Dr. rer. nat. Denise Heike Böhnke Thomas Meinzer-Beyer

Dr. rer. nat. Denise Heike Böhnke

  • Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

My research

since 2017

In the future, the consequences of climate change will present us with challenges that individuals can hardly assess today in terms of their extent and significance for their lives, but also for our society. Whether we are talking about individual resources such as water or the entire urban ecosystem, one first has to understand current conditions and underlying interrelationships and (ecological) dependencies, the changes which have already occurred and consequences which can be expected from future changes. Based on this, we can elaborate how to adapt to expected changes and their consequences to minimize negative impacts locally.

This can only be achieved if science and municipalities work even more closely together, hand in hand and goal-oriented. Politics and municipalities set the local course for the necessary action, while science provides forecasts of the expected changes and - in cooperation with practitioners - possible solutions. For some years now, I have therefore been interested in the interface between science and municipal practice and the integration of research knowledge into everyday planning and public.

My research interests are very interdisciplinary in order to cover the human-urban-climate change interface as broadly and interconnectedly as possible. Find some examples below:

  • Climate adaptation: adaptation strategies, measures and their implementation in planning processes.
  • Urban climatology and biometeorology: measurement and assessment of urban heat and microclimatic effects
  • Urban ecosystem services: Inventory and assessment, ways for consideration in planning or policy decisions
  • Assessment of quality of life in public spaces
  • Urban ecology and urban green

Applied research projects

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NaMaRes: Resource Management in Neighborhoods in the Context of Sustainable Urban Development (2019-2021), KIT-AGW
  • Joint project with four partners from KIT (AGW, IIP, FIWI, CMM), the city of Karlsruhe, Smart Geomatics GmbH and the planning office sippel.buff; funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research
  • Aims: Web tool development for the physical description and evaluation of urban neighborhoods with regard to the resources water, land, material flows, open and green spaces, ecosystem services), taking into account actors, options for action and conflicting goals.

KomKlim: Implementation of municipal climate adaptation in urban land use planning in the pilot project of the development of the Spinelli Barracks / Grünzug Nordost site in Mannheim, Germany (2017 – 2018), KIT-IfR

  • Cooperation project between the KIT Institutes of Regional Science and of Applied Geosciences and the planning administration of the city of Mannheim, sponsored by the State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW)
  • Aims: Integration of scientists into an ongoing urban land use planning process as climate experts / adaptation managers; development of a climate adaptation concept for the new 20ha urban district (heat/heavy rain/ventilation) taking into account the legal regulations; incorporation of the measures into the planning; investigation of the possibilities and obstacles.

FoRK: Technical, economic, social and political consequences due to the decommissioning of a nuclear power plant at regional and local level (2016), KIT-IfGG

  • Cooperation project between the KIT Institutes of Geography and Geoecology (IfGG) and for Technology and Management in Construction (TMB) and four four nuclear power plant sites in SW Germany sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
  • Aim: Develop a model for future decommissioning that allows forecasting of the potential economic and societal impacts on the population and industry.

Investigation of the ecology of ticks as vectors of diseases in relation to habitat, land use, host animals and climate (2012 - 2016), KIT-IfGG

Teaching

Climate Urban Transition (IfR, S 2024/25)

Paradigms of risk-orientated spatial planning (IfR, S 2023/24)

Risk, vulnerability and climate transition in spatial planning (IfR, VL 2023)

Urban Ecology - Lecture, Practical Course, Seminar

University partnership KATHES - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
PhD Workshop "Linking Scientists in Urban Research" together with Andreas Schenk (IPF) and an impulse talk by Joachim Fallmann from city of Heidelberg, July 2022

Supervised theses (since 2019).

Marina Klaus (2022): Systematization and value assessment of diverse ecosystem services of urban green spaces. Master thesis.

Ronja Becker (2022): Contribution of settlement areas to insect food diversity. Master thesis.

