Nicolai M. Nürk: Publications
Peer reviewed
2024
Musker, S., Pirie, M., Nürk, N.: Pollinator shifts despite hybridisation in the Cape's hyperdiverse heathers (Erica, Ericaceae). Molecular Ecology, 33(18), e17505 (2024).
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00008296
2023
Pineda, Y., Keller, H., Balderrama-Torrico, J., Meve, U., Nürk, N., Liede-Schumann, S.: Phylogenetics in Scyphostelma (Apocynaceae: Orthosiinae) and description of new species. Willdenowia, 53(1/2), 83-112 (2023).
doi:10.3372/wi.53.53201
2022
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
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
2021
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
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
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, 719741 (2021).
doi:10.3389/fevo.2021.719741
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), 459 (2020).
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00005172
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
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, e8999 (2020).
doi:10.7717/peerj.8999
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, 222 (2019).
doi:10.1186/s12862-019-1545-6
2018
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
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
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, 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, 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, 4, 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
Nürk, N., Blattner, F.: Cladistic analysis of morphological characters in Hypericum (Hypericaceae). Taxon, 59(5), 1495-1507 (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).
Books and Book sections
2024
Nürk, N., Pirie, M.: What drives evolutionary diversification in a biodiversity hotspot? : A 'next generation' phylogenetic approach comparing three clades of the Cape Floristic Region´s mega-genus Erica : DFG Project Report. - Bayreuth : 2024. - 15
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00008064
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)