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 in the SERIOR project |
| 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
Schäfer R.B, Kühn B., Hauer L., Kattwinkel M., 2017: Assessing recovery of stream insects ¨
from pesticides using a two-patch metapopulation model. Science of The Total Environment,
609: 788-798. link
Šukys J., Kattwinkel M., 2017: SPUX: Scalable Particle Markov Chain Monte Carlo for
Uncertainty Quantification in Stochastic Ecological Models. Advances in Parallel Computing,
32. link
Le H., Scharmüller A., Kattwinkel M., Kühne R., Schüürmann G., Schäfer R.B. 2017: Contribution of waste water treatment plants to pesticide toxicity in agriculture catchments. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. Volume 145, Pages 135-141, 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
Bunzel, K., Schäfer, R.B., Thrän, D., Kattwinkel, M. 2015 Pesticide runoff from energy crops: a threat to aquatic invertebrates? Science of the Total Environment, 537:187-196. link
Ippolito, A., Kattwinkel, M., Rasmussen, J.J., Schäfer, R.B., Fornalori, R., Liess, M. 2015 Modeling global distribution of agricultural insecticides in surface waters. Environmental Pollution, 198: 54-60. link
Schuwirth, N., Kattwinkel, M., Stamm, C. 2015. How stressor specific are trait-based ecological indicators for ecosystem management? Science of the Total Environment 505:565-571. link
Bunzel, K., Kattwinkel, M., Schauf, M., Thrän, D., 2014. Energy crops and pesticide contamination: Lessons learned from the development of energy crop cultivation in Germany. Biomass and Bioenergy, 70: 416-428. 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
Bunzel, K., Liess, M., Kattwinkel, M., 2014. Landscape parameters driving aquatic pesticide exposure and effects. Environmental Pollution 186: 90-97. link
Beketov, M.A., Kattwinkel, M., Liess, M., 2013. Statistics matter: data aggregation improves identification of community-level effects compared to a commonly used multivariate method. Ecotoxicology 22: 1516–1525. link
Liess, M., Foit, K., Becker, A., Hassold, E., Dolciotti, I., Kattwinke, M., Duquesne, S., 2013. Culmination of Low-Dose Pesticide Effects. Environmental Science and Technology 47: 8862-8868. link
Bunzel, K., Kattwinkel, M., Liess, M., 2013. Effects of organic pollutants from wastewater treatment plants on aquatic invertebrate communities. Water Research 47: 597-606. link
Beketov, M.A., Cedergreen, N., Wick, L.Y., Kattwinkel, M., Duquesne, S., Liess, M., 2013. Sediment toxicity testing for prospective risk assessment – A new framework and how to establish it. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment. link
Lautenbach, S., Maes, J., Kattwinkel, M., Seppelt, R., Strauch, M., Scholz, M., Schulz-Zunkel, C., Volk, M., Weinert, J., Dormann, C.F., 2012. Mapping water quality-related ecosystem services: concepts and applications for nitrogen and pesticides. International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystems Services and Management 8 (1): 35-49. 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
Kattwinkel, M., Biedermann, R., Kleyer, M.; 2011. Temporary conservation for urban biodiversity. Biological Conservation 144 (9): 2335-2343. link
Burgert, S., Schäfer, R., Foit, K., Kattwinkel, M., Metzeling, M., MacEwand, R., Kefford, B.J., Liess, M., 2011. Modelling aquatic exposure and effects of insecticides - application to South-Eastern Australia. Science of the Total Environment 409 (14): 2807-2814. link
Kattwinkel, M., Strauss, B., Biedermann, R. & Kleyer, M., 2009. Modelling multi-species response to landscape dynamics: Mosaic cycles support urban biodiversity. Landscape Ecology 24: 929-941. link
Kattwinkel, M., Draeger, S., Schadek, U., Strauss, B., Biedermann, R. & Kleyer, M., 2008. Management und Modellierung der Biodiversität urbaner Brachen. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 60: 55-60. link
Kattwinkel, M., 2009. Biodiversity of urban brownfields: Modelling species occurrence and persistence in dynamic habitats. PhD thesis. University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg.