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Dr. Ewald Weber

Dr. Ewald Weber
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Contact

2nd Affiliation:

University of Potsdam

Maulbeerallee 1

14469 Potsdam

E-Mail: weber27@uni-potsdam.de

 

 

 

1th Affiliation:

University of Bonn

Nussallee

53115 Bonn

 

 

 

Dr. Ewald Weber
Photo: private

 

Research Interests

Ecology of invasive plant species

  • Traits of invasive plants
  • Risk assessment of future invasions
  • Role of soil biota on plant growth

 

Other interests

 

 

 

 

Education and Experience

 

2020 –

Academic staff of the group Prof. A. Linstädter

2018–2020

adinterim group leader

2016–2018

Independent researcher of the group of Prof. J. Joshi

2009 – 2016

Postdoc and lecturer of the group of Prof. J. Joshi

 

 

 

 

Publications

Please see list of publications <https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/ibb-biodiversitaet/publications> for all peer-reviewed articles.

 

Selected papers

 

Weber E, Burkart M, Joshi J (2018) Deutsche botanische Gärten als mögliche Quelle invasiver Pflanzenarten – eine Bewertung der Lebendsammlungen. Natur und Landschaft 93, 23–27.

van Kleunen M, Essl F, Pergl J, Brundu G, Carboni M, Dullinger S, Early R, González‐Moreno P, Groom QJ, Hulme PE, Kueffer C, Kühn I, Máguas C, Maurel N, Novoa A, Parepa M, Pyšek P, Seebens H, Tanner R, Touza J, Verbrugge L, Weber E, Dawson W, Kreft H, Weigelt P, Winter M, Klonner G, Talluto MV, Dehnen‐Schmutz K (2018) The changing role of ornamental horticulture in alien plant invasions.Biological Reviews 93, 1421–1437.

Dellinger AS, Essl F, Hojsgaard D, Kirchheimer B, Klatt S, Dawson W, Pergl J, Pyšek P, van Kleunen M, Weber E, Winter M, Hörandl E, Dullinger S (2016) Niche dynamics of alien species do not differ among sexual and apomictic flowering plants. New Phytologist 209, 1313–1323.

Van Kleunen M, Dawson W, Essl F, Pergl J, Winter M, Kreft H, Weigelt P, Kartesz J, Nishino M, Antonova LA, Barcelona JF, Cabezas FJ, Castaño N, Cárdenas D, Cárdenas-Toro J, Chacón E, Chatelain C, Ebel AL, Figueiredo E, Fuentes N, Groom QJ, Henderson L, Inderjit, Kupriyanov A, Meerman J, Morozova O, Moser D, Nickrent D, Masciadri S, Patzelt A, Pelser, PB, Poopath M, Piedad-Baptiste M, Schulze M, Seebens H, Shu WS, Thomas J, Velayos M, Weber E, Wieringa JJ, Pyšek P (2015) Global exchange and accumulation of non-native plants. Nature 525, 100–103.

Cierjacks A, Kowarik I, Joshi J, Hempel S, Ristow M, von der Lippe M, Weber E (2013) Biological Flora of the British Isles: Robiniapseudoacacia. Journal of Ecology 101, 1623–1640.

 

 

Books

 

Weber E (2017) Invasive Plant Species of the World. A Reference Guide to Environmental Weeds. 2nd edition. CABI Publishing, Wallingford, 596 pages.