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Carsten Brühl

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Research Group Lead Community Ecology & Ecotoxicology
Institute of Environmental Sciences University Koblenz-Landau
Fortstraße 7 D-76829 Landau Germany
Phone: +49 (0)6341-280310 Fax: +49 (0)6341-280326

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Main research interests:
  • Biodiversity of ants in Sabah, Malaysia: influences of altitude, stratification and disturbance on community composition.
  • Taxonomy of south-east asian ants
  • Carabid beetles of Borneo
  • Influences of agricultural practice and pestcides on the diversity of arthropods in fields and orchards in Europe
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    1989 Student of Biology at the Julius-Maximilians-University, Würzburg, Germany.
    1993/1994 Post graduate exchange student at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA (DAAD scholarship).
    1996 Diploma thesis (Prof. Linsenmair): 'Altitudinal distribution and stratification of ants in a primary rainforest in Sabah, Malaysia' at the department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Würzburg.
    2001 Ph. D. thesis (Prof. Linsenmair): 'Leaf litter ant communities in tropical lowland rain forests in Sabah, Malaysia: effects of forest disturbance and fragmentation' (DAAD scholarship).
    Scientific work and research experience:
    1988-2001 Extensive collection trips through Africa, Asia, USA and Mexico. Fieldwork on Entomology, Herpetology and Flora.
    1993-2001 Fieldwork during the Diploma and PH.D thesis in various regions in Sabah, Malaysia. Cooperations with the University Malaysia Sabah, the authorities of Mount Kinabalu Nationalpark and Danum Valley, the Forest Research Centre and the Forestry Department Sabah (GTZ-Project: Malaysian-German Sustainable Forestry Program).
    1996-2001 Curator of the ant reference collection at the Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Würzburg.
    2001-2005 Studies on benefical arthropods, monitoring of contracted study projects in the Terrestrial Ecology Section, Syngenta. Organisation of large-scale field studies on non-target arthropod communities in various crops (cereals, fruit orchards) in different EU countries, data analysis and ecological interpretation of results. Technical development of ecotoxicology studies in field and laboratory.
    2006 Research Group Lead Community Ecology & Ecotoxicology at the Institute of Environmental Sciences, University Koblenz-Landau, Campus Landau.
    Publications
  • Carsten A. Brühl (1993) Überblick über Geographie, Geologie, Klima und Vegetationsformationen der Insel Sao Tomé (Golf von Guinea). Faunistische Abhandlungen des Museums für Tierkunde, Dresden 19 (2), 5-16.
  • Carsten A. Brühl (1996) Ameisenzönosen in einem Primärwaldgradienten am Mount Kinabalu, Borneo: Höhenverbreitung und Stratifizierung. Diploma thesis, Julius-Maximilians Unversitüt, Würzburg.
  • Carsten A. Brühl (1997) Flightless insects: a test case for historical relationships of African mountains. Journal of Biogeography, 24, 233-250.
  • Carsten A. Brühl, Gunik Gunsalam & K. Eduard Linsenmair (1998) Stratification of ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in a primary rain forest in Sabah, Borneo. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 14, 285-297.
  • Matja Gogala, Yong Hoi-Sen & Carsten A. Brühl (1998) Maternal care in Pygoplatys bugs (Heteroptera: Tesseratomidae). European Journal of Entomology, 95, 311-315.
  • Brigitte Fiala & Carsten A. Brühl (1998) Diversity and stratification of ants in Kinabalu Park. In: Tropical Ecosystem Research in Sabah, p. 93-100. Eds. Maryati Mohamed, Jamili Nais & Henry Bernard, University Malaysia Sabah.
  • Carsten A. Brühl, Thomas Eltz & K. Eduard Linsenmair (1998) Composition of leaf litter ant communities in primary and secondary forests in Sabah, Malaysia. In: M.P. Schwarz & Hagedorn, K. (eds.) Social insects at the turn of the millennium - 13th Congress of IUSSI. p.84. Conference abstract.
  • Carsten A. Brühl, Maryati Mohamed & K. Eduard Linsenmair (1999) Altitudinal distribution of leaf litter ants along a transect in primary forests on Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 15, 265-277.
  • Rudolf Malkmus, Carsten A. Brühl & Thomas Eltz (1999) Amfibieen en reptielen van Deramakot (Sabah, Maleisie). Lacerta, 57, 191-199.
  • Carsten A. Brühl (2000) The association of a species of Gnamptogenys and a bug - myrmecophily or parasitism? Anet newsletter, 2, 7-8.
  • Carsten A. Brühl (2001) Leaf litter ant communities in tropical lowland rain forests in Sabah, Malaysia: effects of forest disturbance and fragmentation. Ph. D. thesis, Julius-Maximilians-Universitüt, Würzburg. http://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/opus/ volltexte/2002/104/
  • Carsten A. Brühl (2001) Attack from above - the story of the robberfly. Malaysian Naturalist, 54 (3), 38-39.
