Kristin Bohn

Contact:

Kristin Bohn
MPI for Biogeochemistry
Postfach 10 01 64
D-07701 Jena
Germany

Email: kbohn at bgc-jena.mpg.de
Tel: +49 3641 576280

Education:

03/2008 - present: PhD Student supervised by Axel Kleidon and Björn Reinekiing (Bayreuth)

04/2007 - 12/2007: research assistent in the Biospheric Theory and Modelling Group

08/2006 - 02/2007: Diploma thesis: "Zur Rolle von Artenvielfalt und Variabilität im optimalen Verhalten von Ökosystemen"

08/2003 - 08/2004: year abroad at the UPC in Barcelona, Spain

10/2000 - 02/2007: Diploma study of Bioinformatics, Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, Germany

Research interests:

• modelling an adaptive biosphere

The distribution of species plays a crucial role in determining diversity as well as biogeochemical fluxes. While climatic factors determine whether a species can exist or not, interspecific processes determine the composition of the vegetative cover. On longer time scales migration, speciation and extinction become important processes. In order to simulate these dynamics we develop and use the JEDI model. I implement a population model to determine abundances of species populations. The next step is to implement also migration, extinction and speciation to get an diverse adaptive biosphere model that is able to react and adapt to changes e.g. of the environment.