Angelika Schwabe-Kratochwil

Angelika Schwabe-Kratochwil (born January 28, 1950 in Bielefeld ) is a German botanist and university professor.

Life

Angelika Schwabe studied biology and geography at the University of Freiburg . Her main interest was vegetation science , to which she was introduced by her first teacher of plant sociology, Reinhold Tüxen . One of her first investigations in this area was carried out using one of the classic plant sociological methods, the permanent square investigation, the object of her research being the salt marshes of the island of Trischen .

In addition to her theoretical interest, she also had the applications of plant sociology in mind, which were reflected in her investigations in the Bannwald Flüh in the Wiesental , where, among other things, nature conservation was an essential aspect. This work, like the subsequent dissertation, was carried out under the guidance of Otti Wilmanns .

In her doctoral thesis, Angelika Schwabe-Braun examined the Weidfeld vegetation of the Black Forest with the help of the then newly emerging sigma sociology and its methods. In it, she recorded and documented the state of the past and the regularities of the dynamics of the Weidfeld vegetation and based this data on proposals for conservation measures. In addition, as part of this work, which was created in connection with the large-scale "Scientific accompanying program for biotope mapping in Baden-Württemberg", a nature conservation assessment of the individual Weidfeld areas was carried out and thus a basis was created for the most significant areas Protection and care could be given.

After completing her doctorate, Ms. Schwabe-Braun worked as a research assistant at the chair for geobotany at the University of Freiburg with Otti Wilmanns. In the period up to 1987 she dealt intensively with sigma-sociological research, with particular interest in the plant communities and vegetation complexes that accompany rivers and streams in the Black Forest . She has summarized the results of her research in this area in her habilitation thesis. In 1981 she published Volume 4 of the Prodromus of European Plant Societies - Lemnetea minoris , which had been edited together with Reinhold Tüxen, who had since died .

After a Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation from 1991 to 1993, she was appointed to the Chair of Botany at the Technical University of Darmstadt as the successor to Gisbert Grosse-Brauckmann in 1993 , where she was also appointed Director of the Geobotany / Vegetation Ecology department.

At the University of Darmstadt, vegetation ecology and renaturation ecology are Ms. Schwabe-Kratochwil's specialist areas. Ms. Schwabe-Kratochwil has consistently further developed and researched the methods for describing vegetation complexes with the help of sigma sociology, which were largely co-founded in her earlier work her working group also correlates vegetation complexes and animal species. Together with Anselm Kratochwil , Ms. Schwabe-Kratochwil compiled essential data on this subject in one of the first works on biocenology and thus presented a basis for this area of ​​ecology.

The work of Schwabe-Kratochwil is pioneering in the scientific basis of nature conservation, for example for the preservation or restoration of endangered habitats.

In 2001, together with Theo Müller and Erich Oberdorfer, she published the 8th edition of the plant-sociological excursion flora , which is known far beyond the borders of Germany and is known in specialist circles as Der Oberdorfer .

Angelika Schwabe-Kratochwil is married to the ecologist Anselm Kratochwil and has one son.

Functions

• Member of the Senate and Approval Committee for Collaborative Research Centers of the DFG
• Expert colleague of the DFG for the field of ecology in plant sciences
• Chair of the Floristic-Sociological Working Group
• Member of the editorial board of Tüxenia

Fonts (selection)

