Dr. Ricarda Pätsch

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Dr. Ricarda Pätsch

Curriculum vitae

since 10/2024 Post-doctoral fellow & lecturer, Vegetation Ecology and Conservation Group, Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany

04/2021 – 12/2023 Post-doctoral fellow, Vegetation Science Group, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

10/2019 – 08/2020 ​Post-doctoral fellow, Wagner Ecology Lab, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, Canada

10/2012 – 09/2019 ​Postgraduate, University of Hildesheim. Topic of the PhD thesis: "Between land and sea — Saline and brackish grasslands of the Baltic Sea coast [data usability, characterisation and conservation]"

10/2012 – 03/2018 Scientific assistant (lecturer in basic biology [cytology, botany], botanical excursions, monitoring and assessing biological communities, vegetation science, B.Sc/M.Sc. thesis supervision), University of Hildesheim

10/2008 – 11/2011 Master’s program in Biodiversity & Ecology; Topic of the Master’s thesis: "Diversity of Grassland habitats of the Kerstlingeröder Feld, Göttingen", University of Göttingen

​ 10/2005 – 08/2008 ​ ​​Bachelor’s program in Biodiversity & Ecology; Topic of the Bachelor’s thesis: "Investigation on molecular phylogeny, tribe differentiation and biogeography of Jubula (Jungermanniopsida: Porellales)" , University of Göttingen

Publications

21. Aavik, T., Reitalu,T., Kivastik, M.,; Reinula, I., Träger, S., ....Pätsch, R.... & Zobel, M. (2025). A pan-European citizen science study reveals factors related to biased morph ratios in the heterostylous plant Primula veris. Journal of Ecology. accepted

20. Knollová I., Chytrý M., Bruelheide H., Dullinger S., Jandt U., Bernhardt-Römermann M., Biurrun I., de Bello F., Glaser M., Hennekens S., Jansen F., Jiménez-Alfaro B., Kadaš D., Kaplan E., Klinkovská K., Lenzner B., Pauli H., Sperandii M.G., Verheyen K., Winkler M., Abdaladze O., Aćić S., Acosta A.T.R., Alignier A., Andrews C., Arlettaz R., Attorre F., Axmanová I., Babbi M., Baeten L., Baran J., Barni E., Benito-Alonso J.-L., Berg C., Bergamini A., Berki I., Boch S., Bock B., Bode F., Bonari G., Boublík K., Britton A.J., Brunet J., Bruzzaniti V., Buholzer S., Burrascano S., Campos J.A., Carlsson B.-G., Carranza M.L., Černý T., Charmillot K., Chiarucci A., Choler P., Chytrý K., Corcket E., Csecserits A., Cutini M., Czarniecka-Wiera M., Danihelka J., de Francesco M.C., De Frenne P., Di Musciano M., De Sanctis M., Deák B., Decocq G., Dembicz I., Dengler J., Di Cecco V., Dick J., Diekmann M., Dierschke H., Dirnböck T., Doerfler I., Doležal J., Döring U., Durak T., Dwyer C., Ejrnæs R., Ermakova I., Erschbamer B., Fanelli G., Fernández-Calzado M-R., Fickert T., Fischer A., Fischer M., Foremnik K., Frouz J., García-González R., García-Magro D., García-Mijangos I., Gavilán R.G., Germ M., Ghosn D., Gigauri K., Gizela J., Golob A., Golub V., Gómez-García D., Gowing D., Grytnes J.-A., Güler B., Gutiérrez-Girón A., Haase P., Haider S., Hájek M., Halassy M., Harásek M., Härdtle W., Heinken T., Hester A., Humbert J.-Y., Ibáñez R., Illa E., Jaroszewicz B., Jensen K., Jentsch A., Jiroušek M., Kalníková V., Kanka R., Kapfer J., Kazakis G., Kermavnar J., Kesting S., Khanina L., Kindermann E., Kotrík M., Koutecký T., Kozub Ł., Kuhn G., Kutnar L., La Montagna D., Lamprecht A., Lenoir J., Lepš J., Leuschner C., Lorite J., Madsen B., Ugarte R.M., Malicki M., Maliniemi T., Máliš F., Maringer A., Marrs R., Matesanz S., Metze K., Meyer S., Millett J., Mitchell R.J., Moeslund J.E., Moiseev P., di Cella U.M., Mudrák O., Müller F., Müller N., Naaf T., Nagy L., Napoleone F., Nascimbene J., Navrátilová J., Ninot J.M., Niu Y., Normand S., Ogaya R., Onipchenko V., Orczewska A., Ortmann-Ajkai A., Pakeman R.J., Pardo I., Pätsch R., Peet R.K., Penuelas J., Peppler-Lisbach C., Pérez-Hernández J., Pérez-Haase A., Petraglia A., Petřík P., Pielech R., Piórkowski H., Pladevall-Izard E., Poschlod P., Prach K., Praleskouskaya S., Prokhorov V., Provoost S., Pușcaș M., Pustková Š., Randin C.F., Rašomavičius V., Reczyńska K., Rédei T., Řehounková K., Richner N., Risch A.C., Rixen C., Rosbakh S., Roscher C., Rosenthal G., Rossi G., Rötzer H., Roux C., Rumpf S.B., Ruprecht E., Rūsiņa S., Sanz-Zubizarreta I., Schindler M., Schmidt W., Schories D., Schrautzer J., Schubert H., Schuetz M., Schwabe A., Schwaiger H., Schwartze P., Šebesta J., Seiler H., Šilc U., Silva V., Šmilauer P., Šmilauerová M., Sperle T., Stachurska-Swakoń A., Stanik N., Stanisci A., Steffen K., Storm C., Stroh H.G., Sugorkina N., Świerkosz K., Świerszcz S., Szymura M., Teleki B., Thébaud G., Theurillat J.-P., Tichý L., Treier U.A., Turtureanu P.D., Ujházy K., Ujházyová M., Ursu TM., Uziębło A.K., Valkó O., Van Calster H., Van Meerbeek K., Vandevoorde B., Vandvik V., Varricchione M., Vassilev K., Villar L., Virtanen R., Vittoz P., Voigt W., von Hessberg A., von Oheimb G., Wagner E., Walther G.-R., Wellstein C., Wesche K., Wilhelm M., Willner W., Wipf S., Wittig B., Wohlgemuth T., Woodcock B.A., Wulf M. & Essl F. (2024) ReSurveyEurope: A database of resurveyed vegetation plots in Europe. Journal of Vegetation Science 35: e13235. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13235 

