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Dr. Judith Rothenbücher
Biologist
Ecology Group
Institute of Zoology
Berliner Str. 28
37073 Göttingen

Tel.: 0551/39-5529
Fax: 0551/39-5448

e-mail: jrothen@gwdg.de
Projekts

Future-oriented Forestry

Until May 2005 I was employed as a research associate for the ecology group of the Institute of Zoology at the University of Göttingen. I was working on a project which was funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). It was the aim of the project to summarise the results of a number of studies that were carried out in five different regions of Germany. In these studies the impact of ecological forest conversion on the diversity of plants and animals were investigated.

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Doctoral thesis

In my doctoral thesis I studied the effect of flood management and present land use on the diversity of spiders (Araneae), plant- and leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha) and ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae). The study was carried out in the grassland floodplain of the
"Lower Oder Valley National Park".
The study was part of the interdisciplinary research training program "Valuation and Conservation of Biodiversity".

Summary of my doctoral thesis

Doctoral thesis as pdf

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Diploma thesis

In my diploma thesis I studied the importance of sparsley vegetated gravel banks on islands and on the river bank of the Upper Middle Rhine river valley as habitats for carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae). I wrote the thesis at the Institute of Evolution Biology and Ecology at Bonn University and cooperated with the Department of Ecology of the German Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG) at Koblenz.

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Presentations

Publications

ROTHENBÜCHER J, SCHAEFER M (submitted) Submersion Tolerance in Floodplain Arthropod Communities. Basic and Applied Ecology.

SCHAEFER M, JANSEN M, DÖRING C, ROTHENBÜCHER J (in press) Ökologischer Waldumbau - Artenvielfalt und Naturnähe. In: Ökologischer Waldumbau in Deutschland. Fragen, Antworten, Perspektiven. München: oekom-Verlag. pp. 82-123.

ROTHENBÜCHER J, SCHAEFER M (2005) Conservation of leafhoppers in floodplain grasslands - trade-off between diversity and naturalness in a northern German national park. Journal of Insect Conservation 9:335-349.

ROTHENBÜCHER J (2005) The Impact of Mowing and Flooding on the Diversity of Arthropods in Floodplain Grassland Habitats of the Lower Oder Valley National Park, Germany. Dissertation. Niedersächsische Staats- und Landesbibliothek, Göttingen. (pdf)

ROTHENBÜCHER J, BENTLAGE K, JUST P (2005) Conservation management of target species or conservation of processes - Winners and losers of two different conservation strategies. In: MARKUSSEN M, BUSE R, GARRELTS H, MAÑEZ COSTA MA, MENZEL S and MARGGRAF R (Hrsg.). Valuation and Conservation of Biodiversity - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Convention on Biological Diversity. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer Verlag. pp 155-192.

KRÜGER U, ROTHENBÜCHER J, SCHAEFER M (2004) The impact of land use and flooding on the diversity of spiders in the "Lower Oder Valley National Park". In: OTTE A, SIMMERING D, ECKSTEIN L, HÖLZEL N, WALDHARDT R (eds.). Eco-complexity and dynamics of the cultural landscape. Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie 34, Gießen, Buch am Erlbach: BÖGEL-Druck. p 387.

ROTHENBÜCHER J, SCHAEFER M (2003) The impact of flooding on the diversity of arthropods - comparing patterns in the diversity of two trophic groups. In: STADLER J, HENSEN I, KLOTZ S, FELDMANN H (eds.). Biodiversity - from patterns to processes. Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie 33, Halle/Saale, Göttingen: Die Werkstatt. p 326.

BRÄUER I, GARRELTS H, HELLENBROICH T, HOLL A, JUST P, KLOSE J, ROTHENBÜCHER J (2002): Valuation and conservation of biodiversity in Germany. In: PESCHEL T, MRZLJAK J, WIEGLEB G (eds.). Landschaft im Wandel - Ökologie im Wandel. Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie 32, Cottbus, Göttingen: Die Werkstatt. p 448.

ROTHENBÜCHER J, SCHAEFER M (2002) The impact of land use and flooding on the diversity of plant- and leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha) in floodplain grassland. In: PESCHEL T, MRZLJAK J, WIEGLEB G (eds.). Landschaft im Wandel - Ökologie im Wandel. Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie 32, Cottbus, Göttingen: Die Werkstatt. p 318.

