Overview of all Theses
Selected Bachelor's Theses
2026 ongoing
Charlotte Fabian: Computersimulation eines Topfexperiments zur Analyse von Trockenheitseffekten auf Pflanzengemeinschaften
Lillou Löser: Ressource allocation of grassland species under drought and competition (prelim)
Carolin Ostrowski: Straßenränder als Habitat für bestäubende Käfer (prelim)
Rica Rauschenberg: Wildwechsel von Paarhufern - Lassen sich eigenständige räumliche Strukturen in der Kernzone des Biosphärenreservats Thüringer Wald empirisch nachweisen?
Florens Waldschmidt: Untersuchung des Einflusses experimentell herbeigeführter Dürreeffekte auf die funktionellen Eigenschaften von Graslandarten, bei unterschiedlicher Landnutzung und zu verschiedenen Zeitpunkten im Jahresverlauf
2025
Charlot Bursch: Hitzetoleranz von C3- und C4-Gräsern: Mögliche Faktoren für das Überleben unter temporärem Hitzestress
Karla Erdmann: Geschlechtsspezifische Verteilung von Laufkäfern (Carabidae) entlang kleinskaliger Heterogenität in Söllen
Anna Hübner: The Role of Predator in Herbivore Coexistence: An Energetic Modeling Approach
Bianca Kietzmann: Intra- und interspezifische Körpergrößenvariation von Laufkäfern (Carabidae) entlang eines Feuchtigkeitsgradienten
Julia Schersach: Die Bedeutung der Sand-Grasnelke (Armeria maritima ssp. Elongata) für Wildbienen und Schwebfliegen an Straßenrändern
Hannes Seidel: Population assessment of a critically endangered ant species (Formica foreli) in Brandenburg
Lena Weisser: Hitzestress bei Gräsern und Sträuchern der Savanne: Toleranzgrenzen in Abhängigkeit von Verbreitung, Altersstadium und Interaktion
2024
Caroline Boeckmann: Tausendfüßer (Myriapoda) in Söllen der Uckermark – Einfluss kleinskaliger Gradienten auf die Artenzusammensetzung
Laurine Krippschock: Abundanz und Diversität von Isopoden entlang kleinräumiger Gradienten
Elena Meister: Assessing the foraging behavior of ground-dwelling insects in relation to daily fluctuations of environmental conditions
Milena Mensching: Disentangling the effects of habitat size and heterogeneity on different components of diversity
Nina Pellny: Landschaftsabhängige Populations- entwicklung der Armeria maritima subsp. elongata in Brandenburg über die letzten 19 Jahre
Nicole Pfaffmann: Hitzestress bei Gräsern und Sträuchern der Savanne: Toleranzgrenzen in Abhängigkeit von Verbreitung, Altersstadium und Interaktion
Nicole Ruth Hedwig Pfaffmann: Araneae (Webspinnen) in Söllen – Einfluss heterogener Strukturen auf die Abundanz und Artendiversität in verschiedenen Jahren
Leander Seidl
Johanna Tiepelmann: Intraspezifische Körpergrößenvariation von Laufkäfern (Carabidae) entlang eines kleinskaligen Gradienten in Söllen in der Uckermark
2023
Elena Loor: Einfluss kleinräumiger Heterogenität auf Laufkäfer (Carabidae) in Kleingewässern (Sölle)
Noa Terracina: The Vegetation distribution of kettle holes along the internal gradient and their changes during dorught years.
2022
Virginia Balke
2021
Miriam Radtke: Einfluss inner- und zwischenartlicher Präsenz auf die Nahrungswahl der Gemeinen Rasenameise – Tertamorium caespitum
2020
Virginia Balke: Zoos als außerschulische Lernorte - sinnvoll oder durch Alternativen ersetzbar?
