PhD Project

Impact of land-use intensity on faunal diversity in the forest-steppe ecotone in western Siberia

Project

SASCHA - Sustainable land management and adaptation strategies to climate change for the Western Siberian Grain Belt project homepage

  • Curriculum vitae

    2011-2015 Research Assistant and PhD student
    Working Group Community Ecology and Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research Group, Institute of Landscape Ecology, University of Münster
    2011 Diploma in Landscape Ecology
    Institute of Landscape Ecology, University of Münster
    Diploma Thesis How do climate and habitat quality affect the Large Heath (Coenonympha tullia)?
    10/2011 Graduate assistant
    Institute of Landscape Ecology, University of Münster
    2009 -
    2011    		 Student assistant
    Institute of Landscape Ecology, University of Münster
    2005 -
    2011    		 Studies of Landscape Ecology
    University of Münster

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  • research interests

    • Impact of climate and lande use change on biodiversity
    • Animal ecology, community ecology
    • Ecology of butterflies and dragonflies
    • Limnology

  • Memberships in scientific organisations

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  • Publications

    International publications (peer-reviewed)

    • Gilhaus K, Weking S, Xiang Y & Fartmann T (in preparation) Larval ecology of the Duke of Burgundy (Hamearis lucina)
    • Trappe J, Kunz F, Weking S, Kamp J (2017) Grassland butterfly communities of the Western Siberian forest steppe in the light of post-Soviet land abandonment. Journal of Insect Conservation 21(5-6): 813-826 [doi:10.1007/s10841-017-0021-0]
    • Weking S, Kämpf I, Mathar W, Hölzel N (2016) Effects of land use and landscape patterns on Orthoptera communities in the Western Siberian forest steppe. Biodiversity and Conservation 25 (12): 2341-2359 [doi:10.​1007/​s10531-016-1107-9]
    • Weking S, Hermann G & Fartmann T (2013) Effects of mire type, land use and climate on a strongly declining wetland butterfly. Journal of Insect Conservation 17 (6): 1081-1091 [doi: 10.1007/s10841-013-9585-5]

    Conference Presentations

    • Mathar W, Gottbehüt K, Hölzel N, Kamp J, Kämpf I, Kiehl K, Tolstikov A, Tupizin S, Weking S, Wertebach T (2013) The Western Siberian forest steppe as a hotspot of biodiversity and carbon sequestration. Talk at the Status Conference 2013 of the BMBF-Research Programme “Sustainable Land Management“, Berlin, Germany, 17-19/04/2013
    • Weking S, Mattes H, Hölzel N (2013) Insect diversity of the forest-steppe ecotone in Western Siberia. Poster. 43rd Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Potsdam.
    • Weking S (2013) Faunal diversity of the forest-steppe ecotone in western Siberia. Oral presentation. SER Symposium 26. - 28. April, ILÖK Münster
    • Klaus VH, Fleischer K & Weking S (2012) Raum für Wasser: Auenrenaturierung an der Ems. Poster presentation. 3. Auenökologischer Workshop, Neuburg an der Donau
    • Weking S, Hermann G & Fartmann T (2011) How do climate and habitat quality affect the Large Heath (Coenonympha tullia)? Oral presentation. 41st Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Oldenburg
    • Weking, S, Hermann, G & T Fartmann (2011) Das Große Wiesenvögelchen (Coenonympha tullia) - Ökologie eines Moorspezialisten in Südbayern. Oral presentation. Symposium für Schmetterlingsschutz und 13. UFZ-Workshop zur Populationsbiologie von Tagfaltern und Widderchen, Leipzig
    • Fleischer K, Kämpf I, Römer J, Weking S, Poniatowski D & Fartmann T (2010) Die Heuschrecken-gemeinschaften der Trockenrasen des Nationalparks Unteres Odertal. Oral presentation. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopterologie, Mainz
    • Weking, S, Fleischer, K & T Fartmann (2010) Larvalökologie des Schlüsselblumen-Würfelfalters (Hamearis lucina) in den Kalkmagerrasen des Diemeltals. Oral presentation. Symposium für Schmetterlingsschutz und 12. UFZ-Workshop zur Populationsbiologie von Tagfaltern und Widderchen, Leipzig

    Diploma Thesis

    • Weking S (2011) How do climate and habitat quality affect the Large Heath (Coenonympha tullia)? Diploma thesis, University of Münster