Ute Fricke
Dr. Ute Fricke
Biocenter, University of Würzburg
Am Hubland
- Biodiversity and ecosystem services
- Agroecology
- Biotic interactions
- Natural pest control
Since 07/2023 Postdoc | University of Würzburg | Würzburg | Germany
Part of the ConservES project doing research on biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes in Europe with an emphasis on natural pest control.
Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology
10/2022 - 06/2023 Postdoc | Leibniz University Hannover | Hanover | Germany
Postdoc with emphasis on teaching Ecology and Biostatistics with R.
Institute of Geobotany
12/2018 - 05/2022 PhD student | University of Würzburg | Würzburg | Germany
PhD thesis: “Herbivory, predation and pest control in the context of climate and land use”
Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Supervision: Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Ricarda Scheiner, Dani Lucas-Barbosa, Sarah Redlich
09/2016 – 07/2018 Master of Science of Plant Sciences | Wageningen University | Wageningen | The Netherlands
Master thesis: “Seducing scents – Do floral volatiles affect flowering time and flower opening rate of conspecifics of Brassica rapa?”
Centre for Crop Systems Analysis and Laboratory of Entomology, Supervision: Jacob C Douma, Dani Lucas-Barbosa
Internship: “Tricking aphids: Unravelling ecological mechanisms of aphid control in species mixtures of faba bean and summer savory”
Department of Crop Production Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, Supervision: Velemir Ninkovic, Jacob C Douma
10/2013 – 08/2016 Bachelor of Science of Biology | University of Würzburg | Würzburg | Germany
Bachelor thesis: “The impact of sown flower-rich fields on the fruit set of oilseed rape”
Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Supervision: Elena Krimmer, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter
FIRST AUTHORED PUBLICATIONS Fricke, U., Redlich, S., Zhang, J., Benjamin, C. S., Englmeier, J., Ganuza, C., Haensel, M., Riebl, R., Rojas-Botero, S., Tobisch, C., Uhler, J., Uphus, L., & Steffan-Dewenter, I. (2023). Earlier flowering of winter oilseed rape compensates for higher pest pressure in warmer climates. Journal of Applied Ecology, 60, 365– 375. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14335 Fricke, U. (2022). Herbivory, predation and pest control in the context of climate and land use [Doctoral dissertation, Universität Würzburg]. https://doi.org/10.25972/OPUS-28732 Fricke, U., Redlich, S., Zhang, J., Tobisch, C., Rojas-Botero, S., Benjamin, C. S., Englmeier, J., Ganuza, C., Riebl, R., Uhler, J., Uphus, L., Ewald, J., Kollmann, J., & Steffan-Dewenter, I. (2022). Plant richness, land use and temperature differently shape invertebrate leaf-chewing herbivory on plant functional groups. Oecologia, 199, 407–417. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-022-05199-4 Fricke, U., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Zhang, J., Tobisch, C., Rojas-Botero, S., Benjamin, C. S., Englmeier, J., Ganuza, C., Haensel, M., Riebl, R., Uhler, J., Uphus, L., Ewald, J., Kollmann, J., & Redlich, S. (2022). Landscape diversity and local temperature, but not climate, affect arthropod predation among habitat types. PLoS ONE, 17(4), e0264881. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264881 |
Fricke, U., Lucas-Barbosa, D., & Douma, J. C. (2019). No evidence of flowering synchronization upon floral volatiles for a short lived annual plant species: Revisiting an appealing hypothesis. BMC Ecology, 19(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12898-019-0245-9 CO-AUTHORED PUBLICATIONS Benjamin, C. S., Uphus, L., Lüpke, M., Rojas-Botero, S., Dhillon, M. S., Englmeier, J., Fricke, U., Ganuza, C., Haensel, M., Redlich, S., Riebl, R., Tobisch, C., Uhler, J., Zhang, J., Menzel, A., & Peters, W. (2022). Modelling the relative abundance of roe deer (Capreolus capreolus L.) along a climate and land-use gradient. Animals, 12(222). https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12030222 Englmeier, J., Mitesser, O., Benbow, M. E., Hothorn, T., von Hoermann, C., Benjamin, C., Fricke, U., Ganuza, C., Haensel, M., Redlich, S., Riebl, R., Botero, S. R., Rummler, T., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Stengel, E., Tobisch, C., Uhler, J., Uphus, L., Zhang, J., & Müller, J. (2022). Diverse effects of climate, land use, and insects on dung and carrion decomposition. Ecosystems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-022-00764-7 Englmeier, J., von Hoermann, C., Rieker, D., Benbow, M. E., Benjamin, C., Fricke, U., Ganuza, C., Haensel, M., Lackner, T., Mitesser, O., Redlich, S., Riebl, R., Rojas-Botero, S., Rummler, T., Salamon, J.