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Prof. Dr. Sebastian Seibold

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Visisting adress: Cotta-Bau, 1. floor, room 1.05 (map of Tharandt, Cotta-Bau)
Postal adress: Postfach 1117, 01735 Tharandt
Parcels: TU Dresden, Professur für Forstzoologie, Pienner Straße 7, D-01737 Tharandt

Research interests

• Ecological mechanisms driving biodiversity patterns
• Effects of land use on biodiversity in forests and grasslands
• Temporal trends of insect communities ("insect decline")
• Conservation strategies in managed forests
• Ecology and diversity of deadwood-inhabiting organisms
• Role of biodiversity for wood decomposition

Selected Publications

Seibold, S., Müller, J., Allner, S., Willner, M., Baldrian, P., Ulyshen, M. D., Brandl, R., Bässler, C., Hagge, J., & Mitesser, O. (2022). Quantifying wood decomposition by insects and fungi using computed tomography scanning and machine learning. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 16150.

Seibold, S., Rammer, W., Hothorn, T., Seidl, R., ..., & Müller, J. (2021) The contribution of insects to global forest deadwood decomposition. Nature, 597, 77-81.

Seibold, S., Gossner, M.M., Simons, N.K., Blüthgen, N., Müller, J., Ambarlı, D., Ammer, C., Bauhus, J., Fischer, M., Habel, J.C., Linsenmair, K.E., Nauss, T., Penone, C., Prati, D., Schall, P., Schulze, E.-D., Vogt, J., Wöllauer, S. & Weisser, W.W. (2019) Arthropod decline in grasslands and forests is associated with landscape-level drivers. Nature, 574, 671-674.

Seibold, S., Müller, J., Baldrian, P., Cadotte, M.W., Stursova, M., Biedermann, P., Krah, F.-S. & Bässler, C. (2019) Fungi associated with beetles dispersing from dead wood – Let’s take the beetle bus! Fungal Ecology, 39, 100–108.

Seibold, S., Cadotte, M. W., MacIvor, J. S., Thorn, S. Müller, J. The necessity of multi-trophic approaches in community ecology. (2018) Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 33, 754–764.

Seibold, S., Bässler, C., Brandl, R., Fahrig, L., Förster, B., Heurich, M., Hothorn, T., Scheipl, F., Thorn, S. & Müller, J. (2017) An experimental test of the habitat-amount hypothesis for saproxylic beetles in a forested region. Ecology, 98, 1613–1622.

Seibold, S., Bässler, C., Brandl, R., Büche, B., Szallies, A., Thorn, S., Ulyshen, M.D. & Müller, J. (2016) Microclimate and habitat heterogeneity as the major drivers of beetle diversity in dead wood. Journal of Applied Ecology, 53, 934–943.

Seibold, S., Bässler, C., Brandl, R., Gossner, M. M., Thorn, S., Ulyshen, M. D. & Müller, J. (2015) Experimental studies of dead-wood biodiversity – A review identifying global gaps in knowledge. Biological Conservation, 191, 139–149.

Seibold, S., Brandl, R., Buse, J., Hothorn, T., Schmidl, J., Thorn, S. & Müller, J. (2015) Association of extinction risk of saproxylic beetles with ecological degradation of forests in Europe. Conservation Biology, 29, 382–390.

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