Michael Staab
Ecology and biodiversity
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
Germany
Biography
Michael Staab studied biology and tropical ecology at the University of Würzburg from 2005 to 2010. Afterwards, he moved to the University of Lüneburg, where he received his PhD in ecology in 2014. Since this, he is a postdoc and lecturer (equivalent to assistant professor) at the University of Freiburg in the working group Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology. In his teaching, he covers courses on different aspects of ecology, conservation biology, and ornithology. During his research, he has been conducting research on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (http://www.bef-china.de/index.html) php / en /).
Research Interest
His current research focuses on multi-trophic interaction networks, where he is involved in different ways. He is also interested in the effect of plant diversity on species and interactions in higher trophic levels and his research. , Which is also the focal point of his work on interaction networks. More recently, he became interested in the various components of biodiversity. Thus, he wants in his FRIAS project investigates the influence of plant phylogenetic diversity on other organisms.
Publications
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Staab M, Bruelheide H, Durka W, Michalski S, Purschke O, Zhu CD, Klein AM (2016) Tree phylogenetic diversity promotes host-parasitoid interactions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 283: 20160275.
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Staab M, Fornoff F, Klein AM, Blomthgen N (2017) Ants at plant wounds - A little-known trophic interaction with evolutionary implications for ant-plant interactions. American Naturalist. online first. doi: 10.1086 / 692735.
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A, Fornoff F, Bruelheide H, Klein, Staab M (2017) Tree species richness attenuates the positive relationship between mutualistic ant-hemipteran interactions and leaf chewer herbivory. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. accepted.