  • Carsten A. Brühl, Thomas Eltz & K. Eduard Linsenmair (2001) A sampling protocol for leaf litter ant communities in tropical rain forests. Anet newsletter 3, 13-15.
  • Carsten A. Brühl, Thomas Eltz & K. Eduard Linsenmair (2001) Gemeinschaften der Ameisen der Laubstreu in Tieflandregenwäldern Borneos: Effekte von Störung und Fragmentation. In Funktionelle Bedeutung von Biodiversität - Functional importance of biodiversity, vol. 31. Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie (ed. G. Zotz and C. Körner), Suppl. 6. Parey, Berlin
  • K. Eduard Linsenmair & Carsten A. Brühl (2001) Luxury or necessity: on some aspects of the functional significance of biodiversity. Contributions to Global Change Research, German National Comittee on Global Change Research, Bonn. 67-79.
  • Tobias Bickel, Jürgen Gadau & Carsten A. Brühl (2001) The influence of habitat fragmentation and isolation on genetic diversity of leaf litter ant populations of Odontomachus rixosus in the rainforests of Borneo. Zoology, 104, Supplement IV. p. 25.
  • Thomas Eltz & Carsten A. Brühl (2001) Ecological evaluation of forest management using leaf-litter ants and stingless bees as bioindicators. Biodiversity - Species and Biotope Conservation Series. GTZ. Eschborn. 59 pp.
  • Thomas Eltz, Carsten A. Brühl, Sander Van der Kaars & K. Eduard Linsenmair (2001) Assessing stingless bees pollen diets by analysis of garbage pellets: a new method. Apidologie, 32, 341-353.
  • Thomas Eltz, Carsten A. Brühl, Sander Van der Kaars & K. Eduard Linsenmair (2001) Pollen foraging and resource partitioning of stingless bees in relation to flowering dynamics in a Southeast Asian tropical rainforest. Insectes Sociaux 48, 273-279.
  • Thomas Eltz, Carsten A. Brühl & Claudia Görke (2002) Collection of mold (Rhizopus sp.) spores in lieu of pollen by the stingless bee Trigona collina. Insectes Sociaux 49 (1), 28-30.
  • Thomas Eltz, Carsten A. Brühl, Sander Van der Kaars & K. Eduard Linsenmair (2002) Determinants of stingless bee nest density in lowland dipterocarp forests of Sabah, Malaysia. Oecologia, 131(1), 27-34.
  • Thomas Eltz, Carsten A. Brühl, Zamri Imiyabir & K. Eduard Linsenmair (2003) Nesting and nest trees of stingless bees (Apidae: Meliponini) in lowland dipterocarp forests in Sabah, Malaysia, with implications for forest management. Forest Ecology and Management 172: 301-313.
  • Carsten A. Brühl & Frank T. Krell (2003) Finding a rare resource: Bornean Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) attracted by defensive secretions of Diplopoda. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 57(1): 51-55.
  • Carsten A. Brühl, Thomas Eltz & K. Eduard Linsenmair (2003) Size does matter - Fragmentation of tropical rain forests in Sabah Malaysia and the effects on the leaf litter ant community. Biodiversity and Conservation, 12: 1371-1389.
  • Carsten A. Brühl (2003) Vollenhovia sp. aff. acanthina: an ant species that is building nests using resin. Anet newsletter 6, 21-22.
  • Carsten A. Brühl, Thomas Eltz & K. Eduard Linsenmair (submitted) A quantitative sampling protocol for leaf litter ant communities in tropical rain forests. Ecological Entomology.
  • Carsten A. Brühl, Thomas Eltz & K. Eduard Linsenmair (submitted) Leaf litter ant communities of tropical lowland rain forest in Sabah, Malaysia along a gradient of forest disturbance. Conservation Biology
  • Tobias Bickel, Carsten Brühl, Jürgen Gadau, K. Eduard Linsenmair (submitted) The loss of genetic variation in two ant species in fragmented forests in Sabah, Malaysia. Biodiversity and Conservation.
  • Christoph Grimm, Carsten A. Brühl, Marco P. Candolfi & Beat Reber (submitted) Abundance and diversity of beneficial arthropods in crops protected by seed dressings containing the insecticide thiamethoxam. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment.
  • Carsten A. Brühl, Thomas Eltz, Tobias Bickel, Chey Vun Chen, Maryati Mohamed & K. Eduard Linsenmair (in prep.) Species loss in the ground dwelling ant community of oil palm plantations in Sabah, Malaysia.
    • Contribution of photgraphs in:
    Rudolf Malkmus, Ulrich Manthey, Gernot Vogel, Peter Hoffmann & Joachim Kosuch (2002) Amphibians and Reptiles of Mount Kinabalu (North Borneo), Koeltz Scientific Books, Königstein, Germany, 424 pp.