Curriculum Vitae
Education
- 2008 to present
Post-doctoral Researcher at NIOO, Centre for Terrestrial Ecology, Department of Terrestrial Microbial Ecology (Hans van Veen, Johan Leveau): “Modelling interactions of individual bacteria in the phyllosphere”, funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
- 2006 to 2008
Post-doctoral Researcher at NIOO, Centre for Terrestrial Ecology, Department of Multitrophic Interactions (Wim van der Putten): “Modelling above- and belowground interactions in relation to biodiversity”, funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
- 2003 to 2006
PhD at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany, Institute of Ecology, Spatial Ecology Lab (Kerstin Wiegand) and University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (David Ward): “Cyclical succession in semi-arid savannas revealed with a spatial simulation model” in the international project “Ecology of arid savannas based on the patch-dynamics paradigm by means of simulation modeling”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
- 2000 to 2001
ERASMUS student at Imperial College, London, UK, Department of Biology, Course of Ecology, Empirical research Project (Michael J. Crawley): “Experimental Determination of Factors Limiting the Regeneration Niche of Grassland Plants”
- 8/9 2000
Modelling project at UFZ-Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle, Germany, Department of Ecological Modelling (Hans Thulke, Christian Wissel): “Active seed abortion in Berberis vulgaris”
- 1997 to 2003
Diploma (MSc) Studies at Philipps-University Marburg, Germany, Department of Biology (Roland Brandl): “Astacus astacus – doomed to extinction? A Population Viability Analysis”, Majors: Ecology, Nature Conservation, Computing, and Philosophy, funded by a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
Teaching experience
- 2007 to 2008
Supervision of MSc project "Modelling plants and their belowground enemies in a changing environment" at the NIOO, The Netherlands
- 2006
Workshops "Introduction to R" at the three centres of the NIOO, and at the NIOO-days in Lunteren, The Netherlands
- 2006
Lecture on individual-based modeling at the Institute of Ecology, Jena University, Germany
- 2005 to 2006
Supervision of Master project “Spatial interactions between the two encroaching savanna shrubs Acacia mellifera and Tarchonanthus camphoratus” (J. Förster) and two gradute student projects
- 2004 to 2005
Annual 3-day undergraduate course in competition models at the Institute of Ecology, Jena University, Germany
Expertise
Simulation modelling
Developing, implementing, and analysing individual-based, rule-based, and/or spatially explicit computer simulation models in C++ or Java
Above-belowground interactions
Biodiversity and above-belowground interactions
Cyclical succession
Cyclical succession within the framework of patch-dynamics emerging from semi-arid savanna dynamics
Competition
Competition and coexistence of savanna woody species
PVA
Population viability analysis based on simulation models
Sensitivity analysis
Local and global sensitivity analysis methods, sensitivity and elasticitiy analysis of matrix models, Latin Hypercube sampling, logistic regression sensitivity analysis
Spatial statistics
Nearest-neighbour analysis, spatial autocorrelation analysis, point pattern analysis with Ripley’s K and Wiegand-Moloney’s O
Quantile regression
and generalized linear models in R
Co-Operation
Kerstin Wiegand
University of Jena, Germany
http://www.uni-jena.de/Dr__K__Wiegand.html
David Ward
University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
http://www.ukzn.ac.za/Biology/DavidWard407.aspx
Roger Humphry
SCRI Dundee, UK
http://www.scri.ac.uk/staff/RogerHumphry
Jarl Giske
Bergen University, Norway
http://www.bio.uib.no/pages/forsker.php?pid=1027&lang=E
Roland Brandl
University of Marburg, Germany
http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~brandlr/
Hans Thulke
UFZ-Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig, Germany
http://www.ufz.de/index.php?de=3896
YoMo
Young Modellers in Ecology (Germany)
http://www.wiki.ufz.de/oesa/yomo
Selected Publications
Meyer K.M., Ward D., Wiegand K., Moustakas A. 2008
Multi-proxy evidence for competition between savanna woody species
Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 10: 63-72
Full article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ppees.2007.09.002
Meyer K.M., Wiegand K., Ward D., Moustakas A. 2008
Determining patch size
Arican Journal of Ecology 46: 440-442
Full article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2028.2007.00834.x
Moustakas A., Wiegand K., Getzin S., Ward D., Meyer K. M., Guenther M. & Mueller K.-H. 2008
Spacing patterns of an Acacia tree in the Kalahari over a 61-year period: how clumped becomes regular and vice versa
Acta Oecologica 33: 355-364
Full article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2008.01.008
Meyer K.M., Wiegand K., Ward D., Moustakas A. 2007
The rhythm of savanna patch dynamics
Journal of Ecology 95: 1306-1315
Full article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2007.01289.x
Meyer K.M., Wiegand K., Ward D., Moustakas A. 2007
SATCHMO: A spatial simulation model of growth, competition, and mortality in cycling savanna patches
Ecological Modelling 209:377-391
Full article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2007.07.001
Meyer K.M., Gimpel K., Brandl R. 2007
Viability analysis of endangered crayfish populations
Journal of Zoology 273: 364-371
Full article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2007.00336.x
Moustakas A., Guenther M., Wiegand K., Mueller K.H., Ward D., Meyer K.M., Jeltsch F. 2006
Long-term mortality patterns of the deep-rooted Acacia erioloba: The middle class shall die!
Journal of Vegetation Science 17: 473-480
Meyer K.M., Ward D., Moustakas A., Wiegand K. 2005
Big is not better: Small Acacia mellifera shrubs are more vital after fire
African Journal of Ecology 43: 131-136
Full article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2028.2005.00559.x
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