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Anika K. Gathof

Animal Ecology Research Group
Institute of Landscape Ecology
Heisenbergstr. 2, D-48149 Münster
Room 540
e-mail agathof@uni-muenster.de

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  • CV

    Academic education
    • 2014-2018: Study of urban ecology (Urban Ecosystem Sciences), TU Berlin. Master thesis: Pollinators along an urban gradient
    • 2010-2014: Study of Landscape Planning and Landscape Architecture, TU Berlin.
    • Bachelor thesis: Urban wilderness. Perception and potentials of urban wilderness using the example of three Berlin parks
    Professional career
    • since 2023: Research assistant in the animal ecology working group at the Institute of Landscape Ecology, WWU Münster
    • 2019-2023: Research assistant at the Department of Ecosystem Science / Plant Ecology, TU Berlin
    • since 2018: Pollinator surveys, especially wild bees and butterflies
    • 2016-2018: Student assistant at the Department of Landscape Planning and Landscape Development, TU Berlin

     

  • Research areas

    • Pollinator networks and ecology, focus on wild bees and butterflies
    • Urban ecology
    • Species and nature conservation

  • Publications

    Grossmann, A.J., Herrmann, J., Buchholz, S. & A. K. Gathof (2022): Dry grassland within the urban matrix acts as favourable habitat for different pollinators including endangered species. Insect Conservation and Diversity, https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12607.

    Felderhoff, J., Gathof, A., Buchholz, S. & M. Egerer (2022): Vegetation complexity and nesting resource availability predict bee diversity and functional traits in community gardens. Ecological Applications, https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2759.

    Gathof, A.K., Grossmann, A.J., Herrmann, J. & S. Buchholz (2022): Who can pass the urban flter? A multi-taxon approach to disentangle pollinator trait–environmental relationships. Oecologia, 199:165–179.

    Rakosy, D., Motivans, E., Ştefan, V., Nowak, A, Świerszcz, S., Feldmann, R., Kühn, E., Geppert, C., Venkataraman, N., Sobieraj-Betlińska, A., Grossmann, A., Rojek, W., Pochrząst, K., Cielniak, M., Gathof, A.K., Baumann, K. & T.M. Knight (2022): Intensive grazing alters the diversity, composition and structure of plant-pollinator interaction networks in Central European grasslands. PLoS One 11;17(3):e0263576.

    Buchholz, S., Gathof, A.K., Grossmann, A.J., Kowarik, I. & L.K. Fischer (2020): Wild bees in urban grasslands: Urbanisation, functional diversity and species traits. Landscape and Urban Planning (196), 103731

    Gathof, A.K., Grossmann, A.J. & S. Buchholz (2019): Wildbienen (Hymenoptera: Apidae) auf Berliner Trockenrasen. Märkische Entomologische Nachrichten. Band 21, Heft 1, 140-162.