Dr. Elisabeth Pohlon
- Dr. Elisabeth Pohlon
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Justus Liebig Universität
IFZ -Department of Animal Ecology
Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32
D-35392 Giessen
GermanyTel: +49(0)641/ 99-35711
Fax: +49(0)641/ 99-35709
- Research Interests
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Research Interests
Streams perform a variety of functions essential to ecosystems such as carbon retention, water transport and self-purification. Human impact (climatic changes and toxic substances) affect the structure and function of the streams.
My focus is on the structure and function of aquatic ecosystems in the temperate and tropic zone which includes streams, reservoirs and flood plains under various impacts.
Further I am studying the interactions between different groups in the ecosystems mainly bacteria, fungi and algae in biofilms, but also interactions between macrophytes and biofilms.
The functional aspects include the extracellular enzyme activity and the leaf litter decomposition by macroinvertebrates and microbial biofilms.
- Curriculum vitae
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Curriculum vitae
Since Jan. 2016
Postdoc at the Justus Liebig University Gießen.
April-July
2015
Research at the Universidad de Antioquia Medellin Columbia.
Sept 2014 to
Mar 2015
Postdoc at the Justus Liebig University Gießen.
Sept-Nov 2013
Research at the Universidad de Antioquia Medellin Columbia.
2010-2013
Postdoc (Eigene Stelle, DFG) at the Justus Liebig University Gießen.
2009-2010
Research Assistant at the Justus Liebig University Gießen.
August 2006
Birth of my son Leo.
2002-2006
PhD at the Limnology Research Group, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, at the graduate study group of the DFG: "Analysis of function and regeneration of degraded ecosystems".
2001-2002
Project work at the Limnology Research Group, Friedrich Schiller University Jena.: "Influence of secondary salinization of a stream in North Thurinigia" in cooperation with the TLUG Jena/Sondershausen.
2000-2002
Project work at the Hydrolabor Schleusingen, Bauhaus University Weimar: "Efficiency control of five fish passes at the Werra and the Schmalkalde in South Thuringia".
2000
Diploma in Biology, thesis: "Using artificial diets to "capture" induced responses in Nicotiana attenuata plants" at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology Jena.
1994-2000
Studies of biology at the Humboldt University Berlin and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
- Publications
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Publications
Anna M. Romaní, Stéphanie Boulêtreau, Veronica Díaz-Villanueva, Frédéric Garabetian, Jürgen Marxsen, Helge Norf, Elisabeth Pohlon, Markus Weitere (2015) .Microbes in aquatic biofilms under the effect of changing climate Book: “Climate Change and Microbial Ecology: Current Research and Future Trends” Jürgen Marxsen (Ed.)
Pohlon E., Ochoa Fandino A., and Marxsen J. (2013). Bacterial community composition and extracellular enzyme activity in temperate streambed sediment during drying and rewetting. PLoS ONE 8(12): e83365. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0083365.
Pohlon E.,Mätzig C., and Marxsen J. (2013). Desiccation affects bacterial community structure and function in temperate stream sediments. Fundamental and Applied Limnology 182:123-134.
Pohlon E., Marxsen J., and Küsel K. (2010). Pioneering bacterial and algal communities and potential extracellular enzyme activities of stream biofilms. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 71:364-373.
Pohlon, E., Augspurger, C., Risse-Buhl, U., Arle, J., Willkomm, M., Halle, S. and Küsel, K. (2007). Querying the obvious: Lessons from a degraded stream. Restoration Ecology. 15 (2): 312-316.
Gebühr, C., Pohlon, E., Schmidt, A., and Küsel, K. (2006). Development of the microalgae communities in the phytotelmata of allochthonous populations of Sarracenia purpurea (Sarraceniaceae). Plant Biology, 8 (6): 849-860.
Pohlon, E. ,Baldwin, I.T. (2001): Artificial diets 'capture' the dynamics of jasmonate induced defenses in plants. Entomologia Experimentalis E Applicata 100, 127-130.