Ute Schmiedel

Karoo National Park. Ute Schmiedel works on vegetation studies as part of the BIOTA project in the Karoo of South Africa and Namibia.

Ute Schmiedel (born January 17, 1965 in Helsinki , Finland ) is a German biologist with a focus on botany and lecturer at the University of Hamburg . Your botanical-mycological author abbreviation is " U.Schmiedel ".

Life

Ute Schmiedel completed vocational training as a gardener and graduated in 1987. Until 1993 she studied biology, history and education at the University of Hamburg. In 1994 she wrote her state examination thesis with the title Ecological and structural studies of the vegetation of the quartz surfaces in Knersvlakte (South Africa) with Norbert Jürgens. She then continued to work in this field: studies of the flora, vegetation and habitat ecology of quartz fields in southern Africa followed with extended excursions in southern Africa (Namibia and South Africa). In 2002 she submitted her doctoral thesis on The quartz fields of southern Africa: Flora, phytogeography, vegetation, and habitat ecology at the Botanical Institute of the University of Cologne .

job

research

The geographic research focus of Ute Schmiedel is the Karoo , the semi-desert landscape in the plateaus of South Africa , north of the Great Rim Plain and in southern Namibia .

1. Biodiversity and Land Use in Southwestern South Africa (BIOTA Southern Africa).
2. Adaptation strategies of small farmers to climate change conditions in Ethiopia and South Africa (Mechal).
3. Vegetation ecology of the arid regions of southwest Africa. Vegetation patterns, structural adaptations (plant functional traits) and the environmental factors that control them.
4. Site ecology, flora and phytogeographic patterns, effects of disturbance and restoration of quartz surfaces in southern Africa.
5. Participatory approaches in applied biodiversity research.

It is heavily involved in the BIOTA South Africa project, with which the biodiversity of this hotspot of biological diversity is to be systematically researched and preserved. Schmiedel was the coordinator and responsible trainer of the para-ecologist training program of BIOTA Southern Africa, in which members of the local land-user communities are trained as research assistants.

Teaching

In the MSc. Module Ecology and Biodiversity of Africa she teaches ecology and biodiversity of Africa in a seminar and supervises the internship and the excursion ecological field internship in Africa .

Web links

• Ute Schmiedel on the website of the University of Hamburg , accessed on February 20, 2011
• Author entry and list of the plant names described for Ute Schmiedel at the IPNI

Individual evidence

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