{"id":167,"date":"2020-07-01T12:38:44","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T12:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechecolab.blogs.bristol.ac.uk\/?page_id=167"},"modified":"2025-11-24T10:11:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T10:11:23","slug":"research-papers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/?page_id=167","title":{"rendered":"<\/a>Research Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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2025<\/strong><\/td>\nCNS Andrew, JY Bu,\u00a0NS Kelly<\/strong>,\u00a0S Johnson<\/strong>, F Metali, TU Grafe,\u00a0U Bauer<\/strong>, W Federle. An insect trap adjusting to weather conditions:\u00a0Nepenthes rafflesiana\u00a0<\/em>plants control the fluid level in their pitchers to maximise prey capture.\u00a0Annals of Botany<\/em>: mcaf294.\u00a0https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/aob\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/aob\/mcaf294\/8321893<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2025<\/strong><\/td>\nKJ Gilbert, D Armitage, U Bauer<\/strong>, K Fukushima, L Gaume, R Love, Q Lin, S Liu, S Martin-Eberhardt, J Millet, T Renner, M Scharmann & C Thorogood. Construction costs and tradeoffs in carnivorous pitcher plant leaves: towards a pitcher leaf economic spectrum. Annals of Botany <\/em>135<\/strong>: 1261-1279. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/aob\/mcaf024<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2024
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n		OC Lessware<\/strong>, JM Mantell & U Bauer<\/strong>. Carnivorous Nepenthes<\/em> pitcher plants combine common developmental processes to make a complex epidermal trapping surface.\u00a0Annals of Botany <\/em>135<\/strong>: 643-654. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/aob\/mcae147<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2024
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n		G Chomicki, G Burin, L Busta, J Gozdzik, R Jetter, B Mortimer & U Bauer<\/strong>. Convergence in carnivorous pitcher plants reveals a mechanism for composite trait evolution. Science<\/em> 383<\/strong>: 108-113. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/science.ade0529<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n		A-K Lenz<\/strong> & U Bauer<\/strong>. Pitcher geometry facilitates extrinsically powered ‘springboard trapping’ in carnivorous Nepenthes gracilis<\/em> pitcher plants. Biology Letters<\/em> 18<\/strong>: 20220106. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1098\/rsbl.2022.0106<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n		U Bauer <\/strong>& S Poppinga. New insights and opportunities from taking a biomechanical perspective on plant ecology. Journal of Experimental Botany<\/em> 73<\/strong>: 1063-1066. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/jxb\/erac007<\/a>
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2022
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n		A-K Lenz<\/strong>, U Bauer <\/strong>& GD Ruxton. An ecological perspective on water shedding from leaves. Journal of Experimental Botany<\/em> 73<\/strong>: 1176-1189. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/jxb\/erab479<\/a>.
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2021
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n		U Bauer<\/strong>, UK M\u00fcller & S Poppinga. Complexity and diversity of motion amplification and control strategies in motile carnivorous plant traps. Proceedings of the Royal Society B<\/em> 288<\/strong>: 20210771. http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1098\/rspb.2021.0771<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n		D Labonte, A Robinson, U Bauer <\/strong>& W Federle. Disentangling the role of surface topography and intrinsic wettability in the prey capture mechanism of Nepenthes<\/em> pitcher plants. Acta Biomaterialia<\/em> 119<\/strong>: 225-233. https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1742706120306486?dgcid=coauthor<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2020<\/strong><\/td>\nC Thorogood & U Bauer<\/strong>. Shedding light on photosynthesis in carnivorous plants. A commentary on: ‘Nepenthes<\/em> \u00d7 ventrata <\/em>photosynthesis under different nutrient applications. Annals of Botany<\/em> 126<\/strong>: iv-v. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/aob\/mcaa092<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2020<\/strong><\/td>\nU Bauer<\/strong>, S Poppinga & UK M\u00fcller. Mechanical ecology – taking biomechanics to the field. Integrative and Comparative Biology<\/em> 60<\/strong>: 820-28. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/icb\/icaa018<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2020<\/strong><\/td>\nI Karl & U Bauer<\/strong>. Inside the trap: biology and behaviour of the pitcher-dwelling crab spider, Misumenops nepenthicola<\/em>. Plants People Planet<\/em> 2020;2<\/strong>: 290-93. