Anika Sieber
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Doctoral researcher
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Office location |
Rudower Chaussee 16, Room 2'211 |
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Phone |
+49 (0)30 2093-6834 |
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Fax |
+49 (0)30 2093-6848 |
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Postal address |
Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany |
About me
I have broad research interests in the interdisciplinary fields of land system science and biogeography. While studying Geography, Agrarian Sciences and Geology I became interested in examining recent and past changes in land use and land cover with remote sensing methods. Two semesters abroad in Moscow awaked my Russian soul and, luckily, I could combine both passions by working on post-Soviet changes in European Russia in the framework of my diploma thesis. After finishing my studies I joined the teams of Tobias Kuemmerle and Patrick Hostert as a doctoral researcher, where I am contributing to the knowledge of what drives biodiversity loss. In my doctoral thesis, I am evaluating how land-use change and other human impacts affect large mammals' habitat, species population dynamics, and protected area effectiveness in European Russia.
Curriculum Vitae
since 10/2015 |
Research assistant, Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany |
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2015 |
Completion Grant of the Caroline von Humboldt Grant Programme, |
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2013 |
Visiting student, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
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since 2011 |
Doctoral student, Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Title: “Land-use change, protected area effectiveness, and wildlife dynamics in post-Soviet European Russia” |
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2010 - 2015 |
Research assistant, Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany 10/2010 - 01/2013: Project “Land-use and land-cover change effects on biodiversity in European Russia (LUCC-BIO)” funded through the German Research Foundation (DFG) |
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2009 |
Visiting student, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
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2005 - 2006 | Visiting scholar, Moscow State University, Russia | |
2002 - 2010 |
Diplom (MSc equivalent) in Geography, Agrarian Sciences, and Geology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Thesis: “Post-Soviet land-use change and the effectiveness of protected areas in European Russia – A case study for Oksky Nature Reserve” |
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2001 - 2002 |
Studying Human Geography, Environmental Sciences, and Public Law, University of Potsdam, Germany |
Research interests
- land-use change science
- biogeography
- conservation
- large mammals
- habitat modeling
- remote sensing
- fragmentation and connectivity
- protected area effectiveness
- Russia and Eastern Europe
Selected Publications
Sieber, A., Uvarov, N.V., Baskin, L.M., Radeloff, V.C., Bateman, B.L., Pankov, A.B., & Kuemmerle, T. (2015): Post-Soviet land-use change effects on large mammals' habitat in European Russia. Biological Conservation 191, 567-576.
Wendland, K.J., Baumann, M., Lewis, D.J., Sieber, A., & Radeloff, V.C. (2015): Protected area effectiveness in European Russia: A post-matching panel data analysis. Land Economics 91, 149-168.
Stefanski, J., Kuemmerle, T., Chaskovskyy, O., Griffiths, P., Havryluk, V., Knorn, J., Korol, N., Sieber, A., & Waske, B. (2014): Mapping land management regimes in Western Ukraine using optical and SAR data. Remote Sensing 6 (6), 5279-5305.
Alcantara, C., Kuemmerle, T., Baumann, M., Bragina, E.V., Griffiths, P., Hostert, P., Knorn, J., Müller, D., Prishchepov, A.V., Schierhorn, F., Sieber, A., & Radeloff, V.C. (2013): Mapping the extent of abandoned farmland in Central and Eastern Europe using MODIS time series satellite data. Environmental Research Letters 8 (3), 035035.
Sieber, A., Kuemmerle, T., Prishchepov, A.V., Wendland, K.J., Baumann, M., Radeloff, V.C., Baskin, L.M., & Hostert, P. (2013): Landsat-based mapping of post-Soviet land-use change to assess the effectiveness of the Oksky and Mordovsky protected areas in European Russia. Remote Sensing of Environment 133, 38-51.
Hostert, P., Kuemmerle, T., Prishchepov, A., Sieber, A., Lambin, E.F., & Radeloff, V.C. (2011): Rapid land use change after socio-economic disturbances: the collapse of the Soviet Union versus Chernobyl. Environmental Research Letters 6 (4), 045201.