Arne Saatkamp

PhD Student

IMEP, Université Paul Cézanne, Marseille &

Institut für Botanik, Universität Regensburg

E-Mail: arnesaatkamp @ gmx . de

Research activities:

· Population biology of mediterranean annual plants

· Population dynamics and seed traits

· Relation between grazing and vegetation with respect to plant functional traits

· Floristics and biogeography of vascular plants and bryophytes in the western mediterranean basin, especially Provence (F), Sardinia (IT) and Northern Africa.

· Regeneration of moss- and lichen communities in mediterranen (ephemeral humid) ecosystems

· Vegetation and historical land use types: ice-yielding, cereal cultivation, pastures

· Vegetation and population processes with explicit spatial reference

· Mediterranean vernal and ephemeral wetland vegetation

Research centers of thesis

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Temporal population dynamics of mediterranean annual plants in cereal fields

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Longevity of soil seed bank of annual plants

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Historical land use and actual vegetation in agroecosystems and fellow lands

Curriculum vitae

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1998 – 2000 Undergraduate studies in biology (DEUG) at the University of Provence, Marseilles (France)

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2000 – 2004 Second study cycle in Biology at the University of Freiburg: Geobotany, Animal Ecology, Evolutionnary Biology, Plant Physiology, Plant Biomechanics and Soil Science

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2004/2005 Diplomarbeit (final research work) at the Abteilung für Geobotanik (Freiburg) in Colloboration with Thierry Dutoit (University of Avignon) and the PNR Luberon: Floristic Diversity and Vegetation in the vineyards of South Luberon / France -an analysis of actual vegetation with respect to landscape type, agricultural practices, habitat types and former cultivated crop.

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Since march 2005: Thesis, Collaboration between University Paul Cézanne (Aix-Marseille III, France) and University of Regensburg (Germany)

Other activities

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Member of the Linnean Society of Provence (Société Linnéenne de Provence, SLA, Marseille), and of the Center for Study and Protection of Provence's Ecosystems (Centre d'Etudes des Ecosystèmes Provençaux, CEEP, Aix-en-Provence)

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Open Source User (GNU/Linux, R, GRASS, QGIS, Postgres/Postgis)

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Expert and consultant involved in Environmental Impact Studies (EIA) and specialized studies at Société ECO-MED, Aix-en-Provence.

Publications

Saatkamp, A., Dutoit, Th. & Roche, P. (2006): La flore du vignoble du Pays d’Aigues: d’un espace méconnu à la biologie de ses espèces. Courrier Scientifique du Parc Naturel Régional du Lubéron 8, (published online)

Dutoit T, Forey E., Römermann C., Buisson E., Fadda S., Saatkamp A., Gaignard P., Trivelly E., (2005), Rémanence des utilisations anciennes et gestion conservatoire des pelouses calcicoles de France. Biotechnologie, Agronomie, Sociétés et Environnement, 9 : 125-132.

Tatin,D. & Saatkamp, A. (2004): Recensement des mâles chanteurs de Grand Duc (Bubo bubo) dans les Calanques. Faune de Provence 21 : 83-85.

Vela, E., Pavon, D., Giraud, R., Di Stefano, M. & Saatkamp, A.(2001): Liste des plantes vasculaires du site classé des Calanques (Marseille, Cassis). Bulletin de la Société Linnéene de Provence 52: 139-148.

Saatkamp, A. & Dutoit, T. (2001): Influence des activités humaines anciennes sur les sols et la végétation actuels: le cas des bassins de congélation des glacières de la Sainte-Baume (Provence, France). Bulletin de la Société Linnéene de Provence 52: 61-87.

Saatkamp A. & Véla E. (2000): Nouvelles stations provençales de deux Ophrys protégés et rarissimes en France. Le Monde des Plantes 469: 10-11.

Communications on seminaries and conferences

Saatkamp A. & Dutoit T., (2007), Temporal population dynamics in rare annual weeds and relations to functional traits, Colloque „Changing land use and its impact on biodiversity, session 2.” Regenburg 14-17 june 2007.

Saatkamp A. & Dutoit T., (2007), Fluctuations de tailles de populations et traits fonctionnels chez les plantes annuelles des champs de céréales. Arne Saatkamp, Thierry Dutoit, Laurence Affre, Peter Poschlod, ECO-VEG 3 Bordeaux, 14-16 march 2007

Saatkamp A. & Dutoit T., (2005), Plant functional traits and grazing intensity : a case study in La Crau (Southern France). In 35th Annual Conference of the Ecological Society of Germany, Switzerland and Austria (GfÖ), Regensburg, Germany, 19-23 september 2005

Saatkamp A. & Dutoit T. & Deil U., (2005), Impacts of recent land-use on Mediterranean annual plants of cereal fields. in « Conservation de la flore méditerranéenne dans un environnement changeant », IMEP, Conservatoire Botanique National Méditerranéen, Hyères, 29 september-02 october 2005, France.