
Dr. Astrid de Oliveira Wittmann
- Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
- Forschung
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Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Institut für Geographie und Geoökologie
Abteilung Aueninstitut
Josefstr.1
D-76437 Rastatt
Astrid de Oliveira Wittman
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
Contributions in peer-reviewed journals
2015Wittmann, F., Householder, J. E., Wittmann, A. O., Lopes, A., Junk, W. J., Piedade, M. T. F. (2015): Implementation of the Ramsar convention on South American wetlands. Research and Reports in Biodiversity Studies 4, pp. 47–58.2009Wittmann, F., Schöngart, J., Queiroz, H. L., Wittmann, A. O., Conserva, A. 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. Ecohydrology and Hydrobiology, pp. 41–54.
2007Wittmann, A. O., Piedade, M. T. F., Parolin, P., Wittmann, F. (2007): Germination in four low-várzea tree species of central Amazonia. Aquatic Botany 86, pp. 197–203.
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 Botânica 58, pp. 119–138.
Book chapters
2010Piedade, M. T. F., Ferreira, C. S., Wittmann, A. O., Buckeridge, M. (2010): Biochemistry of Amazonian Floodplain Trees. In: Junk, W. J., Piedade, M. T. F., Wittmann, F., Schöngart, J., Parolin, P. (ed.): Amazonian Floodplain forests: Ecophysiology, Biodiversity and Sustainable Management.Wittmann, A. O., Lopes, A., Conserva, A. S., Wittmann, F., Piedade, M. T. F. (2010): Seed germination and seedling establishment of Amazonian floodplain trees. pp. 259–280. In: Junk, W. J., Piedade, M. T. F., Wittmann, F., Schöngart, J., Parolin, P. (ed.): Amazonian Floodplain forests: Ecophysiology, Biodiversity and Sustainable Management.
Wittmann, F., Wittmann, A. O. (2010): Use of Amazonian floodplain Trees. pp. 389–418. In: Junk, W. J., Piedade, M. T. F., Wittmann, F., Schöngart, J., Parolin, P. (ed.): Amazonian Floodplain forests: Ecophysiology, Biodiversity and Sustainable Management.
Books
2010Wittmann, F., Schöngart, J., Brito, J. M., Wittmann, A. O., Parolin, P., Piedade, M. T. F., Junk, W. J., Guillaumet, J. -. L. (2010): Manual of tree species from central Amazonian white-water (várzea) floodplains: Taxonomy, Ecology and Use. 298 pp., INPA (Manaus)