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Dr. Florian Werner
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Dr. Florian Werner

A-v-H Institut, Abteilung Systematische Botanik


Untere Karspüle 2
37073 Göttingen

Room:06
Telephone:+49-(0)551-39-5703
Fax:+49-(0)551-39-22329
Email:florianwerner@yahoo.com
Homepage:http://www.tropicalmountainforest.org/
Office hours:irregular – try 0551-2506998
Foto Dr. Florian Werner
Curriculum vitae
Since 2005
Scientific staff member, Dep. Syst. Bot., U Göttingen; work within the DFG projects FOR402 A10: “Response of epiphyte communities to forestry manipulation and clear-cutting in a montane forest of southern Ecuador” and FOR816 A2.5: “Dynamics of epiphyte diversity in disturbed and undisturbed tropical montane forest”.

February 2008
Ph.D. Graduation (Dr. rer. nat., Ecology and Biodiversity)

2007
Completion of Ph.D. thesis titled "Effects of human disturbance on epiphyte assemblages in the Andes of Ecuador"

2003 – 2005
Doctorate studies at the University of Göttingen through a stipend of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

2000 – 2003
Naturalist guide, Amazon, Ecuador.

2002
Graduation in Biology (Diplom), University of Bonn.

1993 – 1999
Studies in Biology at the Universities of Tübingen and Bonn.

1992
Abitur (A-levels), Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany.
Interests
Tropical ecology, effects of human disturbance and climate change on biodiversity, in particular on epiphytes.
Publications
Ledesma, K.J., Werner, F.A., Spotorno, A.E. & Albuja, L.H. 2009. A new species of mountain viscacha (Chinchillidae: Lagidium Meyen) from the Ecuadorean Andes. Zootaxa 2126: 41–57.

Werner, F.A. & Gradstein, S.R. 2009. Diversity of epiphytes along a gradient of disturbance in an interandean dry forest, northern Ecuador. Journal of Vegetation Science 20: 59–68.

Werner, F.A. 2009. Plantas comunes de Bosque Protector Jerusalén. Rapid Color Guides 214. The Field Museum, Chicago, IL, U.S.A. http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/plantguides/guideimages.asp?ID=376

Brehm, G., Homeier, J., Fiedler, K., Kottke, I., Illig, J., Nöske, N.M., Werner, F.A. & Breckle, S.-W. 2008. Are mountain rain forests in southern Ecuador a hotspot of biodiversity? Limited knowledge and diverging patterns. Pp. 15–23 in: Beck, E., J. Bendix, I. Kottke, F. Makeschin & Mosandl, R. Gradients in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of Ecuador. Ecological Studies 198, Springer, Berlin.

Günter, S., Cabrera, O., Weber, M., Stimm, B., Zimmermann, M., Fiedler, K., Knuth, J., Boy, J., Wilcke, W., Iost, S., Makeschin, F., Werner, F.A., Gradstein, S.R. & Mosandl, R. 2008. Natural forest management in neotropical mountain rain forests – an ecological experiment. Pp. 363–376 in: Beck, E., Bendix, J., Kottke, I., Makeschin, F., & Mosandl, R. Gradients in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of Ecuador. Ecological Studies 198, Springer, Berlin.

Homeier, J., Werner, F.A., Breckle, S.-W., Gradstein, S.R. & Richter, M. 2008. Potential vegetation and floristic composition of Andean forests in South Ecuador, with a focus on the Reserva San Francisco. Pp. 87–100 in: Beck, E., Bendix, J., Kottke, I., Makeschin, F. & Mosandl, R. Gradients in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of Ecuador. Ecological Studies 198, Springer, Berlin.

Nöske, N., Hilt, N., Werner, F.A., Brehm, G., Fiedler, K., Sipman, H.J. & Gradstein, S.R. 2008. Disturbance effects on diversity epiphytes and moths in a montane forest in Ecuador: sessile epiphytes vs. mobile moths. Basic and Applied Ecology 9: 4–12.

Werner, F.A. 2008. Effects of human disturbance on diversity and ecology of vascular epiphyte assemblages in the Andes of Ecuador. Ph.D. dissertation, Universität Göttingen. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3249/webdoc-2048

Werner, F.A. & Gradstein, S.R. 2008. Establishment of vascular epiphytes on isolated and enclosed forest trees in an Andean landscape, Ecuador. Biodiversity and Conservation 17: 3195–3207.

Homeier, J. & Werner, F.A. 2007. Spermatophyta. Pp. 15–58 in: Liede-Schumann, S., & Breckle, S.-W. (eds.). Provisional Checklists of Flora and Fauna of the San Francisco Valley and its Surroundings (Reserva Biológica San Francisco, southern Ecuador). Ecotropical Monographs 4.

Lehnert, M., Kessler, M., Salazar, L.I., Navarrete, H., F.A. Werner, F.A. & Gradstein, S.R. 2007. Pteridophytes. Pp. 59–68 in: Liede-Schumann, S. & Breckle, S.-W. (eds.). Provisional Checklists of Flora and Fauna of the San Francisco Valley and its Surroundings (Reserva Biológica San Francisco, southern Ecuador). Ecotropical Monographs 4.

Matt, F. & Werner, F.A. 2007. Mammals. Pp. 125–129 in: Liede-Schumann, S. & Breckle, S.-W. (eds.). Provisional Checklists of Flora and Fauna of the San Francisco Valley and its Surroundings (Reserva Biológica San Francisco, southern Ecuador). Ecotropical Monographs 4.

Werner, F.A., Ledesma, K.J. & Hidalgo, R. 2006. Mountain viscacha (Lagidium cf. peruanum) in Ecuador – a first record of Chinchillidae for the northern Andes. Mastozoología Neotropical 13: 271–274.

Werner, F.A., Homeier, J. & Gradstein, S.R. 2005. Ecology of vascular epiphytes on isolated remnant trees in the montane forest belt of southern Ecuador. Ecotropica 11: 21–40.

Greeney, H.F., J. Poort & F.A. Werner 2004. First description of the nest of the Barred Puffbird (Nystalus radiatus) from north-western Ecuador. Ornitología Neotropical 15: 23–25.

Frahm, J.-P., V. Buchbender, V. Lachmann, K. Reifenrath & F. Werner 1998. Revisi-on der Gattung Oncophorus (Musci, Dicranaceae). Tropical Bryology 14: 119–132.