Karsten Wesche

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Wesche, 2007

Karsten Wesche (* 1970 in Lüchow ) is a German biologist and botanist . He is head of the botany department and head of the Phanerogams I section of the Senckenberg Museum in Görlitz .

Life

Wesche studied in Marburg , Gießen and Aberdeen . He wrote his thesis about Tropical Sal Forests in southern Nepal . From 1996 to 2000 he did his doctorate in geography at the University of Marburg on highland vegetation on Mount Elgon (Uganda / Kenya), especially its climate and the effect of fire on the ecosystem. Then he went to geobotany at the University of Halle-Wittenberg . In 2007 the habilitation followed .

Together with his colleagues Jäger and Ritz, Wesche has been publishing one of the German standard works for plant identification in terrain, the “Rothmaler”, since 2013.

Since 2016 he has held a professorship at the International University Institute Zittau at the Technical University of Dresden and took over the botany department at the Senckenberg Museum for Natural History Görlitz.

Publications

Wesche published well over 100 specialist articles and book chapters.

Book (selection)

  • Eckehart Jäger, Karsten Wesche, Christiane Ritz (eds.): Rothmaler - excursion flora from Germany, vascular plants. 2013.
  • Ilona Leyer, Karsten Wesche: Multivariate Statistics in Ecology. An introduction. Springer 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-37706-1 .

Professional article (selection)

  • LW Lehnert, K. Wesche, K. Trachte, C. Reudenbach, J. Bendix: Climate variability rather than overstocking causes recent large scale cover changes of Tibetan pastures. In: Scientific Reports. (Nature Publishing Group). Volume 6, 2016, Article 24367. doi: 10.1038 / srep24367
  • Karsten Wesche, Benjamin Krause, Heike Culmsee, Christoph Leuschner: Fifty years of change in Central European grassland vegetation: Large losses in species richness and animal-pollinated plants . In: Biological Conservation . tape 150 , no. 1 , June 1, 2012, ISSN  0006-3207 , p. 76–85 , doi : 10.1016 / j.biocon.2012.02.015 ( sciencedirect.com [accessed December 8, 2018]).
  • K. Wesche, D. Ambarlı, J. Kamp, J. Dengler and others: The Palaearctic steppe biome: a new synthesis. In: Biodiversity and Conservation . Volume 25, 2016, pp. 2197-2231. doi: 10.1007 / s10531-016-1214-7
  • How common is degradation in Tibetan pasture lands? In: nature, research, museum. Volume 143, 2013, pp. 18-23.
  • K. Wesche, J. Driver: Abiotic and biotic determinants of steppe productivity and performance - a view from Central Asia. In: MJA Werger, M. van Staalduinen (eds.): Eurasian Steppes. Ecological problems and livelihoods in a changing world. Springer, Heidelberg 2012, pp. 3–43.
  • K. Wesche, A. Cierjacks, Y. Assefa, S. Wagner, M. Fetene, I. Hensen: Recruitment of trees at tropical-alpine treelines: Polylepis in South America and Erica species in Africa. In: Plant Ecology and Diversity. Volume 1, 2008, pp. 35-46.
  • K. Wesche, Y. Assefa, H. von Wehrden: Temperate Grassland Region: Equatorial Africa (high altitude). In: B. Peart: Life in a Working Landscape: Towards a Conservation Strategy for the World's Temperate Grasslands - Compendium of Regional Templates on the Status of Temperate Grasslands. Conservation and Protection. IUCN / WCPA. Temperate Grasslands Conservation Initiative, Vancouver 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SENCKENBERG world of biodiversity | Senckenberg Research | Departments - CMS maintenance | Botany | Overview | Staff | Curriculum Vitae PD Dr. .. In: www.senckenberg.de. Retrieved October 26, 2016 .
  2. ^ Professorship for three biologists in Görlitz . In: Saxon newspaper . July 2, 2016, p. 17 .
personal data
SURNAME Wesche, Karsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Lüchow