Katrin Böhning-Gaese

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Katrin Böhning-Gaese at March for Science 2018 in Frankfurt.

Katrin Böhning-Gaese (born December 22, 1964 in Oberkochen ) is a German biologist specializing in ornithology , professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , director of the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center (BiK-F) and Vice President of Leibniz -Community . Böhning-Gaese works on animal ecology, macroecology and the protection of animal communities.

Life

Katrin Böhnung-Gaese started her commitment to nature conservation and biodiversity in 1984 with a degree in biology at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . She wrote her thesis on the food ecology of the white stork (C. ciconia) in Upper Swabia with the zoologist Klaus Schmidt-Koenig . With him she also did her doctorate on causes of long-term population developments of European and North American songbirds on a continental scale and graduated in 1993. From 1996 she worked as a research assistant at the RWTH Aachen in the local zoology / animal physiology within the framework of a postdoctoral fellowship. During this time she also worked at the Radolfzell Vogelwarte with Professor Berthold.

She then wrote her habilitation in zoology at the University of Tübingen with the research topic micro and macroecological approaches to understanding species communities and thus expanded her research approaches to a wider spatial macroecological scale . From 1999 to 2001 she worked as part of the Heisenberg program of the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen .

Since 2000 she has been a research assistant at the national museums in Kenya . From 2001 to 2010 she was C3 professor for ecology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . In 2010, Katrin Böhning-Gaese became Professor (W3) and Director of the BiK-F in Frankfurt am Main. Katrin Böhnung-Gaese has been Vice President of the Leibniz Association since the end of November 2017 .

Honors and memberships (selection)

Böhning-Gaese received numerous honors and funding for their projects. She has been to various universities abroad for field work and academic visits several times. She is currently working on the DFG-funded project on biodiversity on Kilimanjaro in Tanzania . From 2008 to 2016 she was a member of the Senate Commission for Biodiversity Research of the German Research Foundation . From 2011 to 2012 she was a member of the National Committee for Global Change Research. In 2015 she was elected to the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz and the Leopoldina .

Publications (selection)

  • Claudia Grünewald, Nils Breitbach, Katrin Böhning-Gaese: Tree visitation and seed dispersal of wild cherries by terrestrial mammals along a human land-use gradient . In: Basic and Applied Ecology , Vol. 11 (2010), Issue 6, pp. 532-541.
  • Nils Breitbach, Irina Laube, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Katrin Böhning-Gaese: Bird diversity and seed dispersal along a human land-use gradient. High seed removal in structurally simple farmland . In: Oecologia , Vol. 162 (2010), Issue 4, pp. 965-976, ISSN  0029-8549 .
  • Katrin Böhning-Gaese u. a .: Coefficient shifts in geographical ecology. An empirical evaluation of spatial and non-spatial regression . In: Ecography , Vol. 32 (2009), pp. 193-204, ISSN  0906-7590 .
  • Hans-Christian Schaefer, Walter Jetz, Karin Böhning-Gaese: Impact of climate change on migratory birds. Community reassembly versus adaptation of species . In: Global Ecology and Biogeography , Vol. 17 (2008), pp. 38-49, ISSN  1466-822X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Member entry by Prof. Dr. Katrin Böhning-Gaese (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 7, 2018.
  2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Katrin Böhning-Gaese Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center, with links to curriculum vitae, publications, research activities (English)
  3. ^ Leibniz Association: Executive Board leibniz-gemeinschaft.de
  4. ^ Petra Plättner: Six new members in the Academy of Sciences and Literature. Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz, press release from December 18, 2015 at the Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on December 18, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Böhning-Gaese, Katrin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberkochen