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 235 1652
annegret.grimm@ufz.de
Web registries
ORCID | Google Scholar | Research Gate | Publons
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
2021 (4)
- 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
full text (doi) - 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
full text (doi) - 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
full text (doi) - 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
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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
full text (doi) - 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
full text (url) - Mazoschek, L., Grimm-Seyfarth, A., (2020):
Lissotriton vulgaris (Smooth Newt). Tail bifurcation and ectromely. Natural history notes
Herpetol. Rev. 51 (3), 556 - 557
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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
full text (url) - 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
full text (doi) - 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
full text (doi) - 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
full text (doi) - 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
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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.
full text (url) - 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
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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
full text (url) - 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
full text (doi) - 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
full text (doi) - 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
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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
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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
full text (doi) - 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
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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
full text (doi) - 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
full text (doi) - 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
full text (doi) - 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
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