Profile

Professional career

• since 05/2022
  Postdoctoral fellow at the Remote Sensing in Geo- and Ecosystem Research, University of Leipzig.
• 03/2011 - 12/2013
  Research assistant at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ Leipzig, Dept. Conservation Biology (Working Group "Population Ecology and Landscape Structure" – Project Scales)
• since 04/2011
  Staff member of Neotropical Institute – Research and Conservation in Brazil
• 03/2011 - 09/2011
  Internship at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena. (Dept. of Biochemical Processes)
• 02/2008 - 08/2009
  Internship at the “Conservation Science Internship Program” of The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Curitiba, Brazil

Education

• 04/2015 - 06/2022
  PhD student at the University of Leipzig, Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity.
• 10/2010 - 04/2013
  Master degree in Global Change Ecology Graduate Program at the Univerisity of Bayreuth.
• 02/2000 - 12/2003
  Bachelor and Licentiate of Science in Biologie at the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Brazil

I am a plant ecologist fascinated by biodiversity and remote sensing techniques. I am a Postdoctoral fellow at the Remote Sensing in Geo- and Ecosystem Research, University of Leipzig. Currently, I work on the Breathing Nature project, which investigates the interactions between biodiversity and climate change. For that, I use terrestrial sensing, such as terrestrial laser scanning.

• FOR 1451: Teilprojekt: The Jena Experiment: Intra-annual stability of spatial and temporal niche complementarity in temperate grasslands

  Wirth, Christian

  Duration: 06/2010 – 12/2018

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Spezielle Botanik und funktionelle Biodiversität
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• SP01: Plant Physiology

  Feilhauer, Prof. Hannes

  Duration: 12/2023 – 12/2027

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Fernerkundung in der Geo- und Ökosystemforschung
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more projects

• Guimarães-Steinicke, C. R.; Weigelt, A.; Proulx, R.; Lanners, T.; Eisenhauer, N.; Duque‐Lazo, J.; Reu, B.; Roscher, C.; Wagg, C.; Buchmann, N.; Wirth, C.

  Biodiversity facets affect community surface temperature via 3D canopy structure in grassland communities

  Journal of Ecology. 2021. 109 (5). pp. 1969–1985.

  DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13631
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• Guimarães-Steinicke, C. R.; Weigelt, A.; Ebeling, A.; Eisenhauer, N.; Duque-Lazo, J.; Reu, B.; Roscher, C.; Schumacher, J.; Wagg, C.; Wirth, C.

  Terrestrial laser scanning reveals temporal changes in biodiversity mechanisms driving grassland productivity

  2019. pp. 133–161.

  DOI: 10.1016/bs.aecr.2019.06.003
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• Guimarães-Steinicke, C. R.; Weigelt, A.; Ebeling, A.; Eisenhauer, N.; Wirth, C.

  Diversity Effects on Canopy Structure Change throughout a Growing Season in Experimental Grassland Communities

  Remote sensing. 2022. 14 (7).

  DOI: 10.3390/rs14071557
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• Kattenborn, T. J.; Richter, R.; Guimarães-Steinicke, C. R.; Feilhauer, H.; Wirth, C.

  AngleCam: Predicting the temporal variation of leaf angle distributions from image series with deep learning

  Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 2022. 13 (11). pp. 2531–2545.

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13968
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• Mahecha, M.; Bastos, A.; Bohn, F. J. et al.

  Biodiversity and climate extremes: known interactions and research gaps

  Earth's Future. 2024. 12 (6).

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EF003963
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Courses:

• Introduction to Geoinformatics (B.Sc. - WS)
•    Geographic Information Systems (B.Sc. - WS)
•    Biogeography and temporal processes of the biosphere (M.Sc. -WS)
• Sampling Design & Ground Truthing in Remote Sensing (M.Sc. SS)
• Research project Physical Geography/Geoecology II (B.Sc. - SS)
• Data recording and evaluation in the field [Group B]: Water, vegetation and

soil (B.Sc. - SS)

• Biogeography and temporal processes of the biosphere

  12-GGR-M-PG01N - Methods and concepts of biogeography, geomorphology and quaternary research

• Geographic Information Systems

  12-GGR- B-GF05 - Introduction to Geoinformatics

• Introduction to Geoinformatics

  12-GGR- B-GF05 - Introduction to Geoinformatics

• 12-GGR-B-PG02.ÜB02b - Data recording and evaluation in the field

  12-GGR-B-PG02.ÜB02b - Data recording and evaluation in the field [Group B]: Water, vegetation, and soil.

• 12-GGR-B-PG05.SE01b Research project Physical Geography/Geoecology II

  12-GGR-B-PG05.SE01b Research project Physical Geography/Geoecology II

  Ecosystem services of vegetation in and around Leipzig

• 12-GEO-M-RS02.ÜB01 Field Techniques in Remote Sensing