Dr. Annegret Grimm-Seyfarth
MSc Biology
room 343d
Department of Conservation Biology
Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany
Tel: 0341 6025 1652
annegret.grimm@ufz.de
Web registries
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Scientific career
| 2010 - 2012 |
Master of Science in Biology at the University of Leipzig Thesis Title: Assessing Effective Population Size in Vertebrate Populations |
| 2007 - 2010 |
Bachelor of Science in Biology at the University of Leipzig Thesis Title: Reliability of Different Methods for Population Size Estimates Tested with Field Data from Populations of Known Size |
Academic positions
| 2018 onwards | Postdoc at UFZ, Dep. Conservation Biology |
| 2015 - 2018 | PhD at UFZ, Dep. Conservation Biology; University of Potsdam, WG Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation |
| 2013 - 2014 | Researcher at UFZ, Dep. Conservation Biology |
| 2012 - 2017 | Guest scientist at the University of Canberra, Institute for Applied Ecology |
| 2009 - 2012 | Internship, Research Assistant, and Guest Scientist at UFZ, Dep. Conservation Biology |
| 2011 - 2012 | Student Assistant in a cooperation project between the University of Leipzig, the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and EURING |
| 2009 | Internship at the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology |
Research interests
- Population ecology of vertebrates
- Effects of climate warming and land use on vertebrates
- Herpetology
- international nature and species conservation
- Statistics, programming, and modelling
- Detection dogs for species monitoring
Projects
IGAMon-Dog - Dog owners support the search and clear determination of occurrences for invasive plant and animal species
Project duration: seit 2021
In the project: since 2021
Partner: UfU e.V., WDD e.V.
Contact person: Wiebke Harms wiebke.harms@ufz.de, Dr. Annegret Grimm-Seyfarth annegret.grimm@ufz.de
Project duration: seit 2021
In the project: since 2021
Partner: AWI
Contact person: Dr. Annegret Grimm-Seyfarth annegret.grimm@ufz.de, Dr. Cornelia Sattler cornelia.sattler@ufz.de
Influence of micrclimate and land use on the suitability of terrestrial habitats for amphibians
Project duration: 2018 onwardsIn the project: since 2018
Contact person: Dr. Annegret Grimm-Seyfarth, annegret.grimm@ufz.de
Influence of winter tourism on montane herpetological communities in Europe
Project duration: 2018 onwards
In the project: since 2018
Contact person: Michele Chiacchio, michele.chiacchio@ufz.de
Effects of climate change on a reptile community in arid Australia
Project duration: 2012 onwards
In the project: since 2012
Contact person: Dr. Annegret Grimm-Seyfarth, annegret.grimm@ufz.de
The use of detection dogs in conservation
Project duration: 2014 onwards
In the project: since 2015
Contact person: Dr. Annegret Grimm-Seyfarth, annegret.grimm@ufz.de
Otter Damage Monitoring (ODaMo)
Project duration: 2015 onwards
In the project: since 2015
Contact person: Dr. Reinhard Klenke, reinhard.klenke@ufz.de
Orchards in Germany - Ecological importance, stock situation and need for action
Project duration: seit 2021
In the project: since 2021
Contact person: Marie-Luise Hüttner marie-luise.huettner@ufz.de
Finished projects
Effects of climate change on barn swallows
