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Profile
Areas of responsibility
I am a population and community ecologist holding a PhD in “Biological Diversity and Ecology” and leading the section “Conservation Ecology” of the Center for Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation Science (zbm) at the LIB Museum Koenig in Bonn. I have been actively involved in biodiversity research networks, coordinate international cooperation, and engage myself for nature conservation at the science-policy interface.
I am particularly interested in the occurrence of species over time, the spatial distribution of animal populations, the composition of ecological communities and the causes and consequences of biodiversity loss. My long-term focus is on the community ecology of lemurs and application-oriented research on biodiversity conservation in Madagascar. I have also carried out interdisciplinary research projects on the causes of insect decline in Germany.
Projects
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What do mouse lemurs feed on - and who feeds on them?
Management: Dr. Livia Schäffler
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What causes the disappearance of Mme. Berthe's mouse lemur from dry deciduous forests in Western Madagascar?
Management: Dr. Livia Schäffler
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(Re-)discovery of threatened vertebrates in western Madagascar by eDNA metabarcoding
Management: Dr. Livia Schäffler
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Is Madame Berthe's Mouse lemur extinct?
Management: Dr. Livia Schäffler
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Integrative Analysis of the influence of pesticides and land use on biodiversity in Germany
Management: Dr. Livia Schäffler
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sustainCBW
Management: Dr. Livia Schäffler
Publications
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2025/03
Identifying conservation hotspots and assessing species commonness and rarity: Baseline arthropod diversity in German nature reserves via national Malaise trap monitoring
Insect Conservation and Diversity
2024/10
Madame Berthe's Mouse Lemur (Microcebus berthae). In Primates in Peril: The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates 2024–2025, pp. 9-11. IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group, Int. Primatological Society, Re:wild, Washington, DC
2024/10
Coquerel’s Giant Mouse Lemur (Mirza coquereli). In Primates in Peril: The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates 2024–2025, pp. 17-19. IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group, Int. Primatological Society, Re:wild, Washington, DC
2023/12
taxalogue: a toolkit to create comprehensive CO1 reference databases
PeerJ, 11
2023/11
Monitoring der Biodiversität flugaktiver Insekten in NRW
Nat NRW, 2023, 3
2023/11
Recommendations for effective insect conservation in nature protected areas based on a transdisciplinary project in Germany
Environmental Sciences Europe, 1, 35
2022/12
Spatial, temporal and taxonomic patterns of insect extinction in Germany
bioRxiv
2022/12
Improving insect conservation management through insect monitoring and stakeholder involvement
2, 32
2022/11
Repeated subsamples during DNA extraction reveal increased diversity estimates in DNA metabarcoding of Malaise traps
Ecology and Evolution, 11, 12
2022/10
Emerging technologies revolutionise insect ecology and monitoring
Trends in ecology & evolution, 10, 37
2022/09
Madame Berthe’s Mouse Lemur Microcebus berthae.
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
2022/04
Developing a novel bioacoustic monitoring for Garden Dormice using passive sound recorders and machine learning
ARPHA Conference Abstracts, 5
2022/01
Recommendations for tissue homogenisation and extraction in DNA metabarcoding of Malaise trap samples
2022/01
A universal insect trait tool (ITT, v1.0) for statistical analysis and evaluation of biodiversity research data
2021/10
Pooling size sorted Malaise trap fractions to maximize taxon recovery with metabarcoding
PeerJ, 9
2021/07
Diversity of Insects in Nature protected Areas (DINA): an interdisciplinary German research project
Biodiversity and conservation, 8-9, 30
2021/03
Mouse Lemurs in an Assemblage of Cheirogaleid Primates in Menabe Central, Western Madagascar – Three Reasons to Coexist
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9
2020/10
Langfristige Biodiversitätsveränderungen in Deutschland erkennen - mit Hilfe der Vergangenheit in die Zukunft schauen
Natur und Landschaft : Zeitschrift für Naturschutz und Landschaftspflege, 11, 95
2020/02
Microcebus berthae. The IUCN Red List of Threatened The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Microcebus berthae–published in 2020
6
2019/10
Identifying Key Knowledge Gaps to Better Protect Biodiversity and Simultaneously Secure Livelihoods in a Priority Conservation Area
20, 11
2016/01
Green Paper Citizen Science Strategy 2020 for Germany
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.4964.0563
2016/01
Grünbuch Citizen Science Strategie 2020 für Deutschland
2015/03
Agent-mediated spatial storage effect in heterogeneous habitat stabilizes competitive mouse lemur coexistence in Menabe Central, Western Madagascar
1, 15
2015/02
NBS Indikator "Dauer der Vegetationsperiode"
2014/12
Distribution and abundance of three cheirogaleid species in Menabe Central, Western Madagascar
Lemur News, 18
2014/03
Distribution and Abundance of the World's Smallest Primate, Microcebus berthae, in Central Western Madagascar
2, 35
2014/01
Madame Berthe’s Mouse Lemur
2013/00
Indicators of climate change impacts on biodiversity – A concept for the national level
Climate Change and Nature Conservation in Europe – an ecological, policy and economic perspective
2012/01
Determinants of Population Structure in the World's Smallest Primate, Microcebus Berthae, across its Global Range in Menabe Central, Western Madagascar
2009/00
Rapid lemur survey in northern Menabe
Lemur News, 14
2007/12
The lemur syndrome unresolved: extreme male reproductive skew in sifakas (Propithecus verreauxi), a sexually monomorphic primate with female dominance
6, 62
2002/05
Short Communication: Lack of Plasticity in the Behavior of Queens of the Ant Leptothorax rugatulus Emery (Formicidae: Hymenoptera)
Journal of Insect Behavior, 3, 15