Dr. Marten Winter
Dr. Marten Winter
Department of Community Ecology
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ
Theodor-Lieser Str. 4
06120 Halle (Saale), Germany
Tel: 0345 558 5316
Fax: 0345 558 5329
marten.winter@ufz.de
Research interests
Currently I'm a PostDoc at the university of Fribourg (CH) in the group of Sven Bacher, working for the Eu-project Pratique. Whereas, I try to find traits across different taxa, which could favour species, having an high ecological impact on native species and/or ecosystems and animals.
Actually I'm a zoological taxonomist in macroecologists clothing with a species invasion cap who worked the last years also with plants and just started to increase the animal percentage again. :O)
My main research areas are macroecology, invasion biology and species distribution and diversity pattern. Interesting but rather technical aspects of my work are database programming, combining species inventories (data mining) and monitoring schemes. I was involved in the European project DAISIE and since my diploma time I'm still interested in the ecology and distribution of the North American raccoon (P. lotor).
However, some interesting aspects I'm particularly interested in, is the influence of introductions and extinctions and their effect on taxonomical, functional and phylogenetical diversities at different scales.
Co-operations / Projects
University of Bern
Zoological Institute - Community Ecology
Prof. Wolfgang Nentwig
DAISIE
Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe
DAISIE Platform
Climate Change
Federal Agency of Nature Protection
Wolfgang Rabitsch Austrian Federal Environmental Agency
Pratique
PRATIQUE: ENHANCEMENTS OF PEST RISK ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES
Project Homepage
Sven Bacher University Fribourg (CH)
Publications
Niche Evolution
Dormann, C.F., Gruber, B, Winter, M., Herrmann, D. (2009) Evolution of climate niches
in European mammals? Biology Letters, online (DOI:10.1098/rsbl.2009.0688).
Reprint
Homogenization
Winter, M., Kühn, I., Nentwig, W., Klotz, S.: Winter, M., Kühn, I. , Nentwig, W., Klotz, S. (2008) Spatial aspects of trait homogenization within the German Flora. Journal of Biogeography, 35 (12): 2289-2297; (DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2008.01967.x).
Reprint
Winter, M., Kühn, I., LaSorte, F., Schweiger, O., Nentwig, W., Klotz, S.: The role of non-native plants and vertebrates in defining patterns of compositional dissimilarity within and across continents. Global Ecology and Biogeography. in press.
Winter M. , Schweiger O., Nentwig W., Andriopoulos, P., Arianoutsou, M., Basnou, C., Delipetrou, P., Didziulis, V., Hejda, M., Hulme, P.E., Lambdon, P., Pergl, P., Pysek, P., Roy, D., Kühn, I.: Plant extinctions and introductions lead to phylogenetic and taxonomic homogenization of the European flora. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106 (51): 21721-21725; (DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0907088106).
Paper (Open Access)
Appendix
DAISIE
Py¨ek P. et al (Winter M.): Disentangling the role of environmental and human pressures on biological invasions. in review.
Lambdon P.W., Py¨ek P., Basnou C., Hejda M., Arianoutsou M., Essl F., Jaro¨ík V., Pergl J.,Winter M., Anastasiu P., Andriopoulos P., Bazos I., Brundu G., Celesti-Grapow L., Chassot P., Delipetrou P., Josefsson M., Kark S., Klotz S.,KokkorisY.,Kühn I., Marchante H., Perglová I., Pino J.,Vilà M., Zikos A., Roy D. & Hulme P. E. (2008): Alien flora of Europe: species diversity, temporal trends, geographical patterns and research needs. – Preslia 80: 101–149.
Reprint
Vilà, M., Basnou, C., Py¨ek, P., Josefsson, M., Genovesi, P., Gollasch, S., Nentwig, W., Olenin, S., Roques, A., Roy, D., Hulme, P.E., DAISIE partners (2009): How well do we understand the impacts of alien species on ecosystem services? A pan-European cross-taxa assessment. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, doi:10.1890/080083.
Reprint
Pysek P, Lambdon P.W., Arianoutsou M, Kühn I, Pino J, Winter M (2009): Alien Vascular Plants of Europe. In: Handbook of Alien species in Europe. Springer, Dordrecht.
Reprint
Kauhala K & Winter M (2009): Nyctereutes procyonioiodes. In: Handbook of Alien species in Europe. Springer, Dordrecht.
Winter M (2009): Procyon lotor. In: Handbook of Alien species in Europe. Springer, Dordrecht. Reprint
Aspects of climate change
Schweiger, O.; Biesmeijer, J.; Bommarco, R.; Hickler, T.; Hulme, P.; Klotz, S.; Kühn, I.; Moora, M.; Nielsen, A.; Ohlemüller, R.; Petanidou, T.; Potts, S.; Pysek, P.; Stout, J.; Sykes, M.; Tscheulin, T.; Vila, M.; Wather, G.-R.; Westphal, C.; Winter, M.; Zobel, M.; Settele, J.: Multiple stressors on biotic interactions: climate change and alien species affect pollination in concert. Biological Reviews. in press.
