Kleinwalsertal

Robert Rauschkolb

Institute of Ecology and Evolution | Professorship of Biodiversity of Plants​
Kleinwalsertal
Image: Christine Römermann
Institute of Ecology and Evolution
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Professorship of Biodiversity of Plants​
Robert Rauschkolb, Dr
PhenObs Coordinator
Robert Rauschkolb
Otto-Renner-Villa, Room 105
Philosophenweg 16
07743 Jena

Research interests

  • Phenological and ecophysiological adaptations of plants to climate change
  • Evolutionary changes in plants due to drought
  • Botanical gardens, seed banks and herbaria
  • Resurrection approach
  • Quantitative genetic
Curricilum vitae
Since 11/2021 PostDoc at FSU Jena (PhenObs-Network coordinator)
Since 04/2018 PhD student at the Eberhard-Karls University Tübingen (Thesis: Back to the future - Seed banks as a tool to investigate recent adaptation to global change)
07/2021 - 10/2021 PhD scholarship: Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main
07/2018 - 06/2021 PhD scholarship: Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt
10/2015 - 03/2018 Masterstudent(Geoökologie) at the Eberhard-Karls University Tübingen (Thesis: Does ex situ cultivation of rare plant species in botanical gardens lead to loss of adaptation to the wild?)
10/2013 - 09/2015 Scholarship: Deutschlandstipendium des Studienfonds Ostwestfalen-Lippe
10/2012 - 09/2015 Bachelorstudent (Umweltwissenschaften) University Bielefeld (Thesis: Vergleichende faunistische Untersuchungen zur Besiedlung unterschiedlicher Vegetationsstrukturen der Bergheide auf der Lippischen Velmerstot)

Publications

    • Horbach, S., Rauschkolb, R., Römermann C. (2023) Flowering and leaf phenology are more variable and stronger associated to functional traits in herbaceous compared to tree species. Flora 300, 152218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.flora.2023.152218 External link
    • Rauschkolb, R., Li, Z., Godefroid, S., Dixon, L., Durka, W., Májeková, M., Bossdorf, O., Ensslin, A., Scheepens, J.F. (2022) Evolution of plant drought strategies and herbivore tolerance after two decades of climate change. New Phytologist, 235, 773-785 https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18125External link
    • Rauschkolb, R., Henres, L., Lou, C., Godefroid, S., Dixon, L., Durka, W., Bossdorf, O., Ensslin, A., Scheepens, J.F. (2022)  Historical comparisons show evolutionary changes in drought responses in European plant species after two decades of climate change. Basic and Applied Ecology, 58, 26-38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2021.11.003External link
    • Rauschkolb, R., Szczeparska, L., Kehl, A., Bossdorf, O., Scheepens, J.F. (2019)  Plant populations of three threatened species experience rapid evolution under ex-situ cultivation. Biodiversity and Conservation, 28, 3951-3969 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-019-01859-9External link
    • Scheepens, J.F., Rauschkolb, R., Ziegler, R., Schroth, V., Bossdorf, O. (2017) Genotypic diversity and environmental variability affect the invasibility of experimental plant populations. Oikos, 127, 570-578.https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.04818External link