Juliane Lukas, M.Sc. –

Ecologist, Scientific Officer, Accreditation Expert, Speaker

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications
  1. Vilizzi L, Suresh VR, Giannetto D, Hill JE, Daniel WM, Monteiro JG, Edsman L, Elmi Hassan Sh Abdirahman, Awale AI, Najafi-Majd E, Mammadov R, Andriyono S, Djumanto D, Azmai MNA, Saba A, Stroil Belma Kalamujić, Adrović A, Vila-Gispert A, Boix D, Kopecký O, Pavlů V, Milošević D, Caković D, Holbech H, Lundgreen K, Lukas J, Ahnelt H, Linnamägi M, Rohtla M, Almeida D, Mendoza R, Gilles Jr. AS, Richard Jr. TDPP, Knudsen E, Hansen Leivur J, Goulletquer P, Curd A, Špelić I, Jónsson JE, Thráinsson H, Boggero A, Pupins M, Škute A, Petrulaitis L, Jukonienė I, Herczeg G, Ferincz A, Verreycken H, Leuven RSEW, Malmstrøm M, Velle G, Makhkamov T, Yuldashev A, Pietraszewski D, Marszał L, Canning-Clode J, de Camargo MP, Preda C, Memedemin D, Bakiu R, Bakiu S, Švolíková KS, Števove B, Duniš L, Kristan P, Simonović P, Dekić R, Puntila-Dodd R, Jauni M, Olsson KH, Ta KAT., Bui TD, Yoğurtçuoğlu B, Ağdamar S, Yuldashov B, Khydyrov P, Vardakas L, Koutsikos N, Perdikaris C, Lukashanets D, Borodin O, Uzunova E, Dashinov D, Lazkov G, Ganybaeva M, Ualiyeva D, Zharmukhametova R, Ristovska M, Gjorgjievska AC, Ganbaatar B, Khadbaatar S, Panov VE, Marenkov O, Saidov N, Okhonniyozov M, Kvach Y, Yuryshynets V, Arakelyan M, Khachatryan H, Mumladze L, Japoshvili B, Pickholtz R, Gavriel T, Atique U, Altaf M, Iqbal S, Al-Wazzan Z, CS, Hamdard MH, Osmani AR, Moghaddas SD, Javidpour J, Nashath M, Abdullah F, Sharma HP, Shrestha BB, Vibhakaran V, Galib SM, Khan MAG, Epa UPK, Cassim N, De Zoysa M, Chaichana R, Kanongdate K, Chan N, Ko La Minn K, Dorji J, Dorji C, Inkhavilay K, Somvongsa C, Soben K, Nida Y, Tesfay YB, Dullo BW, Oh C, Park Y, Li S, Wei H, Koyama A, Isobe A, Piria M (2026) Global framework for communication of biological invasion risks. Management of Biological Invasions 17 (1): 1-33. https://doi.org/10.3391/mbi.2026.17.1.01
  2. Bierbach D, Lukas J, Gómez-Nava L, Francisco FA, Arias-Rodriguez L, Krause S, Pacher K, Sevinchan Y, Romanczuk P, Krause J (2025) Collective escape waves provide a generic defence against different avian predators. Royal Society Open Science 12(3): 241055. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241055
  3. Vilizzi L, Piria M, Herczeg G, Almeida D, Al-Wazzan Z, Bakiu R, Boggero A, Chaichana R, Dashinov D, de Zoysa M, Gilles A, Goulletquer P, Interesova E, Kopecký O, Koutsikos N, Koyama A, Kristan P, Li S, Lukas J, Moghaddas S, Monteiro J, Mumladze L, Oh C, Olsson Karin, Pavia Richard, Perdikaris Costas, Pickholtz Renanel, Preda Cristina, Ristovska Milica, Švolíková K, Števove B, Ta K, Uzunova E, Vardakas L, Verreycken H, Wei H, Yoğurtçuoğlu B, Giannetto D, Pietraszewski D (2025) Questionnaire improvements in second-generation, multilingual decision support tools for invasion risk screening of non-native taxa. Management Of Biological Invasions 16(1): 33-44. https://doi.org/10.3391/mbi.2025.16.1.03
  4. Vilizzi L, Piria M, Pietraszewski D, Yoğurtçuoğlu B, Almeida D, Al-Wazzan Z, Atique U, Boggero A, Duniš L, Goulletquer P, Herczeg G, Jukonienė I, Kopecký O, Koutsikos N, Koyama A, Kvach Y, Li S, Lukas J, Malmstrøm M, Marszał L, Mendoza R, Monteiro J, Perdikaris C, Petrulaitis L, Pickholtz R, Preda C, Simonović P, Švolíková K, Špelić I, Števove B, Suresh V, Ualiyeva D, Vardakas L, Verreycken H, Vila-Gispert A, Wei H, Yazlık A, Zięba G, Giannetto D (2025) To be, or not to be, a non-native species in non-English languages: gauging terminological consensus amongst invasion biologists. Management Of Biological Invasions 16 (1): 15-31. https://doi.org/10.3391/mbi.2025.16.1.02
  5. Vilizzi L, Piria M, Pietraszewski D, Giannetto S, Flory SL, Herczeg G, Baş Sermenli H, Britvec M, Jukoniene I, Petrulaitis L, Vitasović-Kosić I, Almeida D, Al-Wazzan Z, Bakiu R, Boggero A, Chaichana R, Dashinov D, De Zoysa M, Gilles AS, Goulletquer P, Interesova E, Kopecký O, Koutsikos N, Koyama A, Kristan P, Li S, Lukas J, Moghaddas SD, Monteiro JG, Mumladze L, Oh C, Olsson KH, Pavia RT, Perdikaris C, Pickholtz R, Preda C, Ristovska M, Slovák Švolíková K, Števove B, Ta KAT, Uzunova E, Vardakas L, Verreycken H, Wei H, Yoğurtçuoğlu B, Ferincz A, Kirkendall LR, Marszał L, Paganelli D, Stojchevska C, Serhan Tarkan A, Yazlık A; (2024) Development and application of a second-generation multilingual tool for invasion risk screening of non-native terrestrial plants, Science of The Total Environment 917: 170475. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170475
