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Oliver Jakoby
Organisational unit: Forest Dynamics
Forest Entomology
Phone: +41 44 7392 833
Fax: +41 44 7392 215
Room: Bi HL D 37
E-Mail:
Address: Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
8903 Birmensdorf

Scientific Interests

  • Bark beetle population dynamics
  • Ecological risk assessment and management
  • Sustainable use of natural resources
  • Ecological and ecological-economic modelling
  • Individual-based and spatial simulation models
  • Inverse model parameterisation

Curriculum Vitae

since 2011   Postdoc at the Department Forest Dynamics, WSL Birmensdorf, Switzerland
2010-2007   PhD student at the Department Ecological Modelling, UFZ Leipzig, and University of Osnabrück, Germany
2006-2007   Research associate at the Botanical Institute, University of Cologne, Germany
2006   Field assistant in the BIOTA project in Kakamega Forest, Kenia
2006   Research associate at the Department Ecological Modelling, UFZ, Germany
2005   Internship at the Department of Information Science, Otago University, New Zealand
2005   Diploma in Biology

Thesis title: Modelling of conservation concepts for deadwood in managed beech forests

2001-2004   Studies of Computer Science at the Philipps University of Marburg,Germany
1999-2005   Studies of Biology at the Philipps University of Marburg, Germany (Main subjects: Ecology, Conservation Biology, Genetics)

Publications

  • Jakoby, O. (2011): Risk management in semi-arid rangelands: Modelling adaptation to spatio-temporal heterogeneities. Dissertation, University of Osnabrück. [PhD-Thesis]
  • Schröter, M., Jakoby, O., Olbrich, R., Eichhorn, M. & Baumgärtner, S. (2011): Remote sensing of bush encroachment on commercial cattle farms in semi-arid rangelands in Namibia. In: V. Olej, I. Obrsalova and J. Krupka (eds), Environmental Modeling for Sustainable Regional Development: System Approaches and Advanced Methods, IGI Global, Hershey, pp.327–343. 
  • Jakoby, O., Rademacher, C. & Grimm, V. (2010): Modelling dead wood islands in European beech forests: how much and how reliable would they provide dead wood? European Journal of Forest Research, Volume 129, pp.659–668. [article]
  • Jakoby, O., Quaas, M.F., Müller, B. & Frank, K. (2010): Risk management in  an uncertain environment. A study from semi-arid grazing systems. In  Proceedings: Fifth Biennial Conference of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, David A. Swayne, Wanhong Yang, A.A. Voinov, A. Rizzoli, T. Filatova (eds), pp.1525–1532. [article]
  • Jakoby, O., Quaas, M.F., Baumgärtner, S. & Frank, K. (2010): Adaptation to spatiotemporal variability in semi-arid rangelands - An ecological-economic modelling approach. In Proceedings: ISEE 2010 - International Society for Ecological Economics 11th Biennial Conference (Conference paper).
  • Gusset, M., Jakoby, O., Müller, M.S., Somers, M.J., Slotow, R. & Grimm, V. (2009): Dogs on the catwalk: Modelling re-introduction and translocation of endangered wild dogs in South Africa. Biological Conservation, Volume 142, Issue 11, pp.2774–2781. [article]
  • Jakoby, O. & Whigham, P.A. (2005): Genetic tradeoff as a model for parapatric speciation. In Proceedings: Seventeenth Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre, pp.199–205 (Conference paper). [article]
  • Jakoby, O. (2005): Modellierung von Totholzkonzepten für Buchenwälder. Department of Conservation Biology, Philipps-University of Marburg, Diploma Thesis. [Thesis.pdf]

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