Alice Krehl (2022): Further development of ecosystem performance indicators for decision support in urban neighborhood development. Master thesis.

Carolin Reichert (2022): Implementing sustainable urban development in land-use plans - historical development and current and future challenges. Master's thesis.

Jerutka, Kirke (2020): Structural and functional diversity of city squares - an assessment concept. Bachelor thesis.

Mandler, Rebekka (2020): Construction of an urban climatological model for the analysis of cold air flows and the urban heat island using the example of the inner city east in Karlsruhe. Master thesis.

Geiger, Yannis (2019): Modeling urban climatic impacts of development measures at the KIT South Campus on adjacent urban areas. Master thesis.

Bach, Jessica (2019): Heat stress and effects of environmental parameters of Lidellplatz in Karlsruhe city center on human bioclimate. Master's thesis.

Krehl, Alice (2019): Inventory of ecosystem services in the inner city east in Karlsruhe. Bachelor thesis.

Publications and presentations


2024
Böhnke, D. H.; Benz, S. A.; Gallacher, C.; Keller, S.; Krikau, S.; Jehling, M. (2024, June 11). Maßnahmen kommunaler Klimaanpassung - von Optionen zur räumlichen Verortung. 16. Dresdner Flächennutzungssymposium (DFNS 2024), Dresden, Germany, June 11–12, 2024.
Böhnke, D. H. (2024, March 19). Einblicke in die Herausforderungen kommunaler Klimaanpassung in der Bauleitplanung. 10. BIOMET-Tagung (2024), Offenbach, Germany, March 19–21, 2024.
Gallacher, C.; Benz, S.; Boehnke, D.; Jehling, M. (2024). A collaborative approach for the identification of thermal hot-spots: from remote sensing data to urban planning interventions. AGILE: GIScience Series, 5, Art.-Nr.: 23. doi:10.5194/agile-giss-5-23-2024 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
2023
Boehnke, D.; Jehling, M.; Vogt, J. (2023). What hinders climate adaptation? Approaching barriers in municipal land use planning through participant observation. Land Use Policy, 132, Art.-Nr.: 106786. doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106786
Böhnke, D. (2023, August 15). Lebensraum Stadt - Zukunft vor der eigenen Haustür!. KIT Kinder-Uni (2023), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, August 1–17, 2023.
Krehl, A.; Boehnke, D.; Norra, S. (2023). NaMaRes Leitfaden – Ressourceneffizienz in der Quartiersentwicklung : Handlungsfeld Ökosystemleistungen. doi:10.5445/IR/1000158354 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
Naber, E.; Volk, R.; Schultmann, F.; Krehl, A.; Böhnke, D. H.; Norra, S.; Ehbrecht, A.; Schuhmann, R. (2023). Ergebnisbericht zu den Arbeitspaketen 7, 8 und 10 des Forschungsprojekts NaMaRes. doi:10.5445/IR/1000158422 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
Schäfer, A.; Mühr, B.; Kaiser, F.; Böhnke, D. H.; Mohr, S.; Kunz, M. (2023). CEDIM Forensic Disaster Analysis (FDA) Group: Untersuchung der globalen Hitzewelle im Jahr 2023. doi:10.5445/IR/1000161235 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
Volk, R.; Naber, E.; Schultmann, F.; Lützkendorf, T.; Mörmann, K.; Norra, S.; Böhnke, D.; Krehl, A.; Schuhmann, R.; Ehbrecht, A.; Beck, T.; Tomaschewski, P.; Hackenbruch, J.; Rosenberg, S.; Hacker, N. (2023). Bewertung der Ökologie, Wirtschaftlichkeit und sozialen Effekte von ressourceneffizienzsteigernden Maßnahmen auf Quartiersebene – von der volkswirtschaftlichen zur akteursspezifischen Perspektive (NaMaRes): Schlussbericht des Forschungsvorhabens. KIT Scientific Publishing. doi:10.5445/KSP/1000157235 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
