Profile

Professional career

• since 05/2022
  Postdoctoral fellow at the Remote Sensing in Geo- and Ecosystem Research, University of Leipzig.
• 03/2011 - 12/2013
  Research assistant at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ Leipzig, Dept. Conservation Biology (Working Group "Population Ecology and Landscape Structure" – Project Scales)
• since 04/2011
  Staff member of Neotropical Institute – Research and Conservation in Brazil
• 03/2011 - 09/2011
  Internship at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena. (Dept. of Biochemical Processes)
• 02/2008 - 08/2009
  Internship at the “Conservation Science Internship Program” of The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Curitiba, Brazil

Education

• 04/2015 - 06/2022
  PhD student at the University of Leipzig, Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity.
• 10/2010 - 04/2013
  Master degree in Global Change Ecology Graduate Program at the Univerisity of Bayreuth.
• 02/2000 - 12/2003
  Bachelor and Licentiate of Science in Biologie at the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Brazil

I am a plant ecologist fascinated by biodiversity and remote sensing techniques. I am a Postdoctoral fellow at the Remote Sensing in Geo- and Ecosystem Research, University of Leipzig. Currently, I work on the Breathing Nature project, which investigates the interactions between biodiversity and climate change. For that, I use terrestrial sensing, such as terrestrial laser scanning.

• FOR 1451: Teilprojekt: The Jena Experiment: Intra-annual stability of spatial and temporal niche complementarity in temperate grasslands

  Wirth, Christian

  Duration: 06/2010 - 12/2018

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Spezielle Botanik und funktionelle Biodiversität
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more projects

• Barry, K.; van Ruijven, J.; Mommer, L. et al.

  Limited evidence for spatial resource partitioning across temperate grassland biodiversity experiments

  Ecology. 2019. 101 (1).

  DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2905
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• Guimarães-Steinicke, C.; Weigelt, A.; Ebeling, A.; Eisenhauer, N.; Duque-Lazo, J.; Reu, B.; Roscher, C.; Schumacher, J.; Wagg, C.; Wirth, C.

  Terrestrial laser scanning reveals temporal changes in biodiversity mechanisms driving grassland productivity

  2019. pp. 133-161

  DOI: 10.1016/bs.aecr.2019.06.003
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Courses:

• Introduction to Geoinformatics
•    Geographic Information Systems
•    Biogeography and temporal processes of the biosphere

• Biogeography and temporal processes of the biosphere

  12-GGR-M-PG01N - Methods and concepts of biogeography, geomorphology and quaternary research

• Geographic Information Systems

  12-GGR- B-GF05 - Introduction to Geoinformatics

• Introduction to Geoinformatics

  12-GGR- B-GF05 - Introduction to Geoinformatics