-A., Sommer, D., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Tobisch, C., Uhler, J., … Müller, J. (2022). Dung-visiting beetle diversity is mainly affected by land use, while community specialization is driven by climate. Ecology and Evolution, 12, e9386. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9386 Ganuza, C., Redlich, S., Uhler, J., Tobisch, C., Rojas-Botero, S., Peters, M. K., Zhang, J., Benjamin, C. S., Englmeier, J., Ewald, J., Fricke, U., Haensel, M., Kollmann, J., Riebl, R., Uphus, L., Müller, J., & Steffan-Dewenter, I. (2022). Interactive effects of climate and land use on pollinator diversity differ among taxa and scales. Science Advances, 8, eabm9359. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abm9359 Redlich, S., Zhang, J., Benjamin, C., Singh Dhillon, M., Englmeier, J., Ewald, J., Fricke, U., Ganuza, C., Haensel, M., Hovestadt, T., Kollmann, J., Koellner, T., Kübert-Flock, C., Kunstmann, H., Menzel, A., Moning, C., Peters, W., Riebl, R., Rummler, T., … Steffan-Dewenter, I. (2021). Disentangling effects of climate and land use on biodiversity and ecosystem services—A multi-scale experimental design. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 13, 514–527. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13759 Thiemann, M., Riebl, R., Haensel, M., Schmitt, T. M., Steinbauer, M. J., Landwehr, T., Fricke, U., Redlich, S., & Koellner, T. (2022). Perceptions of ecosystem services: Comparing socio-cultural and environmental influences. PLoS ONE, 17(10), e0276432. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0276432 Tobisch, C., Rojas-Botero, S., Uhler, J., Kollmann, J., Müller, J., Moning, C., Redlich, S., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Benjamin, C., Englmeier, J., Fricke, U., Ganuza, C., Haensel, M., Riebl, R., Uphus, L., & Ewald, J. (2023). Conservation-relevant plant species indicate arthropod richness across trophic levels: Habitat quality is more important than habitat amount. Ecological Indicators, 148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.110039 Tobisch, C., Rojas-Botero, S., Uhler, J., Müller, J., Kollmann, J., Moning, C., Brändle, M., Gossner, M. M., Redlich, S., Zhang, J., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Benjamin, C., Englmeier, J., Fricke, U., Ganuza, C., Haensel, M., Riebl, R., Uphus, L., & Ewald, J. (2023). Plant species composition and local habitat conditions as primary determinants of terrestrial arthropod assemblages. Oecologia. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-023-05345-6 Uhler, J., Redlich, S., Zhang, J., Hothorn, T., Tobisch, C., Ewald, J., Thorn, S., Seibold, S., Mitesser, O., Morinière, J., Bozicevic, V., Benjamin, C. S., Englmeier, J., Fricke, U., Ganuza, C., Haensel, M., Riebl, R., Rojas-Botero, S., Rummler, T., … Müller, J. (2021). Relationship of insect biomass and richness with land use along a climate gradient. Nature Communications, 12(5946), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26181-3 Uphus, L., Lüpke, M., Yuan, Y., Benjamin, C., Englmeier, J., Fricke, U., Ganuza, C., Schwindl, M., Uhler, J., & Menzel, A. (2021). Climate effects on vertical forest phenology of Fagus sylvatica L., sensed by sentinel-2, time lapse camera, and visual ground observations. Remote Sensing, 13(3982), 1–27. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13193982 Wang, Y., Rensink, A. H., Fricke, U., Riddle, M. C., Trent, C., van de Zande, L., & Verhulst, E. C. (2022). Doublesex regulates male-specific differentiation during distinct developmental time windows in a parasitoid wasp. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 142(103724). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibmb.2022.103724 Welti, E. A. R., Zajicek, P., Frenzel, M., Ayasse, M., Bornholdt, T., Buse, J., Classen, A., Dziock, F., Engelmann, R. A., Englmeier, J., Fellendorf, M., Förschler, M. I., Fricke, U., Ganuza, C., Hippke, M., Hoenselaar, G., Kaus-Thiel, A., Kerner, J., Kilian, D., … Haase, P. (2021). Temperature drives variation in flying insect biomass across a German malaise trap network. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 15, 168–180. https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12555
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