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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: 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

Ausgewählte Publikationen

Seibold, S., Richter, T., Geres, L., Seidl, R., Martin, R., Mitesser, O., Senf, C., Griem, L., & Müller, J. (2024). Soundscapes and airborne laser scanning identify vegetation density and its interaction with elevation as main driver of bird diversity and community composition. Diversity and Distributions, e13905.

Abrego, N., Furneaux, B., Hardwick, B., Somervuo, …, S. Seibold, …, Ovaskainen, O. (2024). Airborne DNA reveals predictable spatial and seasonal dynamics of fungi. Nature 631, 835–842.

Müller, J., Hothorn, T., Yuan, Y., Seibold, S., Mitesser, O., Rothacher, J., Freund, J., Wild, C., Wolz, M., & Menzel, A. (2024). Weather explains the decline and rise of insect biomass over 34 years. Nature 628, 349–354.

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., 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., 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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