Diversity and ecosystem function of small mammals in the Lower Oder Valley National Park - a German-Polish joint project (2022-2026)
In this five-year research project, terrestrial small mammals are recorded every summer in a variety of habitat types, and species diversity, abundance and habitat preferences are determined. A comparison with studies from the 1990s will allow conclusions to be drawn about changes in the small mammal fauna in the Lower Oder Valley over the last 30 years. The main aim of our project is to gain a better understanding of the distribution and ecology of small mammals in the Lower Oder Valley National Park. The updated knowledge should also contribute to the effective management of small mammal populations and the organisms that depend on them in the Lower Oder Valley National Park.
Long-term small mammal monitoring in the Urft floodplain in the Eifel National Park
As a continuation of Janine Schmidt's master's thesis on the small mammal fauna of the Eifel National Park (Schmidt 2016 - LINK TO PUBLICATION in DECHENIANA), the Urft floodplain near Gemünd, Eifel, is sampled every year in June as part of a 3-day student excursion with approx. 100 live traps. Special attention is paid to the occurrence of the water and marsh shrew (genus Neomys) and the dynamics of the small mammal population since the flood in summer 2021.
Understanding the effects of climate change
Recent climate and environmental changes caused by humans can also be recorded and evaluated. Large species, African ungulates and primates, marine mammals and bats are particular focal points of the collection. There is an extensive, well-documented collection of mammal skeletons - one of the most important in Germany. There is also a variety of skins as well as a collection of organs and embryos.
Mammals & mammal conservation in Ghana
This longer-term project is based on comprehensive literature research, processing of museum data and the results of several small mammal surveys by Jan Decher and colleagues in Ghana, most recently in 2018 to Ankasa and Atewa, as part of the collecting trip for the Museum Koenig Bonn rainforest exhibition. - A first biodiversity study with our data from 2018 was published for the Atewa Forest Reserve, which is acutely threatened by bauxite mining (Lindsell et al. 2019 - LINK)
Related collections
Contact person
Dr. Jan Decher
- Head of Section Mammalogy Bat Banding Centre
Phone: +49 228 9122 262
E-Mail: j.decher@leibniz-lib.de
Impressions
Projects
BIGFOOT - BIodiversity decline's Genomic FOOTprint
Management: Dr. habil. Astrid Böhne
Provenance research at the Museum Koenig
Management: Dr. André Koch
Publications
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2024/10
German Barcode of Life, Entdeckung und Beschreibung neuer Arten
2024/10
The ASV Registry: a place for ASVs to be
Metabarcoding and Metagenomics, 8
2024/8
Integrative characterisation of the Northwestern European species of Anacharis Dalman, 1823 (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea, Figitidae) with the description of three new species
Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 97
2024/8
Exkursion in den Kaukasus: Der CaBOL BioBlitz 2022 in Armenien und Georgien
2024/6
Preserving morphology while extracting DNA: a non-destructive field-to-museum protocol for slide-mounted specimens
Biodiversity Data Journal, 12
2024/3
Leibniz Research Network Biodiversity. (2024). 10 Must Knows from Biodiversity Science 2024 (Version 1). Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
2023/11
Metabarcoding dietary analysis in the insectivorous bat Nyctalus leisleri and implications for conservation
Biodiversity Data Journal, 11
2023/5
Another crack in the Dark Taxa wall: a custom DNA barcoding protocol for the species-rich and common Eurytomidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea)
Biodiversity Data Journal, 11
2023/0
DNA-basierte Biodiversitätsanalysen im Natur-und Umweltschutz: Welche Optionen haben wir für eine Standardisierung?: eine Handlungsempfehlung aus Forschung und Praxis
2022/12
Diversität von Kleinsäugern im nördlichen Teil des Nationalparks Unteres Odertal
2022/8
Melanism in monitor lizards (Squamata: Varanidae), with a first case in the Nile Monitor, Varanus (Polydaedalus) niloticus (Squamata: Varanidae)
Herpetology notes, 15
2021/12
Über Schweine – gelöste und ungelöste Fragen aus Südamerika. – Koenigiana 15(2): 87-96
Koenigiana, 2, 15
2021/12
Aktualisierung unserer Kenntnisse über die Kleinsäugergemeinschaften im Nationalpark Unteres Odertal
2021/9
Phylogenetic relationships and biogeography of the Hybomys division (Muridae: Murinae: Arvicanthini), rodents endemic to Africa's rainforests
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2021/5
A survey of small mammals in the Volta Region of Ghana with comments on zoogeography and conservation
Zoosystema, 14, 43
2021/1
Alarming decline of bovids in Kasanka National Park, Zambia: A case study of the puku antelope ( Kobus vardonii )
2, 59
2020/9
A phylogeny for AfricanPipistrellusspecies with the description of a new species from West Africa (Mammalia: Chiroptera)
2, 191
2020/0
GBOL III: Dark Taxa–die dritte Phase der German Barcode of Life Initiative hat begonnen
Koenigiana, 2, 14
2020/0
GBOL III: Dark taxa: Researchers launch new BIOSCAN project that aims to illuminate thousands of new insect species on Germany's doorstep
Barcode bulletin, 10
2019/10
A New Genus and Species of Vesper Bat from West Africa, with Notes on Hypsugo, Neoromicia, and Pipistrellus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)
Acta Chiropterologica, 1, 21
2019/6
New records of bats and terrestrial small mammals from the Seli River in Sierra Leone before the construction of a hydroelectric dam
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2018/4
Nachweis der Brandmaus, Apodemus agrarius (Pallas, 1771), am Südufer des Neusiedlersees, NW Ungarn
Säugetierkundliche Informationen, 54, 11
2016/6
Non-marine mammals of Togo (West Africa): an annotated checklist
Zoosystema, 2, 38
2015/12
Bat Diversity in the Simandou Mountain Range of Guinea, with the Description of a New White-Winged Vespertilionid
Acta Chiropterologica, 2, 17
2013/10
High diversity of West African bat malaria parasites and a tight link with rodent Plasmodium taxa
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 43, 110
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Employees
Dr. Jan Decher
ztm Mammalogy Bonn ScientistPhone: +49 228 9122 262
E-mail: j.decher@leibniz-lib.deDr. Vera Rduch
ztm Mammalogy Bonn ScientistPhone: +49 228 9122 372
E-mail: v.rduch@leibniz-lib.de