Project duration: 2011 - 2015
In the project: 2011-2015
Partner: Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Primate kin selection
Contact person: Annegret Grimm, annegret.grimm@ufz.de
Securing the Conservation of biodiversity across Administrative Levels and spatial, temporal, and Ecological Scales
Project duration: 01.05.2009 - 31.07.2014
In the project: 2012 - 2014
Contact person: Reinhard Klenke, reinhard.klenke@ufz.de
Publications
2024 (4)
- Chiacchio, M., Rödder, D., Henle, K., Grimm-Seyfarth, A. (2024):
Influences of ski-runs, meadow management and climate on the occupancy of reptiles and amphibians in a high-altitude environment of Italy
Ecol. Evol. 14 (5), e11378 10.1002/ece3.11378 - Chiacchio, M., Rödder, D., Henle, K., Grimm-Seyfarth, A. (2024):
Data from: Influences of ski-runs, meadow management and climate on the occupancy of reptiles and amphibians in a high-altitude environment of Italy
Dryad 10.5061/dryad.0gb5mkm6v - Dubiner, S., Aguilar, R., Anderson, R.O., Arenas Moreno, D.M., Avila, L.J., Boada-Viteri, E., Castillo, M., Chapple, D.G., Chukwuka, C.O., Cree, A., Cruz, F.B., Colli, G.R., Das, I., Delaugerre, M.-J., Du, W.-G., Dyugmedzhiev, A., Doan, T.M., Escudero, P., Farquhar, J., Gainsbury, A.M., Gray, B.S., Grimm-Seyfarth, A., Hare, K.M., Henle, K., Ibargüengoytía, N., Itescu, Y., Jamison, S., Jimenez-Robles, O., Labra, A., Laspiur, A., Liang, T., Ludgate, J.L., Luiselli, L., Martín, J., Matthews, G., Medina, M., Méndez-de-la-Cruz, F.R., Miles, D.B., Mills, N.E., Miranda-Calle, A.B., Monks, J.M., Morando, M., Moreno Azocar, D.L., Murali, G., Pafilis, P., Pérez-Cembranos, A., Pérez-Mellado, V., Peters, R., Pizzatto, L., Pincheira-Donoso, D., Plummer, M.V., Schwarz, R., Shermeister, B., Shine, R., Theisinger, O., Theisinger, W., Tolley, K.A., Torres-Carvajal, O., Valdecantos, S., Van Damme, R., Vitt, L.J., Wapstra, E., While, G.M., Levin, E., Meiri, S. (2024):
A global analysis of field body temperatures of active squamates in relation to climate and behaviour
Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. 33 (4), e13808 10.1111/geb.13808 - Dubiner, S., Anderson, R.O., Aguilar, R., Arenas Moreno, D.M., Avila, L.J., Boada-Viteri, E., Castillo, M., Chapple, D.G., Chukwuka, C.O., Cree, A., Cruz, F.B., Colli, G.R., Das, I., Delaugerre, M.-J., Du, W.-G., Dyugmedzhiev, A., Doan, T.M., Escudero, P., Farquhar, J., Gainsbury, A.M., Gray, B.S., Grimm-Seyfarth, A., Hare, K.M., Henle, K., Ibargüengoytía, N., Itescu, Y., Jamison, S., Jimenez-Robles, O., Labra, A., Laspiur, A., Liang, T., Ludgate, J.L., Luiselli, L., Martín, J., Matthews, G., Medina, M., Méndez-de-la-Cruz, F.R., Miles, D.B., Mills, N.E., Miranda-Calle, A.B., Monks, J.M., Morando, M., Moreno Azocar, D.L., Murali, G., Pafilis, P., Pérez-Cembranos, A., Pérez-Mellado, V., Peters, R., Pizzatto, L., Pincheira-Donoso, D., Plummer, M.V., Schwarz, R., Shermeister, B., Shine, R., Theisinger, O., Theisinger, W., Tolley, K.A., Torres-Carvajal, O., Valdecantos, S., Van Damme, R., Vitt, L.J., Wapstra, E., While, G.M., Levin, E., Meiri, S. (2024):
A global analysis of field body temperatures of active squamates in relation to climate and behaviour [Dataset]
Dryad 10.5061/dryad.5dv41nscz
2023 (4)
- Bolte, L., Goudarzi, F., Klenke, R., Steinfartz, S., Grimm-Seyfarth, A., Henle, K. (2023):
