Katrin Böhning-Gaese

Katrin Böhning-Gaese was born on 22 December 1964 in Oberkochen, Germany. She initially studied biology as an undergraduate at the University of Tübingen. She gained her PhD in 1993 from the same University on following research into of white stork food ecology in Upper Swabia and causes of long-term stock development in European and North American songbirds.[1] She held the title of Professor of ecology at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in 2001.[3]

Her main research interests include the influence of global climate change and human land use change on animal populations in tropical and temperate areas of the world and evolution of bird communities and bird migration.[2] In addition to research work she also teaches students in the MSc Ecology and Evolution and BSc Biology courses at Goethe University Frankfurt since 2010.[2]

Since November 2017 she has been the Vice-President of the Leibniz Association.[4] She is also a member of the governing board of the Senckenberg Nature Museum.[5]

• Claudia Grünewald, Nils Breitbach, Katrin Böhning-Gaese: Tree visitation and seed dispersal of wild cherries by terrestrial mammals along a human land-use gradient . In: Basic and Applied Ecology , Vol. 11 (2010), No. 6, pp. 532–541.
• Nils Breitbach, Irina Laube, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter and Katrin Böhning-Gaese: Bird diversity and seed dispersal along a human land-use gradient. High seed removal in structurally simple farmland . In: Oecologia, Vol. 162 (2010), No. 4, pp. 965–976.
• Katrin Böhning-Gaese: Coefficient shifts in geographical ecology. An empirical evaluation of spatial and non-spatial regression . In: Ecography, vol. 32 (2009), pp. 193–204.
• Hans-Christian Schaefer, Walter Jetz, Karin Böhning-Gaese: Impact of climate change on migratory birds. Community reassembly versus adaptation of species . In: Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 17 (2008), pp. 38–49.