Dr. rer. nat. Daniel Rieker
Position: Scientific Staff
Contact:
Tel.: +49 (0)351 463 372
Visiting adress: Cotta-Bau, 1. OG, Zi. 1.07 Campusnavigator
Postal adress: Postfach 1117, 01735 Tharandt
Parcels: TU Dresden, Professur für Forstzoologie, Pienner Straße 7, D-01737 Tharandt
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9082-3910
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniel_Rieker
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/dan-rie.bsky.social
Research interests:
- Ecology and diversity of decomposer communities
- Impact of land-use on biodiversity
- Disturbance ecology of fire
- Evidence based nature conservation for all kind of species groups
Selected publications:
Rieker, D., Runnel, K., Baldrian, P., Brabcová, V., Hoppe, B., Kellner, H., Moll, J., Tláskal, V., Bässler, C. (2024): How to best detect threatened deadwood fungi – comparing metabarcoding and fruit body surveys. Biological Conservation, DOI 10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110696
Englmeier, J., Rieker, D.§, Mitesser, O., Caryl, B., Fricke, U., Ganuza, C., Haensel, M., Kellner, H., Lorz, J., Redlich, S., Riebl, R., Rojas-Botero, S., Rummler, T., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Stengl, E., Tobisch, C., Uhler, J., Uphus, L., Zhang, J., Müller, J., Bässler, C. (2023): Diversity and specialization responses to climate and land use differ between deadwood fungi and bacteria. Ecography, DOI 10.1111/ecog.06807
Englmeier, J., von Hoermann, C., Rieker, D., Benbow, M. E., Caryl, B., Fricke, U., Ganuza, C., Haensel, M., Lackner, T., Mitesser, O., Redlich, S., Riebl, R., Rojas-Botero, S., Rummler, T., Salamon, J.-A., Sommer, D., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Tobisch, C., Uhler, J., Uphus, L., Zhang, J., Müller, J. (2022): Dung-visiting beetle diversity is mainly affected by land use, while community specialization is driven by climate. Ecology and Evolution, DOI 10.1002/ece3.9386
Rieker, D., Krah, F.-S., Gossner, M. M., Uhl, B., Ambarli, D., Baber, K., Buscot, F., Hofrichter, M., Hoppe, B., Kahl, T., Kellner, H., Moll, J., Purahong, W., Seibold, S., Weisser, W. W., Bässler, C. (2022). Disentangling the importance of space and host tree for the beta-diversity of beetles, fungi, and bacteria: Lessons from a large dead-wood experiment. Biological Conservation, DOI 10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109521
Heim R. J., Bucharova, A., Brodt, L., Kamp, J., Rieker, D., Soromotin, A. V., Yurtaev ,A., Hölzel, N (2021): Post-fire vegetation succession in the Siberian subarctic tundra over 45 years. The Science of the Total Environment, DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143425
§ Shared first author
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Since 06/2023 PostDoc, Department of Forest Zoology, Technische Universität Dresden.
07/2023 -02/2025 Department of Forest Zoology, Department for Soil ecology, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research Halle.
06/2020-11/2023 PhD at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Department of Nature Conservation Biology. Titel: „Understanding and conserving the diversity of decomposers in dead-wood with a special emphasis on fungi”.
2016-2019 MSc Landscape Ecology, University of Münster.
2012-2016 BSc Geograpy, University of Augsburg.