Habitat connectivity supports the local abundance of fire salamanders (Salamandra salamandra) but also the spread of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans
Landsc. Ecol. 38 (6), 1537 - 1554 10.1007/s10980-023-01636-8 - Chiacchio, M., Pellitteri-Rosa, D., Barbi, A., Corlatti, L., Rödder, D., Henle, K., Grimm-Seyfarth, A. (2023):
Comparative success of two sampling techniques for high-altitude Alpine grassland reptiles under different temporal designs
Amphib. Reptil. 44 (4), 431 - 440 10.1163/15685381-bja10150 - Grimm-Seyfarth, A., Harms, W., Mazoschek, L., Scholz, M. (2023):
Landhabitate von Kamm- und Teichmolchen und deren Einfluss auf individuelle und Populationsparameter
Jahresschrift für Feldherpetologie und Ichthyofaunistik in Sachsen 24 , 50 - 81 - Kahnt, B., Theodorou, P., Grimm-Seyfarth, A., Onstein, R.E. (2023):
When lizards shift to a more plant-based lifestyle: The macroevolution of mutualistic lizard-plant-interactions (Squamata: Sauria/Lacertilia)
Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 186 , art. 107839 10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107839
2022 (5)
- Chiacchio, M., Grimm-Seyfarth, A., Henle, K. (2022):
Population collapse of Rana temporaria in a high altitude environment? An occupancy study
Nat. sicil. Ser. 4, 46 (1), 77 - 84 10.5281/zenodo.6784730 - Chiacchio, M., Mazoschek, L., Vershinin, V., Berzin, D., Partel, P., Henle, K., Grimm-Seyfarth, A. (2022):
Distant but similar: Simultaneous drop in the abundance of three independent amphibian communities
Conserv. Sci. Pract. 4 (11), e12835 10.1111/csp2.12835 - Grimm-Seyfarth, A. (2022):
Environmental and training factors affect canine detection probabilities for terrestrial newt surveys
J. Vet. Behav. 57 , 6 - 15 10.1016/j.jveb.2022.07.013 - Haack, N., Borges, P.A.V., Grimm-Seyfarth, A., Schlegel, M., Wirth, C., Bernhard, D., Brunk, I., Henle, K., Pereira, H.M. (2022):
Response of common and rare beetle species to tree species and vertical stratification in a floodplain forest
Insects 13 (2), art. 161 10.3390/insects13020161 - Reinke, B.A., Cayuela, H., Janzen, F.J., Lemaître, J.-F., Gaillard, J.-M., Lawing, A.M., Iverson, J.B., Christiansen, D.G., Martínez-Solano, I., Sánchez-Montes, G., Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, J., Rose, F.L., Nelson, N., Keall, S., Crivelli, A.J., Nazirides, T., Grimm-Seyfarth, A., Henle, K., Mori, E., Guiller, G., Homan, R., Olivier, A., Muths, E., Hossack, B.R., Bonnet, X., Pilliod, D.S., Lettink, M., Whitaker, T., Schmidt, B.R., Gardner, M.G., Cheylan, M., Poitevin, F., Golubović, A., Tomović, L., Arsovski, D., Griffiths, R.A., Arntzen, J.W., Baron, J.-P., Le Galliard, J.-F., Tully, T., Luiselli, L., Capula, M., Rugiero, L., McCaffery, R., Eby, L.A., Briggs-Gonzalez, V., Mazzotti, F., Pearson, D., Lambert, B.A., Green, D.M., Jreidini, N., Angelini, C., Pyke, G., Thirion, J.-M., Joly, P., Léna, J.-P., Tucker, A.D., Limpus, C., Priol, P., Besnard, A., Bernard, P., Stanford, K., King, R., Garwood, J., Bosch, J., Souza, F.L., Bertoluci, J., Famelli, S., Grossenbacher, K., Lenzi, O., Matthews, K., Boitaud, S., Olson, D.H., Jessop, T.S., Gillespie, G.R., Clobert, J., Richard, M., Valenzuela-Sánchez, A., Fellers, G.M., Kleeman, P.M., Halstead, B.J., Campbell Grant, E.H., Byrne, P.G., Frétey, T., Le Garff, B., Levionnois, P., Maerz, J.C., Pichenot, J., Olgun, K., Üzüm, N., Avcı, A., Miaud, C., Elmberg, J., Brown, G.P., Shine, R., Bendik, N.F., O’Donnell, L., Davis, C.L., Lannoo, M.J., Stiles, R.M., Cox, R.M., Reedy, A.M., Warner, D.A., Bonnaire, E., Grayson, K., Ramos-Targarona, R., Baskale, E., Muñoz, D., Measey, J., de Villiers, F.A., Selman, W., Ronget, V., Bronikowski, A.M., Miller, D.A.W. (2022):
