Nicolai M. Nürk: Publications

Peer reviewed

2022

Pirie, M., Blackhall-Miles, R., Bourke, G., Crowley, D., Ebrahim, I., Forest, F., Knaack, M., Koopman, R., Lansdowne, A., Nürk, N., Osborne, J., Pearce, T., Rohrauer, D., Smit, M., Wilman, V.: Preventing species extinctions : A global conservation consortium for Erica. Plants, People, Planet, 4(4), 335-344 (2022).
doi:10.1002/ppp3.10266

Schweiger, A., Ullmann, G., Nürk, N., Triebel, D., Schobert, R., Rambold, G.: Chemical properties of key metabolites determine the global distribution of lichens. Ecology Letters, 25(2), 416-426 (2022).
doi:10.1111/ele.13930

2021

Bitencourt, C., Nürk, N., Rapini, A., Fishbein, M., Simões, A., Middleton, D., Meve, U., Endress, M., Liede-Schumann, S.: Evolution of Dispersal, Habit, and Pollination in Africa Pushed Apocynaceae Diversification After the Eocene-Oligocene Climate Transition. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9, No. 719741 (2021).
doi:10.3389/fevo.2021.719741

Schweiger, A., Nürk, N., Beckett, H., Liede-Schumann, S., Midgley, G., Higgins, S.: The eco‐evolutionary significance of rainfall constancy for facultative CAM photosynthesis. New Phytologist, 230(4), 1653-1664 (2021).
doi:10.1111/nph.17250

Chavez, J., Meve, U., Nürk, N., Liede-Schumann, S.: Disentangling Antirhea (Rubiaceae) : Resurrection of Guettardella and description of the new genus Achilleanthus. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 197(1), 85-103 (2021).
doi:10.1093/botlinnean/boab013

2020

Tocci, N., Weil, T., Perenzoni, D., Moretto, M., Nürk, N., Madriñán, S., Ferrazza, R., Guella, G., Mattivi, F.: Potent Antifungal Properties of Dimeric Acylphloroglucinols from Hypericum mexicanum and Mechanism of Action of a Highly Active 3′Prenyl Uliginosin B. Metabolites, 10(11), No. 459 (2020).
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00005172

Liede-Schumann, S., Grimm, G., Nürk, N., Potts, A., Meve, U., Hartmann, H.: Phylogenetic relationships in the southern African genus Drosanthemum (Ruschioideae, Aizoaceae). PeerJ, 8, No. e8999 (2020).
doi:10.7717/peerj.8999

Nürk, N., Linder, H., Onstein, R., Larcombe, M., Hughes, C., Piñeiro Fernández, L., Schlüter, P., Valente, L., Beierkuhnlein, C., Cutts, V., Donoghue, M., Edwards, E., Field, R., Flantua, S., Higgins, S., Jentsch, A., Liede-Schumann, S., Pirie, M.: Diversification in evolutionary arenas : Assessment and synthesis. Ecology and Evolution, 10(12), 6163-6182 (2020).
doi:10.1002/ece3.6313

2019

Nürk, N., Atchison, G., Hughes, C.: Island woodiness underpins accelerated disparification in plant radiations. New Phytologist, 224(1), 518-531 (2019).
doi:10.1111/nph.15797

Pirie, M., Kandziora, M., Nürk, N., Le Maitre, N., Mugrabi de Kuppler, A., Gehrke, B., Oliver, E., Bellstedt, D.: Leaps and bounds : geographical and ecological distance constrained the colonisation of the Afrotemperate by Erica. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 19, No. 222 (2019).
doi:10.1186/s12862-019-1545-6

2018

Tocci, N., Weil, T., Perenzoni, D., Narduzzi, L., Madriñán, S., Crockett, S., Nürk, N., Cavalieri, D., Mattivi, F.: Phenolic profile, chemical relationship and antifungal activity of Andean Hypericum species. Industrial Crops and Products, 112, 32-37 (2018).
doi:10.1016/j.indcrop.2017.10.030

Nürk, N., Michling, F., Linder, H.: Are the radiations of temperate lineages in tropical alpine ecosystems pre-adapted?. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 27(3), 334-345 (2018).
doi:10.1111/geb.12699

2017

Scheriau, C., Nürk, N., Sharbel, T., Koch, M.: Cryptic gene pools in the Hypericum perforatum-H. maculatum complex : diploid persistence versus trapped polyploid melting. Annals of Botany, 120(6), 955-966 (2017).
doi:10.1093/aob/mcx110

2016

Grosse-Veldmann, B., Nürk, N., Smissen, R., Breitwieser, I., Quandt, D., Weigend, M.: Pulling the sting out of nettle systematics - A comprehensive phylogeny of the genus Urtica L. (Urticaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 102(1), 9-19 (2016).
doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.05.019

2015

Nürk, N., Uribe-Convers, S., Gehrke, B., Tank, D., Blattner, F.: Oligocene niche shift, Miocene diversification - Cold tolerance and accelerated speciation rates in the St. John's Worts (Hypericum, Hypericaceae). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 15, No. 80 (2015).
doi:10.1186/s12862-015-0359-4

2013

Nürk, N., Scheriau, C., Madriñán, S.: Explosive radiation in high Andean Hypericum - Rates of diversification among New World lineages. Frontiers in Genetics, No. 175 (2013).
doi:10.3389/fgene.2013.00175

Nürk, N., Madriñán, S., Carine, M., Chase, M., Blattner, F.: Molecular phylogenetics and morphological evolution of St. John's wort (Hypericum; Hypericaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 66(1), 1-16 (2013).
doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.08.022

2011

Nürk, N., Crockett, S.: Morphological and phytochemical diversity among Hypericum species of the Mediterranean basin. Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Science and Biotechnology, 5(Spec. Issue 1), 14-28 (2011).

2010

Weigend, M., Gottschling, M., Hilger, H., Nürk, N.: Five new species of Lithospermum L. (Boraginaceae tribe Lithospermeae) in Andean South America : Another radiation in the Amotape-Huancabamba Zone. Taxon, 59(4), 1161-1179 (2010).

Nürk, N., Blattner, F.: Cladistic analysis of morphological characters in Hypericum (Hypericaceae). Taxon, 59(5), 1495-1507 (2010).

Other publications

2020

Bellstedt, D., Coetzee, A., Hitchcock, A., Kandziora, M., van der Niet, T., Nürk, N., Musker, S., Pirie, M.: Small differences, big secrets. Veld & Flora, 106(1), 26-31 (2020).

2011

Nürk, N.: Phylogenetic analyses in St. John’s wort (Hypericum) : Inferring character evolution and historical biogeography. - Bayreuth: 2011.
(Thesis, 2011, Freien Universität Berlin; Fachbereich Biologie, Chemie, Pharmazie)