Jacob Jansen: Accelerometer data for classification of animal behavior – creating a database for Eland and Kudu antelopes
Selected Master's Theses
2026 ongoing
Clara Franz-Berenguer: Acoustic risk perception of ungulates in the Namibian savannah: a predator-sound-experiment
Caroline Boeckmann: Microhabitat effects on Myriapoda in depressional wetlands (prelim)
Sophie Dückers: Insect family distribution in the aerosphere (prelim)
Laura Felske: Functional diversity of carabids along small-scale hydrological gradients in kettle holes
Leon Lunow: Behavioural Information in Integrated Step-Selection Analysis: Comparing GPS-Based and Accelerometer-Based Approaches in Namibian Antelopes
Marie-Noelle Newbon: Insect Diversity on Road Verges in Brandenburg: A Camera Trap Study on Armeria maritima subsp. elongata
Arenella Rollo: How do road density and traffic intensity influence the spatial patterns of wildlife distribution and activity within Olifants West Nature Reserve?
Helena Jung: TBD
Lubna Rachid: Resistant People, Resistant Ecologies: Nature Conservation Drivers and Practices under Chronic Colonial Violence
Ilka Meier: Transmission biases of the grooming handclap across Chimpanzee populations and the role of network position in style adherence within one group
Katharina Hoevel: From Farmland to Savanna: Long term changes in grass communities over time and under the influence of native herbivores in Welgevonden Game Reserve - South Africa
Theresa Lahn: Exploring winter bird diversity in an agroforestry system in Brandenburg using passive acoustic monitoring
Verena Korban: Sex-related distribution in spiders (Aranea) along small-spatial gradients (prelim)
Liv Kürschner (start October): Testing lightweight next generation ear tags: Comparing behavioural classifications from accelerometers mounted on the ear with accelerometers mounted on neck collars
Putri Utami Saryanti Caesaria: Effects of drought timing and eutrophication on above- and belowground traits in plant communities (prelim)
Anna Sawyer: Responses of leaf traits to drought at different time points in the year (prelim)
Anna Schmidt: Intra- und interspezifische Konkurrenz-Effekte verschiedener Pflanzenarten in einem Trockenrasen-Experiment
Leon Schlenger: Unveiling the Unrecognized: The Role of Sea Cucumbers in Coral Reef Health
Mathias Siegwardt: Effects of drought timing and eutrophication on the phenology of dry grassland plant communities
Hannah Wischnewski: Vegetation changes in continental dry grasslands in Eastern Brandenburg (prelim)
2025
Lena Chowdhury: Assessing the impact of personal values on support for EU policies and Willingness to pay for sustainable soil management options: Insights from a cross-national survey
Mia Hoffmann: A pattern-oriented approach to modelling expansion strategies of dune plants
Jonas Hurtig: Plant Pollinator Interactions of a Threatened Plant Species in Isolated Dry Grasslands
Lilly Lucius: Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Seed Banks in Temporary WetlandsIsabel Merz: Influence of competition on functional traits of calcareous dry grassland perennials
Dorothea Oberschelp de Meneses: Pollination and seed predation in a landscape context of Armeria elongata
Eva Paulischkies: Investigating how a set of realistic disturbance regimes affects demographic resilience along the pace of life continuum
Sarah Poldrack: Mechanisms driving the Species-Area-Relationship: A Study on Plants in Kettle Holes in Brandenburg
Richard Robold: Powered down? The effect of solar parks on wolf and ungulate behavior
Nena Ulbrich: Acoustic communication and social dynamics: investigating the correlation between specific whistle-vocalization, behavior, and group size in Striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) in the Aegean sea
Nina Wallmann: Diurnal Changes in the Allocation of Nutrients in African Savanna Plants
Richard Weston: Environmental and Microclimatic Drivers of Nest Site Selection for the Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) in the Karpaz Peninsula, Northern Cyprus
2024
Kolja Breese: Understanding the movement ecology of an apex predator on one of the most densely populated islands worldwide
Nils Hermann: Raumverhalten sendermarkierter Wölfe in Ostdeutschland
Charlotte Keyser: Endangered plant species in Sanssouci Park (Potsdam, Brandenburg) – comparison of population distribution in 2008 and 2022
Tobias Kollmorgen: Solitary wasps as non- bee pollinators in agricultural landscapes. How are they influenced by landscape parameters and local factors?
