Melanie Forker
© Roloff
M.Sc.
NameMelanie Forker
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Chair of Forest Botany
Chair of Forest Botany
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TUD Dresden University of Technology Fachrichtung Forstwissenschaften Forstbotanik PO Box 1117
01735 Tharandt
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TUD Dresden University of Technology Professur für Forstbotanik Pienner Straße 7
01737 Dresden
| since 2013 | Research fellow at the Testing and Development Project (E+E) to augment and connect montane grasslands in an agricultural landscape (Eastern Ore Mountains) funded by the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) |
| since 2012 | PhD Candidate, Working-title of proposed study: Vegetation Ecology, conservation status and regeneration potential of seasonally dry tropical forests: The Caatinga in Sergipe, Brazil |
| 2012-2013 | Administrative Assistant in the sub-project “Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services” of the BMBF Research Project “Innovate: Interplay between the multiple uses of water reservoirs via innovative coupling of substance cycles in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems”. (Sustainable Land Management funding measure). HTW Dresden and TU Berlin |
| 2011 | Degree obtained: M.Sc. Tropical Forestry and Management, TU Dresden Degree obtained: Accompanying Social-Studies Latin-America (BELA TU Dresden) |
| Title of master thesis: “Forest structure and species diversity in highly fragmented landscapes. A case study from Northern Brazil.” | |
| 2010 | Research stay in Brazil at UFPA, Bragança/Pará, field research for masterthesis |
| 2007 | Degree obtained: Diplom-Landschaftsökologin, Carl-von-Ossietzky-Universität Oldenburg |
| Title of diploma thesis: „Auswirkungen von landwirtschaftlicher Nutzung und Pflegemaßnahmen auf die Grünlandvegetation am Geisingberg (Osterzgebirge). Erfolgskontrolle 1996-2006.“ |
PhD-project: Vegetation studies and biomass determination in a natural monument area of the Caatinga dry forest in Sergipe, Brazil
Employment: Vegetation Science in a research project on practical measures to augment, restore and connect valuable but formerly intensified grasslands on (sub-)montane sites
Main research interests: plant biodiversity, plant species knowledge (Central Europe, Tropics), phytosociology, succession: spatial and temporal changes in species composition, environmental monitoring, SAC-Monitoring, site modeling
Forker, M., Bittrich, V., Roloff, A. (2016): From identification to floristic comparison of Caatinga-forests. Poster at Annual Meeting of the Society for Tropical Ecology, Göttingen, Germany, 23-26 February 2016
Forker, M., Tafarte, P., Bittrich, V., Ribeiro, A., Roloff, A. (2016): Hyperdominance in a seasonally dry tropical forest: The Genus Poincianella in the Caatinga-forests of Brazil. Poster at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC), Montpellier, France, 19-23 June 2016 (accepted)
Forker, M. & P. Tafarte (2015): Floristic comparison of different successional stages of Caatinga-Forests in Sergipe, Brazil. Oral presentation at: Annual Meeting of the Society for Tropical Ecology, Zürich, Switzerland, 7–10 April 2015
Forker, M. (2014): Schutz und Nutzung im brasilianischen Trockenwald. Literaturrecherche und Vegetationserhebungen zu den forstlichen Ressourcen der Caatinga. In: Marcus Hawel & Herausgeber_innenkollektiv (Hrsg.) WORK IN PROGRESS. WORK ON PROGRESS. Beiträge kritischer Wissenschaft. Doktorand_innen-Jahrbuch 2014 der Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung. VSA. Hamburg 2014, S. 187 – 202
Forker, M., Schmidt, C. & P. Borges (2013): Biomass equations for caatinga trees compiled from case studies in regenerating areas and natural vegetation in North-East Brazil. Poster presented at 43rd Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. September 9-13, 2013 in Potsdam, Germany
Forker, M. (2013): The current conservation state of Caatinga forests. A Brazilian Literature review. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Tropical Ecology (Gesellschaft für Tropenökologie e.V. – gtö), April 2-5, 2013, University of Vienna, Austria
Forker, M. (2011): Point pattern analysis of highly fragmented forest stands in Northern Brazil, Vortrag in Sektion D3-Analysis of spatial and temporal patterns of forest ecosystems, GfÖ Jahrestagung, Universität Oldenburg, 05.-09.09.2011
Website: www.dasnatlab.de/
ResearchGate: www.researchgate.net/profile/Melanie-Forker