Diverse aging rates in ectothermic tetrapods provide insights for the evolution of aging and longevity
Science 376 (6600), 1459 - 1466 10.1126/science.abm0151
2021 (6)
- Chiacchio, M., Grimm-Seyfarth, A., Partel, P., Henle, K. (2021):
New altitudinal breeding record for the common toad (Bufo bufo) in the Dolomites
Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali 101 , 83 - 85 - Contardo, J., Grimm-Seyfarth, A., Cattan, P.E., Schüttler, E. (2021):
Environmental factors regulate occupancy of free-ranging dogs on a sub-Antarctic island, Chile
Biol. Invasions 23 (3), 677 - 691 10.1007/s10530-020-02394-3 - Grimm-Seyfarth, A., Harms, W., Berger, A. (2021):
Detection dogs in nature conservation: A database on their world-wide deployment with a review on breeds used and their performance compared to other methods
Methods Ecol. Evol. 12 (4), 568 - 579 10.1111/2041-210X.13560 - Haack, N., Grimm-Seyfarth, A., Schlegel, M., Wirth, C., Bernhard, D., Brunk, I., Henle, K. (2021):
Patterns of richness across forest beetle communities—A methodological comparison of observed and estimated species numbers
Ecol. Evol. 11 (1), 626 - 635 10.1002/ece3.7093 - Kolora, S.R.R., Gysi, D.M., Schaffer, S., Grimm-Seyfarth, A., Szabolcs, M., Faria, R., Henle, K., Stadler, P.F., Schlegel, M., Nowick, K. (2021):
Accelerated evolution of tissue-specific genes mediates divergence amidst gene flow in European green lizards
Genome Biol. Evol. 13 (8), evab109 10.1093/gbe/evab109 - Saavedra-Aracena, L., Grimm-Seyfarth, A., Schüttler, E. (2021):
Do dog-human bonds influence movements of free-ranging dogs in wilderness?
Appl. Anim. Behav. Sci. 241 , art. 105358 10.1016/j.applanim.2021.105358
2020 (3)
- Chiacchio, M., Grimm-Seyfarth, A., Henle, K., Mihoub, J.-B. (2020):
Water availability as a major climatic driver of taxonomic and functional diversity in a desert reptile community
Ecosphere 11 (7), e03190 10.1002/ecs2.3190 - Henle, K., Grimm-Seyfarth, A. (2020):
Exceptional occurrences of double, triple and quintuple tails in an Australian lizard community, with a review of supernumerary tails in natural populations of reptiles
Salamandra 56 (4), 373 - 391 - Mazoschek, L., Grimm-Seyfarth, A. (2020):
Lissotriton vulgaris (Smooth Newt). Tail bifurcation and ectromely. Natural history notes
Herpetol. Rev. 51 (3), 556 - 557
2019 (7)
- Grimm-Seyfarth, A., Chiacchio, M., Henle, K. (2019):
Einfluss von Wintertourismus auf montane herpetologische Artengemeinschaften in Europa
Elaphe 2019 (5), 89 - Grimm-Seyfarth, A., Harms, W. (2019):
Evaluierung von Artenspürhunden beim Monitoring von Amphibien und Reptilien
Jahresschrift für Feldherpetologie und Ichthyofaunistik in Sachsen 20 , 56 - 69 - Grimm-Seyfarth, A., Klenke, R. (2019):
Wie findet man schwer zu erfassende Arten? Vorteile und Limitierungen von Artenspürhunden
In: Schüler, C., Kaul, P. (Hrsg.)