  6. Pacher K, Hernández-Román N, Juarez-Lopez A, Jiménez-Jiménez JE, Lukas J, Sevinchan Y, Krause J, Arias-Rodríguez L, Bierbach D (2024) Thermal tolerance in an extremophile fish from Mexico is not affected by environmental hypoxia. Biology Open13(2): bio060223. https://doi.org/10.1242/bio.060223
  7. Lukas J†, Krause J†, Träger AS, Piotrowski JM, Romanczuk P, Sprekeler H, Arias-Rodriguez L, Krause S, Schutz C, Bierbach D (2023) Multispecies collective waving behaviour in fish. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 378(1874): https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0069
    † authors contributed equally
  8. Gómez-Nava L, Lange RT, Klamser PP, Lukas J, Arias-Rodriguez L, Bierbach D, Krause J, Sprekeler H, Romanczuk P (2023) Fish shoals resemble a stochastic excitable system driven by environmental perturbations. Nature Physics: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01916-1
  9. Vilizzi L, Piria M, Pietraszewski D, Kopecký O, Špelić I, Radočaj T, Šprem N, Ta KAT, Tarkan AS, Weiperth A, Yoğurtçuoğlu, Candan O, Herczeg G, Killi N, Lemić D, Szajbert B, Almeida D, Al-Wazzan Z, Atique U, Bakiu R, Chaichana R, Dashinov D, Ferincz Á, Flieller G, Gilles Jr. AS, Goulletquer P, Interesova E, Iqbal S, Koyama A, Kristan P, Li S, Lukas J, Moghaddas SD, Monteiro J, Mumladze L, Olsson KH, Paganelli D, Perdikaris C, Pickholtz R, Preda C, Ristovska M, Švolíková K, Števove B, Uzunova E, Vardakas L, Verreycken H, Wei H, Zięba G (2022) Development and application of a multilingual electronic decision-support tool for risk screening non-native terrestrial animals under current and future climate conditions. Neobiota 76: 211–236. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.76.84268
  10. Bierbach D†, Gómez-Nava L†, Francisco FA, Lukas J, Musiolek L, Hafner VV, Landgraf T, Romanczuk P, Krause J (2022) Live fish learn to anticipate the movement of a fish-like robot. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics 17(6): 065007. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3190/ac8e3e
    † authors contributed equally
  11. Bierbach D, Francisco F, Lukas J, Landgraf T, Maxeiner M, Romanczuk P, Musiolek L, Hafner VV, Krause J (2021) Biomimetic robots promote the 3Rs Principle in animal testing. Proceedings of the ALIFE 2021: The 2021 Conference on Artificial Life: Online publication (pp. 36). https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00375
  12. Doran C†, Bierbach D†, Lukas J†, Klamser P, Landgraf T, Klenz H, Habedank M, Arias Rodriguez L, Krause S, Romanczuk P, Krause J (2021) Fish waves as emergent collective antipredator behavior. Current Biology 32: 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.11.068
    † authors contributed equally
  13. Lukas J, Romanczuk P, Klenz H, Klamser P, Arias Rodriguez L, Krause J, Bierbach D (2021) Acoustic and visual stimuli combined promote stronger responses to aerial predation in fish. Behavioral Ecology 32(6): 1094–1102. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arab043
  14. Lukas J, Auer F, Goldhammer T, Krause J, Romanczuk P, Klamser P, Arias Rodriguez L, Bierbach D (2021) Diurnal changes in hypoxia shape predator-prey interaction in a bird-fish system. Frontiers in Ecology & Evolution 9: 619193. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.619193
  15. Lukas J, Kalinkat G, Miesen FW, Landgraf T, Krause J, Bierbach D (2021) Consistent behavioural syndromes across seasons in an invasive freshwater fish. Frontiers in Ecology & Evolution 8: 583670. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.583670
