Dr. Mira Kattwinkel
Research Interests
I am interested in assessing anthropogenic stressors, in particular toxicants like pesticides, in streams, and in understanding and predicting their ecological effects on populations and communities.
- Geostatistical tools to investigate water quality measurements (R package openSTARS)
- Dynamic, equation based and individual-based models of aquatic benthos communities to investigate the ecological effects of pesticides
- Bayesian inference for parameter estimation and uncertainty assessment
- Trait based biological indicators to assess potential environmental stressors in streams
- GIS-based models for exposure and effect estimation on large spatial scales
Teaching
- Modelling Human-Environment Interactions (M.Sc.)
- Modellierung in den Umweltwissenschaften (B.Sc.)
- Environmental Modelling II (M.Sc.)
- Introduction to R
Academic History
| since 03/2016 | Researcher at the landscape ecology group. |
| 06/2012 – 12/2015 | Postdoctoral fellow at Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Science and Technology, Department Systems Analysis, Integrated Assessment and Modelling. Dübendorf, Switzerland |
| 03/2009 - 05/2012 | Postdoctoral researcher at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Department System Ecotoxicology, Leipzig, Germany |
| 2005-2009 | PhD student, Landscape Ecology Group; Carl v. Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany; Thesis “Biodiversity of urban brownfields - Modelling species occurrence and persistence in dynamic habitats” |
| 08/2003 - 11/2003 | Intership at the Freshwater Group, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), Edinburgh, UK |
| 1998 - 2004 | Studies of Geoecology at the Technical University of Braunschweig; Thesis “Estimating phosphorus export to surface waters: Data series analysis, export coefficient and AnnAGNPS modelling for the River Swale catchment” in cooperation with the CEH, Edinburgh, UK |
Publications
Selected Publications
Schuwirth, N., Borgwardt, F., Domisch, S., Friedrichs, M., Kattwinkel, M., Kneis, D., Kuemmerlen, M., Langhans, S.D., Martínez-López, J., Vermeiren, P. 2019 How to make ecological models useful for environmental management. Ecological Modelling 411, 108784. link
Kattwinkel, M., Reichert P. 2017 Bayesian parameter inference for individual-based models using a Particle Markov Chain Monte Carlo method. Environmental Modelling & Software, 87: 110-119. link
Kattwinkel, M., Reichert, P., Rüegg, J., Liess, M., Schuwirth, N. 2016 Modeling Macroinvertebrate Community Dynamics in Stream Mesocosms Contaminated with a Pesticide. Environmental Science and Technololgy, 50: 3165–3173. link
Kattwinkel, M., Liess, M., Arena, M., Bopp, S., Streissl, F., Römbke, J. 2015 Recovery of aquatic and terrestrial populations in the context of European pesticide risk assessment. Environmental Reviews, 23(4): 382-394. link
Kattwinkel, M., Liess, M. 2014. Competition matters: Species interactions prolong the long-term effects of pulsed toxicant stress on populations. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 33: 1458-1465. link
Kattwinkel, M., Kühne, J.-V., Foit, K. & Liess, M., 2011. Climate change, agricultural insecticide exposure, and risk for freshwater communities. Ecological Applications 21: 2068–2081. link