Faszinosum Spürhunde - Dem Geruch auf der Spur. Tagungsergebnisse des 4. Symposiums für Odorologie im Diensthundewesen an der Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
Schriften der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Odorologie e.V. Band 2
Verlag Dr. Kovač, Hamburg, S. 40 - 47 - Grimm-Seyfarth, A., Mihoub, J.-B., Henle, K. (2019):
Functional traits determine the different effects of prey, predators, and climatic extremes on desert reptiles
Ecosphere 10 (9), e02865 10.1002/ecs2.2865 - Grimm-Seyfarth, A., Zarzycka, A., Nitz, T., Heynig, L., Weissheimer, N., Lampa, S., Klenke, R. (2019):
Performance of detection dogs and visual searches for scat detection and discrimination amongst related species with identical diets
Nat. Conserv.-Bulgaria (37), 81 - 98 10.3897/natureconservation.37.48208 - Halliday, B., Grimm-Seyfarth, A. (2019):
A new species of Ophiomegistus Banks (Acari: Paramegistidae) from an Australian lizard
Syst. Appl. Acarol. 24 (12), 2348 - 2357 10.11158/saa.24.12.5 - Kolora, S.R.R., Weigert, A., Saffari, A., Kehr, S., Costa, M.B.W., Spröer, C., Indrischek, H., Chintalapati, M., Lohse, K., Doose, G., Overmann, J., Bunk, B., Bleidorn, C., Grimm-Seyfarth, A., Henle, K., Nowick, K., Faria, R., Stadler, P.F., Schlegel, M. (2019):
Divergent evolution in the genomes of closely related lacertids, Lacerta viridis and L. bilineata, and implications for speciation
GigaScience 8 (2), giy160 10.1093/gigascience/giy160
2018 (3)
- Böcker, F., Taubmann, J., Grimm-Seyfarth, A. (2018):
Wildlife detection dogs – Einsatz und Grenzen von Artenspürhunden in Wildtierforschung und Naturschutz
In: König, A., Arnold, J., Suchant, R., Sandrini, M. (Hrsg.)
Wildbiologische Forschungsberichte. Tagungsbeiträge: Wildtierökologische Forschung für die Praxis - Vom Monitoring bis zum Management - (2018 im Nordschwarzwald)
Schriftenreihe der Vereinigung der Wildbiologen und Jagdwissenschaftler Deutschlands 3
Kessel, Remagen-Oberwinter, S. 47 - 50 - Grimm-Seyfarth, A. (2018):
Effects of climate change on a reptile community in arid Australia : exploring mechanisms and processes in a hot, dry, and mysterious ecosystem. Auswirkungen von Klimawandel auf eine Reptiliengemeinschaft im ariden Australien : eine Untersuchung von Mechanismen und Prozessen in einem heißen, trockenen, und rätselhaften Ökosystem
Dissertation, Universität Potsdam
195 pp. - Grimm-Seyfarth, A., Mihoub, J.-B., Gruber, B., Henle, K. (2018):
Some like it hot: from individual to population responses of an arboreal arid‐zone gecko to local and distant climate
Ecol. Monogr. 88 (3), 336 - 352 10.1002/ecm.1301
2017 (4)
- Grimm-Seyfarth, A., Klenke, R. (2017):
Suchhunde im Naturschutz: Geruchsunterscheidung zwischen nahe verwandten Arten mit identischer Diät
In: Schüler, C., Kaul, P. (Hrsg.)
