Resume
- Since 6/2013: PhD Student at the university of Rostock
- 2/2013 – 4/2013: Research Assistant at the Botanical Garden of the Henrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
- 10/2012 – 2/2013: Student Assistant at the Institute Developmental and Molecular Biology of Plants at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
- 6-7/2012: Student Assistant at the Institute of Land Use Systems at the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)
- 3/2012: Diploma thesis in Biology, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf„Non-invasive quantification of structural heterogeneity of crop canopies and its impact on biodiversity in agriculture, using selected weed species“
- 4-10/2011: Student Assistant at the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG-2): Plant Sciences, at the Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
- 2005 – 2012: Studies of Biology at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
Reseach
As a biologist with an emphasis on botany and ecology the focus of my PhD Project „Testing for the weed control potential of seed predators in agroecosystems“ is on agro-ecology with the population biology of weeds as a key aspect.
Publications
Selig, C., de Mol, F., Westerman, P. R., Gerowitt, B. (2022) Quantifying seed and establishment limitation to seedling recruitment of arable weeds: an example of barnyardgrass (Echinochloa crus-galli). Weed Science 70: 87–94.
Selig, C., de Mol, F., Gerowitt, B. (2018) Echinochloa kompensiert Keimlingsverluste durch erhöhte Biomasseproduktion. Julius-Kühn-Archiv 458, 435-441.
Selig, C., Gerowitt, B. (2018) Die Bedeutung samenfressender Organismen zur Unkrautkontrolle auf Agrarflächen. BfN-Skripten 487, 21-25.
Pannwitt, H., Westerman, P. R., de Mol, F., Selig, C., Gerowitt, B. (2017) Biological control of weed patches by seed predators; responses to seed density and exposure time. Biological Control 108, 1-8.
Selig, C., Pannwitt, H., de Mol, F., Westerman, P. R. (2016) Determining the degree of seed limitation in an annual weed on maize fields. Abstract 46th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, 5-9 September, Marburg, Germany, 349-350.
Selig, C., Pannwitt, H., Westerman, P. R., Gerowitt, B. (2016) The effect of post-dispersal seed predation on Echinochloa crus-galli (L.) P.B. in maize fields. 7th International Weed Science Congress, Prague, Poster ID 132
Pannwitt, H., Selig, C., de Mol, F., Westerman, P. R. (2015) Biological control of weeds in maize using seed predators. Abstracts IPPC Berlin 2015, 48.
Pannwitt, H., Selig, C., Westerman, P. R., Gerowitt, B. (2015) Density-dependent seed predation in maize monoculture. Proceedings of the 17th EWRS-Symposium, 127.
Selig, C., Pannwitt, H., Westerman, P. R., Gerowitt, B. (2015) Estimation of the degree of seed limitation in a weed population in maize and the importance of weed seed predation. Proceedings of the 17th EWRS-Symposium, 140.
Pannwitt, H., Selig, C., Westerman, P. R. (2014) The effect of post-dispersal seed predation on weed population dynamics of Echinochloa crus-galli in maize monoculture. Julius-Kühn-Archiv 447,553.
Selig, C., Pannwitt, H., Westerman, P. R. (2014) The impact of functional biodiversity on arable weeds; determining the degree of seed limitation. Abstract 44th annual meeting of the ecological society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, 8-12 September 2014 Hildesheim, Germany, poster 2-P1.
Pannwitt, H., Selig, C., Westerman, P. R. (2014) The importance of post-dispersal seed predation in the population dynamics of the weed Echinochloa crus-galli in maize. Abstract 44th annual meeting of the ecological society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, 8-12 September 2014 Hildesheim, Germany, poster 2-P2.
Westerman, P. R., Pannwitt, H., Selig, C., de Mol, F., Gerowitt, B. (2014) Testing for the weed control potential of seed predators in agroecosystems. IOBC-WPRS Bulletin, Landscape Management for Functional Biodiversity 100, 143-146.