Laura Argens
Chair for Terrestrial Ecology
Department for Life Science Systems
TUM School of Life Sciences
Technische Universität München
Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2
D-85350 Freising-Weihenstephan
Room: 1.2.2.4
Phone: +49.8161.71.4149
Fax: +49.8161.71.4427
E-mail: laura.argens[at]tum.de
Curriculum vitae
| 05/2019- | present | PhD student at the Chair of Terrestrial Ecology, Technische Universität München under the supervision of Dr. S. Meyer. Topic: ´Ecological synthesis to study ecosystem functions, ecosystem services, and their drivers such as land use to contribute to sustainable land use decisions in the face of climate change´. |
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| 10/2016- | 05/2019 | M. Sc. Ecology and Evolution at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. Main. Master thesis was conducted at GEOMAR, Kiel and the National Institute of Oceanography, Haifa: `Impact of heat waves on the food preference of the herbivorous Gastropod Conomurex persicus (Swainson 1821)´. |
| 04/2013- | 04/2016 | B. Sc. Biology at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Bachelor thesis was conducted at the Institute of Organismic and Molecular Evolution: `The life history of European Accipitriformes – analysis of reproductional traits´. |
Research interest
- Drivers of ecosystem services
- Prediction of ecosystem service provisioning
- Effects of land use/ land cover on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
Project
Drivers of Ecosystem Services in Heterogeneous Landscapes (ECOSERV), Project number 13.10, https://www.igsse.gs.tum.de/index.php?id=267&L=0