2022
Boehnke, D.; Krehl, A.; Mörmann, K.; Volk, R.; Lützkendorf, T.; Naber, E.; Becker, R.; Norra, S. (2022). Mapping Urban Green and Its Ecosystem Services at Microscale—A Methodological Approach for Climate Adaptation and Biodiversity. Sustainability, 14 (15), Art.-Nr.: 9029. doi:10.3390/su14159029 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
Boehnke, D.; Tsegas, G.; Moussiopoulos, N. (2022, June 29). Assimilating data from local thermal measurements in urban-scale flow and dispersion modelling. 13th International Conference on Air Quality - Science and Application (2022), Thessaloniki, Greece, June 27–July 1, 2022.
Böhnke, D. (2022, June 29). Umsetzung wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse in stadtplanerisches Handeln. 6. Impulsvortrag Klimafitte Kommunen: Mikroklima, Hitzestau und Starkniederschläge im Fokus – Kommunen mit blau-grüner Infrastruktur klimafit machen (2022), Stuttgart, Germany, June 29, 2022.
Böhnke, D. (2022, November 12). Impulsreferat „Klimafreundliche Stadt“. Klausurtagung Stadt Herbolzheim (2022), Herbolzheim, Germany, November 12, 2022.
Naber, E.; Volk, R.; Mörmann, K.; Boehnke, D.; Lützkendorf, T.; Schultmann, F. (2022). Namares—A Surface Inventory and Intervention Assessment Model for Urban Resource Management. Sustainability, 14 (14), Artkl.Nr.: 8485. doi:10.3390/su14148485 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
2021
Boehnke, D. (2021, March 8). Karlsruhe schwitzt: Hitzesommer in der Innenstadt und wie Forschung da helfen kann. Wissenschaftskommunikation im Projekt “Und was machst du so? (2021), Online, March 8, 2021.
Boehnke, D. (2021). The many faces of the factor temperature and its effects on individuals and populations. 14th International Symposium on Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases (2021), Online, März 24-26, 2021.
Boehnke, D. (2021). Exploring the Thermal Microcosms at the Forest Floor : A Case Study of a Temperate Forest. Atmosphere, 12 (4), Art.-Nr. 503. doi:10.3390/atmos12040503 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
Böhnke, D.; Norra, S. (2021). Stadtquartiere im Wandel, Kommunales Niederschlagsmanagement in Bestand und Neubau – Erkenntnisse praxisnaher Forschung. Transforming cities, (3), 34–39.
Böhnke, D.; Norra, S.; Krehl, A.; Becker, R.; Naber, E.; Volk, R. (2021, June 29). Kartierung und Bewertung von Grünbeständen und deren Ökosystemleistungen in privaten Innenhöfen – Erkenntnisse einer quartierbezogenen Erhebung. Dresdner Flächennutzungssymposium (DFNS 2021), Dresden, Germany, June 28–29, 2021.
Böhnke, D.; Volk, R.; Lützkendorf, T.; Naber, E.; Krehl, A.; Becker, R.; Norra, S. (2021). Grünbestände in privaten Innenhöfen und deren Ökosystemleistungen im Stadtquartier: Erkenntnisse einer quartiersweiten Erhebung in Karlsruhe. Flächennutzungsmonitoring XIII. Hrsg.: G. Meinel, 149–157, Rhombos-Verlag. doi:10.26084/13dfns-p014 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
Volk, R.; Naber, E.; Lützkendorf, T.; Böhnke, D.; Mörmann, K.; Schultmann, F.; Norra, S. (2021). Identifikation und Bewertung von Entsiegelungspotenzialen als Beitrag zur nachhaltigen Quartiersentwicklung: Zwischenergebnisse aus NaMaRes. Flächennutzungsmonitoring XIII. Hrsg.: G. Meinel, 209–219, Rhombos-Verlag. doi:10.26084/13dfns-p019 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
