Prof. Dr. Katrin Böhning-Gaese

Team:
Dr. Susanne Fritz - Macroevolution and biogeography of vertebrates
Dr. Christian Hof - Macroecology and global change biology
Dr. Eike Lena Neuschulz - Mechanisms of ecosystem functioning
Dr. Matthias Schleuning - Mutualistic plant-animal interactions

Prof. Dr. Katrin Böhning-Gaese

Director/Project Area Leader

B3.10: BIODIVERSITY AND AREA DYNAMICS OF VERTEBRATES

Research interests: Macroecology, community ecology and conservation biology
- Influence of global climate and human land-use change on animal populations and communities in the tropics and in the temperate region
- Relationship between the diversity of animal communities and ecosystem functioning
-  Macroecology and evolution of bird communities and of bird migration

Teaching:
-several courses at Goethe University Frankfurt in the MSc Ecology and Evolution and in the BSc Biology

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Publications

Research

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Recent publications

Laube, I., C. H. Graham, and K. Böhning-Gaese (2013): Intra-generic species richness and dispersal ability interact to determine geographic ranges of birds. Global Ecology and Biogeography 22: 223-232.

Laube, I., H. Korntheuer, M. Schwager, S. Trautmann, C. Rahbek, and K. Böhning-Gaese (2013): Towards a more mechanistic understanding of traits and range sizes. Global Ecology and Biogeography 22: 233-241.

Ferger, S. W., K. Böhning-Gaese, W. Wilcke, Y. Oehlmann, and M. Schleuning (2013): Distinct carbon sources indicate strong differentiation between tropical forest and farmland bird communities. Oecologia 171: 473-486.

Keith, S. A., T. J. Webb, K. Böhning-Gaese, S. R. Connolly, N. K. Dulvy, F. Eigenbrod, K. E. Jones, T. Price, D. W. Redding, I. P. F. Owens, and N. J. B. Isaac (2012): What is macroecology? Biology Letters 8: 904-906.

Schleuning, M., J. Fründ, A.-M. Klein, S. Abrahamczyk, R. Alarcón, M. Albrecht, G. K. S. Andersson, S. Bazarian, K. Böhning-Gaese, R. Bommarco, B. Dalsgaard, D. M. Dehling, A. Gotlieb, M. Hagen, T. Hickler, A. Holzschuh, C. N. Kaiser-Bunbury, H. Kreft, R. J. Morris, B. Sandel, W. J. Sutherland, J.-C. Svenning, T. Tscharntke, S. Watts, C. N. Weiner, M. Werner, N. M. Williams, C. Winqvist, C. F. Dormann, and N. Blüthgen (2012): Specialization of mutualistic interaction networks decreases towards tropical latitudes. Current Biology 22: 1925-1931.

Wells, K., R. B. O’Hara, S. M. Böhm, S. Gockel, A. Hemp, S. C. Renner, S. Pfeiffer, K. Böhning-Gaese, E. K. V. Kalko (2012): Trait-dependent occupancy dynamics of birds in temperate forest landscapes: fine-scale observations in a hierarchical multi-species framework. Animal Conservation 15: 626-637.

Breitbach, N., K. Böhning-Gaese, I. Laube, and M. Schleuning (2012): Short seed-dispersal distances and low seedling recruitment in farmland populations of bird-dispersed cherry trees. Journal of Ecology 100: 1349-1358.

Markl, J., M. Schleuning, P. M. Forget, P. Jordano, J. Lambert, A. Traveset, J. Wright, and K. Böhning-Gaese (2012): A meta-analysis of the effects of human disturbance on seed dispersal by animals. Conservation Biology 26: 1072-1081.

Mulwa, R. K., K. Böhning-Gaese, and M. Schleuning (2012): High bird species diversity in structurally heterogeneous farmland in western Kenya. Biotropica 44: 801-809.

Menke, S., K. Böhning-Gaese, and M. Schleuning (2012): Plant-frugivore networks are less specialized and more robust at forest-farmland edges than in the interior of a tropical forest. Oikos 121: 1553-1566.

Breitbach, N., S. Tillmann, M. Schleuning, C. Grünewald, I. Laube, I. Steffan-Dewenter, and K. Böhning-Gaese (2012): Influence of habitat complexity and landscape configuration on pollination and seed-dispersal interactions of wild cherry trees. Oecologia 168: 425-437.

Lung, T., M. K. Peters, N. Farwig, K. Böhning-Gaese, and G. Schaab (2012): Combining long-term land cover time series and field observations for spatially explicit predictions on changes in tropical forest biodiversity. International Journal of Remote Sensing 33: 13-40.

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