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Scientific Interests
Disciplines
Disciplines:
Behavioural ecology, Population ecology, Landscape ecology, Evolutionary biology, Applied computer science (Ecological modelling, Databases)
Theories
Island biogeography, Metapopulation theory, Evolutionary epistemology
Methods
Estimation of density and mortality of animal populations, mark-recapture methods, telemetry, matrix population models.
Analysis of population changes in space and time with multivariate statistics (principal components analysis, cluster analysis, discriminance analysis) and geostatistics (Kernel estimation of animal home-ranges, kriging etc.).
Compositional analysis of animal habitats, analysis of landscape structure and habitat modelling with GIS.
Landscape change (Landscape dissection, Fragmentation).
Application
Conservation of Species and Habitats, Wildlife management, Monitoring
Positions held
Period
Institute
2003 - 2006
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Conservation Biology
1995 - 2003
Society for Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology, Kratzeburg
1993 - 1995
Scientific coordination of the species conservation program for the Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) in Saxony - as Freelancer
1990 - 1993
Saarbrücken University, Institute of Biogeography
1985 - 1990
Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, East German Bird Ringing Scheme at island Hiddensee
Education
Period
Education
1980 - 1985
Study of biology/animal physiology at the Karl-Marx-University of Leipzig
1977 - 1980
Skilled worker with university-entrance diploma
Graduation
Theme
Dissertation
1993
Mortality of birds: chances and limits of bird ringing studies exemplified on data from white stork (Ciconia ciconia L., 1758) and common buzzard (Buteo buteo L., 1758) - Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald
Diploma
1985
Ecofaunistical studies about small mammals living in the town Leipzig - University Leipzig
Scientific Societies / Boards
German Society of Mammalogy (DGS), member since 1991
German Ornithologists' Society (DO-G), member since 1992
International
Association for
Landscape Ecology (IALE),
member of the German section since 2000
IUCN Otter Specialist Group (OSG), member since 2009
Teaching
Term
Course
University
Winter
2009
2010
Lecture: The animal and the landscape
Course: Population ecology and statistics in conservation biology
University of Leipzig
Summer
2006
2007
Field course: Population ecology and statistics in conservation biology
University of Leipzig
Winter /
Summer
2005
2006
Seminar: Current topics and methods in biodiversity research
Course: Population ecology and statistics in biological conservation
University of Leipzig
Winter /
Summer
2001
Field course: Species conservation for selected species - The Eurasian otter
University of Applied Sciences Neubrandenburg
Summer
1987 - 1990
Ecological field course at island Hiddensee (two weeks)
Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald,
Inst. of Zoology / Biological Field Station Hiddensee