"I am a restoration ecologist because I have the aim to restore species-rich, extensively managed arable fields. Therefore, I study how to successfully re-introduce rare and threatened arable plant species by seed transfer."

Curriculum vitae

since 05/2016	Processing of the project „Ackerwildkräuter für Bayerns Kulturlandschaft“ and PhD-student at the Chair of Restoration Ecology, Research Department Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Freising, Germany and Bayerische KulturLandStiftung, München
05/2015 – 04/2016	Conservation consulting for farmers at Bioland Erzeugerring Bayern e.V., Augsburg
since 05/2014	Research assistant at the Chair of Restoration Ecology, Research Department Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Freising, Germany
03/2014 – 04/2014	Research assistant at the Institute for Organic Farming, Soil and Resource Management, Bavarian State Research Centre for Agriculture (LfL), Freising, Germany
10/2012 – 11/2012	Freelancer at the Institute for Environmental Planning and Spatial, Development (ifuplan), Munich, Germany
02/2011 – 04/2011	Internship at the Bavarian Academy for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management (ANL), Laufen, Germany
10/2011 – 03/2014	Master of Science in Environmental Planning and Engineering Ecology, Technical University of Munich, Germany Thesis on density effects during the re-introduction of rare arable plants on organic farms
10/2008 – 08/2011	Bachelor of Science in Biology, Julius Maximilian University of Wuerzburg, Germany Thesis on the movement behavior of butterflies
06/2007	Academic high school diploma (Abitur), Karolinen-Gymnasium Rosenheim, Germany

Re-establishment of rare arable plants in agricultural landscapes

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Johannes Kollmann, PD Dr. Harald Albrecht

The thesis includes two projects:

 ‘Nature conservation by organic farming: Restoration of local populations of rare and endangered arable field plants on organic farms in Germany’

§  The project aims to find management systems, which allow the integration of arable plant conservation within organic farming practice. Three endangered arable plant species are studied, which are almost absent from the soil seed bank, due to years of intensive farming: European venus' looking glass (Legousia speculum-veneris), Royal knight's-spur (Consolida regalis) and Corn gromwell (Lithospermum arvense). Favorable crop rotations, soil tillage, sowing densities and sowing dates for successful re-establishment within the Munich Plain are investigated.

§  Cooperating with the Bavarian State Research Centre for Agriculture (LfL) (Institute for Organic Farming, Soil and Resource Management) and the University of Kassel (Department of Organic Farming and Cropping Systems).

§  Funding: Seidlhof Foundation, Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture: Federal Organic Farming Scheme and other forms of sustainable agriculture

„Arable plants in cultural landscapes of Bavaria – Production-integrated promotion of rare and threatened arable plant species “

§  Project aim is the promotion and re-establishment of rare arable plants in five biogeographical regions of Bavaria. Therefore, regional value chains are built to provide autochthonous seed material. Depending on the region, study species on sandy (e.g. Arnoseris minima), alternating wet (e.g. Myosurus minimus) and calcareous (z.B. Adonis aestivalis) arable fields are included. After identifying remaining populations, seeds of the rare arable plants are collected, propagated and sown on extensively managed fields. Seed propagation and re-establishment of the study species are addressed in scientific investigations. 

§  Cooperating with the Bayerischen KulturLandStiftung (Bavarian Foundation for cultural landscapes)

§  Funding: Bayerischer Naturschutzfonds (Bavarian nature protection fund ), Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank

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