Maike Isermann

Maike Isermann (* 1963 ) is a German biologist , vegetation scientist and qualified research assistant at the University of Bremen .

Life

From 1985 to 1992 Maike Isermann studied biology at the Ruhr University Bochum and the University of Bremen . She graduated in Bremen with a comparative study of the dune vegetation on Spiekeroog . Until 1997, he did a doctoral degree at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald with a thesis on vegetation and location studies in the coastal dunes of Western Pomerania . Since 1998 she has been a researcher and lecturer in the Department of Biology at the University of Bremen. She was a lecturer at the international course in Applied and Industrial Biology at the University of Bremen . In 2010 she completed her habilitation in the field of ecology at the University of Bremen ("Phytodiversity in relation to scale"). In the same year a DFG research fellowship followed at Hope University Liverpool . From 2008 to 2011 she was a junior research group leader at the University of Bremen.

job

Maike Isermann works on the topics of biological invasions , effects on biodiversity and ecosystems. She works for the assessment and risk assessment of spatial and temporal changes in locations. She examines vegetation and diversity, particularly in relation to changes in land use. Autecological aspects of the spread and establishment of plants, especially of neophytes, form a further field of her research.

She works on the population ecology of rare plant species and ways of improving habitat quantity and quality. Effects of renaturation and management measures on habitat quality. Vegetation databases and ecosystem-related vegetation studies She carried out studies on the ecology of the populated area and urban ecology. In addition, there is the biodiversity of indigenous and adventurous clans.

Maike Issermann is responsible for coastal flora as part of the NeoFlora project (on Neobiota ) of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation . She is working on the relevant manual.

Iseermann teaches at the University of Bremen on landscape and vegetation ecological topics.

Publications

Magazines

• with P. Rooney: Biological flora of the British Isles: Eryngium maritimum L. In: Journal of Ecology . 102, 2014, pp. 789-821.
• with J. Thiele, J. Kollmann and A. Otte: Impact scores of invasive plants are biased by disregard of environmental co-variation and non-linearity. In: NeoBiota. 10, 2011, pp. 65-79.
• Pattern in species diversity during succession of coastal dunes. In: Journal of Coastal Research . 27, 2011, pp. 661-671.
• with J. Kollmann and K. Brink-Jensen: Invasive Plant Species as Indicators of Climate Change? The situation in northern Germany and Denmark. In: Reports of the Reinhold-Tüxen-Gesellschaft. 22, 2010, pp. 81-95.
• with M. Diekmann and A. Kühne: Random vs non-random sampling: effects on species abundance, species richness and vegetation-environment relationships. In: Folia Geobotanica. 42, 2007, pp. 179-190.
• Soil pH and species diversity in coastal dunes. In: Plant Ecology. 178, 2005, pp. 111-120.
• with H. Kuhbier: Juniper on the East Frisian Islands. In: Drosera. 1-2, 2004, pp. 31-36.

Books / book contributions

• Effects of Rosa rugosa invasion in different coastal dune vegetation types. In: B. Tokarska-Guzik, JH. Brock, G. Brundu, L. Child, CC Daehler, P. Pyšek (eds.): Plant Invasions: Human perception, ecological impacts and management. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden 2008, pp. 289-306.
• (Sand dune inventory of) Germany. In: JP Doody (Ed.): Sand dune inventory of Europe. 2nd Edition. Brampton, UK 2008, pp. 40-48.
• Impact of Rosa rugosa on dune ecosystems at the German North Sea coast in comparison with Hippophae rhamnoides. In: I. Weidema, HP Ravn, P. Vestergaard (eds.): Rynket rose (Rosa rugosa) i Danmark. Biologisk Institut, Kobenhavns Universitet, Forskningscenter for Skov- og Landskab including Skov- og Naturstyrelsen, Kobenhavn 2007, pp. 24-29.