German raccoon stuff
publications
Winter M. (2005): Zur Ökologie des Waschbären (Procyon lotor L., 1758) in Sachsen-Anhalt. - Diploma thesis, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Diploma_thesis.pdf (9.1 MByte)
Winter M., Stubbe M., Heidecke D. (2005): Zur Ökologie des Waschbären (Procyon lotor L., 1758) in Sachsen-Anhalt. - Beiträge zur Jagd- und Wildtierforschung 30: 303-322. Racoon_Winter2005.pdf (0.8 MByte)
Others
Stubbe A., Stubbe M., Batsajchan N., Samjaa R., Driechciarz E., Driechciarz R., Schonert A., Winter M. (2007): Euchoreutes naso Sclater, 1890 – ein Säugetier-Endemit Zentralasiens. Erforschung Biologischer Ressourcen der Mongolei 10: 471-486. Euchoreutes_naso_Mongolia.pdf (2.6 MByte)
BRITZ, P., CHALMERS, R., GRAY, M., HENDERSON, R., KAISER, H., SIMON, C. and WINTER, M., 2005. Final Research Report – Investigations into the Biology of Terebrasabella heterouncinata, a Problematic Sabellid Polychaete Living on Haliotis midae. Rhodes University, Grahamstown, pp.1-33.
WINTER, M., 2001. Investigations into the reproductive strategy of
T. heterouncinata under farm conditions. Internal report. Rhodes University, Grahamstown, pp. 2-19.
Selected talks and posters
selected talksWinter M., Kuehn I., Klotz S. (2005): Homogenization effects on a plant-functional scale. Annual Conference of German speaking society of Ecology - Landscapes, ecosystems and populations dynamics, functions and conservation. In: Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie 35: 157
Winter, M., Kühn, I., Nentwig, W., Klotz, S. (2007): Funktionelle Homogenisierung in der Flora Deutschlands? - Tagung des Informationskreises Makroökologie der GFÖ in Mainz, März 2007.
Winter, M., Kühn, I., Nentwig, W., Klotz, S. (2007): Homogenization patterns (of plants) in the northern Hemisphere - EMAPI - Ecology and Management of Alien Plant Invasions, Perth (Australia)
Winter, M., Kühn, I., LaSorte, F., Schweiger, O., Nentwig, W., Klotz, S. (2008): Are we starting to face a "Homogocene"? - Homogenization patterns between Europe and North America. - NEOBIOTA: Towards a Synthesis. Prag (CZ).
Book of abstracts (p. 44)
selected poster
Winter M., Kühn I., Klotz S. (2005): Homogenization effects on a plant-functional scale. EMAPI - Ecology and Management of Alien Plant Invasions, Katowice (PL)
Winter, M., Kühn I., Klotz S. (2006): Genetic homogenization at different spatial scales. NEOBIOTA - From Ecology to Conservation, Wien (AT)
Book of abstracts (p. 274)
Winter, M., Kühn, I., LaSorte, F., Schweiger, O., Nentwig, W. & Klotz, S. (2008): Are we starting to face a “Homogocene”? - Between loss of uniqueness and increased diversity. Symposium “Fifty years of invasion ecology – the legacy of Charles Elton”, Stellenbosch (ZA)
Book of abstracts (p. 37)
Winter M., Stubbe M., Welk E & Seidler G (2004): Bioclimatic modelling of the potential distribution of the raccoon, (Procyon lotor L., 1758). NEOBIOTA - From Ecology to Control, Bern (CH) (6.4 MByte)
Winter M., Stubbe M., Heidecke D. (2005): Zur Ökologie des Waschbären (Procyon lotor L., 1758) in Sachsen-Anhalt. International Symposium of the Gesellschaft für Jagd- und Wildtierforschung, Chorin
Scientific Services
Reviewer for Journal of Biogeography, Conservation Biology, Journal of Ecology, Diversity and Distribution, Plant Ecology;
technical editing for parts of the DAISIE book
Scientific Affiliations
International Biogeography Society
Gesellschaft für Wildtier- und Jagdforschung
(Association of wild animals and hunting research)
Member of the IUCN Small Carnivore Specialist Group (SCSG)
CV
1998 - 01/2005
Biology student at Martin-Luther-University Halle/Wittenberg with major in animal and plant ecology and minors in nature conservation and soil science
2000 - 3 month research stay in South Africa, Rhodes University Grahamstown & Hermanus - "Investigations into the reproductive strategy of Terebrasabella heterouncinata under farm conditions."
2002 - 3 month research expedition through Mongolia - work on various ecological topics, e.g. bird distribution, ringing and marking; telemetry study of an endemic desert mouse; relocation project of rare asian beaver subspecies
02/2005 - 12/2008
Ph.D thesis "Aspects of biotic homogenization - from regional to global scales"
at the UFZ - work group macroecology of 
Ingolf Kühn
at the University of Bern - Community Ecology of Prof. Wolfgang Nentwig
02/2009 -
05/2009
scientific staff within the project Federal Agency of Nature Protection "Effects of climate change on German fauna" (Auswirkungen des rezenten Klimawandel auf die Fauna in Deutschland) in cooperation with Dr. Wolfgang Rabitsch from the Austrian Federal Environmental Agency
08/2009 -
01/2010
PostDoc within the project Pratique "ENHANCEMENTS OF PEST RISK ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES" in the team of Sven Bacher from the University of Fribourg (CH)
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