Lena Rosa Scherer
Christin Schöpkewitz: Ants in the city: changes in species richness and morphological intraspecific trait variation under the effect of urbanization
2023
Swantje Lina Bansen: Bare soils in a large-scale dynamic savanna vegetation model - a refining approach
Tina Birnbach: Relative importance of local wildlife for zooplankton and plant dispersal in an agricultural landscape
Alice Cimenti: Investigating the State and farmers’ perception of biodiversity in Norther Namibia
Diana Guerrero: Activity specific energy expenditure in European brown hares
Kira Hohmeyer: Effect of personality on behaviour, activity and energy use in European hares – An experimental approach in a controlled environment
Noa Terracina: The Vegetation distribution of kettle holes along the internal gradient and their changes during dorught years.
Lucas Vollbehr: Niche differentiation of ants on dry grasslands at forest edges in Brandenburg, Germany
2022
Sophia Hibler: Anpassung und Anwendung eines digitalen Formats der partizipativen Folgenabschätzung zur Entwicklung nachhaltiger Managementpraktiken für Wisent und Elch in Deutschland
Bettina Knauf: Effects of remote sensing landscape parameter on species-area relationships across three vegetation types
Anna Paulina Kraus: Behavioural classification using accelerometer data in springbok
Arved Otte: Foraging Activity and Competition of the Pavement Ant Tetramorium caespitum in Dry Grasslands
Janice Pahl: Energy budgets of European hares - impact of extreme weather events on activity
Julius Seiler: Impacts of wind parks on the movement patterns of European hares (Lepus europaeus) in an agricultural landscape
2021
Jennifer Brunkhardt: The influence of small-scale heterogeneous structures on spiders (Araneae) − a study of kettle holes in agricultural landscapes (Uckermark, Brandenburg)
Thibault Fronville: The influence of weather conditions on the abundance, biomass, and diversity of flying insects. A field study on natural area and arable
Sophie Luise Grimm: Simulating Skylarks - A pattern-oriented analysis of a novel individual-based
Saskia Klauschke
Tamara Knecht
Milena Müller
Yvonne Rychlak: Spatial use and population development of the Eurasian otter Lutra lutra in Sielmanns Naturlandschaft Groß Schauen and the state of Brandenburg
Magdalena Schmittlein: Determinants of species abundance at the landscape scale within the past 140 years in the Uckermark
Pia Stein
Leonna Szangolies: Namibian rangelands in transition: A large-scale dynamic savanna vegetation model
Jessica Thimian: Understanding rodent community structures: Individual-based simulation approach
Anne-Marie Weiß: Assessing the influence of spatial gradients in kettle holes on above- and belowground plant communities
Helena Wiskott: Resting site selection of female springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis) in a predator rich savanna landscape: insights from GPS tracking and remote sensing data
Selected PhD Theses
ongoing
Hering, Robert | Understanding large African herbivore movements in the Anthropocene
Eckhardt, Michelle | GrassYear
Polldrack, Sarah | GrassYear
Reichert, Markus | Spatio-temporal patterns in biodiversity and linguistic diversity
Roth, Jonas | Mobile link functions in unpredictable agricultural landscapes 2.0 - integrating animal energetics
Submitted
Herkenrath, Tim | From precipitation to evapotranspiration: biotic and abiotic controls of ecohydrological processes in Southern African savannas
Completed
Berry, Paul (2024) Behavioural Responses of African Antelope to Environmental Stressors in Drylands
Stiegler, Jonas (2023) Mobile link functions in unpredictable agricultural landscapes
Bergholz, Kolja (2019) Trait-based understanding of plant species distributions along environmental gradients
Marquart, Arnim (2019) Feedbacks between macropores and soil water infiltration in semi-arid savannah systems.
