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Dr. Swantje Löbel

Swantje Löbel

Technische Universität Braunschweig
Institute of Geoecology
Department Landscape Ecology and Environmental Systems Analysis
Langer Kamp 19c
38106 Braunschwei
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s.loebel(at)tu-braunschweig.de
Phone: +49 (0)531 391 5628

Curriculum Vitae

Since 11/2014 Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Geoecology, Department Landscape Ecology and Environmental Systems Analysis, Technische Universität Braunschweig and Swedish Species Information Centre Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

11/2017-10/2019, 12/2009-10/2014 Parental leave (three children)

Scientific education

2010 PhD in Biology with specialization in Ecological Botany, Uppsala University, Sweden, Thesis: “Metapopulation and metacommunity processes, dispersal strategies and life-history trade-offs in epiphytes” https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:228852/FULLTEXT03.pdf

2003-2009 Graduate studies, Department of Plant Ecology and Evolution, Uppsala University, Sweden

1997-2002 Studies of Environmental Sciences, Universität Lüneburg, Germany, Thesis: “Dry grasslands on Öland – Classification – Ecology – Biodiversity” http://www.biodiversity-plants.de/downloads/press_theses/thesis.diplom.007.pdf

Awards und funding

2014 Swedish research council (VR), International Postdoc (2014-2020)

2013 King Carl XVI Gustaf 50th Anniversary Fund for Science, Technology and the Environment

Publications

2021

Löbel S, Schröder B, Snäll T (2021): Projected shifts in deadwood bryophyte communities under national climate and forestry scenarios benefitting large competitors and impairing small species. Journal of Biogeography 48(12): 3170-3184, doi: 10.1111/jbi.14278

Dembicz I, Dengler J, Steinbauer MJ, Matthews TJ, Bartha S, Burrascano S, Chiarucci A, Filibeck G, Gillet F, Janišová M, Palpurina S, Storch D, Ulrich W, Aćić S, Boch S, Campos JA, Cancellieri L, Carboni M, Ciaschetti G, Conradi T, De Frenne P, Dolezal J, Dolnik C, Essl F, Fantinato E, García‐Mijangos I, Giusso del Galdo GP, Grytnes J-A, Guarino R, Güler B, Kapfer J, Klichowska E, Kozub Ł, Kuzemko A, Löbel S, Manthey M, Marcenò C, Mimet A, Naqinezhad A, Noroozi J, Nowak A, Pauli H, Peet RK, Pellissier V, Pielech R, Terzi M, Uğurlu E, Valkó O, Vasheniak I, Vassilev K, Vynokurov D, White HJ, Willner W, Winkler M, Wolfrum S, Zhang  JH, Biurrun I (2021): Fine‐grain beta diversity of Palaearctic grassland vegetation. Journal of Vegetation Science. 32(3), e13045, doi: 10.1111/jvs.13045 

Zhang J, Gillet F, Bartha S, Alatalo JM, Biurrun I, Dembicz I, Grytnes J‐A, Jaunatre R, Pielech R, Van Meerbeek K, Vynokurov D, Widmer S, Aleksanyan A, Bhatta KP, Campos JA, Czortek P, Dolezal J, Essl F, García‐Mijangos I, Guarino R, Güler B, Hájek M, Kuzemko A, Li FY, Löbel S, Moradi H, Naqinezhad A, Silva V, Šmerdová E, Sonkoly J, Stifter S, Talebi A, Török P, White H, Wu J, Dengler J (2021): Scale dependence of species–area relationships is widespread but generally weak in Palaearctic grasslands. Journal of Vegetation Science, 32(3), e13044, doi: 10.1111/jvs.13044

Biurrun I, Pielech R, Dembicz I, Gillet F, Kozub Ł, Marcenò C, Reitalu T, Van Meerbeek K, Guarino R, Chytrý M, Pakeman RJ, Preislerová, Z, Axmanová I, Burrascano S, Bartha S, Boch S, Bruun HH, Conradi T, De Frenne P, Essl F, Filibeck G, Hájek M, Jiménez-Alfaro B, Kuzemko A, Molnár Z, Pärtel M, Pätsch R, Prentice HC, Roleček J, Sutcliffe LME, Terzi M, Winkler M, Wu J, Aćić S, Acosta ATR, Afif E, Akasaka M, Alatalo JM, Aleffi M, Aleksanyan A, Ali A, Apostolova I, Ashouri P, Bátori Z, Baumann E, Becker T, Belonovskaya E,  Alonso JLB, Berastegi A, Bergamini A, Bhatta KP, Bonini I, Büchler M-O, Budzhak V, Bueno A, Buldrini F, Campos JA, Cancellieri L, Carboni M, Ceulemans T, Chiarucci A, Chocarro C, Conti L, Csergő AM, Cykowska-Marzencka B, Czarniecka-Wiera M, Czarnocka-Cieciura M, Czortek P, Danihelka J, de Bello F, Deák B, Demeter L, Deng L, Diekmann M, Dolezal J, Dolnik C, Dřevojan P, Dupré C, Ecker K,  Ejtehadi H, Erschbamer B, Etayo J, Etzold J, Farkas T, Farzam M, Fayvush G, Fernández Calzado MR, Finckh M, Fjellstad W, Fotiadis G, García-Magro D, García-Mijangos I, Gavilán RG, Germany M, Ghafari S, del Galdo GPG, Grytnes J-A, Güler B, Gutiérrez-Girón A, Helm A, Herrera M, Hüllbusch EM, Ingerpuu N, Jägerbrand AK, Jandt U, Janišová M, Jeanneret P, Jeltsch F, Jensen K, Jentsch A, Kącki Z, Kakinuma K, Kapfer J, Kargar M, Kelemen A, Kiehl K, Kirschner P, Koyama A, Langer N, Lazzaro L, Lepš J, Li C-F, Li FY, Liendo D, Lindborg R, Löbel S,  Lomba A, Lososová Z, Lustyk P, Luzuriaga AL, Ma W, Maccherini S, Magnes M, Malicki M, Manthey M, Mardari C, May F, Mayrhofer H, Meier ES, Memariani F, Merunková K, Michelsen O, Mesa JM, Moradi H, Moysiyenko I, Mugnai M, Naqinezhad A, Natcheva R, Ninot JM, Nobis M, Noroozi J, Nowak A, Onipchenko V, Palpurina S, Pauli H, Pedashenko H, Pedersen C, Peet RK, Pérez-Haase A, Peters J, Pipenbaher N, Pirini C, Pladevall-Izard E, Plesková Z, Potenza G, Rahmanian S, Rodríguez-Rojo MP, Ronkin V, Rosati L, Ruprecht E, Rusina S, Sabovljević M, Sanaei A, Sánchez AM, Santi F, Savchenko G, Sebastià MT, Shyriaieva D, Silva V, Škornik S, Šmerdová E, Sonkoly J, Sperandii MG, Staniaszek-Kik M, Stevens C, Stifter S, Suchrow S, Swacha G, Świerszcz S, Talebi A, Teleki B, Tichý L, Tölgyesi C, Torca M, Török P, Tsarevskaya N, Tsiripidis I, Turisová I, Ushimaru A, Valkó O, Van Mechelen C, Vanneste T, Vasheniak I, Vassilev K, Viciani D, Villar L, Virtanen R, Vitasović-Kosić I, Vojtkó A, Vynokurov D, Waldén E, Wang Y, Weiser F, Wen L, Wesche K, White H, Widmer S, Wolfrum S, Wróbel A, Yuan Z, Zelený D, Zhao L, Dengler J (2021): Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats. Journal of Vegetation Science, 32(4), e13050, doi: 10.1111/jvs.13050

