Robert Hering [PhD student]

Education

since 2019: PhD student within the ORYCS project (https://www.orycs.org/)
2017: MSc in Ecology, Evolution, and Nature Conservation, University of Potsdam, DE
2013: BSc in Environmental Sciences, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, DE

Current employment

since 2019: PhD student within the ORYCS project (https://www.orycs.org/) as part of the research group Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation

Research interests

• Animal movement ecology
• Biodiversity processes
• Herbivore - plant feedbacks
• Invertebrates as bioindicators

Publications

Meyer PG, Cherstvy AG, Seckler H, Hering R, Blaum N, Jeltsch F & Metzler R (2023). Directedness, correlations, and daily cycles in springbok motion: From data via stochastic models to movement prediction. Physical Review Research 5, 043129

Broekman Maarten JE, Jelle P. Hilbers, Mark A. J. Huijbregts, Thomas Mueller, Abdullahi H. Ali, Henrik Andrén, Jeanne Altmann, Malin Aronsson, Nina Attias, Hattie L. A. Bartlam-Brooks, Floris M. van Beest, Jerrold L. Belant, Dean E. Beyer, Laura Bidner, Niels Blaum, Randall B. Boone, Mark S. Boyce, Michael B. Brown, Francesca Cagnacci, Rok Černe, Simon Chamaillé-Jammes, Nandintsetseg Dejid, Jasja Dekker, Arnaud L. J. Desbiez, Samuel L. Díaz-Muñoz, Julian Fennessy, Claudia Fichtel, Christina Fischer, Jason T. Fisher, Ilya Fischhoff, Adam T. Ford, John M. Fryxell, Benedikt Gehr, Jacob R. Goheen, Morgan Hauptfleisch, A. J. Mark Hewison, Robert Hering, Marco Heurich, Lynne A. Isbell, René Janssen, Florian Jeltsch, Petra Kaczensky, Peter M. Kappeler, Miha Krofel, Scott LaPoint, A. David M. Latham, John D. C. Linnell, A. Catherine Markham, Jenny Mattisson, Emilia Patricia Medici, Guilherme de Miranda Mourão, Bram Van Moorter, Ronaldo G. Morato, Nicolas Morellet, Atle Mysterud, Stephen Mwiu,John Odden, Kirk A. Olson, Aivars Ornicāns, Nives Pagon, Manuela Panzacchi, Jens Persson, Tyler Petroelje, Christer Moe Rolandsen, David Roshier, Daniel I. Rubenstein, Sonia Saïd, Albert R. Salemgareyev, Hall Sawyer, Niels Martin Schmidt, Nuria Selva, Agnieszka Sergiel, Jared Stabach, Jenna Stacy-Dawes, Frances E. C. Stewart, Jonas Stiegler, Olav Strand,Siva Sundaresan, Nathan J. Svoboda, Wiebke Ullmann, Ulrich Voigt, Jake Wall, Martin Wikelski, Christopher C. Wilmers, Filip Zięba, Tomasz Zwijacz-Kozica, Aafke M. Schipper, Marlee A. Tucker (2022). Evaluating expert-based habitat suitability information of terrestrial mammals with GPS-tracking data. Global Ecology and Biogeography. doi.org/10.1111/geb.13523

Hering R, Hauptfleisch M, Jago M, Smith T, Kramer-Schadt S, Stiegler J and Blaum N (2022) Don’t stop me now: Managed fence gaps could allow migratory ungulates to track dynamic resources and reduce fence related energy loss. Front. Ecol. Evol. 10:907079. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.90707

Stiegler, J., Kiemel, K., Eccard, J., Fischer, C., Hering, R., Ortmann, S., Strigl, L., Tiedemann, R., Ullmann, W., & Blaum, N. (2021). Seed traits matter—Endozoochoric dispersal through a pervasive mobile linker. Ecology and Evolution, 11, 18477– 18491. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8440

R. Hering, M. Hauptfleisch, K. Geißler, A. Marquart, M. Schoenen, and N. Blaum, “Shrub encroachment is not always land degradation: Insightsfrom ground-dwelling beetle species niches along a shrub cover gradient in a semi-arid namibian savanna,” Land Degradation & Development, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 14–24, 2019.

R. Hering and N. Blaum, “The influence of land-use intensity on beetles,” Poster presented at the 21st Namibian National Rangeland Forum, Otjiwarongo, NAM, 2017.

R. Hering, R. Krawczynski, H.-G. Wagner, and H. Zeigert, “Erste erkenntnisse zum einsatz von wasserbüffeln (Bubalus bubalis) in der Landschaftspflege,” Nationalpark-Jahrbuch Unteres Odertal, Vol. 5, pp. 85–93, 2008.