Dr. Ronny Peters

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Dr. Ronny Peters

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Chair of Forest Biometrics and Systems Analysis

Chair of Forest Biometrics and Systems Analysis

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Hauptgebäude (Altbau), 1. Floor, Room 20 Pienner Straße 8

01737 Tharandt

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Ronny is the father of Bettina. Check out the Bettina model in our model gallery

Projects

• Since 2022: MASCOT - Mangrove-Saltmarsh ecotone patterns as indicators for critical impacts of sea level rise and climate change on coastal wetlands
  Have a look at the MASCOT project on our website on research projects

• 2018-2021: MARZIPAN - Adopting mangrove vegetation zonation patterns to gain information on subsurface aquifer structures and advance below-ground plant competition concepts in individual-based modelling (German Research Foundation - DFG
  Have a look at the MARZIPAN project on our website on research projects
• Coastal Research Network On Environmental Change (CREC) (EO FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IRSES, N°247514.)
• 2008-2010: Modellbasierte Klassifikation des Wasserhaushalts von Waldstandorten - Überprüfung von Unsicherheiten, Skalierung und Klassifizierung von Bewertungsgrößen (DFG 01/2009 – 12/2010)
• 2003-2006: Using Artificial Neural Networks as a Basis for Decision-Making in Operational and Planning Water Management Measures (BMBF) (link to project description)
• 2002: Erforschung der Stoffumsatzprozesse und Modelluntersuchungen zur Gewässergüte in den Talsperren Bautzen und Quitzdorf (BMBF)

Abridged CV

• since 2011 Research assistant at the Institute of Forest Growth and Forest Computer Sciences in Tharandt
• 2010 – 2011 freelancing Hydrologist
• 2008 – 2010 Project assistant at the Institute of Soil Science and Site Ecology in Tharandt
• 2007 PhD. at the Institute of Hydrology and Meteorology in Dresden
• 2007 – 2008  employee of Dr. Dittrich & Partner HydroConsult GmbH in Bannewitz
• 2003 – 2007 Project assistant at the Institute of Hydrology and Meteorology in Dresden
• 2002 Project assistant at the Institute of Hydrobiology in Dresden
• 2000 – 2001 scholarship, stay at the IMTA (Instituto Mexicano de Tecnologia del Agua) in Cuernavaca/Mexico
• 2000 Diploma in Hydrology at the Institute of Hydrology and Meteorology in Dresden

Field studies

• UFPA Bragança, Para, Brazil (www.ufpa.br), 2014, Studies about influence of hydrologigal flow regimes on salinity and mangrove growth
• INECOL Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico (www.inecol.edu.mx), 2012, Studies about salinity influence on mangrove growth / degradation

Lectures & Courses

• Modelling (Master Tropical Forestry)
• Technologische Grundlagen, Mathematik (Master Holztechnologie und Holzwirtschaft)

Publications

Peer-reviewed paper

• Krauss, K. W., Lovelock, C. E., Chen, L., Berger, U., Ball, M. C., Reef, R., Peters, R., Bowen, H., Vovides, A. G., Ward, E. J., Wimmler, M.-C., Carr, J., Bunting, P., & Duberstein, J. A. (2022). Mangroves provide blue carbon ecological value at a low freshwater cost. Scientific Reports 2022 12:1, 12(1), 1–12.

• Pimple, U., Leadprathom, K., Simonetti, D., Sitthi, A., Peters, R., Pungkul, S., Pravinvongvuthi, T., Dessard, H., Berger, U., Siri-on, K., Kemacheevakul, P., Gond, V. (2022). Assessing mangrove species diversity, intertidal zonation and functional indicators in response to natural, regenerated, and rehabilitated succession. Journal of Environmental Management 318: 115507.

• Wimmler, M.-C., Vovides, A.G., Peters, R., Walther, M., Nadezhdina, N., Berger, U. (2022) Root grafts matter for inter-tree water exchange – a quantification of water translocation between root grafted mangrove trees using field data and model based indication. Annals of Botany: mcac074.

• Wimmler, M.-C., Bathmann, J., Peters, R., Jiang, J., Walther, M., Lovelock, C. E., Berger, U. (2021): Plant-soil feedbacks in mangrove ecosystems: establishing links between empirical and modelling studies. Trees 35, 1423-1438.

• Bathmann, J., Peters, R., Reef, R., Berger, U., Walther, M., Lovelock, C. E. (2021): Modelling mangrove forest structure and species composition over tidal inundation gradients: The feedback between plant water use and porewater salinity in an arid mangrove ecosystem. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 308–309: 108547.

• Peters, R., Walther, M., Lovelock, C., Jiang, J., Berger, U. (2020). The interplay between vegetation and water in mangroves: new perspectives for mangrove stand modelling and ecological research. Wetlands Ecology and Management.

• Peters, R., Lovelock, C., López-Portillo, J., Bathmann, J., Wimmler, M.-C., Jiang, J., Walther, M., Berger, U. (2020). Partial canopy loss of mangrove trees: Mitigating water scarcity by physical adaptation and feedback on porewater salinity. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science: 106797.

