Current Theses

Julia BELLMANN, The global conservation status of parrots: the importance of species traits and the potential contribution of ex-situ protection.

Stefan BÜRSCHGENS, Zeitliche Etablierung und Auflösung von Kiebitzterritorien in Gebieten mit unterschiedlichem Prädationsrisiko.

Marina FISCHER, Ecomorphology of tropical understory birds: a case study across a gradient of vegetational complexity in the Pacific lowlands of Costa Rica.

Luka GAŠPAR, Taxonomic diversity of nocturnal moths during succession on reforestation sites in the Golfo Dulce region of Costa Rica.

Tomislav GAŠPAR, The influence of snow cover on the reproductive fitness of urban kestrels Falco tinnunculus.

Melanie HOPPMANN, Conservation value of secondary forests and reforestation areas for amphibians in the Biological Corridor La Gamba, Costa Rica.

Katharina HUCHLER, Functional diversity of nocturnal moths during succession on reforestation sites in the Golfo Dulce region of Costa Rica.

Juliana ILMAIER, Klimatisch bedingte Arealausbreitung ausgewählter mitteleuropäischer Nachtfalter (Familie Erebidae) in den Norden.

Daniel JERGA, Change in functional diversity of nocturnal Lepidoptera in Danubian floodplain forrest.

Catherine KIRSCH, To what extent are distress calls of tropical understory birds related to habitat preferences and social interactions?

Jennifer KLEHR, Phylogenetic diversity of moths on an elevational gradient in the pacific northwest (Oregon, USA) in relation to ecological parameters and conservation aspects.

Kai KOLODZIEJ, The importance of species’ traits for temporal abundance changes in amphibians and reptiles in different lowland forest types in southwestern Costa Rica.

Dennis KOLLARITZ, Diversity of amphibians and reptiles in countryside habitats in the Pacific lowlands of Costa Rica.

Dominik KRANL, Differences in recapture rates of tropical understory birds between primary and secondary rain forest of the Golfo Dulce region, Costa Rica.

Samuel MESSNER, The importance of accumulated driftwood for xylobiotic beetles in Donau-Auen National Park.

Anna-Lena Susanna MIEKE, Diversity and habitat requirements of openland birds in a tropical countryside in southwestern Costa Rica.

Martina PASTNER, Scientifical management of the Northern Rockhopper Penguin (Eudyptes moseleyi) ex situ population at Zoo Vienna.

Sofia RAFFETSEDER, Response of flower-visiting hummingbirds to sit-and -wait predators: Effects of foraging behaviour an d body size.

Carolina REISSINGER, Patterns of species turnover in understory bird assemblages over a 3-year period in a chronosequence of secondary forest age in the Biological Corridor La Gamba, Costa Rica.

Marco SPRENGNAGEL, Butterfly community compositions of the (semi-) dry grasslands in the conservation area Glaslauterriegel-Heferlberg-Fluxberg – Establishing transects for long-term monitoring.

Fabiola Karla, STRECKER, Ecomorphology of tropical understory birds: a case study across a gradient of vegetational complexity in the Pacific lowlands of Costa Rica.

Christof VIEHAUSER, DNA-sequence based species delineation in birds.

Manuela VILLA VILLEGAS, Effects of plant community composition on bird, bat, and arthropod communities in olive farms in Tuscany, Italy.

Vanessa WALTHER, Nest predation in different  forest types in the Biological Corridor La Gamba, Costa Rica: effects of vegetation structure an d landscape composition.

Jan WESTERHOFF, Populationsdichten und Bruterfolg der Schafstelze (Motaclilla flava) in unterschiedlichen Offenlandhabitaten im Seewinkel.