2020
Boehnke, D.; Jerutka, K. (2020). Stadtplätze: Zur Bewertung der Aufenthaltsqualität von urbanen Räumen. Stadt und Raum, (6), 330–335. Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
Boehnke, D. (2020, February). Umsetzung der Klimaanpassung in die Bauleitplanung – Erkenntnisse einer Pilotstudie. 5. Konferenz "Räume neu denken - Planung in einer Welt im Wandel" (2020), Dortmund, Germany, February 17–18, 2020.
Volk, R.; Lützkendorf, T.; Schambelon, S.; Naber, E.; Mörmann, K.; Böhnke, D.; Norra, S.; Schuhmann, R.; Ehbrecht, A.; Balouktsi, M.; Schultmann, F. (2020). Stakeholder-specific assessment of environmental, economic and social effects of resource-efficiency measures in urban districts - first results. IOP conference series / Earth and environmental science, 588, Art.-Nr.: 052036. doi:10.1088/1755-1315/588/5/052036 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
Volk, R.; Lützkendorf, T.; Schambelon, S.; Naber, E.; Mörmann, K.; Böhnke, D.; Norra, S.; Schuhmann, R.; Ehbrecht, A.; Balouktsi, M.; Schultmann, F. (2020, June). NaMaRes: Stakeholder-specific assessment of resource-efficiency measures in urban districts - first results. Beyond - World Sustainable Built Environment Conference (2020), Online, November 2–4, 2020.
2019
Boehnke, D. (2019, September). Environmental and Health Impacts in Cities. GRACE Sommerschule - Saubere Energie und Nachhaltigkeit (Summer School - Clean Energy and Sustainability) (2019), Possidi, September 2–6, 2019.
Boehnke, D.; Körner, F.; Greuloch, W. (2019, October 29). Möglichkeiten und Hemmnisse der kommunalen Klimawandelanpassung in RLP. Klimawandelanpassung in Kommunen - Netzwerktreffen rheinland-pfälzischer Kommunen und Landkreise (2019), Annweiler am Trifels, Germany, October 29, 2019.
Böhnke, D. (2019). Risiko einer FSME-Infektion infolge individueller Exposition und alimentärer Übertragung. FSME in Deutschland. Stand der Wissenschaft. Hrsg.: Franz Rubel, Julia Schiffner-Rohe, 137–150, Deutscher Wissenschaftsverlag. Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
Petney, T.; Littvin, N.; Böhnke, D.; Obiegala, A.; Schaeffer, M.; Muders, S.; Pfäffle, M.; Pfeffer, M. (2019). Freilandstudien zu Kleinsäugern und Zecken. FSME in Deutschland. Stand der Wissenschaft. Hrsg.: Franz Rubel, Julia Schiffner-Rohe, Julia, 81–94, Deutscher Wissenschaftsverlag.
2018
Boehnke, D. (2018). Die Bedeutung des Bodens für Klimaanpassungsmaßnahmen in Städten in Hinblick auf die Stadtplanung. 2. Symposium "Wahrnehmung und Bewertung von Böden in der Gesellschaft", Leipzig, 11.-12.10.2018, DBG.
Boehnke, D. (2018, November). Forest microclimate – a rarely measured habitat. Universidade Federal do Paraná (2018), Curitiba, Brazil, November 2, 2018.
Böhnke, D. H.; Norra, S.; Petney, T. N.; Gebhardt, R. (2018, March 12). Die Wirkung meteorologischer Faktoren auf die Populationsdynamik von Ixodes ricinus : Methodische Erkenntnisse und Problemanalyse. 4. Süddeutscher Zeckenkongress (2018), Stuttgart, Germany, March 12–14, 2018. Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
Vogt, J.; Boehnke, D.; Norra, S. (2018). KomKlim : Umsetzung der kommunalen Klimaanpassung in die Bauleitplanung im Pilotprojekt der Entwicklung des Geländes der Spinelli Barracks / Grünzug Nordost in Mannheim. doi:10.5445/IR/1000170877 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document

