Anne Gérard

PhD student
email: agerard[at]forst.uni-goettingen.de
phone: +49-(0)551-39-10443


Short CV
Birthday: 24.05.1988
Birthplace: Wiesbaden, Germany
Degrees: M.Sc. in Biology, Ecology, University of Hamburg (Germany) and University of Montpellier (France); B.Sc. in Biology, University of Hamburg, Germany


Research Interests
I am fascinated by the complexity of ecosystems and my research focus is to factorize abiotic and biotic drivers of its vegetation composition to understand the underlying processes, mainly in the tropics. Furthermore, I am very interested in transmitting this ecological knowledge to the elaboration of solution approaches in reasonable nature conservation that takes into account human’s welfare. Finding the balance between nature conservation and agriculture, antagonists in many regards, is one of the most urgent challenges for the future. At the moment, I work on a biodiversity enrichment experiment in a monocultural oil palm plantation in Sumatra, Indonesia


Publications

Gérard, A., Carrière, S. M., Ganzhorn, J. U. & Kull, C. A. (2013): Conservation of endemic vertebrate species in Madagascar: The potential of non-native plant species. Submitted, 2013.

Gérard, A. & Schmiedel, U. (2012): Die Ökologie einer faszinierenden Flora der südafrikanischen Trockengebiete. Kakteen und andere Sukkulenten, 63, 141-149.