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Lebenslauf

Education and work experience

since 2010	W3 professor and director of the Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt am Main.
2001 - 2010	C3 professor for "Ecology" at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz.
since 2000	Research Associate of the National Museums of Kenya.
1999 - 2001	Research Associate at RWTH Aachen, Dept. Zoologie/Tierphysiologie. Heisenberg award by DFG.
10.02.1999	Habilitation in "Zoologie" at Universität Tübingen. Research topic: "Mikro- und makroökologische Ansätze zum Verständnis von Artengemeinschaften"; 03. 12. 1999 transferred to RWTH Aachen.
1993 - 1996	Postdoctoral fellow at Vogelwarte Radolfzell, Max-Planck-Institut für Verhaltensphysiologie, Prof. Berthold.
1996 - 1999	Research Associate at RWTH Aachen, Dept. Zoologie/Tierphysiologie. Habilitanden stipend awarded by DFG.
1990 - 1993	PhD thesis: "Ursachen für langfristige Bestandsentwicklungen europäischer und nordamerikanischer Singvögel in kontinentalem Maßstab", University of Tübingen, supervisor Prof. Schmidt-Koenig.
1984 - 1990	Study of biology at the University of Tübingen, Diploma. Diploma thesis: "Zur Nahrungsökologie des Weißstorchs (C. ciconia) in Oberschwaben", University of Tübingen, supervisor Prof. Schmidt-Koenig.

Professional services for funding agencies and scientific societies

Fachkollegium of the DFG, "Zoologie", "Ökologie der Tiere und Ökosystemforschung" (2008 - 2012).
Permanent guest in "Senatskommission für Biodiversitätsforschung" of the DFG (2008 - 2014).
PI of the collaborative research project BIOTA East, BIOLOG Program of the BMBF (2004).
Chairperson of the special interest group "Macroecology" of the "Gesellschaft für Ökologie" (since 2006).
Chairperson of the "Fachgruppe Ökologie" of the "Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft" (2003 - 2007).
Member of the steering committee of "Forschungszentrum Erdsystemwissenschaften", Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz (2008 - 2010).
Member of the "International Ornithological Committee (IOC)" (since 1998) and of the "Beirat der Deutschen Ornithologen-Gesellschaft" (1999 - 2004).
Member of the Editorial Boards of Global Ecology and Biogeography (since 2007), Oecologia (1999 - 2008), Basic and Applied Ecology (2007 - 2008), Ecotropica (since 1995), Journal of Ornithology (since 2004), and Avian Science (2001 - 2003).
Ad-hoc referee for Science, PNAS, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Current Biology, The American Naturalist, Ecology Letters, Ecology, Oecologia, Proceedings of the Royal Society London B, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Global Change Biology, Ecological Applications, Journal of Applied Ecology, Conservation Biology, Biodiversity and Conservation, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Ecography, Diversity and Distributions, Journal of Biogeography, Basic and Applied Ecology, Acta Oecologica, Écoscience, Journal of Tropical Ecology, Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment, Ecotropica, International Journal of Plant Sciences, Flora, Insectes Sociaux, Archiv für Hydrobiologie, Journal of Avian Biology, Journal of Ornithology, Condor, Avian Science, and Ardeola.
Member of the evaluation committee of the Museum Koenig, Bonn (2006).
Reviewer for the "Landes-Offensive zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-ökonomischer Exzellenz (LOEWE) des Landes Hessen".
Reviewer for Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, National Science Foundation (NSF, USA), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC, Great Britain), Finnish Academy of Sciences, German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.
Selection committee of the "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes".

Forschungsschwerpunkte

Macroecology, community ecology and conservation biology

Influence of global climate and human land-use change on animal populations and communities in the tropics and in the temperate region
Relationship between the diversity of animal communities and ecosystem functioning
Macroecology and evolution of bird communities and of bird migration

Publikationen

Publications and book chapters with peer-review
2010

Schleuning, M., N. Blüthgen, M. Flörchinger, J. Braun, H. M. Schaefer, and K. Böhning-Gaese (2010): Specialization and interaction strength in a tropical plant-frugivore network differ by forest stratum. Ecology (in press).
Grünewald, C., N. Breitbach, and K. Böhning-Gaese (2010): Tree visitation and seed dispersal of wild cherries by terrestrial mammals along a human land-use gradient. Basic and Applied Ecology (in press).
Flörchinger, M., J. Braun, K. Böhning-Gaese, and H. M. Schaefer (2010): Fruit size, crop mass and plant height explain differential fruit choice of primates and birds. Oecologia (in press).
Kissling, W. D., R. Field, H. Korntheuer, U. Heyder, and K. Böhning-Gaese (2010): Woody plants and the prediction of climate-change impacts on bird diversity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 365: 2035-2045.
Griebeler, E. M., T. Caprano, and K. Böhning-Gaese (2010): Evolution of avian clutch size along latitudinal gradients: do seasonality, nest predation or breeding season length matter? Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23: 888-901.
Breitbach, N., I. Laube, I. Steffan-Dewenter, and K. Böhning-Gaese (2010): Bird diversity and seed dispersal along a human land-use gradient: high seed removal in structurally simple farmland. Oecologia 162: 965-976.