19. Vehmaa A, Lanari M, Jutila H, Mussaari M, Pätsch R, Telenius A, Banta G, Eklöf J, Jensen K, Krause-Jensen D, Organo Quintana C, von Numers M, Boström C (2024) Harmonization of Nordic coastal marsh habitat classification benefits conservation and management, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2024.107104

18. de Assis Murillo R, Pätsch R, Wagner V (2024) Agronomic non-native species are overrepresented across habitat types in central Canada, Journal of Applied Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14631

17. Pätsch R, Midolo G, Dítě Z, Dítě D, Wagner V, Pavonič M, Danihelka J, Preislerová Z, Ćuk M, Stroh HG, Tóth T, Chytrá H, Chytrý M (accepted). Beyond salinity: plants show divergent responses to soil ion composition, Global Ecology and Biogeography, https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13821

16. Knollová I, Chytrý M, Bruelheide H (…, Pätsch R, ….) et al. (2024). ReSurveyEurope: a database of resurveyed vegetation plots in Europe. Journal of Vegetation Science, https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13235

15. Preislerová Z, Marcenò C, Loidi J (…, Pätsch R, ….) et al. (2024) Structural, ecological and biogeographical attributes of European vegetation alliances. Applied Vegetation Science 27: e12766. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12766

14. van der Hagen H, Lammers E, van der Meulen F, Pätsch R, van Rooijen N, Sykora K, Schaminée J (2023) The role of livestock grazing in long-term vegetation changes in coastal dunes: a case study from the Netherlands, Plant Sociology 60: 1–12. https://doi.org/10.3897/pls2023601/01

