Dr. Ricarda Pätsch
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
Lectures
Winter term 2024 / 2025
Publications
[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