Research Foci
- Impact of land-use intensity and biodiversity decline on animal communities on a local and landscape scale
- Trophic and microbial interactions involving invertebrates & vertebrates
- Physiological condition of invertebrates
- Movement pattern of invertebrates
- Lady beetles, ground beetles, slugs, mice, voles, shrews & bats
CV
Academic Education
- Phd in Biodiversity and Ecology (Dr. rer. nat.), University of Göttingen, DE; Thesis: Plant diversity and landscape-scale effects on multitrophic interactions involving invertebrates
- MSc in Horticulture, University of Hannover, DE; MSc Arbeit: Wirkung des standardisierten Bitterholzprodukts Quassia-MD auf die Schwarze Bohnenblattlaus Aphis fabae
- BSc in Horticulture, University of Hannover, DE; BSc Arbeit: Auswirkungen von Bitterholzextrakten auf Wirtswahl und Entwicklung der Weißen Fliege Trialeurodes vaporariorum
Positions
- Postdoc, Molecular Evolution and Sociobiology Group, University of Münster, DE: Changes in Small Mammal Trophic Interactions (SMaTI) in response to land-use intensity and biodiversity
- Postdoc, Animal Ecology and Multitrophic Interactions Group, University of Münster, DE: Changes in Small Mammal Trophic Interactions (SMaTI) in response to land-use intensity and biodiversity
- Coordinator of the 49th annual meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ), Institute of Landscape Ecology, University of Münster, DE
- Research assistant, Animal Ecology and Multitrophic Interactions Group, University of Münster, DE
- Research assistant, Agroecology Group, University of Göttingen, DE
- Research scholar, Landscape Ecology of Insects Group, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Project
- SMaTI – SPP 1374 - Subproject: Changes in Small Mammal Trophic Interactions (SMaTI) in response to land-use intensity and biodiversity ( – )
Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted outside the University of Münster: DFG - Priority Programme | Project Number: TI 1093/1-1
- SMaTI – SPP 1374 - Subproject: Changes in Small Mammal Trophic Interactions (SMaTI) in response to land-use intensity and biodiversity ( – )
Research Articles (Journals)
- . . ‘Agriculturally intensified landscapes are associated with reduced body condition of lady beetles.’ Landscape Ecology 37: 1921–1936. doi: 10.1007/s10980-022-01458-0.
- . . ‘SPECIAL ISSUE: DNA sequence-based biodiversity and interaction ecology.’ Basic and Applied Ecology 56: 460–463. doi: 10.1016/j.baae.2021.06.008.
- . . ‘Seasonal variation in the diet of the serotine bat (Eptesicus serotinus): A high-resolution analysis using DNA metabarcoding.’ Basic and Applied Ecology 49: 1–12. doi: 10.1016/j.baae.2020.09.004.
- . . ‘Land-sharing/-sparing connectivity landscapes for ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation.’ People and Nature 1, № 2. doi: 10.1002/pan3.21.
- . . ‘Pitfall trap sampling bias depends on body mass, temperature, and trap number: insights from an individual-based model.’ Ecosphere 8, № 4. doi: 10.1002/ecs2.1790.
- . . ‘Gut microbiomes of mobile predators vary with landscape context and species identity.’ Ecology and Evolution http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3390. doi: 10.1002/ece3.3390.
- . . ‘Trophic and non-trophic interactions in a biodiversity experiment assessed by next-generation sequencing.’ PloS one 11, № 2. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0148781.
