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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Sato Y, Schausberger P. Spider mite mothers adjust sons’ reproductive tactics in response to operational sex ratio. In Book of Abstracts. 2020
Schausberger P, Sato Y. Trans-generational plasticity of alternative reproductive tactics in male spider mites. In IOBC-WPRS Bulletin. Vol. 149. 2020. p. 50-51
Schausberger P, Gotoh T, Sato Y. Spider mite mothers adjust reproduction and sons’ alternative reproductive tactics to immigrating alien conspecifics. Royal Society Open Science. 2019 Nov 1;6(11):191201. doi: 10.1098/rsos.191201
Schausberger P, Sato Y. Parental effects of male alternative reproductive tactics (ARTs) on ARTs of haploid sons. Functional Ecology. 2019 Sep;33(9):1684-1694. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13385
Çekin D, Schausberger P. Founder effects on trans-generational dynamics of closed inbreeding lineages of the predatory mite Phytoseiulus persimilis. PLoS ONE. 2019 Apr 1;14(4):e0215360. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0215360
Schausberger P. Benefit-cost trade-offs of early learning by predatory mites. Journal of the Acarological Society of Japan. 2019;28(1):45-46.
Schausberger P. Herbivore-associated bacteria as potential mediators and modifiers of induced plant defense against spider mites and thrips. Frontiers in Plant Science. 2018 Jul 30;9:1107. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01107
Schausberger P, Davaasambuu U, Saussure S, Christiansen IC. Categorizing experience-based foraging plasticity in mites: age dependency, primacy effects and memory persistence. The Royal Society Open Science. 2018 Apr 18;5(4):172110. doi: 10.1098/rsos.172110
Christiansen IC, Szin S, Schausberger P. Corrigendum: Benefit-cost Trade-offs of Early Learning in Foraging Predatory Mites Amblyseius Swirskii. Scientific Reports. 2018 Mar 1;8:46948. doi: 10.1038/srep46948
Reinbacher L, Fernandez-Ferrari MC, Angeli S, Schausberger P. Effects of Metarhizium anisopliae on host choice of the bee-parasitic mite Varroa destructor. Acarologia. 2018 Feb 13;58(2):287-295. doi: 10.24349/acarologia/20184241
Atalay D, Schausberger P. Balancing in- and out-breeding by the predatory mite Phytoseiulus persimilis. Experimental & Applied Acarology. 2018 Feb;74(2):159-169. doi: 10.1007/s10493-018-0225-3
Schausberger P, Seiter M, Raspotnig G, Peneder S, Christiansen I. Moving forward in putting predatory mite learning into practice: prey cue analyses and organizational upward cascades. In Broufas G, editor, Working Group "Integrated Control of Plant-Feeding Mites": Proceedings the Sixth Working Group Meeting at Chania, Greece, 4-7 September, 2017. Vol. 134. Darmstadt: Federal Research Center of Cultivated Plants. 2018. p. 3-5. (IOBC-WPRS Bulletin, Vol. 134).
Schausberger P, Walzer A, Murata Y, Osakabe M. Low level of polyandry constrains phenotypic plasticity of male body size in mites. PLoS ONE. 2017 Nov 30;12(11):e0188924. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0188924
Christiansen IC, Schausberger P. Interference in early dual-task learning by predatory mites. Animal Behaviour. 2017 Nov 1;133:21-28. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.09.005
Dittmann L, Schausberger P. Adaptive aggregation by spider mites under predation risk. Scientific Reports. 2017 Sep 6;7(1):10609. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-10819-8
Schausberger P, Gratzer M, Strodl MA. Early social isolation impairs development, mate choice and grouping behaviour of predatory mites. Animal Behaviour. 2017 May;127:15-21. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.02.024
Reichert MB, Christiansen IC, Seiter M, Schausberger P. Transgenerational loss and recovery of early learning ability in foraging predatory mites. Experimental & Applied Acarology. 2017 Mar;71(3):243-258. doi: 10.1007/s10493-017-0122-1
Seiter M, Schausberger P. Correction: Constitutive and Operational Variation of Learning in Foraging Predatory Mites. PLoS ONE. 2017 Jan 30;12(1):e0171450. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0171450
Schausberger P, Peneder S. Non-associative versus associative learning by foraging predatory mites. BMC Ecology. 2017 Jan 14;17(1):2. doi: 10.1186/s12898-016-0112-x
Christiansen I, Schausberger P. Benefits and costs of early learning in foraging predatory mites Amblyseius swirskii. In IOBC-WPRS Bulletin. Vol. 120. 2016. p. 5-6
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