Britta Tietjen
Biodiversity
Free University of Berlin
Germany
Biography
Education and Qualifications May 2005 - January 2009: PhD student at Potsdam University (Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation) supervised by Prof. Dr. Jeltsch: Drylands under climate change - a novel ecohydrological modelling approach September 2007: ALTER-Net training course “An introduction to ecological-economic modelling for designing and evaluating biodiversity conservation policies and strategies” November 2006: Postgraduate Course Consumer-Resource-Interactions: Adaptive foraging, adaptive defences and ecosystem engineering (Driebergen, The Netherlands) September 2005: AVEC Summerschool: Integrated Assessment of Vulnerable Ecosystems under Global Change Summerschool (Peyresq, France) 2004 - 2005: diploma thesis at the Environmental Research Centre (Department of Ecological Modelling), supervised by Dr. habil. Huth: Aggregated modelling of disturbed and undisturbed rainforest dynamics 2000 - 2005: student of Applied System Science at the University of Osnabrück 1997 - 2000: student of Mathematics, Geography and Biology at the Georg-August-University in Göttingen 1997: Abitur in Buchholz
Research Interest
Research Interests Impacts of diversity on various levels (from traits to ecosystems) Interactions between water and vegetation in drylands, ecohydrological modelling Impacts of climate change, CO2 and land-use on savanna ecosystems Ecosystem services, ecosystem functioning
Publications
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Tietjen B, Schlaepfer DR, Bradford JB, Lauenroth WK, Hall SA, Duniway MC, Hochstrasser T, Gensuo J, Munson SM, Pyke DA, Wilson SD (accepted) Climate change-induced vegetation shifts lead to more ecological droughts despite projected rainfall increases in many global temperate drylands. Global Change Biology
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Shadi Khudr M, Buzhdygan OY, Petermann JS, Wurst S (2017) Fear of predation alters clone- specific performance in phloem- feeding prey. Scientific Reports, 1–10. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-07723-6
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Fer I, Tietjen B, Jeltsch F, Wolff C (2017) The influence of El Niño–Southern Oscillation regimes on eastern African vegetation and its future implications under the RCP8.5 warming scenario. Biogeosciences, 14, 4355–4374.
