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Dr. Astrid de Oliveira Wittmann

  • Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

    Institut für Geographie und Geoökologie
    Abteilung Aueninstitut
    Josefstr.1
    D-76437 Rastatt

     

Astrid de Oliveira Wittman

Graduated in Biological Sciences at Universidade Federal do Amazonas-UFAM (Federal University of Amazonas), Brazil. Master and Ph.D. in Tropical Biology and Natural Resources (Botany) at Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia-INPA, Brazil.

Topics

  • Vegetation
  • Ecophysiology
  • Wetlands

CV

Seit 2017 Associate at the Institute of Geography & Geoecology of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Department Aueninstitut, Rastatt
2015-2016 Coordinator of the project: Germination, morphophysiology and seedling development, under different experimental environment conditions. UFAM/ FAPEAM, Brazil Fellowship Program
2013-2015 Visiting Professor at Federal University of Amazonas - UFAM, Brazil. Lecturer in the postgraduate course Biological diversity
2012-2013 Postdoctorate Grantee of: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Level (CAPES), MAUA working Group, INPA, Brazil
2010-2011 Government Employee Secretariat of Science, Technology and Innovation of the State of Amazonas, Brazil
2008-2010 Research Fellowship of Ecology, Monitoring and Sustainable Use of Wetlands – MAUA working Group, INPA, Brazil
2003-2007 Ph.D. in Tropical Biology and Natural Resources (Botany) at INPA, Brazil. With collaborative period at the Tropical Ecology Working Group - Max-Planck-Institute of Limnology and Kiel University, Germany
1992-2002 Scholarship of the bilateral cooperation research group Brazil-Germany INPA/Max Planck Institute

Publications


2017
Wittmann, F.; Marques, M. C. M.; Damasceno Júnior, G.; Budke, J. C.; Piedade, M. T. F.; Wittmann, A. de O.; Montero, J. C.; Assis, R. L. de; Targhetta, N.; Parolin, P.; u. a. (2017). The Brazilian freshwater wetscape: Changes in tree community diversity and composition on climatic and geographic gradients. PLoS one, 12 (4), Art. Nr.: e0175003. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0175003VolltextVolltext der Publikation als PDF-Dokument
2015
Freitas, C. T.; Demarchi, L. O.; Oliveira, D. N.; Wittmann, A. de O.; Wittmann, F. (2015). Os habitantes das áreas alagáveis amazônicas e o uso de recursos vegetais. Conhecendo as Áreas Úmidas Amazônicas: uma viagem pelas várzeas e igapós. Ed.: A. Lopes, 129–138, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA).
2010
Piedade, M. T. F.; Ferreira, C. S.; Wittmann, A. O.; Buckeridge, M.; Parolin, P. (2010). Biochemistry of Amazonian Floodplain Trees. Amazonian Floodplain forests. Ed.: W. Junk, 127–139, Springer-Verlag. doi:10.1007/978-90-481-8725-6_6
Wittmann, A. O.; Lopes, A.; Conserva, A. S.; Wittmann, F.; Piedade, M. T. F. (2010). Seed germination and seedling establishment of Amazonian floodplain trees. Amazonian Floodplain forests. Ed.: W. Junk, 259–280, Springer-Verlag. doi:10.1007/978-90-481-8725-6_13
Wittmann, A. de O.; Parolin, P.; Piedade, M. T. F.; Junk, W. J.; Guillaumet, J.-L. (2010). Manual of trees from Central Amazonian várzea floodplains : taxonomy, ecology and use = Manual de árvores de várzea da Amazônia Central : taxonomia, ecologia e uso. (F. Wittmann, J. Schöngart & J. M. de Brito, Hrsg.), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA).
Wittmann, F.; Wittmann, A. O. (2010). Use of Amazonian floodplain Trees. Amazonian Floodplain forests. Ed.: W. Junk, 389–418, Springer-Verlag. doi:10.1007/978-90-481-8725-6_19
2009
Wittmann, F.; Schöngart, J.; Queiroz, H. L.; Wittmann, A. de O.; Conserva, A. dos S.; Piedade, M. T. F.; Kesselmeier, J.; Junk, W. J. (2009). The Amazon Floodplain Demonstration Site: Sustainable timber production and management of Central Amazonian white-water floodplains. International journal of ecohydrology & hydrobiology, 9 (1), 41–54. doi:10.2478/v10104-009-0038-4
2007
Wittmann, A. de O.; Piedade, M. T. F.; Parolin, P.; Wittmann, F. (2007). Germination in four low-várzea tree species of central Amazonia. Aquatic botany, 86 (3), 197–203. doi:10.1016/j.aquabot.2006.10.001
Wittmann, A. O.; Piedade, M. T. F.; Wittmann, F.; Schöngart, J.; Parolin, P. (2007). Patterns of structure and seedling diversity along a successional gradient in Amazonian floodplain forests. Pesquisas, 58, 119–138.