Dr. rer. nat. Felix Zitzmann

Main research areas

• Biodiversity (e.g. avifauna, carabid beetles, mammals, vascular plants) in the agricultural landscape
• Novel ecosystems (e.g. short rotation plantations, paludiculture, modern agroforestry systems, solar parks) and their importance as habitats for different species groups
• Impact regulation, species protection and production integrated conservation measures (PIK, AUKM, CEF and FCS measures)

I am currently working on the following topics, among others, as part of research projects or in collaboration with students:

• How does the dragonfly fauna of a reed-bed paludiculture experiment site develop in the first years after establishment?
• How does the crop and associated flora develop in paludiculture with reeds and bulrushes in the first years after establishment?
• Which habitat and landscape parameters influence the occurrence of reed-breeding birds in reed meadows in Lower Saxony?
• Which mammals use short rotation coppice strips as habitat in modern agroforestry systems? Are the tree strips also suitable habitats for the strictly protected dormouse Muscardinus avellanarius?
• Which wood-breeding bird species nest in different types of short-rotation coppice?
• What is the importance of short rotation coppice for the habitat network of forest carabids?
• Which species of ground beetles and spiders hibernate and breed in different areas of solar parks?
• Which birds, butterflies, carabid beetles, mammals and vascular plants use solar parks as habitats?
• Which bird and mammal species use an agricultural PV test site as a habitat (research project by Lara Diekmann)?

Teaching activities

• Supervision of study projects and bachelor/ master theses
• Coordination and teaching of the modules "Faunistic Field Methods" and "Faunistic-ecological Methods in Landscape Planning"
• Lectures in the modules "Biodiversity and Nature Conservation", "Nature Conservation and Landscape Planning: Principles and methods" and "Planning-related ecology"
• Field trips, charettes