Curriculum vitae

since 01/2019	PhD student, Chair of Restoration Ecology, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Freising, Germany
10/2018–12/2018	Scientific assistant, Chair of Restoration Ecology
05/2018–09/2018	Scientific assistant, Research Unit of Forest Protection, Bavarian State Institute of Forestry (LWF), Freising
05/2015–04/2018	Sustainable urban logistics, Radius Wuerzburg
04/2015–12/2015	Scientific assistant, Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Wuerzburg
10/2012–04/2017	Master of Science Environmental Sciences, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg Thesis: Learning performance of individual honey bee foragers in the use of temporally limited resources
03/2012–07/2012	Scientific assistant, Working Group of Population Ecology, Department of Conservation Biology, Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig
10/2008–02/2012	Bachelor of Science Environmental Protection, University of Hildesheim Thesis: Sustainability at major events using the example of the Sammersee-Open-Air-Festival in Upper Bavaria
04/2008–07/2008	Internship at Department 7, Analytical Laboratories and Evaluation of Chemicals, Bavarian Environment Agency, Munich
07/2007–03/2008	Alternative national service (non-military option)
06/2007	Abitur, Dominikus-Zimmermann-Gymnasium, Landsberg am Lech

Rehabilitation of urban roadsides

In my doctoral thesis, I am investigating the rehabilitation potential of urban roadsides to support urban biodiversity and ecosystem functionality. Roadsides can account for up to a third of a city's total green space.  By improving the design and changing maintenance of roadside vegetation, local biodiversity can be supported, isolated habitats can be interconnected, and ecosystem functions, such as pollination, can be stabilized. I am focusing on the establishment dynamics of native wild plants and their effects on the urban wild bee fauna. Specifically, I am investigating how plant and wild bee communities assemble based on local and landscape characteristics; and how this is mediated by their morpho-pheno-physiological traits. The results of this research can be used to optimize urban rehabilitation and nature conservation.

Projects

• Flower Strips: Rehabilitating urban roadsides as habitats and corridors for wild bees and other pollinators (2019–2023)
• R&D project: Grassland management at dikes of the river Inn. Effects on vegetation and arthropods (2019–2023)
• Flower strips in agricultural landscapes. A literature review (2018–2019)

Publikationen

Dietzel, S., Rojas-Botero, S., Dichtl, A., Kollmann, J., Fischer, C., 2024. Winners and losers at enhanced urban roadsides: Trait-based structuring of wild bee communities at local and landscape scale. Biological Conservation 291, 110480. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110480

Rojas-Botero, S., Dietzel, S., Kollmann, J., Teixeira, L.H., 2023. Towards a functional understanding of rehabilitated urban road verge grasslands: Effects of planting year, site conditions, and landscape factors. Flora 309, 152417. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.flora.2023.152417

Dietzel, S., Rojas-Botero,S., Kollmann, J. & S., Fischer, C. (2022): Enhanced urban roadside vegetation increases pollinator abundance whereas landscape characteristics drive pollination. Ecological Indicators 147, 109980. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.109980

Dietzel, S., Rojas-Botero, S., Fischer, C. & Kollmann, J. (2022): Aufwertung urbaner Straßenränder als Anpassung an den Klimawandel und zur Förderung bestäubender Insekten. ANLiegen Natur 44 (1): 31–42, Laufen.  https://www.anl.bayern.de/publikationen/anliegen/doc/an44104dietzel_et_al_2022_aufwertung_strassenraender.pdf

Dietzel, S. & Fischer, C. (2020): Ausbreitungsbewegung von Isodontia mexicana (SAUSSURE, 1867), der Stahlblaue Grillenjäger in Bayern: Weitere Nachweise aus dem Stadtgebiet von München. Nachrichtenblatt der bayerischen Entomologen 69 (3/4), 98-99. https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/NachBlBayEnt_069_0098-0099.pdf

Dietzel, S., Sauter, F., Moosner, M., Fischer, C. & Kollmann, J. (2019): Blühstreifen und Blühflächen in der landwirtschaftlichen Praxis – eine naturschutzfachliche Evaluation. ANLiegen Natur 41 (1), 73-86. https://www.anl.bayern.de/publikationen/anliegen/doc/an41129dietzel_et_al_2019_bluehstreifen_review.pdf