Director Project E10

E-mail

karin.frank@ufz.de
http://www.ufz.de/index.php?de=5457

Address

Helmholtzzentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ
Department Ökologische Systemanalyse

Permoserstr. 15
D-04318 Leipzig
Germany

www.ufz.de

Staff - 3rd phase of research

Prof. Dr. Karin Frank

Main fields of research:

Ecological and ecological-economic modelling • dynamics, functions and stability properties of ecological systems under environmental change • mobility and viability under spatio-temporal variability • interplay between ecological and socio-economic factors • risk analysis and management • biodiversity conservation and sustainable use of natural resources, esp. grazing in semi-arid regions • development of model-based tools for management-support and policy advice • conceptual and methodological work

Since 07/2010: Joint Professorship for "Ecological Modelling“ at the University of Osnabrück and the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig
Since 2010 Head of the Department of Ecological Modelling at the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig • July 2008-June 2012 Project Leader at the Collaborative Research Centre "Difference and Integration"  • Since 1992 scientist and 2007-2009 Acting Head of the Department of Ecological Modelling at the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig • From 2003 to 2007 Co-Leader of the Junior Research Group "Ecological Economics" founded by the VolkswagenStiftung • 2007 Call for a Professorship in "Biostatistics" at the University of Oldenburg (declined) • 2006 Habilitation and Adjunct Professorship in Applied Systems Sciences at the University of Osnabrück • 1992 PhD in Mathematics at the University of Leipzig • From 1983 to 1988 Diploma studies in Mathematics at the University of Leipzig.

Selected Publications:

Drees, R., Linstädter, A., Frank, K., Müller, B., (2012). Which household tolerates droughts? - Strategies to secure pastoral livelihoods. Proceedings of International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs), 8 pages.

Dressler, G., Müller, B., Frank, K. (2012). Mobility – a panacea for pastoralism? An ecological-economic modelling approach. Proceedings of International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs), 8 pages.

Müller, B., Quaas, M.F., Frank, K., Baumgärtner, S. (2011a). Pitfalls and Potential of Institutional Change: Rain-Index Insurance and the Sustainability of Rangeland Management. Ecological Economics (70), 2137-2144. (Link: doi:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800911002436)

Schlüter, M., Müller, B., Frank, K., (2012a). MORE - Modeling for Resilience Thinking and Ecosystem Stewardship, Working paper, available online at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2037723.

 

Müller, B., Frank, K., and Wissel, C. (2007). Relevance of rest periods in non-equilibrium rangeland systems - a modelling analysis. Agricultural Systems 92: 295-317.

Müller, B., Linstädter, A., Frank, K., Bollig, M., and Wissel, C. (2007). Learning from local knowledge: modeling the pastoral-nomadic range management of the Himba, Namibia. Ecol. Appl. 17: 1857-1875.

Frank, K., Baumgärtner, S., Becker, C., Müller, B., and Quaas, M. (2006). Ecological-economic models for sustainable grazing in semi-arid regions: between concepts and case studies. In: Leser, H. (Ed.): The Changing Culture and Nature of Namibia: Case Studies. Publishing House Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Basel - Windhoek, 69 - 89.

Heinz, S.K., Wissel, C., and Frank, K. (2006) On the viability of metapopulations: individual dispersal behaviour matters. Landscape Ecology 21: 77-89.

Frank, K. (2005) Metapopulation persistence in heterogeneous landscapes: Lessons about the effect of stochasticity. The American Naturalist 165: 374-388.

Frank, K., Lorek, H., Köster, F., Sonnenschein, M., Wissel, C, and Grimm, V. (2003) META-X: Software for Metapopulation Viability Analysis. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.