Erfolgreiche Disserta­tionsverteidi­gung Betelhem Mekonnen

Wir gratulieren unserer PhD-Studentin Betelhem Mekonnen (angesiedelt an der Professur für Bodenbiogeochemie von Prof. Dr. Bruno Glaser an der MLU Halle-Wittenberg) herzlich zu ihrer erfolgreichen Dissertationsverteidigung am 20. November 2023!

Sie hat ihre hervorragende Dissertation mit dem Titel "Past and current distribution of heather (Erica sp.) on the Sanetti Plateau, Bale Mountains, Ethiopia" im Rahmen der DFG-Forschergruppe "The Mountain Exile Hypothesis: How humans benefited from and re-shaped African high altitude ecosystems during Quarternary climatic changes" mit vier Publikationen als Erstautorin angefertigt:

Mekonnen, B., Bittner, L., Bromm, T., Lemma, B., Glaser, B., Zech, W., Nemomissa, S., Bekele, T. and Zech, M., 2023. Terrestrial versus aquatic source identification of sedimentary n-alkane and sugar biomarkers: a case study from the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia. Journal of Paleolimnology, 70, 347-360.

Mekonnen, B., Glaser, B., Zech, M., Bromm, T., Nemomissa, S., Bekele, T. and Zech, W., 2023. Factors determining the distribution of Erica patches on the Sanetti Plateau, Bale Mountains, Ethiopia. Alpine Botany 133, 135-147.

Mekonnen, B., Glaser, B., Zech, R., Zech, M., Schlütz, F., Bussert, R., Addis, A., Gil-Romera, G., Nemomissa, S., Bekele, T., Bittner, L., Solomon, D., Manhart, A. and Zech, W., 2022. Climate, vegetation and fire history during the past 18,000 years, recorded in high altitude lacustrine sediments of the Sanetti Plateau, Bale Mountains (Ethiopia). Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 9:14, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-022-004.

Mekonnen, B., Zech, W., Glaser, B., Lemma, B., Bromm, T., Nemomissa, S., Bekele, T. and Zech M., 2019. Chemotaxonomic patterns of vegetation and soils along altitudinal transects of the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia, and implication for paleovegetation reconstructions – Part 1: stable isotopes and sugar biomarkers. E&G Quaternary Science Journal 68, 177-188.