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Talks

Überflutungstoleranz bei Zikaden und anderen Arthropoden - 11. mitteleuropäische Zikaden-Tagung, Wien, 27.-29. August 2004

The impact of land use and flooding on the diversity of spiders in grassland habitats of the "Lower Oder Valley National Park", Germany - 16th International Congress of Arachnology, Gent, 02.-07. August 2004

The Management of the Flooding Regime in the "Lower Oder Valley National Park", Germany - Conflicts between Conservation and Land Use. - External Seminar Series of the Leeds Institute for Environmental Science and Management, University of Leeds, 19. February 2004.

The impact of flooding on the diversity of arthropods - comparing patterns in the diversity of two trophic groups - Biodiversity - from patterns to processes, 33rd Annual conference of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Halle, 8.-12. September 2003

Submersion tolerance in floodplain plant- and leafhoppers - Ecology and conservation of Auchenorrhyncha in grassland ecosystems, 3rd Meetion of the European Auchenorrhyncha Ecology Group, Gut Moorbeck, 25.-27. July 2003

Die Biologie der heimischen Fledermäuse (with field trip) - Biologische Schutzgemeinschaft Göttingen (BSG), Göttingen, 10. July 2003

Zikaden der Überflutungsaue - Administration of the "Lower Oder Valley National Park", 20. May 2003

Submersion tolerance in floodplain arthropod communities - Restoration of river valleys - Annual meeting of the working group for restoration ecology of the GFÖ, Kiel, 24.-26. April 2003

The impact of land use and flooding on the diversity of plant- and leaf-hoppers (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha) in grassland habitats of the "Lower Oder Valley National Park", Europe, Germany - Landschaft im Wandel - Ökologie im Wandel, 32nd Annual conference of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Cottbus, 16.-20. September 2002

The impact of land use and flooding on the diversity of plant- and leaf-hoppers (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha) in grassland habitats of the "Lower Oder Valley National Park", Europe, Germany - 11th International Auchenorrhyncha Congress, Potsdam, 5.-9.August 2002

Auswirkungen anthropogener Einflüsse auf die Diversität der Arthropodenfauna des Grünlandes im Nationalpark "Unteres Odertal" (am Beispiel der Spinnen und Zikaden) - Presentation of the planned research, Administration of the Lower Oder Valley National Park", 22. Mai 2001

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Poster

KRÜGER U, ROTHENBÜCHER J, SCHAEFER M (2004) The impact of land use and flooding on the diversity of spiders in the "Lower Oder Valley National Park" - Eco-complexity and dynamics of the cultural landscape. 34. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Ökologie, Gießen, 13.-17.September 2004

BRÄUER I, GARRELTS H, HELLENBROICH T, HOLL A, KLOSE J, ROTHENBÜCHER J (2002) Valuation and Conservation of Biodiversity in Germany - Landschaft im Wandel - Ökologie im Wandel, 32. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Ökologie, Cottbus, 16.-20.September 2002

ROTHENBÜCHER J, SCHAEFER M (2002) The impact of land use and flooding on the diversity of plant- and leaf-hoppers (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha) in grassland habitats of the "Lower Oder Valley National Park", Europe, Germany - Linkages between biodiversity, ecosystem health and human health", Washington DC, 6.-12. Juni 2002

LÜSSOW H, JUST P, ROTHENBÜCHER J, KLOSE J, HOLL A, BRÄUER I, GARRELTS H, HELLENBROICH T (2002) Problems and Perspective of the Conservation of Biodiversity in Germany - Linkages between biodiversity, ecosystem health and human health", Washington DC, 6.-12. Juni 2002

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Vita

2004-2005 Research associate at the ecology group, Institute of Zoology at the University of Göttingen.

2000-2003 Doctoral candidate at the ecology group and the graduate training program "Valuation and Conservation of Biodiversity" at University of Göttingen.

1994-2000 Studying biology at Bonn University.

1997-1998 Non-graduating student at the University of Aberdeen

1985-1994 Staatliches Gymnasium Lahnstein.

1981-1985 Primary School Goethe Schule Lahnstein.

1975 Born at Lahnstein.

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