Dr. Amrei Binzer

Due to anthropogenic and natural causes the species composition in the earth's ecosystems is shifting at an increasing rate.
I am interested in complex species interactions and communities facing change. This change can be alterations in species composition, for example after extinctions or invasions, or changing environmental conditions such as warming. Using dynamic computer simulation I aim to develop risk scenarios and simple prediction-models that can help conservation efforts to protect ecological communities and maintain their functioning. I want to understand the dynamics and function of complex species compositions.




Publications

Tylianakis, J.M. & Binzer, A. (2013): Effects of global environmental changes on parasitoid-host food webs and biological control. Biological Control (accepted)

Gornish, E.S., Hamilton, J.A., Barberan, A., Benito, B.M., Binzer, A., DeMeester, J.E., Gruwez, R., Moreira, B., Taheri, S., Tomiolo, S., Vinagre, C., Vuarin, P., and Weaver, J. (2013): Interdisciplinary climate change collaborations are essential for early-career scientists. EOS, Transactions American Geophysical Union 94(16):151, doi: 10.1002/2013EO160003

Binzer, A., Guill, C., Brose, U. & Rall, B.C. (2012): The dynamics of food chains under climate change and nutrient enrichment. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 367(1605):2935-2944, doi:10.1098/rstb.2012.0230

Curtsdotter, A., Binzer, A., Brose, U., de Castro, F., Ebenman, B., Eklöf, A., Riede, J.O., Thierry, A., Rall, B.C. (2011): Robustness to secondary extinctions: Comparing trait-based sequential deletions in static and dynamic food webs. Basic and Applied Ecology 12(7): 571-580, doi: 10.1016/j.baae.2011.09.008

Riede, J.O., Binzer, A., Brose, U., de Castro, F. , Curtsdotter, A., Rall, B.C., Eklöf, A. (2011): Size-based food web characteristics govern the response to species extinctions. Basic and Applied Ecology 12(7): 581-589, doi: 10.1016/j.baae.2011.09.006

Binzer, A., Brose, U., Curtsdotter, A., Eklöf, A., Rall, B.C., Riede, J.O., de Castro, F. (2011): The susceptibility of species to extinctions in model communities. Basic and Applied Ecology 12(7): 590-599, doi: 10.1016/j.baae.2011.09.002


Conference talks and seminars:


Binzer, A. (2013): Warming, enrichment and predator-prey body masses help shape complex food webs, Oral presentation given at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, University of Potsdam, Germany

Binzer, A. (2013): Extinctions on heated food webs, Oral presentation given at the Intecol Congress 2013, London, England

Binzer, A. (2013): Networks lightly toasted - complex food webs under climate change, Institute seminar given at the Institute for Ecology, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany

Binzer, A. (2013): Stable food webs - simple models, seminar given at the Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, Westfälische Wilhelms University, Münster, Germany

Binzer, A., Brose, U., Guill, C. and Rall, B.C. (2012): The dynamics of food chains under climate change and nutrient enrichment, Oral presentation given at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the British Ecological Society, Birmingham, UK

Binzer, A. et al. (2012): Food webs and species extinctions, seminar given at the School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Australia

Binzer, A. et al. (2012): Dynamic food webs and extinctions, seminar given at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Binzer, A. et al. (2012): Trophic cascades and species' extinction risk in complex food webs, Oral presentation given at the trendy seminar at the Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Japan

Binzer, A. et al. (2012): Trophic cascades and species' extinction risk in complex food webs, Oral presentation given at the special seminar at the Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, Japan

Binzer, A., Brose, U., Guill, C. and Rall, B.C. (2012): The dynamics of food chains under climate change and nutrient enrichment, Oral presentation given at the 59th Annual meeting of the Ecological Society Japan (ESJ), Ryukoku University, Japan

Binzer, A., Rall, B.C., Berlow, E.L., Brose, U. (2011): Trophic cascades in complex food webs, Oral presentation given at the 2011 BES annual meeting, University of Scheffield, UK

Binzer, A., Brose, U., Curtsdotter, A., Eklöf, A., Rall, B.C., Riede, J.O. and de Castro, F. (2011): Species' extinction risk in model and natural food webs, Oral presentation given at the 7th European conference on ecological modeling, Riva del Garda, Italy

Binzer, A., Brose, U., Curtsdotter, A., Eklöf, A., Rall, B.C., Riede, J.O. and de Castro, F. (2011): The susceptibility of species to extinctions in model communities, Invited talk given at the 2011 Workshop of the ESF Research Network SIZEMIC, Institute for Hydrobiology and Fisheries Science, Hamburg, Germany

Binzer, A., Romanuk, T., Brose, U. and Martinez, N. (2010): Shared history facilitates invasional meltdowns - a dynamic computer simulation of invasion sequences, Oral presentation given at the BES annual meeting 2010, University of Leeds, UK





Poster presentations:



Binzer, A., Brose, U., Guill, C. and Rall, B.C. (2012): The dynamics of food chains under climate change and nutrient enrichment, Poster presentation at the meeting of the Program for promoting participation in the ecological research network between Japan and Taiwan: "toward better projection of ecological responses to climate changes”, Hokkaido University, Japan

Binzer, A., Brose, U., Guill, C. and Rall, B.C. (2012): The dynamics of food chains under climate change and nutrient enrichment, Poster presentation at the Web of Life 2012 in a changing world conference, Montpellier, France

Binzer, A., Berlow, E., Rall, B.C. and Brose, U. (2010): Trophic cascades in model communities, Poster presented at the 2010 Workshop of the ESF Research Network SIZEMIC , Institute of Marine Sciences, Barcelona, Spain

Binzer, A., Berlow, E., Rall, B.C. and Brose, U. (2010): Trophic cascades in complex communities, Poster presented at the Multitrophic Interactions Workshop 2010, University Göttingen, Germany