• Bathmann, J., Peters, R., Naumov, D., Fischer, T., Berger, U., & Walther, M. (2020). The MANgrove – GroundwAter feedback model ( MANGA ) – Describing belowground competition based on first principles. Ecological Modelling, 420, 108973.
• Peters, R., Olagoke, A., & Berger, U. (2018). A new mechanistic theory of self-thinning: Adaptive behaviour of plants explains the shape and slope of self-thinning trajectories. Ecological Modelling 390, 1–9.
• Dkhili, J., Berger, U., Hassani, L.M.I., Ghaout, S., Peters, R., Piou, C. (2017). Self-organized spatial structures of locust groups emerging from local interaction. Ecological Modelling 361, 26-40.
• Peters, R., Lin, Y. & Berger, U. (2016) Machine learning meets individual-based modelling: self-organising feature maps for the analysis of below-ground competition among plants. Ecological Modelling 326: 142–151.
• Peters, R., Vovides, A.G., Luna, S., Grüters, U., Berger, U. (2014) Changes in allometric relations of mangrove trees due to resource availability –– A new mechanistic modelling approach, Ecological Modelling 283: 53-61, ISSN 0304-3800
• Vovides AG, Vogt J, Kollert K, Berger U, Grueters U, Peters R, Lara-Domí­nguez AL, López-Portillo JA (2014) Morphological plasticity in mangrove trees: salinity-related changes in the allometry of Avicennia germinans. Trees 28: 1413-1425.
• Grueters, U., Seltmann, T., Schmidt, H., Horn, H., Pranchai, A., Vovides, A.G., Peters, R., Vogt, J., Dahdouh-Guebas, F., Berger, U. (2014) The mangrove forest dynamics model mesoFON. Ecological Modelling 291: 28–41.
• Edom, F., Münch, A., Dittrich, I., Keßler, K. & Peters, R., 2010, Water balance modelling within the hydromorphological analysis of ombro- and mesotrophic peatlands. Advances in Geosciences 27 (2010) 131-137.
• Peters, R., Schmitz, G., Cullmann, J., 2006, Flood routing modelling with Artificial Neural Networks, Advances in Geosciences, 9, pp. 131-136.
• Cullmann, J., Peters, R., Mishra , V., 2006, Flow Analysis with WaSiM-ETH – Model parameter sensitivity at different scales, Advances in Geosciences, 9, pp. 73-77.

Conference papers and other

• Petzoldt, T., Peters, R. ,Wetzel, M., Siemens, K., 2004, Ableitung von Standgewässer-Gütemodulen für ein Flussgebietsmodell: Ein prototypischer Ansatz am Beispiel der Talsperren Bautzen und Quitzdorf. In: Bronstert, A. (u.A., Hrsg.) Wasser und Stofftransport in heterogenen Einzugsgebieten. Beiträge zum Tag der Hydrologie 2002, 22./23. März in Potsdam, 255-263.
• Petzoldt, T., Peters, R., Siemens, K., Wetzel, M., 2003, Ableitung vereinfachter Wassergütemodule für Talsperren mit Hilfe von Monte-Carlo-Simulationen und Neuronalen Netzen. Tagungsbericht 2003 (Köln), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Limnologie (DGL), Weißensee Verlag, Berlin, pp. 656-661.
• Petzoldt, T.; Peters, R., Siemens, K. (2003), Construction of simplified lake water quality modules (SWQM) using Monte Carlo simulation and artificial neural networks. In: Gnauck, R. (ed.), The Information Society ans Enlargement of the European Union. 17th International Conference Informatics for Environmental Protection, 2003, 365-372.
• Peters, R., Siemens, K., Petzoldt, T., 2003, Neuronale Netze als Hilfsmittel zur Prognose der Gewässergüte in Talsperren bei veränderter Bewirtschaftung. Tagungsbericht 2002 (Braunschweig), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Limnologie (DGL), Eigenverlag der DGL, Werder, Bd. 2, pp. 652-657.

Other

• Peters, R., Schwärzel, K., Clausnitzer, F., Bernhofer, C., Feger, K.H. (2011). Einfluss von Relief, Boden und Bestockung auf den Standortswasserhaushalt. Waldökologie, Landschaftsforschung und Naturschutz, 12/2011
• Schwärzel, K., Peters, R., Petzold, R., Häntzschel, J, Menzer, A., Clausnitzer, F., Spank, U., Köstner, B., Bernhofer, C., Feger, K.H., (2011). Räumlich-differenzierte Berechnung und Bewertung des Standortswasserhaushaltes von Wäldern des Mittelgebirges. Waldökologie, Landschaftsforschung und Naturschutz, 12/2011
• Peters, R., Schwärzel, K., Feger, K.H. (2011). Fuzzy-Inference-Systeme zur Regionalisierung des Standortswasserhaushaltes von Wäldern. Waldökologie, Landschaftsforschung und Naturschutz, 12/2011
• Frank Edom, Ingo Dittrich, Karin Keßler, Albrecht Münch, Peters, R., Martin Theuerkauf, Dirk Wendel, 2011, Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf wasserabhängige Ökosysteme – Teilprojekt Erzgebirgsmoore, Klimatische Stabilität von Mittelgebirgsmooren, Schriftenreihe, LfULG, Heft 1/2011
• Peters, R. 2008, Künstliche neuronale Netze zur Beschreibung der hydrodynamischen Prozesse für den Hochwasserfall unter Berücksichtigung der Niederschlags-Abfluss-Prozesse im Zwischeneinzugsgebiet, Dresdner Schriften zur Hydrologie, Band 7, TU Dresden, Inst. F. Hydrologie und Meteorologie, 126 Seiten, ISBN 978-3-86780-076-1
• Peters, R.; Dittrich, I.; Münch, A.; Winkler, U., 2008, Einfluss einer Klimaänderung: Speicherfüllung des Talsperrensystems Klingenberg-Lehnmühle in Sachsen, Korrespondenz Wasserwirtschaft, Heft 7, S. 361 ff.