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DR. Hilke Hollens-KUHR

Animal Ecology Research Group
Institute of Landscape Ecology
Heisenbergstr. 2, D-48149 Münster
room 537
phone +49(0)251-83 30 012
e-mail hilke.hollens-kuhr[at]uni-muenster.de

office hours: Tuesday 10:30-12:00 or on appointment via mail

  • Doctoral AbstractThesis

    Plant-pollinator interactions in a biodiversity hotspot Pollination ecology and evolutionary processes in oil-collecting Rediviva bees and their oil-producing Diascia host plants in the South African winter rainfall region

    Supervisor
    Professor Dr. Hermann Mattes
    Doctoral Subject
    Landschaftsökologie
    Doctoral Degree
    Dr. rer. nat.
    Awarded by
    Department 14 – Geosciences

  • CV

    Academic Education

    Promotion in Landschaftsökologie (Dr. rer. Nat.), WWU Münster
    Diplom-Landschaftsökologie, WWU Münster

    WorkExperience

    Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Institut für Landschaftsökologie an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU)

  • Teaching

  • Publications

    • , , , , and . . “Moving north under the eye of the public: the dispersal ecology of the Nosferatu spider, documented by citizen scientists.” Basic and Applied Ecology, № 84: 40–49. doi: 10.1016/j.baae.2025.02.002.

    • , , , et al. . “You are what you eat – The influence of polyphagic and monophagic diet on the flight performance of bees.” Ecology and Evolution, № 14 (9) e70256. doi: 10.1002/ece3.70256.

    • , , , and . “Pollinator community predicts trait matching between oil-producing flowers and a guild of oil-collecting bees.” American Naturalist, № 198 (6): 750–758. doi: 10.5061/dryad.mw6m905x4.

    • , , , , , and . “Small and genetically highly structured populations in a long-legged bee, Rediviva longimanus, as inferred by pooled RAD-seq.” BMC Evolutionary Biology, № 18 (1): 1–12. doi: 10.1186/s12862-018-1313-z.

    • . . “Plant-pollinator interactions in a biodiversity hotspot - Pollination ecology and evolutionary processes in oil-collecting Rediviva bees and their oil-producing Diascia host plants in the South African winter rainfall region.” Dissertation thesis, Universität Münster.
    • , , , and . . “A spur-ious inference: Pollination is not more specialized in long-spurred than in spurless species in Diascia-Rediviva mutualisms.” Flora, № 232: 73–82. doi: 10.1016/j.flora.2016.12.006.

    • , and . . “Morphology of oil-collecting Pilosity of Female Rediviva Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Melittidae) reflect Host Plant Use.” Journal of Natural History, № 49 (9-10): 561–573. doi: 10.1080/00222933.2014.939732.

    • , and . . “Morphology of oil-collecting pilosity of female Rediviva bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Melittidae) reflect host plant use.” in Integrating ecological knowledge into nature conservation and ecosystem management, edited by J Mantilla-Contreras and R Pätsch.

    • , , and . “Competition versus facilitation: conspecific effects on pollinator visitation and seed set in the iris Lapeirousia oreogena.” Oikos, № 121: 545–550. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19516.x.

    • , , and . . “Die Webspinnenfauna des Borghorster und Emsdettener Venns – Rückzugsräume für gefährdete und stenotope Arten.” Natur und Heimat - floristische, faunistische und ökologische Berichte, № 69: 117–140.

    • , , and . . “Size matters – influence of Mediterranean climate on body size evolution in bees?” contribution to the Origin and Evolution of Biota in Mediterranean Climate Zones – an Integrative Vision, Zurich