  16. Copp GH, Vilizzi L, Wei H, Li S, Piria M, Al-Faisal AJ, Almeida D, Atique U, Al-Wazzan Z, Bakiu R, Bašić T, Bui TD, Canning-Clode J, Castro N, Chaichana R, Çoker T, Dashinov D, Ekmekçi FG, Erős T, Ferincz Á, Ferreira T, Giannetto D, Gilles Jr. AS, Głowacki L, Goulletquer P, Interesova E, Iqbal S, Jakubčinová K, Kanongdate K, Kim J-E, Kopecký O, Kostov V, Koutsikos N, Kozic S, Kristan P, Kurita Y, Lee H-G, Leuven RSEW, Lipinskaya T, Lukas J, Marchini A, Martínez AIG, Masson L, Memedemin D, Moghaddas SD, Monteiro J, Mumladze L, Naddafi R, Năvodaru I, Olsson KH, Onikura N, Paganelli D, Pavia Jr. RT, Perdikaris C, Pickholtz R, Pietraszewski D, Povž M, Preda C, Ristovska M, Rosíková K, Santos JM, Semenchenko V, Senanan W, Simonović P, Smeti E, Števove B, Švolíková K, Ta KAT, Tarkan AS, Top N, Tricarico E, Uzunova E, Vardakas L, Verreycken H, Zięba G, Mendoza R (2020) Speaking their language – Development of a multilingual decision-support tool for communicating invasive species risks to decision makers and stakeholders. Environmental Modelling & Software 135: 104900. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104900
  17. Bierbach D, Krause S, Romanczuk P, Lukas J, Arias-Rodriguez L, Krause J (2020) An interaction mechanism for the maintenance of fission–fusion dynamics under different individual densities. PeerJ 8: e8974. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8974
  18. Bierbach D, Mönck HJ, Lukas J, Habedank M, Romaczuk P, Landgraf T, Krause J (2020) Guppies Prefer to Follow Large (Robot) Leaders Irrespective of Own Size. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology 8: 441. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2020.00441
  19. Bierbach D,  Landgraf T, Romanczuk P, Lukas J, Nguyen H, Wolf M, Krause J (2018) Using a robotic fish to investigate individual differences in social responsiveness in the guppy. Royal Society Open Science 5(8): 181026. http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.181026
  20. Bierbach D, Lukas J, Bergmann A, Elsner K, Höhne L, Weber C, Weimar N, Arias-Rodriguez L, Mönck HJ, Nguyen H, Romanczuk P, Landgraf T, Krause J (2018) Insights into the Social Behavior of Surface and Cave-Dwelling Fish (Poecilia mexicana) in Light and Darkness through the Use of a Biomimetic Robot. Frontiers in Robotics and AI 5: 3. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2018.00003
  21. Piria M, Copp GH, Dick JTA, Duplić A, Groom Q, Jelić D, Lucy FE, Roy HE, Sarat E, Simonović P, Tomljanović T, Tricarico E, Weinlander M, Adámek Z, Bedolfe S, Coughlan NE, Davis E, Dobrzycka-Krahel A, Grgić Z, Kīrankaya SG, Ekmekçi FG, Lajtner J, Lukas J, Koutsikos N, Mennen GJ, Mitić B, Pastorino P, Ruokonen TJ, Skóra ME, Smith ERC, Šprem N, Serhan Tarkan A, Treer T, Vardakas L, Vehanen T, Vilizzi L, Zanella D, Caffrey JM (2017) Tackling invasive alien species in Europe II: threats and opportunities until 2020. Management of Biological Invasions 8(3): 273–286. http://dx.doi.org/10.3391/mbi.2017.8.3.02
  22. Lukas J,  Kalinkat G, Kempkes M, Rose U, Bierbach D (2017) Feral guppies in Germany – a critical evaluation of a citizen science approach as biomonitoring tool. Bulletin of Fish Biology 17: 13–27.
  23. Lukas J, Jourdan J, Kalinkat G, Emde S, Miesen FW, Jüngling H, Cocchiararo B, Bierbach D (2017) On the occurrence of three non-native cichlid species including the first record of a feral population of Pelmatolapia (Tilapia) mariae (Boulenger, 1899) in Europe. Royal Society Open Science 4(6): 170160. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.170160
PrePrints
  1. Bierbach D, Schutz C, Weimar N, Escurra Alegre A, Francisco FA, Wersing S, O’Connor OL, Kempkes M, Rose U, Miesen FW, Habedank M, Jourdan J, Kabus J, Hof D, Hornung S, Emde S, Rüffert L, Lukas J (2022) Discovery of a new but established population of the guppy in Germany. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.02.01.478389 [preprint]
  2. Francisco FA, Lukas J, Stöcker A, Romanczuk P, Bierbach D (2022) Experienced social partners hinder learning performance in naive clonal fish. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.13.512085 [preprint]
Popular science book on tropical non-natives in freshwater systems in Germany
Other contributions
Software Tools