Faszinosum Spürhunde: Gefahren sichtbar machen – Gefahren abwenden. Tagungsergebnisse des 3. Symposiums für Odorologie im Diensthundewesen an der Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
Schriften der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Odorologie e.V. Band 1
Verlag Dr. Kovač, Hamburg, S. 253 - 266 - Grimm-Seyfarth, A., Mihoub, J.-B., Henle, K. (2017):
Too hot to die? The effects of vegetation shading on past, present, and future activity budgets of two diurnal skinks from arid Australia
Ecol. Evol. 7 (17), 6803 - 6813 10.1002/ece3.3238 - Henle, K., Andres, C., Bernhard, D., Grimm, A., Stoev, P., Tzankov, N., Schlegel, M. (2017):
Are species genetically more sensitive to habitat fragmentation on the periphery of their range compared to the core? A case study on the sand lizard (Lacerta agilis)
Landsc. Ecol. 32 (1), 131 - 145 10.1007/s10980-016-0418-2 - Kolora, S.R.R., Faria, R., Weigert, A., Schaffer, S., Grimm, A., Henle, K., Sahyoun, A.H., Stadler, P.F., Nowick, K., Bleidorn, C., Schlegel, M. (2017):
The complete mitochondrial genome of Lacerta bilineata and comparison with its closely related congener L. viridis
Mitochondrial DNA 28 (1), 116 - 118 10.3109/19401736.2015.1111349
2016 (1)
- Grimm, A., Gruber, B., Hoehn, M., Enders, K., Henle, K. (2016):
A model-derived short-term estimation method of effective size for small populations with overlapping generations
Methods Ecol. Evol. 7 (6), 734 - 743 10.1111/2041-210X.12530
2015 (2)
- Grimm, A., Weiß, B.M., Kulik, L., Mihoub, J.-B., Mundry, R., Köppen, U., Brueckmann, T., Thomsen, R., Widdig, A. (2015):
Earlier breeding, lower success: does the spatial scale of climatic conditions matter in a migratory passerine bird?
Ecol. Evol. 5 (23), 5722 - 5734 10.1002/ece3.1824 - Steinicke, H., Gruber, B., Grimm, A., Grosse, W.-R., Henle, K. (2015):
Morphological shifts in populations of generalist and specialist amphibians in response to fragmentation of the Brazilian Atlantic forest
Nat. Conserv.-Bulgaria (13), 47 - 59 10.3897/natureconservation.13.7428
2014 (4)
- Grimm, A., Gruber, B., Henle, K. (2014):
Reliability of different mark-recapture methods for population size estimation tested against reference population sizes constructed from field data
PLOS One 9 (6), e98840 10.1371/journal.pone.0098840 - Grimm, A., Ramírez, A.M.P., Moulherat, S., Reynaud, J., Henle, K. (2014):
Life-history trait database of European reptile species
Nat. Conserv.-Bulgaria (9), 45 - 67 10.3897/natureconservation.9.8908 - Henle, K., Grobelnik, V., Grimm, A., Penev, L., Klenke, R., Framstad, E. (2014):
SCALETOOL: an online dissemination and decision support tool for scaling issues in nature conservation
In: Henle, K., Potts, S.G., Kunin, W.E., Matsinos, Y.G., Similä, J., Pantis, J.D., Grobelnik, V., Penev, L., Settele, J. (eds.)
Scaling in ecology and biodiversity conservation
Pensoft, Sofia, p. 186 - 189 10.3897/ab.e1169 - Henle, K., Potts, S.G., Scott, A.V., Kunin, W.E., Gunton, R.M., Schmeller, D.S., Matsinos, Y.G., Similä, J., Pantis, J.D., Mazaris, A.D., Grobelnik, V., Grimm, A., Penev, L., Klenke, R., Settele, J. (2014):
Lessons learned
In: Henle, K., Potts, S.G., Kunin, W.E., Matsinos, Y.G., Similä, J., Pantis, J.D., Grobelnik, V., Penev, L., Settele, J. (eds.)
Scaling in ecology and biodiversity conservation
Pensoft, Sofia, p. 193 - 200 10.3897/ab.e1169