Nina Farwig
Nina Farwig (* 1977 ) is a German biologist and junior professor for the sustainable use of natural resources at the University of Marburg . Farwig heads the Conservation Ecology working group .
Her research in biodiversity research focuses on understanding the complex relationships between biological diversity and ecosystem functions. It is now clear that biological diversity contributes to the stability of ecosystems, Nina Farwig would like to find out how. She wants to find out whether there is a "minimal set of species" that is necessary to maintain the most important functions of ecosystems. She sees these functions as important as a guarantee for the long-term existence of the ecosystem and also for ecosystem services for humans (e.g. in the delivery of food, timber or medicinal plants, but also in services such as the pollination of cultivated plants or CO 2 -Storage). Its declared aim is to develop sustainable use strategies that guarantee both the preservation of biological diversity and the ecosystem functions and services for humans.
Her main focus is on the impact of species extinction on the rainforest in South Africa .
Education and life
Nina Farwig studied biology in Marburg with a focus on nature conservation, ecology and zoology. She wrote her diploma thesis (in cooperation with the University of Mainz) on pollination ecology of a dioecious tree species ( diocyte ) in Madagascar ("Pollination ecology of the dioecious tree Commiphora guillauminii (Burseraceae) in Madagascar"). She did her PhD on the effects of fragmentation on tropical rainforests. As part of the BIOTA project, she coordinated a partial research area as a postdoc at the University of Mainz. In 2008 she was given the opportunity to do a guest residency at the University of Bern's zoology department. She has been a junior professor in Marburg since 2008. Your junior professorship is an endowed professorship by the Robert Bosch Foundation . Since 2015 she has held the W3 chair for nature conservation.
Research and Teaching
Her main research interests are the interactions between plants and animals (e.g. pollination, seed dispersal, regeneration) on different spatial scales and the investigation of the interactions between biodiversity and ecosystem functions in the context of human use. In addition, she researches the development of sustainable usage concepts for the preservation of biodiversity and ecosystem functions.
Her courses are on community ecology, macroecology (topic island biogeography (theory, experiments, data analysis)) and vegetation ecology . She also teaches forensic biology in the “profile module” .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Awarded the Robert Bosch Junior Professorship , Robert Bosch Stiftung
- ↑ Prof. Dr. Nina Farwig, University of Marburg ( Memento of the original dated December 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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| SURNAME | Farwig, Nina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German biologist and professor for nature conservation |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1977 |