PD Dr. Sebastian Seibold

• Öklogische Mechanismen und Ursachen für Biodiversitätsmuster
• Auswirkungen von Landnutzung auf Biodiversität in Wald und Grünland
• Zeitliche Entwicklung von Insektengemeinschaften ("Insektensterben")
• Naturschutzstrategien bewirtschafteter Wälder
• Ökologie und Diversität totholzbewohnender Organismen
• Bedeutung von Biodiversität für den Abbau von Holz

Seibold, S., Rammer, W., Hothorn, T., Seidl, R., ..., & Müller, J. (2021) The contribution of insects to global forest deadwood decomposition. Nature, 597, 77-81.

Seibold, S., Hothorn, T., Gossner, M.M., Simons, N.K., Blüthgen, N., Müller, J., Ambarli, D., Ammer, C., Bauhus, J., Fischer, M., Habel, J.C., Penone, C., Schall, P., Schulze, E.-D. & Weisser, W.W. (2021) Insights from regional and short-term biodiversity monitoring datasets are valuable: a Reply to Daskalova et al. 2021. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 14, 144-148.

Seibold, S., Gossner, M.M., Simons, N.K., Blüthgen, N., Müller, J., Ambarlı, D., Ammer, C., Bauhus, J., Fischer, M., Habel, J.C., Linsenmair, K.E., Nauss, T., Penone, C., Prati, D., Schall, P., Schulze, E.-D., Vogt, J., Wöllauer, S. & Weisser, W.W. (2019) Arthropod decline in grasslands and forests is associated with landscape-level drivers. Nature, 574, 671-674.

Seibold, S., Müller, J., Baldrian, P., Cadotte, M.W., Stursova, M., Biedermann, P., Krah, F.-S. & Bässler, C. (2019) Fungi associated with beetles dispersing from dead wood – Let’s take the beetle bus! Fungal Ecology, 39, 100–108.

Seibold, S., Cadotte, M. W., MacIvor, J. S., Thorn, S. Müller, J. The necessity of multi-trophic approaches in community ecology. (2018) Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 33, 754–764.

Seibold, S., Bässler, C., Brandl, R., Fahrig, L., Förster, B., Heurich, M., Hothorn, T., Scheipl, F., Thorn, S. & Müller, J. (2017) An experimental test of the habitat-amount hypothesis for saproxylic beetles in a forested region. Ecology, 98, 1613–1622.

Seibold, S., Bässler, C., Brandl, R., Büche, B., Szallies, A., Thorn, S., Ulyshen, M.D. & Müller, J. (2016) Microclimate and habitat heterogeneity as the major drivers of beetle diversity in dead wood. Journal of Applied Ecology, 53, 934–943.

Seibold, S., Bässler, C., Baldrian, P., Reinhard, L., Thorn, S., Ulyshen, M. D., Weiß, I. & Müller, J. (2016) Dead-wood addition promotes non-saproxylic epigeal arthropods but effects are mediated by canopy openness. Biological Conservation, 204, 181–188.

Seibold, S., Bässler, C., Brandl, R., Gossner, M. M., Thorn, S., Ulyshen, M. D. & Müller, J. (2015) Experimental studies of dead-wood biodiversity – A review identifying global gaps in knowledge. Biological Conservation, 191, 139–149.

Seibold, S., Brandl, R., Buse, J., Hothorn, T., Schmidl, J., Thorn, S. & Müller, J. (2015) Association of extinction risk of saproxylic beetles with ecological degradation of forests in Europe. Conservation Biology, 29, 382–390.