Publications on tick research


2017
Gentes, S.; Kramer, C.; Böhnke, D.; Ehrlich, S.; Emami-Far, H.; Kretz, S.; Krauss, C.-O.; Weber, M.
Technische, wirtschaftliche, soziale und politische Folgen durch den Rückbau eines Kernkraftwerks auf regionaler und lokaler Ebene
2017. Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
Boehnke, D.; Gebhardt, R.; Petney, T.; Norra, S.
On the complexity of measuring forests microclimate and interpreting its relevance in habitat ecology : The example of ticks
2017. Parasites & vectors, 10 (1), Art.Nr. 549. doi:10.1186/s13071-017-2498-5 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
2016
Böhnke, D. H.; Brugger, K.; Rubel, F.; Petney, T. N.; Oehme, R.; Norra, S.
Temperaturbedingte Verbreitung und – grenzen von Ixodes ricinus in Baden-Württemberg
2016, March 15. 3. Süddeutscher Zeckenkongress (2016), Stuttgart, Germany, March 14–16, 2016 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
Brugger, K.; Boehnke, D.; Petney, T.; Dobler, G.; Pfeffer, M.; Silaghi, C.; Schaub, G. A.; Pinior, B.; Dautel, H.; Kahl, O.; Pfister, K.; Süss, J.; Rubel, F.
A Density Map of the Tick-Borne Encephalitis and Lyme Borreliosis Vector Ixodes ricinus (Acari: Ixodidae) for Germany
2016. Journal of medical entomology, 53 (6), 1292–1302. doi:10.1093/jme/tjw116
Böhnke, D. H.
Habitat ecology and microclimatic influences on the distribution of Ixodes ricinus ticks in Baden-Württemberg. PhD dissertation
2016. Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT). doi:10.5445/IR/1000061789 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
2015
Boehnke, D.; Brugger, K.; Pfäffle, M.; Sebastian, P.; Norra, S.; Petney, T.; Oehme, R.; Littwin, N.; Lebl, K.; Raith, J.; Walter, M.; Gebhardt, R.; Rubel, F.
Estimating Ixodes ricinus densities on the landscape scale
2015. International journal of health geographics, 14 (1), 23 S. doi:10.1186/s12942-015-0015-7 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
2014
Böhnke, D.; Petney, T.; Norra, S.; Gebhardt, R.; Pfäffle, M.; Sebastian, P.
Betreten auf eigene Gefahr - Die Ausbreitung der Zecke Ixodes ricinus in Baden-Württemberg
2014. 2. Süddeutscher Zeckenkongress, 17. & 18. März 2014, Schloss Hohenheim
Norra, S.; Böhnke, D.; Gebhardt, R.; Kull, M.; Jonderko, B.; Wandler, M.; Pettney, T.; Sebastian, P.; Litttwin, N.; Pfäffle, M.; Hogewind, F.; Oehme, R.
Relevance of Soil Climate Variations and Microclimate for the Distribution of Ticks and Tick Borne Diseases in South-West Germany
2014. 20th World Congress of Soil Science, Jeju, Korea, June 8-13, 2014
Sebastian, P.; Mackenstedt, U.; Wassermann, M.; Wurst, E.; Hartelt, K.; Petney, T.; Pfäffle, M.; Littwin, N.; Steidle, J. L. M.; Selzer, P.; Norra, S.; Böhnke, D.; Gebhardt, R.; Kahl, O.; Dautel, H.; Oehme, R.
Ökologie von Zecken als Überträger von Krankheitserregern in Baden-Württemberg und biologische Zeckenbekämpfung
2014. Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz, 57, 549–556. doi:10.1007/s00103-013-1929-5
2013
Böhnke, D.; Norra, S.; Petney, T.
Landscape scaled distribution of the tick Ixodes ricinus depending on microclimate and soil condition
2013. 43. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Ökologie, 9-13 September 2013, Potsdam [Konferenz]