Teja Tscharntke

Teja Tscharntke (born July 13, 1952 in Harsum ) is a German sociologist , biologist and professor of agroecology at the University of Göttingen .

Life

Tscharnke studied sociology and biology at the Universities of Marburg and Gießen from 1973 to 1981. In 1978 he became a qualified sociologist at the University of Marburg and in 1981 a qualified biologist. In 1986 he received his doctorate from the University of Hamburg; In 1992 he completed his habilitation (venia legendi) in zoology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology .

Tscharnke has been Professor of Agroecology at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen since 1993 and has completed> 80 agroecologists (as of 2019). More than 15 graduates have now been appointed professors, including Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Alexandra-Maria Klein , Yann Clough, Peter Batary, Christoph Scherber, Katja Poveda, Catrin Westphal, Martin Entling, Jason Tylianakis, Jochen Krauss, Thomas C. Wanger, Ingo Grass and many others are still active in science and nature conservation.

Tscharnke is the most cited ecologist in German-speaking countries (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) and has been one of the "Highly Cited Researchers" worldwide since 2015. According to google scholar (July 2019), his publications were cited> 57,000 times (h-index 120).

Research and Teaching

The research and teaching of Tscharntke and his working group deals with biodiversity and its functions in managed and natural ecosystems. One focus is on the structure of agricultural landscapes and their importance for the local composition of functional biodiversity.

The research focuses on biodiversity and the composition of the communities of plants and animals as well as plant-insect interactions. Pollination and pest control will be studied in agro-ecosystems, with an emphasis on the importance of landscape structure in temperate latitudes and the tropics (Indonesia, India, Madagascar, Peru, South Africa). Interdisciplinary, socio-economic-ecological projects deal with ecosystem services of biodiversity and agro-ecological landscape management. Teaching in agroecology is part of the resource management and biodiversity majors, but is also aimed at students of biology, forestry and geography.

The public is often informed about research results in agroecology. Diversification in agriculture through long crop rotations or structural elements such as hedges and flower strips is beneficial for biodiversity and many ecological processes, but is often associated with costs for farmers. Tscharnke and his colleagues have systematically investigated which measures are associated with both ecological and economic advantages, in both temperate latitudes and in the tropics. The structure of the landscape plays a central role. Local management only reaches species that also occur in the species pool of the surrounding landscape, so that the networking of landscape elements is of great importance for the exchange of populations.

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