Dagmar Schröter

Last updated 19.12.07 by Dagmar Schröter

Dr. Dagmar Schröter

Umweltbundesamt GmbH
Vienna, Austria

and

George Perkins Marsh Institute
Clark University, USA

Tel.: +43 664 4389334
Dagmar.Schroeter@gmail.com

Photo by MAZ/Christel Köster.

Curriculum Vitae | Publications | Teaching

Curriculum Vitae

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Brief summary

Since March 2007: Researcher and coordinator in the Sustainable Development Group of the Umweltbundesamt GmbH, Vienna, Austria.
June 2005 – May 08: Visiting research fellow at the George Perkins Marsh Institute at Clark University, Worcester, USA.
Sept 2004 – June 05: Visiting postdoctoral research fellow in the Science, Environment and Development Group at the Kennedy School of Government, Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.
May 2001 – Mar 05: Postdoctoral research fellow and scientific coordinator (ATEAM-project), Department of Global Change & Natural Systems at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany. See some of us running below.
Apr 1996 – Dec 2000. Research assistant within two EU projects (CANIF and GLOBIS) at the Institute of Animal Ecology & Zoology, University of Gießen, Germany.

A small part of the ATEAM: Stephen Sitch, Alberte Bondeau, Sönke Zaehle,
me, Richard J.T. Klein, Uta Fritsch and the Potsdam Institute's main building
in the background. Photo by MAZ/Christel Köster.

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Publications

Metzger, M. J., D. Schröter, R. Leemans, W. Cramer 2007. A spatially explicit and quantitative vulnerability assessment of ecosystem service change in Europe. Regional Environmental Change (accepted for publication).

Metzger, M. and D. Schröter 2006. Towards a spatially explicit and quantitative vulnerability assessment of environmental change in Europe. Regional Environmental Change 6, 201-216. Download here (636 KB)

Schröter, D., M. Zebisch and T. Grothmann 2006: Climate Change in Germany—Vulnerability and Adaptation of Climate-Sensitive Sectors. Contribution to the Klimastatusbericht 2005 (Report on the State of the Climate 2005), Deutscher Wetterdienst (German Meteorological Service), Offenbach, Germany, http://www.ksb.dwd.de, p. 44-56. Download here (560 KB).

Metzger, M. J., M. D. A. Rounsevell, L. Acosta-Michlik, R. Leemans, and D. Schröter. 2006. The vulnerability of ecosystem services to land use change. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 114, 64-85. Download here (1.1 MB).
Schröter D., W. Cramer, R. Leemans, I.C. Prentice, M.B. Araújo, N.W. Arnell, A. Bondeau, H. Bugmann, T.R. Carter, C.A. Gracia, A.C. de la Vega-Leinert, M. Erhard, F. Ewert, M. Glendining, J.I. House, S. Kankaanpää, R.J.T. Klein, S. Lavorel, M. Lindner, M.J. Metzger, J. Meyer, T.D. Mitchell, I. Reginster, M. Rounsevell, S. Sabaté, S. Sitch, B. Smith, J. Smith, P. Smith, M.T. Sykes, K. Thonicke, W. Thuiller, G. Tuck, S. Zaehle, B. Zierl 2005. Ecosystem Service Supply and Vulnerability to Global Change in Europe. Science 310 (5752), 1333-1337. (Published online first 27 Oct. 2005; 10.1126/science.1115233 Science Express). Download Abstract, Full paper or SupportingOnlineMaterial.
Metzger, M., R. Leemans and D. Schröter 2005. A multidisciplinary multi-scale framework for assessing vulnerability to global change. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 7, 253-267. Download here (912 KB).
Schröter, D., C. Polsky, and A.G. Patt. 2005. Assessing vulnerabilities to the effects of global change: an eight step approach. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 10 (4), 573-595. Download here (1.2 MB).
Zebisch, M., T. Grothmann, D. Schröter, C. Haße, U. Fritsch, W. Cramer 2005. Climate Change in Germany – Vulnerability and Adaptation of climate sensitive Sectors (Klimawandel in Deutschland – Vulnerabilität und Anpassungsstrategien klimasensitiver Systeme). Report commissioned by the Federal Environmental Agency, Germany (UFOPLAN 201 41 253), Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany, pp. 205. Download English version or German version.

Schröter D. and S. Dekker 2005. Stability and interaction strength within soil food webs of a European forest transect: the impact of N deposition. In: Dynamic Food Webs: Multispecies assemblages, ecosystem development, and environmental change, edited by Peter C. De Ruiter, Volkmar Wolters, and John Moore, Academic Press, p. 223-234.