2018

Löbel S, Mair L, Lönnell N, Schröder B, Snäll T (2018): Biological traits explain bryophyte species distributions and responses to forest fragmentation and climatic variation. Journal of Ecology 106: 1700-1713, doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12930

2017

Mair L, Harrison PJ, Jönsson M, Löbel S, Nordén J, Siitonen J, Lämås T, Lundström A, Snäll T (2017): Evaluating citizen science data for forecasting species responses to national forest management. Ecology and Evolution 7: 368-378, doi: 10.1002/ece3.2601

2012

Löbel S, Rydin H, Snäl, T (2012): Epiphytic bryophytes near forest edges and on retention trees: reduced growth and reproduction especially in old-growth forest indicators. Journal of Applied Ecology 49: 1334-1343, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2012.02201.x

2010

Löbel S, Rydin H (2010): Trade-offs and habitat constraints in the establishment of epiphytic bryophytes. Functional Ecology 24: 887-897, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2010.01705.x

2009

Löbel S (2009): Metapopulation and metacommunity processes, dispersal strategies and life-history trade-offs in epiphytes. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Digital comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology 661. 37 pp. Uppsala. https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:228852/FULLTEXT03.pdf

Löbel S, Rydin H (2009): Dispersal and life-history strategies in epiphyte metacommunities: alternative solutions to survival in patchy, dynamic landscapes. Oecologia 161: 569-579, doi: 10.1007/s00442-009-1402-1

Löbel S, Snäll T, Rydin H (2009): Mating system, reproduction mode and diaspore size affect metacommunity diversity. Journal of Ecology 97: 176-185, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2008.01459.x

Dengler J, Löbel S, Dolnik C (2009): Species constancy depends on plot size – a problem for vegetation classification and how it can be solved. Journal of Vegetation Science 20: 754-766, doi: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2009.01073.x

2008

Löbel S, Dengler J (2008): Dry grassland communities on southern Öland: phytosociology, ecology, and diversity. Acta Phytogeographica Suecica 88: 13-32.

2007

Sparks TH, Löbel S (2007): Early successional changes in an English wilderness woodland site. Aspects of Applied Biology 82: 77-81.

2006

Löbel S, Snäll T, Rydin H (2006a): Metapopulation processes in epiphytes inferred from patterns of regional distribution and local abundance in fragmented forest landscapes. Journal of Ecology 94: 856-868, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2006.01114.x

Löbel S, Snäll T, Rydin H (2006b): Species richness patterns and metapopulation processes – evidence from epiphyte communities in boreo-nemoral forests. Ecography 29: 169-182, doi: 10.1111/j.2006.0906-7590.04348.x

Löbel S, Dengler J, Hobohm C (2006): Species richness of vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens in dry grasslands: The effects of environment, landscape structure and competition. Folia Geobotanica 41: 377-393, doi: 10.1007/BF02806555

Dengler J, Löbel S (2006): The basiphilous dry grasslands of shallow, skeletal soils (Alysso-Sedetalia) on the island of Öland (Sweden), in the context of North and Central Europe. Phytocoenologia 36: 343-391.

Dengler J, Löbel S, Boch S (2006): Dry grassland communities of shallow, skeletal soils (Sedo-Scleranthenea) in northern Europe. Tuexenia 26: 159-190.

 

Research interests
  • Modelling distributions and dynamics of (meta)populations and (meta)communities

  • Understanding why environmental responses differ across species, and how differences are mediated by species’ traits

  • Interrelations between patch dynamics and metapopulation and metacommunity dynamics

  • Responses of species to scenarios of land-use or climate change

  • Usefulness of citizen science data for predicting species distributions and for projecting species occurrence into the future

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