Running project
- Integrating citizen science and high-resolution land-use data to reveal drivers of farmland bird declines
- The effectiveness of EU Special Protection Areas (SPAs) to protect birds of conservation concern
Completed project
Curriculum Vitae
Since 2024 Researcher
Department of Conservation Biology, University of Göttingen
2020–2024 PhD student
Department of Conservation Biology, University of Göttingen
Thesis: Population Trends of Common Breeding Birds in Germany: Patterns, Drivers, and Conservation Implications
Since 2019 Researcher
Dachverband Deutscher Avifaunisten (DDA), Münster
2011–2018 Master and Bachelor of Science in Landscape Ecology
Institute of Landscape Ecology, University of Münster
Publications
Graser A., Frank C., Kunz F., Schuldt A., Senf C., Sudfeldt C., Trautmann S., Kamp J. 2025. Increase in disturbance-induced canopy gaps leads to reorganization of Central European bird communities. Basic and Applied Ecology, 83:88–97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2025.01.013
Pflüger F.J., Frank C., Busch M., Wahl J., Dröschmeister R., Sudfeldt C., Kamp J. 2024. Semi-structured citizen science data reveal mixed effectiveness of EU Special Protection Areas (SPA) in Germany. Biological Conservation 299: 110801. https://doi.org./10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110801
Frank C., Hertzog L., Klimek S., Schwieder M., Tetteh G. O., Böhner H. G. S., Röder N., Levers C., Katzenberger J., Kreft H., Kamp J. 2024. Woody semi-natural habitats modulate the effects of field size and functional crop diversity on farmland birds. Journal of Applied Ecology 61: 987–999. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14604
Hertzog L., Klimek S., Röder N., Frank C., Böhner H., Kamp J. 2023. Associations between farmland birds and fallow area at large scales: consistently positive over three periods of the EU Common Agricultural Policy but moderated by landscape complexity. Journal of Applied Ecology 60: 1077-1088. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14400
Hertzog L.R., Röder N., Frank C., Böhner H.S., Kamp J. 2022. Village modernization and farmland birds: A reply to Rosin et al. (2021). Conservation Letters 15: e12874. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12874
Hertzog L.R., Frank C., Klimek S., Röder N., Böhner H.G.S., Kamp J. 2021. Model‐based integration of citizen science data from disparate sources increases the precision of bird population trends. Diversity and Distributions 27:1106-1119. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13259
Kamp J.*, Frank C.*, Trautmann S., Busch M., Dröschmeister R., Flade, M., Gerlach B., Karthäuser J., Kunz, F., Mitschke, A., Schwarz, J., Sudfeldt C. 2021. Population trends of common breeding birds in Germany 1990–2018. Journal of Ornithology 162: 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-020-01830-4 (*joint first authors)