Dekker S.C., Scheu S., Schröter D., Setälä H., Szanser M. and Traas T.P. 2005. Towards a new generation of dynamic soil decomposer food web models. In: Dynamic Food Webs: Multispecies assemblages, ecosystem development, and environmental change, edited by Peter C. De Ruiter, Volkmar Wolters, and John Moore, Academic Press, p. 258-266 .
Schröter D. 2005. Vulnerability to changes in ecosystem services. CID Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Working Paper No. 10, July 2005. Center for International Development (CID), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. Available here.
Schröter, D. et al. 2004. The ATEAM final report 2004 - Detailed report related to overall project duration. Advanced Terrestrial Ecosystem Analysis and Modelling, a project funded under the 5th framework Programme of the European Union, pp. 139. Available here.
Metzger, M.J., R. Leemans, D. Schröter, W. Cramer and the ATEAM consortium. The ATEAM vulnerability mapping tool. Quantitative Approaches in Systems Analysis No. 27, CD-ROM publication, Office C.T. de Wit Graduate School for Production Ecology & Resource Conservation (PE&RC), Wageningen, The Netherlands, 2004. Available here.
Schröter D., M.J. Metzger, W. Cramer, R. Leemans 2004. Vulnerability assessment - analysing the human-environment system in the face of global environmental change. Environmental Science Section Bulletin, Kalmar University, Sweden, 2, 11-17. Download here (190 KB).
Schröter D., L. Brussaard, G. De Deyn, K. Poveda, V.K. Brown, M.P. Berg, D.A. Wardle, J. Moore, D.H. Wall 2004. Trophic interactions in a changing world: modelling aboveground-belowground interactions. Special issue on Above and Belowground Interactions, edited by W. Van Der Putten, P.C. De Ruiter, M. Bezemer and J. Harvey. Basic and Applied Ecology, 5 (6), 515-528. Download here (300 KB).
Taylor, A.R., D. Schröter, A. Pflug and V. Wolters. 2004. Responses of different decomposer communities to the manipulation of moisture availability: potential effects of changing precipitation patterns. Global Change Biology, 10, 1313-1324. Download here (220 KB).
Polsky, C., D. Schröter, A. Patt, S. Gaffin, M. L. Martello, R. Neff, A. Pulsipher, and H. Selin. 2003. Assessing Vulnerabilities to the Effects of Global Change: An Eight-Step Approach. Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Working Paper 2003-05, Environment and Natural Resources Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. pp. 17. Download here (300 KB) or view abstract here.
Schröter, D., Wolters, V., De Ruiter, P. C. 2003. C and N mineralisation in the decomposer food webs of a European forest transect. Oikos, 102, 294-308. Download here (260 KB).
Schröter, D., S. Zaehle, S. Schaphoff, W. Lucht, and W. Cramer. 2003. Modelling global change effects on vegetation and exploring our vulnerability. - In: R. E. Green, M. Harley, L. Miles, J. Scharlemann, A. Watkinson, and O. Watts (eds.); Global Climate Change and Biodiversity Conference Report, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia, April 8-10, 2003, Norwich, UK, pp. 4-6. Available here.
Schröter D., V. Wolters, P.C. de Ruiter. 2001. Carbon Flux in the Decomposer Systems of Forests along a European North-South-Transect. Challenges of a Changing Earth – IGBP Global Change Open Science Conference, Jul 10 -13 Amsterdam, The Netherlands, P.1.0.016.
Dauber, J., D. Schröter and V. Wolters. 2001. Species specific effects of ants on microbial activity and N-availability in the soil of an old-field. European Journal of Soil Biology, 37, 259-261.
Schröter, D. 2001. Structure and function of the decomposer food webs of forests along a European North-South-transect with special focus on Testate Amoebae (Protozoa). Shaker Verlag, Aachen, Germany, 138 pp. Published here. Download here (ca. 4 MB). Ask for your own copy.
Wolters, V., A. Pflug, A.R. Taylor and D. Schröter. 2000. Diversity and role of the decomposer food web. In E.-D. Schulze (ed.), Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in Forest Ecosystems. Ecological Studies, Springer, Heidelberg, 142, 366-381.
Ekschmitt, K., R. Baxter, C. D. Campbell, R. Ceulemans, K. P. Günther, H. W. O., A. Hector, F. Henning, A. Kjøller, S. Matouch, U. Molau, P. I. Nagy, A. Otte, J. G. Pausas, A. Pflug, D. Schröter, G. Sillence, N. C. Steiner, S. Struwe, V. Wolters and P. A. Wookey. 2000. Ecosystem functioning and management under multiple stresses and extreme events. In M. A. Sutton, J. M. Moreno, W. H. Van der Putten, and S. Struwe (ed.), Terrestrial Ecosystem Research in Europe: Successes, Challenges and Policy. European Commission, Luxembourg, 28-34. Download here (160 KB).
Schröter, D., A. Pflug, A.R. Taylor and V. Wolters. 1999. Testate amoebae in coniferous forests along a European North-South-transect: diversity and food web interaction. Oral presentation of contributed paper at the 3rd European Congress of Protistology, Jul 26 - 30, Helsingør, Denmark.
Schröter, D., A. Hülsmann, A. Pflug and V. Wolters. 1998. Climate effects on soil biota of coniferous forests: a transect approach. The Earth's Changing Land -- GCTE-LUCC Open Science Conference on Global Change, Mar 14 - 18, Barcelona, Spain, 208-209.
Pflug, A., A. Hülsmann, D. Schröter and V. Wolters. 1998. Microarthropoden als Steuergröße im Lebensraum Boden. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 89: 119-121.
Schröter, D., A. Hülsmann, A. Pflug and V. Wolters. 1997. Die Bodenfauna in der organischen Auflage entlang eines europäischen Transekts. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft, 85, 599-602.
Hülsmann, A., D. Schröter, A. Pflug and V. Wolters. 1997. Response of the decomposer community to experimental alterations in spruce litter humidity. In S.C. van de Geijn & P.J. Kuikman (ed.) Prospects for Co-ordinated Activities in Core Projects of GCTE, BAHC and LUCC. CCB-Wageningen, Wageningen, The Netherlands, 152-153.
Hülsmann, A., D. Schröter, A. Pflug and V. Wolters. 1997. Struktur und Leistung von Zersetzergemeinschaften in Fichtenforstböden unter Feuchtestress. Verhandlungen der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft, 90, 1, 362.

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