Reeg, Jette (2019)
Schäfer, Merlin (2019)
Teckentrupp, Lisa (2019) Understanding predator-prey interactions: The role of fear in structuring prey communities.
Ullmann, Wiebke (2019) Understanding animal movement behaviour in dynamic agricultural landscapes.
Marquart, Arnim (2018) Feedbacks between land use, diversity of bioturbating animals and plant available soil moisture - The role of biological macropores in enhancing soil water infiltration
Weiß, Lina (2017) Unterstanding the emergence and maintenance of biodiversity in grasslands: linking individual plant responses to community patterns.
Synodinos, Alexis (2016)
Pfestorf, Hans (2015) Land use intensity and insect root herbivores: from spatial patterns to plant community feedback.
Pagel, Jörn (2014) Statistical process-based models for the understanding and prediction of range dynamics.
May, Felix (2013) Spatial models of plant diversity and plant functional traits – towards a better understanding of plant community dynamics in fragmented landscapes.
Lachmuth, Susanne (2012) Towards a mechanistic understanding of how demography, genetic differentiation and environmental factors interact to generate the invasion dynamics of Senecio inaequidens.
Lohmann, Dirk (2012) Sustainable management of semi-arid African savannas under environmental and political change.
Buchmann, Carsten (2011) Modelling the structuring of animal communities in heterogenous landscapes – the role of individual home range formation, foraging movement, competition and habitat configuration.
Esther, Alexandra (2010) Investigating mechanisms maintaining plant species diversity in fire prone Mediterranean-type vegetation using spatially-explicit simulation models.
Cabral, Juliano (2009) Demographic processes determining the range dynamics of plant species, and their consequences for biodiversity maintenance in the face of environmental change.
Tietjen, Britta-Kristien (2009) Drylands under climate change – a novel ecohydrological modeling approach.
Schiffers, Katja (2008) Plant community response to small-scale disturbances – lessons from a molehill meadow.
Popp, Alexander (2007) An integrated modelling approach for sustainable management of semi-arid and arid rangelands.
Tschöpe, Okka (2007) Managing open habitats for species conservation: the role of wild ungulate grazing, small-scale disturbances, and scale.
·Wasiolka, Bernd (2007) The impact of overgrazing on reptile diversity and population dynamics of Pedioplanis l. lineoocellata in the southern Kalahari.
Pütz, Sandro (2005) Modelling small-scale grazing impacts on long-term vegetation dynamics of a semi-arid steppe.
Rossmanith, Eva (2005) Breeding biology, mating system and population dynamics of the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (Picoides minor): combining empirical and model investigations.
Schwager, Monika (2005) Climate change, variable colony sizes and temporal autocorrelation: consequences of living in changing environments.
Baufeld, Ralf (2004) GIS-gestützte Prognose der Biotopentwicklung auf Grundlage von Biotoptypen- und Vegetationserhebungen auf geplanten Rückdeichungsflächen an der Mittleren Elbe in Sachsen-Anhalt.
Petrů, Martina (2002-2004, weitergeführt in Tübingen): Responses of annual plants to variable rainfall patterns: an empirical test of three models.
Groeneveld, Jürgen (2003) Raum-zeitliche Artenmuster entlang von Stressgradienten - ein Simulationsmodell in Anlehnung an die Pflanzensukzession auf den trockengefallenen Aralseeböden.
Tews, Jörg (2003) The impact of climate change and land use on woody plants in semiarid savanna: Modelling shrub populations in the Southern Kalahari.
Wichmann, Matthias (2002) Survival in changing environments - Modeling the impact of climate change and land use on raptors in arid savanna.
Hansen, Frank (2001) Modellierung der raum-zeitlichen Dynamik des Fuchsbandwurms (Echinococcus multilocularis).