• Schwabe, A .: Permanent square observations in the salt marshes on the North Sea island of Trischen. Mitt. Florist.-Sociol. Work according to NF 18: 111-128. Todenmann-Göttingen 1975.
• The spell forest "Flüh" / with contribution from A. Schwabe-Braun .... - Freiburg i. Br.: Forestry Experimental and Research Institute Baden-Württemberg, 1979.
• Angelika Schwabe-Braun: A plant-sociological model study as a basis for nature conservation and planning: Weidfeld vegetation in the Black Forest; History of use, societies and their complexes, evaluation for nature conservation /. - Kassel: General University Library, 1980.
• Angelika Schwabe-Braun: Lemnetea Minoris / ed. Reinhold Tüxen. - (1981).
• Angelika Schwabe: Plant communities and vegetation complexes accompanying rivers and streams in the Black Forest . Cramer 1987, ISBN 978-3-443-64014-9
• Angelika Schwabe, Anselm Kratochwil : Willow beeches in the Black Forest and their emergence through the browsing of forest cattle: Distribution, history and the like. Possibilities d. Rejuvenation . State Institute for Environmental Protection Baden-Württemberg 1987, ISBN 978-3-88251-121-5
• Angelika Schwabe-Kratochwil: Excursion of the. Biological Inst. II, Geobotany from 4. – 12. Sept 1983; Red.:. - Freiburg. 1983.
• Angelika Schwabe-Kratochwil: Ecological investigations in the Darmstadt-Dieburger sand area (South Hesse): General information and results on the diasporic reservoir and precipitation. - 1998.
• Angelika Schwabe-Kratochwil: Sand ecosystems in southern Hesse: Status quo, recent changes and consequences for nature conservation measures. - 2000.
• Anselm Kratochwil and Angelika Schwabe-Kratochwil: Ecology of communities: biocenology; 168 tables /. - Stuttgart: Ulmer, 2001.
• Plant-sociological excursion flora: for Germany and neighboring areas / Erich Oberdorfer. Among employees by Angelika Schwabe-Kratochwil… u. with contribution by D. Korneck .... - 8th, heavily revised. and supplementary edition - Stuttgart (Hohenheim): Ulmer, 2001.
• Angelika Schwabe-Kratochwil: On the death of Professor Große-Brauckmann . - 2001.
• Kratochwil, A., Fock, S., Remy, D., Schwabe-Kratochwil, A. (): Responses of flower phenology and seed production under cattle grazing impact in sandy grasslands. Phytocoenologia 32 (4): 531-552, Berlin, Stuttgart. 2002
• Stroh, M., Storm, C., Zehm, A. u. Schwabe-Kratochwil, A .: Restorative grazing as a tool for directed succession with diaspore inoculation: the model of sand ecosystems. Phytocoenologia 32 (4): 595-625, Berlin, Stuttgart. 2002
• Schwabe-Kratochwil, A. et al .: Inland Sand Ecosystems: Dynamics and restitution as a consequence of the use if different grazing systems In: Redecker, B., Finck, P., Härdtle, W., Riecken, U. & Schröder, E .: Pasture Landscapes and Nature Conservation, Springer-Verlag: 239-252, Berlin, Heidelberg. 2002
• Zehm, A., Storm, C., Nobis, M., Gebhardt, S. & Schwabe-Kratochwil, A .: Grazing in sand ecosystems - concept of a research project and first results. Conservation and landscape planning 34 (2/3): 67-73. 2002
• Zehm, A., Nobis, M., & Schwabe-Kratochwil, A .: Multiparameter analysis of vertical vegetation structure based on digital image processing. Flora 198 (2): 142-160, Stuttgart. 2003
• Schwabe-Kratochwil, A. u. Kratochwil, A .: Festucetalia valesiacae communities and xerothermic vegetation complexes in the Central Alps related to environmental factors. Phytocoenologia, Berlin, Stuttgart: 2003
• Eichberg, C., Storm, C., Schwabe, A .: Epizoochorous and post-dispersal processes in a rare plant species: Jurinea cyanoides (L.) Rchb. (Asteraceae). In: Flora 200, 2005. pp. 477-489.
• Eichberg, C., Storm, C., Schwabe, A .: Endozoochorous dispersal, seedling emergence and fruiting success in disturbed and undisturbed successional stages of sheep grazed inland sand ecosystems. In: Flora 202, 2007. pp. 3-26.
• Schwabe, A., Kratochwil, A., Pignatti, S .: Plant indicator values ​​of a high-phytodiversity country (Italy) and their evidence, exemplified for model areas with climatic gradients in the southern inner Alps. In: Flora 202, 2007. pp. 339-349.
• Beil, M., Horn, H., Schwabe, A .: Analysis of pollen loads in a wild bee community (Hymenoptera: Apidae) - a method for elucidating habitat use and foraging distances. In: Apidologie 39, 2008. pp. 456-467.
• Langhans, TM, Storm, C., Schwabe, A .: Community assembly of Biological Soil Crusts of different successional stages in a temperate sand ecosystem, as assessed by direct determination and enrichment techniques. In: Microbial Ecology 58, 2009. pp. 394-407.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schwabe-Braun, A .: A plant-sociological model study ... 1980 p. 4)
2. ↑ Reinhold Tüxen and Angelika Schwabe-Braun: Prodromus of the European Plant Societies - Lemnetea minoris. 4. Delivery. 141 pages.
3. ^ Entry in AcademiaNet
4. ^ Vita Anselm Kratochwil at the University of Osnabrück ( Memento from March 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

• Literature by and about Angelika Schwabe-Kratochwil in the catalog of the German National Library
• Angelika Schwabe-Kratochwil in the database of renowned academics AcademiaNet