2009

Farwig, N., N. Sajita, and K. Böhning-Gaese (2009): Corrigendum to “Conservation value of forest plantations for bird communities in western Kenya” [Forest Ecol. Manag. 255 (2008): 3885-3892] Forest Ecology and Management 258: 1731-1734.
Bini, L. M., J. A. F. Diniz-Filho, T. F. L. V. B. Rangel, T. S. B. Akre, R. G. Albaladejo, F. S. Albuquerque, A. Aparicio, M. B. Araújo, A. Baselga, J. Beck, M. I. Bellocq, K. Böhning-Gaese, P. A. V. Borges, I. Castro-Parga, V. K. Chey, S. L. Chown, P. de Marco, Jr., D. S. Dobkin, D. Ferrer-Castán, R. Field, J. Filloy, E. Fleishman, J. F. Gómez, J. Hortal, J. B. Iverson, J. T. Kerr, W. D. Kissling, I. J. Kitching, J. L. León-Cortés, J. M. Lobo, D. Montoya, I. Morales-Castilla, J. C. Moreno, T. Oberdorff, M. Á. Olalla-Tárraga, J. G. Pausas, H. Qian, C. Rahbek, M. Á. Rodríguez, M. Rueda, A. Ruggiero, P. Sackmann, N. J. Sanders, L. C. Terribile, O. R. Vetaas, and B. A. Hawkins (2009): Coefficient shifts in geographical ecology: an empirical evaluation of spatial and non-spatial regression. Ecography 32: 193-204.
Dawideit, B., A. B. Phillimore, I. Laube, B. Leisler, and K. Böhning-Gaese (2009): Eco-morphological predictors of dispersal distances in birds. Journal of Animal Ecology 78: 388-395.
Kissling, W. D., K. Böhning-Gaese, and W. Jetz (2009): The global distribution of frugivory in birds. Global Ecology and Biogeography 18: 150-162.
Farwig, N., N. Sajita, and K. Böhning-Gaese (2009): High seedling recruitment of indigenous tree species in forest plantations of Kakamega Forest, western Kenya. Forest Ecology and Management 257: 143-150.
Voigt, F. A., R. Arafeh, N. Farwig, E. M. Griebeler, and K. Böhning-Gaese (2009): Linking seed dispersal and genetic structure of trees: a biogeographical approach. Journal of Biogeography 36: 242-254.

2008

Jung, F., K. Böhning-Gaese, and A. Prinzing (2008): Life history variation across a riverine landscape: intermediate levels of disturbance favor sexual reproduction in the ant-dispersed herb Ranunculus ficaria. Ecography 31: 776-786.
Jetz, W., C. H. Sekercioglu, and K. Böhning-Gaese (2008): The worldwide variation in avian clutch size across species and space. PLOS Biology e303, doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303.
Kirika, J. M., B. Bleher, K. Böhning-Gaese, R. M. Chira, and N. Farwig (2008): Fragmentation and local disturbance of forests reduce frugivore diversity and fruit removal in Ficus thonningii. Basic and Applied Ecology 9: 663-672.
Farwig, N., N. Sajita, and K. Böhning-Gaese (2008): Conservation value of forest plantations for bird communities in western Kenya. Forest Ecology and Management 255: 3885-3892.
Farwig, N., N. Sajita, G. Schaab, and K. Böhning-Gaese (2008): Human impact diminishes seedling species richness in Kakamega Forest, Kenya. Basic and Applied Ecology 9: 383-391.
Kissling, W. D., R. Field, and K. Böhning-Gaese (2008): Spatial patterns of woody plant and bird diversity: functional relationships or environmental effects? Global Ecology and Biogeography 17: 327-339.
Kirika, J. M., N. Farwig, and K. Böhning-Gaese (2008): Effects of local disturbance of tropical forests on frugivores and seed removal of a small-seeded Afrotropical tree. Conservation Biology 22: 318-328.
Laube, I., N. Breitbach, and K. Böhning-Gaese (2008): Avian diversity in a Kenyan agroecosystem: effects of habitat structure and proximity to forest. Journal of Ornithology 149: 181-191.
Farwig, N., B. Bleher, S. v. d. Gönna, and K. Böhning-Gaese (2008): Does forest fragmentation and selective logging affect seed predators and seed predation rates of Prunus africana (Rosaceae)? Biotropica 40: 218-224.
Farwig, N., C. Braun, and K. Böhning-Gaese (2008): Human disturbance reduces genetic diversity of an endangered tropical tree, Prunus africana (Rosaceae). Conservation Genetics 9: 317-326.
Prinzing A., J. Dauber, E. Hammer, N. Hammouti, and K. Böhning-Gaese (2008): Does an ant-dispersed plant, Viola reichenbachiana, suffer from reduced seed dispersal under inundation disturbances? Basic and Applied Ecology 9: 108-116.
Berens, D. G., N. Farwig, G. Schaab, and K. Böhning-Gaese (2008): Exotic guavas are foci of forest regeneration in Kenyan farmland. Biotropica 40: 104-112.
Schaefer, H.-Ch., W. Jetz, and K. Böhning-Gaese (2008): Impact of climate change on migratory birds: community reassembly versus adaptation of species. Global Ecology and Biogeography 17: 38-49.
Kühn, I., K. Böhning-Gaese, W. Cramer, and S. Klotz (2008): Macroecology meets global change research. Global Ecology and Biogeography 17: 3-4.

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