Evers Sanne Maria
Visiting PhD student 2022
sanne.evers@idiv.de
I am a PhD student at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), in Leipzig. I focus on linking plant population dynamics to climate drivers. In this broad topic, I am mostly focusing on the timing of climate drivers used: Are the often a-priori selected timeframes the best option, or are other time frames such as the dormant season and longer lagged timeframes also important? How does including different timeframes within the same species influence population level interferences? I had the opportunity to visit the department as part of a COST project, where I applied many of the lessons learned from my PhD research to investigate the population dynamics of Dracocephalum austriacum.
Expertise
Plant population dynamics
Integral projection models
Climate drivers
Education
2019-Present PhD candidate; Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig Germany
2015-2017 MSc Biology, Wageningen University, Netherlands
2011-2015 BSc Biology, Wageningen University, Netherlands
Publications
Selected publications
Evers, S.M., Knight, T.M., Inouye, D.W., Miller, T.E.X., Salguero-Gómez, R., Iler, A.M. and Compagnoni, A. (2021), Lagged and dormant season climate better predict plant vital rates than climate during the growing season. Glob. Change Biol., 27: 1927-1941. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15519
Levin, S. C., Evers, S., Potter, T., Guerrero, M. P., Childs, D. Z., Compagnoni, A., … & Salguero‐Gómez, R. (2022). Rpadrino: an R package to access and use PADRINO, an open access database of Integral Projection Models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 13(9), 1923-1929.
Levin, S. C., Childs, D. Z., Compagnoni, A., Evers, S., Knight, T. M., & Salguero-Gómez, R. (2021). ipmr: Flexible implementation of Integral Projection Models in R. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12, 1826– 1834. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13683