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/ppp3.10104<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/strong><\/td>\nMR Golos<\/strong>, A-K Lenz<\/strong>, RO Moreno-Tolero, S. Davis & U Bauer<\/strong>. Pitcher plant plastination: preserving botanical specimens for education and display. The Journal of Plastination<\/em> 31<\/strong>: 15-21. http:\/\/journal.plastination.org\/archive\/jp_vol.31.2\/JP_vol.31.2_Dec19_pages15-21.pdf<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/strong><\/td>\nCJ Thorogood, U Bauer <\/strong>& SJ Hiscock. Convergent and divergent evolution in pitcher plant traps. New Phytologist <\/em>217<\/strong>: 1035-41.\u00a0<\/em>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/nph.14879<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n		S Poppinga, F Alamsyah, U Bauer<\/strong>, A Fleischmann, M Horstmann, S Klink, S Kruppert, Q Lin, U M\u00fcller, A Northrop, BJ P\u0142achno, A Prins, M Scharmann, D Sirov\u00e1, L Skates, A Westermeier & AM Ellison. What\u2019s new in the world of carnivorous plants \u2013 summary of two symposia held in July 2017. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter<\/em> 47<\/strong>: 18-27.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/strong><\/td>\nU Bauer<\/strong>, K Rembold & TU Grafe. Carnivorous Nepenthes<\/em> pitcher plants are a rich food source for a diverse vertebrate community. Journal of Natural History<\/em> 50<\/strong>, 483-95. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/00222933.2015.1059963<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/strong><\/td>\nU Bauer<\/strong>, M Paulin<\/strong>, D Robert & G Sutton. Mechanism for rapid passive-dynamic prey capture in a pitcher plant. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em> 112<\/strong>, 13384-89. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.1510060112<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/strong><\/td>\nC Collett, A Ardron, U Bauer<\/strong>, G Chapman, E Chaudan, B Hallmark, L Pratt, L Torres-Perez & DI Wilson. A portable extensional rheometer for measuring the viscoelasticity of pitcher plant and other sticky liquids in the field. Plant Methods<\/em> 11<\/strong>: 16. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s13007-015-0059-5<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/strong><\/td>\nU Bauer<\/strong>, W Federle, H Seidel, TU Grafe & CC Ioannou. How to catch more prey with less effective traps: explaining the evolution of temporarily inactive traps in carnivorous pitcher plants. Proceedings of the Royal Society B <\/em>282<\/strong>: 20142675.<\/em> https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1098\/rspb.2014.2675<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2013<\/strong><\/td>\nU Bauer, <\/strong>M Scharmann, J Skepper & W Federle. \u2018Insect aquaplaning\u2019 on a superhydrophilic hairy surface: how Heliamphora<\/em> nutans <\/em>Benth. pitcher plants capture prey. Proceedings of the Royal Society B <\/em>280<\/strong>: 20122569. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1098\/rspb.2012.2569<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012<\/strong><\/td>\nU Bauer<\/strong>, B Di Giusto, J Skepper, TU Grafe & W Federle. With a flick of the lid: a novel trapping mechanism in Nepenthes gracilis<\/em> pitcher plants. PLoS ONE<\/em> 7<\/strong>: e38961. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0038951<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012<\/strong><\/td>\nU Bauer<\/strong>, CJ Clemente, T Renner & W Federle. Form follows function: morphological diversification and alternative trapping strategies in carnivorous Nepenthes <\/em>pitcher plants. Journal of Evolutionary Biology <\/em>25<\/strong>: 90-102.\u00a0 https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1420-9101.2011.02406.x<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011<\/strong><\/td>\nU Bauer, <\/strong>TU Grafe & W Federle. Evidence for alternative trapping strategies in two forms of the pitcher plant, Nepenthes rafflesiana<\/em>. Journal of Experimental Botany <\/em>62<\/strong>: 3683-92. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/jxb\/err082<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2009<\/strong><\/td>\nU Bauer<\/strong>, C Willmes & W Federle. Effect of pitcher age on trapping efficiency and natural prey capture in carnivorous Nepenthes rafflesiana<\/em> plants. Annals of Botany<\/em> 103<\/strong>: 1219-26. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/aob\/mcp065<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2009<\/strong><\/td>\nCM Clarke, U Bauer<\/strong>, CC Lee, AA Tuen, K Rembold & JA Moran. Tree shrew lavatories – a novel nitrogen sequestration strategy in a tropical pitcher plant. Biology Letters<\/em> 5<\/strong>: 632-35. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1098\/rsbl.2009.0311<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2009<\/strong><\/td>\nU Bauer<\/strong> & W Federle. The insect-trapping rim of Nepenthes<\/em> pitchers: surface structure and function. Plant Signaling & Behavior <\/em>4<\/strong>: 1019-23. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4161\/psb.4.11.9664<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008<\/strong><\/td>\nU Bauer<\/strong>, HF Bohn & W Federle. Harmless nectar source or deadly trap: Nepenthes<\/em> pitchers are activated by rain, condensation and nectar. Proceedings of the Royal Society B<\/em> 275<\/strong>: 259-65. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1098\/rspb.2007.1402<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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