Lukas J (2025) German language contribution to the Aquatic Species Invasiveness Screening Kit (AS-ISK) v. 2.0 to 2.4.1 by Vilizzi L, Copp G et al.

Lukas J (2025) German language contribution to the Terrestrial Animal Species Invasiveness Screening Kit (TAS-ISK) v. 2.0 to 2.4.1 by Vilizzi et al.

Lukas J (2025) German language contribution to the Terrestrial Plant Species Invasiveness Screening Kit (TPS-ISK) v. 2.0 to 2.4.1 by Vilizzi et al.

Books

Kempkes M, Lukas J, Bierbach D (eds.) (2018) Tropische Neozoen in heimischen Fließgewässern. Die Neue-Brehm Bücherei (NBB kompakt) 755, VerlagsKG Wolf, Magdeburg: 148 pp.  [popular science book in German]

Special Issues

Bierbach D, Francisco FA, Lukas J (2021) Biomimetische Roboter – aktiver Tierschutz im Sinn des 3R-Prinzips. Versuchstierkunde kompakt 7-21: 20–24 [special issue on laboratory animal science, in German]

Lukas J, Bierbach D (2018) Häufigkeit von (sub)tropischen Arten in thermisch-belasteten Gewässern in Deutschland und Konsequenzen für die lokale Biodiversität. In: Korn, Dünnfelder & Schliep (eds.) Treffpunkt Biologische Vielfalt XVI. BfN-Skripten 487: 158-163 [Conference report synthesizing the ‘Interdisziplinäre Wissenschaftstagung zur Biodiversitätsforschung im Rahmen der Convention on Biological Diversity’, in German]

Nilsen TO, Lukas J, Valen R, Helvik JV, Ebbesson LOE, Rønnestad I, Hamre K, Handeland SO, Stefansson SO (2015) Utvikling av osmoregulerings-systemet hos torskelarver start-fôret på rotatorier eller naturlig zooplankton. Norsk Fiskeoppdrett Expert  1: 36-38. [special issue in collaboration with the CODE project, in Norwegian]

Theses

Lukas J (2026) Mechanisms and functions of collective predator evasion [Doctoral thesis, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany]

Lukas J (2017) Behavioural adaptations of a feral guppy population (Poecilia reticulata Peters, 1859) to temperature gradients in thermally polluted freshwaters in Germany [Master thesis, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany]

Lukas J (2014) The expression of two osmoregulatory genes in Atlantic cod larvae (Gadus morhua L.) under the influence of two different diets: an ontogenetic study [Bachelor thesis, Free University of Berlin, Germany]