Karin Nadrowski
Postdoc
phone (0049) 3641 - 57-6212
fax (0049) 3641 - 57-7200
email knadrowski (at) bgc-jena.mpg.de
room: C1.008
Project -- Interests -- Publication -- Teaching -- Work experience -- Education
Project
Integrated data management and synthesis for the BEF-China project: The role of tree and shrub diversity for production, erosion control, element cycling and species conservation in Chinese subtropical forest ecosystems.
Interests
ecosystems ecology, ecosystem services, knowledge capture, data mining, Bayesian-statistics, transdisciplinary knowlegde integration
Publications
Nadrowski, K., Eccard, J. (in review). Space use of adult and juvenile Mongolian pikas: implications for life history strategy. Journal of Mammalogy.
Nadrowski, K., Hotes, S., Wolters, V. (2008) Biolog-Wissen: Knowledge interface for Biodiversity. Workshop Ecosystem Services. Solution for problems or a problem that needs solution?, Salzau.
Baumeister, J., Reutelshoefer, J., Haupt, F., Nadrowski, K. (2008) Capture and Refactoring in Knowledge Wikis. Coping with the Knowledge Soup. Proceedings of 2nd Workshop on Scientific Communities of Practice (SCOOP), Bremen.
Nadrowski, K., Baumeister, J., Wolters, V. (2008) LaDy: Knowledge Wiki zur kollaborativen und wissensbasierten Entscheidungshilfe zu Umweltveränderung und Biodiversität. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt, 60: 171 – 176.
Nadrowski, K., Miehe, G. (2007) Surviving a drought: population dynamics of Ochotona pallasi pricei in a dry steppe, Gobi Altai. Mongolia. Exploration into the Biological Resources of Mongolia, 10: 459-471.
Wesche, K., Nadrowski, K., Retzer, V. (2007) Habitat engineering under dry conditions: The impact of pikas (Ochotona pallasi) on vegetation and site conditions in southern Mongolian steppes. Journal of Vegetation Science,18: 665-674.
Nadrowski, K. (2006) Life history and ecosystem impact of a dominant small mammal herbivore in a mountain steppe. Phd thesis. Philipps University, Marburg. http://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/diss/z2006/0142
Retzer, V., Nadrowski, K., Miehe, G. (2006) Variation of precipitation and its effect on phytomass production and consumption by livestock and large wild herbivores along an altitudinal gradient during a drought, South Gobi, Mongolia. Journal Of Arid Environments 66: 135-150.
Teaching
2009: One week workshop: Statistics with R for the BEF-China project in Halle.
2008/2009: Tutorial introduction to maths and statistics, with Gottfried Jetschke. Here are the course scripts (in German): BioMatheStatistik
Work experience
2007-2008: Establishing the Knowledge Wiki (current version available under "Wiki home") of the BIOLOG-Europe Project, integrating knowlegde on ecosystem services provided by biodiversity in cultivated Europaen landscapes.
2000-2003: Member of a research team establishing and managing the "Gobi-Gurvan-Saikhan Grazing Research"-Project on the impact of grazing on mountain steppe, Mongolia, South Gobi Altai.
Education
2000-2006: Phd on 'Life history strategy and ecosystem impact of a small mammal herbivore in a mountain steppe', Faculty of Geography, Philipps University, Marburg.
1999: Diploma thesis on 'A Source-Sink System with Directed Resource Flow. Pattern of Vegetation in a Semi Arid Shrubland', Institute of Ecology, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena.