Maren Schüle - PhD student
Project
I am currently working as a PhD student inside the project PYROPHOB. Here, I research how burned pine forests are recolonized by plants in the first years after wildfires and how forest management impacts the post-fire vegetation. Our study areas are located in Brandenburg (NE Germany) approx. 50km Southwestern of Berlin.
Research interests
- Short- and long-term changes in vegetation
- Resurvey studies
- Impact of land use and disturbance on plant communities
- Recolonization and succession processes
- Effects of wildfires in Germany on the vegetation
Campus Maulbeerallee
House 3, Room 0.02
Maulbeerallee 3
14469 Potsdam
Education & Experience
Since 2020: PhD student inside the PYROPHOB project at the University of Potsdam
2019-2020: student assistant at the exercise "Practical and experimental botany", University of Potsdam
2017-2020: MSc degree in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation at the University of Potsdam
Thesis: “Twenty-five years of change in grassland vegetation of the nature park Märkische Schweiz (Brandenburg).”
2017: student assistant for the course “Einheimische Flora” (plant identification and excursions), Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg
2014-2017: BSc degree in Biology at the Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg
Thesis: “Prädation von Blattläusen in Getreide in Abhängigkeit von der Distanz zu verschiedenen Grünflächentypen“
Teaching
BSc course „Botanische Geländeübungen für BLA“ (DE)
MSc course„Geobotany“ (ENG)
BSc/MSc Botanical-ecological saturday excursions (DE/ENG)
Memberships
- Floristisch-soziologische Arbeitsgemeinschaft (FlorSoz)
- Botanischer Verein von Berlin und Brandenburg e.V.
- The Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ)
- International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS)
Publications
Peer-reviewed
- Schüle, M., Domes, G., Schwanitz, C., Heinken, T. (2023): Early natural tree regeneration after wildfire in a Central European Scots pine forest: Forest management, fire severity and distance matters. For. Ecol. Manag. 539: 120999. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2023.120999
- Schüle, M., Heinken, T., Fartmann, T. (2023): Long-term effects of environmental alterations in protected grasslands – Land-use history determines changes in plant species composition. Ecol. Engineer. 188: 106878. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2022.106878
- Boetzl, FA., Schuele, M., Krauss, J., Steffan-Dewenter, I. (2020): Pest control potential of adjacent agri-environment schemes varies with crop type and is shaped by landscape context and within-field position. J Appl Ecol. 57: 1482– 1493. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13653
Others
- Heinken, T., Schüle, M., Domes, G., Schwanitz, C., (2024): Wiederbesiedlung von Brandflächen auf Kiefernforsten bei Treuenbrietzen (Brandenburg). Vegetation zwischen Globalisierung, Klimawandel und Restaurierung von Habitaten : Festschrift für Prof. Dr. Dietmar Brandes 2024, Braunschweiger geobotanische Arbeiten. https://doi.org/10.24355/dbbs.084-202404230646-0
- Schüle, M., Domes, G., Schwanitz, C., Heinken, T. (2023): Vegetationsentwicklung nach Waldbrand – Erste Ergebnisse aus dem Projekt PYROPHOB. Eberswalder Forstliche Schriftenreihe 73: 35-42. PDF
- Heinken, T., Schüle, M. (2022): Botanische Exkursion am 22. Mai 2022 durch das Nieplitztal zur Nieplitzquelle und auf die Waldbrandflächen des Großbrandes bei Treuenbrietzen. Verh. Bot. Ver. Berlin-Brandenbg. 154: 213-222.
- Blumröder, J.B., Ibisch, P., Birkhofer, K., Brosinsky, A., Bubner, B., Chmielewski, J., Clerk, D., Dobkowitz, S., Flagmeier, M., Franke, T., Gerwin, W., Hartong, T., Heinken, T., Jarling, R. Jouy, F., Meißner, A., Raab, T. Repmann, F., Schaaf, W., Schirrmacher, M., Schmitt, T., Schröder, J., Schüle, M., Schulze, K.A., Welle, T., Wiemers, M. (2021): Projekt PYROPHOB - Strategien zur Entwicklung von pyrophoben und klimawandelresilienten Wäldern auf Waldbrandflächen. Natursch. Landschaftspfl. Brandenbg. 30(1): 26-30.