Peter Ranacher

ZORA Publication List

Publications

• Hirschhofer, S. J., Ranacher, P., Weibel, R., Helm, B., Ćiković, D., Barišić, S., Taylor, L., Bjelić, L., Maja, & Schmid, B. (2026). When nocturnally migrating birds encounter low-level light pollution patches: a case study from the Croatian coast Biological Conservation, 313, 111620. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111620
• Ranacher, P., Forkel, R., Efrat-kowalsky Nour, Urban, M., Hehli, A., Franz, M., Biland, G., Kreienbühl, A., Hermida Rodríguez, A., Azevedo, M., Romar, M., Klaussova, A., Takahashi, T., Neureiter, N., Van Gijn, R., Roose, M., Vesakoski, O., Weibel, R., Kaiping, G., & Norder, S. (2025). A global and interoperable dataset of linguistic distributions derived from the Atlas of the World’s Languages Scientific Data, 12, 1466. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05828-6
• Hirschhofer, S., Ranacher, P., Helm, B., Ćiković, D., Weibel, R., Barišić, S., Tutiš, V., Taylor, L., Bjelić Laušić, M., & Schmid, B. (2025). Avian spring migration at the east Adriatic coast: coastal and sea-crossing dynamics of intensity, timing, and flight directions Movement Ecology, 13, 44. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-025-00572-3
• Fischer, S., Ranacher, P., Sticher, X., Mibus, A., & Nägeli, K. (2025). Cold season air temperature as predictor of psychological well-being and mental health Scientific Reports, 15, 17611 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-02486-x
• Takahashi, T., Glaser, E., & Ranacher, P. (2024, September 9). Inferring the origin of linguistic features from an atlas: a case study of Swiss-German dialects The 16th Conference on Spatial Information Theory, Québec City. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2024.18
• Hirschhofer, S., Liechti, F., Ranacher, P., Weibel, R., & Schmid, B. (2024). High‐intensity bird migration along Alpine valleys calls for protective measures against anthropogenically induced avian mortality Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 10, 360–373. https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.377
• Takahashi, T., Hannes, G., Neureiter, N., & Ranacher, P. (2023). Inferring the history of spatial diffusion processes (Short Paper) LIPIcs : Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (pp. 71:1-71:6). Presented at the 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023), Schloss Dagstuhl. doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.71
• Neureiter, N., Ranacher, P., Efrat-Kowalsky, N., Kaiping, G. A., Weibel, R., Widmer, P., & Bouckaert, R. R. (2022). Detecting contact in language trees: a Bayesian phylogenetic model with horizontal transfer Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 9, 205. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01211-7
• Werfeli, M., Ranacher, P., & Liechti, F. (2022). Gone with the wind: Inferring bird migration with light‐level geolocation, wind and activity measurements Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 13, 1265–1274. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.13837
• Romano, N., Ranacher, P., Bachmann, S., & Joost, S. (2022). Linguistic traits as heritable units? Spatial Bayesian clustering reveals Swiss German dialect regions Journal of Linguistic Geography, 10, 11–22. https://doi.org/10.1017/jlg.2021.12
• Ranacher, P., Neureiter, N., van Gijn, R., Sonnenhauser, B., Escher, A., Weibel, R., Muysken, P., & Bickel, B. (2021). Contact-tracing in cultural evolution: a Bayesian mixture model to detect geographic areas of language contact Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 18, 20201031. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2020.1031
• Matsumae, H., Ranacher, P., Savage, P. E., Blasi, D. E., Currie, T. E., Koganebuchi, K., Nishida, N., Sato, T., Tanabe, H., Tajima, A., Brown, S., Stoneking, M., Shimizu, K. K., Oota, H., & Bickel, B. (2021). Exploring correlations in genetic and cultural variation across language families in northeast Asia Science Advances, 7, eabd9223. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abd9223
• Seiler, G., Bachmann, S., Graën, J., Rajović, N., van der Lek, A., Hachfi, G., Mustač, I., Glaser, E., Ranacher, P., & Weibel, R. (2021). Syntaktischer Atlas der deutschen Schweiz online https://dialektsyntax.linguistik.uzh.ch/
• Ranacher, P., & Neureiter, N. (2021). Hidden spatial clusters – and how to find them Spatial data science symposium 2021, UC Santa Barbara. https://doi.org/10.25436/E2G01J
• Neureiter, N., Ranacher, P., van Gijn, R., Bickel, B., & Weibel, R. (2021). Can Bayesian phylogeography reconstruct migrations and expansions in linguistic evolution? Royal Society Open Science, 8, 201079. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201079
• Dedio, S., Ranacher, P., & Widmer, P. (2019). Evidence for Britain and Ireland as a linguistic area Language, 95, 498–522. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2019.0054
• Scherrer, L., Tomko, M., Ranacher, P., & Weibel, R. (2018). Travelers or locals? Identifying meaningful sub-populations from human movement data in the absence of ground truth EPJ Data Science, 7:19. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-018-0147-7
• Ranacher, P., Van Gijn, R., & Derungs, C. (2017, May 12). Identifying probable pathways of language diffusion in South America AGILE conference 2017, Wageningen.