Prof. Dr. Amparo Acker-Palmer
Biological and related sciences , Health, Cell Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Vascular Biology, Tumour Biology
University of Bonn
Agriculture, Biological and related sciences , Environment
Rangeland ecology, ecosystem functioning, Global Change, biodiversity
Functional biodiversity and its role for ecosystem stability and productivity
Functioning & ecosystem services of terrestrial ecosystems in the face of global environmental change
Harnessing land users' ecological knowledge for developing feasible strategies of natural resource management
Resilience of pastoral social-ecological systems to global environmental change
Synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services
Merian Poster Award (first prize), GTÖ 2008
Poster Session Award, Tropentag 2006
Independent Research Group Leader (Awardee of the Volkswagen Foundation), 2004 – 2007
Scholarship for 5-months stay at the University of Cambridge, UK (DAAD), 1995
Student Travel Scholarship for South Africa (Hans Merensky Foundation), 1993
Study Scholarship (Konrad Adenauer Foundation), 1989 – 1993
English, French, German, Latin
Guuroh, R.T., Ruppert, J.C., Ferner, J., Čanak, K., Schmidtlein, S., Linstädter, A., 2018. Drivers of forage provision and erosion control in West African savannas – A macroecological perspective. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 251, 257-267
Linstädter, A., Baumann, G., 2013. Abiotic and biotic recovery pathways of arid rangelands: lessons from the High Atlas Mountains, Morocco. CATENA 103, 3-15
Linstädter, A., Schellberg, J., Brüser, K., Oomen, R.J., Du Preez, C.C., Ruppert, J.C., Ewert, F., 2014. Are there consistent grazing indicators in drylands? Testing plant functional types of various complexity in South Africa's grassland and savanna biomes. PLOS ONE 9, e104672
Linstädter, A., Kuhn, A., Naumann, C., Rasch, S., Sandhage-Hofmann, A., Amelung, W., Jordaan, J., Du Preez, C.C., Bollig, M., 2016. Assessing the resilience of a real-world social-ecological system: Lessons from a multi-disciplinary evaluation of a South African pastoral system. Ecology and Society 21, 35, 10.5751/ES-08737-210335.
Ruppert, J.C., Harmoney, K., Henkin, Z. Snyman, H.A., Sternberg, M., Willms, W., Linstädter, A., 2014. Quantifying drylands' drought resistance and recovery: the importance of drought intensity, dominant life history and grazing regime. Global Change Biology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12777
LLL – Limpopo Living Landscapes
WASCAL – West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use
GCEF – Global Change Experimental Facility
Referee for the Volkswagen Foundation, funding program "Knowledge for Tomorrow – Cooperative Research Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa"
Speaker of the Working Group "Dryland Research" in the German Ecological Society (GfÖ)
Contributing member of the EPES-BIOCOM Global Dryland Database
Member of the DroughtNet Initiative (a global network to assess terrestrial ecosystem sensitivity to drought)
Partner of the "Global Change Experimental Facility" (GCEF), Bad Lauchstädt, coordinated by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UfZ) Leipzig/Halle (Germany)
Press releases 2014:
"Climate Change in Drylands -Ecologists from the University of Cologne are Analyzing Vegetation Stability during and after Droughts" (Press release of the University of Cologne, 19 November 2014)
Link: http://www.portal.uni-koeln.de/nachricht+M5785719f08e.html
"Socio-economic change more of a problem for nomads than climate change – Study on the impacts on livestock farming in arid regions" (Press release of the Helmholtz Centre of Environmental Research, UFZ Leipzig, from 15 July 2014)
Training in academic leadership skills (2013)
Parental leaves (2000, 2003, 2010)
3 children
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Biological and related sciences , Health, Cell Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Vascular Biology, Tumour Biology
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