DR. Hilke Hollens-KUHR
Animal Ecology Research Group
Institute of Landscape Ecology
Heisenbergstr. 2, D-48149 Münster
room 537
phone +49(0)251-83 30 012
e-mail hilke.hollens-kuhr[at]uni-muenster.de
office hours: Tuesday 10:30-12:00 or on appointment via mail
Doctoral AbstractThesis
Plant-pollinator interactions in a biodiversity hotspot Pollination ecology and evolutionary processes in oil-collecting Rediviva bees and their oil-producing Diascia host plants in the South African winter rainfall region
- Supervisor
- Professor Dr. Hermann Mattes
- Doctoral Subject
- Landschaftsökologie
- Doctoral Degree
- Dr. rer. nat.
- Awarded by
- Department 14 – Geosciences
CV
Academic Education
- Promotion in Landschaftsökologie (Dr. rer. Nat.), WWU Münster
- Diplom-Landschaftsökologie, WWU Münster
WorkExperience
- Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Institut für Landschaftsökologie an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU)
Teaching
- Lecture: V Grundlagen der Geowissenschaften [146028]
(in cooperation with Reinhard Wolff, Laura Stutenbecker and Ute Hamer)- [ – | Thu, – | | GEO1 Hörsaal]
- [ – | Fri, – | | GEO1 Hörsaal]
- Seminar: S Methoden und Experimente der Tierökologie [146659]
(in cooperation with Sascha Buchholz)- [ – | Fri, – | | GEO1 513]
- Seminar: S Physische Geographie Südafrikas [146661]
- [ – | Wed, – | | GEO1 401]
- Seminar: Neuartige Ökosysteme [146662]
(in cooperation with Nadja Pernat)- [ – | Tue, – | | GEO1 Lernatelier]
- Seminar: S Multitrophische Interaktionen [146724]
(in cooperation with Sascha Buchholz)- [ – ]
- Practice: Ü Zoolog. Bestimmungsübungen C [144799]
(in cooperation with Nadja Pernat and Sascha Buchholz) - Practice: Ü Zoolog. Bestimmungsübungen A [144797]
(in cooperation with Nadja Pernat and Sascha Buchholz) - Practice: Ü Zoolog. Bestimmungsübungen B [144798]
(in cooperation with Nadja Pernat and Sascha Buchholz) - Practice: Übung zur physischen Geographie/Landschaftsökologie, Kurs A [144842]
(in cooperation with Barbara von der Lühe) - Practice: Übung zur physischen Geographie/Landschaftsökologie, Kurs B [144843]
(in cooperation with Reinhard Wolff) - Practice: Übung zur physischen Geographie/Landschaftsökologie, Kurs C [144845]
(in cooperation with Reinhard Wolff) - Practice: Übung zur physischen Geographie/Landschaftsökologie, Kurs D [144846]
(in cooperation with Barbara von der Lühe) - Alle: V Physische Geographie [144841]
- Project course: P Projektpraktikum Tierökologie [144833]
(in cooperation with Nadja Pernat and Sascha Buchholz)
Publications
- Hollens-Kuhr, H., and Buchholz, S. . “Counteracting selective pressures: Museum collections show declining Aglais io wing size.” Ecological Entomology 2026: 1–4. doi: 10.1111/een.70104.
- Hollens-Kuhr, H; Gathof, A.K.; Grossmann, A.J.; Buchholz, S. . “Air pollution and its multifaceted effects on insect pollinators: A review.” Ecological Entomology 51 (1): 1–17. doi: 10.1111/een.70028.
- Hollens-Kuhr, Hilke, Buchholz, Sascha, and Pernat, Nadja. . “‘Nature of the year’ in Germany: An effective policy to raise public awareness?” People and Nature 7 (7): 1477–1768. doi: 10.1002/pan3.70062.
- Pernat, Nadja, Buchholz, Sascha, Kriegs, Jan Ole, Steen, Jan, and Hollens-Kuhr, Hilke. . “Moving north under the eye of the public: the dispersal ecology of the Nosferatu spider, documented by citizen scientists.” Basic and Applied Ecology 84: 40–49. doi: 10.1016/j.baae.2025.02.002.
- Krüger, Jula-Klarissa, Buchholz, Sascha, Schmitt, Sophie, Blankenhaus, Katharina, Pernat, Nadja, Ott, David, and Hollens-Kuhr, Hilke. . “You are what you eat – The influence of polyphagic and monophagic diet on the flight performance of bees.” Ecology and Evolution 14 (9) e70256. doi: 10.1002/ece3.70256.
- Hollens-Kuhr, H., van der Niet, T., Cozien, R., and Kuhlmann, M. . “Pollinator community predicts trait matching between oil-producing flowers and a guild of oil-collecting bees.” American Naturalist 198 (6): 750–758. doi: 10.5061/dryad.mw6m905x4.
- Kahnt, B., Theodorou, P., Soro, A.Hollens-Kuhr H., Kuhlmann, M., Pauw, A., and Paxton, R.J. . “Small and genetically highly structured populations in a long-legged bee, Rediviva longimanus, as inferred by pooled RAD-seq.” BMC Evolutionary Biology 18 (1): 1–12. doi: 10.1186/s12862-018-1313-z.
- Hollens, H. . “Plant-pollinator interactions in a biodiversity hotspot - Pollination ecology and evolutionary processes in oil-collecting Rediviva bees and their oil-producing Diascia host plants in the South African winter rainfall region.” Dissertation thesis, Universität Münster.
- Hollens, H, Van, der Niet T, Cozien, R, and Kuhlmann, M. . “A spur-ious inference: Pollination is not more specialized in long-spurred than in spurless species in Diascia-Rediviva mutualisms.” Flora 232: 73–82. doi: 10.1016/j.flora.2016.12.006.
- Kuhlmann, M, and Hollens, H. . “Morphology of oil-collecting Pilosity of Female Rediviva Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Melittidae) reflect Host Plant Use.” Journal of Natural History 49 (9-10): 561–573. doi: 10.1080/00222933.2014.939732.
- Kuhlmann, M, and Hollens, H. . “Morphology of oil-collecting pilosity of female Rediviva bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Melittidae) reflect host plant use.” in Integrating ecological knowledge into nature conservation and ecosystem management, edited by J Mantilla-Contreras and R Pätsch.
- Johnson, S.D., Hollens, H., and Kuhlmann, M. . “Competition versus facilitation: conspecific effects on pollinator visitation and seed set in the iris Lapeirousia oreogena.” Oikos 121: 545–550. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19516.x.
- Hollens, Hilke, Wünsch, Yvonne, and Buchholz, Sascha. . “Die Webspinnenfauna des Borghorster und Emsdettener Venns – Rückzugsräume für gefährdete und stenotope Arten.” Natur und Heimat - floristische, faunistische und ökologische Berichte 69: 117–140.
- Kuhlmann, M, Timmermann, K, and Hollens, H. . “Size matters – influence of Mediterranean climate on body size evolution in bees?” contribution to the Origin and Evolution of Biota in Mediterranean Climate Zones – an Integrative Vision, Zurich