Team
Sven Matern
Research assistant
Research focus
Biodiversity and ecosystem services in little gravel pits
Curriculum vitae
Since 2016:
- Research assistant at the Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei (IGB) for the Gravel-Pit-Projekt
2012 – 2015
- Masters in „Marine ecosystems- and fisherie science“ at the University Hamburg
main focus:
- Populationsdynamics of used ressources
- Ecosystem-Management and environmental politics
- Fishery science
- Ecophysiology & Aquacultur
- Masterthesis: „Spread of invasive round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) and food competition with native black goby (Gobius niger) in the Western Baltic Sea”
2008 – 2011
- Bachelor in „Biology“ at the University in Cologne
main focus:
- Ecoologie
- Biodiversity
- Bachelorthesis: „Diet analyses of monkey goby (Neogobius fluviatilis) in the Lower Rhine“
Important scientific discoveries and associated papers
Borcherding, J., Dolina, M., Heermann, L., Knutzen, P., Krüger, S., Matern, S., van Treeck, R., Gertzen, S. (2013). Feeding and niche differentiation in three invasive gobies in the Lower Rhine, Germany. Limnologica, 43 : 49-58