Overview research group

Prof. Dr. habil. Christina Fischer

Professor for Animal ecology and wildlife conservation, Subject advisor for the Master's programme Nature conservation and landscape planning

Curriculum vitae

Professor of Faunistics and Species Conservation at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Bernburg
Research assistant at the University of Salzburg, Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) e.V., Müncheberg
Doctorate at Georg August University, Göttingen
Biology degree, specialising in ecology, zoology and medical microbiology Friedrich Schiller University, Jena

Research areas

  • Research into the processes and patterns that determine the occurrence and functions of vertebrates and invertebrates on different spatial scales in agricultural landscapes
  • Evaluation and further development of nature conservation measures to promote biodiversity in cultural landscapes
  • Effects of spatio-temporal variability in land use on the behaviour, movement, dispersal and recolonisation capacity of animals

Keywords: agroecology, movement ecology, land use change, agri-environmental measures, ecosystem services and disservices, seed predation, farmland birds, small mammals

Teaching

  • Zoology (NLP/LAU)
  • Population biology and wildlife conservation (MLP)
  • Applied statistics (MLP)
  • Biodiversity and ecology of vertebrates (MLP)
  • Landscape Ecology and agroecology (MLC)
  • Supervision of student projects and final theses
  • Supervision of doctoral theses

Memberships

  • The Society for Ecology for Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ)
  • Editorial Board of Landscape Ecology (seit 2017)