13. Pätsch R, Zapisocki Z, Tucker D, Stroh HG, Becker T, Spribille T, Wagner V (2022) Bedrock meadows: a distinct vegetation type in northwestern North America, Applied Vegetation Science, 25, e12702 https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12702

12. Midolo G, Herben T, Axmanová I, Marcenò C, Pätsch R, …. & Chytrý M (2022) Disturbance indicator values for European plants, Global Ecology and Biogeography 00:1–11.https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13603

11. Cubino JP, Axmanová I, Lososová Z, Večeřa M, Bergamini A, Bruelheide H, Dengler J, Jandt U, Jansen F, Pätsch R, Chytrý M (2022) The effect of niche filtering on plant species abundance in temperate grassland communities. Functional Ecology 00:1–12. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13994

10. Hatim MZ, Janssen JAM, Pätsch R, Shaltout K, Schaminée JHJ (2021) Phytosociological survey of the desert vegetation of Sinai, Egypt. Applied Vegetation Science 24:4. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12627

9. Biurrun I, Pielech R, Dembicz I (…, Pätsch R, ….) et al. (2021) Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats. Journal of Vegetation Science 32:e13050. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13050

8. Pouteau R, Thuiller W, Hobohm C (…, Pätsch R, ….) et al. (2021) Climate and socio-economic factors explain differences between observed and expected naturalization patterns of European plants around the world. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30: 1514–1531. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13316
Dr. rer. nat. Ricarda Pätsch

7. Pätsch (2019) Between land and sea — saline and brackish grasslands of the Baltic Sea coast data usability, characterisation and conservation. Dissertation. University Press Hildesheim, DE: Hildesheim.

6. Pätsch R, Bruchmann I, Schellenberg J, Meisert A, Bergmeier E (2019c). Elytrigia repens co-occurs with glycophytes rather than characteristic halophytes in low-growing salt meadows on the southern Baltic Sea coast. Biologia 74: 385–394. DOI: 10.2478/s11756-019-00195-1

5. Pätsch R, Schaminée JHJ, Janssen JAM, Hennekens SM, Bruchmann I, Jutila H, Meisert A, Bergmeier E (2019b). Between land and sea –a classification of saline and brackish grasslands of the Baltic Sea coast. Phytocoenologia 49(4): 319–348. DOI: 10.1127/phyto/2019/0339

4. Pätsch R, Jašková A, Milan C, Kucherov IB, Schaminée JHJ, Bergmeier E, Janssen JAM (2019a). Making them visible and usable – vegetation-plot observations from Fennoscandia based on historical species-quantity scales. Applied Vegetation Science 22(4): 465–473. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12452

3. Dengler J, Wagner V, Dembicz I (…, Pätsch R, ….) et al. (2018). GrassPlot - a database of multi-scale plant diversity in Palaearctic grasslands. Phytocoenologia 48(3): 331–347. DOI: 10.1127/phyto/2018/0267

2. Dengler J, Becker T, Heinken T, Kurzböck CM, Pätsch R (2018). News from GrassVeg.DE, the German grassland vegetation database. Palaearctic Grasslands (former EDGG Bulletin) 37:26–29. DOI: 10.21570/EDGG.PG.37.26-29

1. Pätsch R, Hentschel J, Linares-Palomino R, Zhu R-L, Heinrichs J (2010) Diversification and taxonomy of the liverwort Jubula Dumort. (Jungermanniopsida: Porellales) inferred from nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequences. Systematic Botany 35:6–12. DOI: 10.2307/40540520

Scientific and academic services

  • as of April 2025: deputy academic staff representative for the Faculty Council of Faculty V
  • Elected member of the IAVS Council 2023-2027
  • Custodian of the database „GrassVeg.DE“
  • Member of the Editorial (Review) Board: Applied Vegetation Science, Palaearctic Grasslands, Vegetation Classification and Survey
  • Reviewer: Applied Vegetation Science, Biodiversity and Conservation, Biologia, Folia Geobotanica, Tuexenia, Palaearctic Grasslands, Plant-Environment Interactions, Vegetation Classification and Survey
  • Former: Mentor within the program” Women in Ecology Mentoring Scheme” of the British Ecological Society; Member of the Young Scientists Steering Committee (IAVS)
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