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Overview

Ilse Storch is affiliated with the University of Freiburg in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Ecology and its related subfields.

The primary areas of research explored by Storch include:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation

Storch's work spans several subfields of study, notably:

  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Publication venues frequently featuring Storch's research include:

  • Wildlife Biology
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Urban Ecosystems
  • Journal of Applied Ecology
  • Oikos

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Storch demonstrate involvement in various ecological studies:

  • Evaluating the effectiveness of retention forestry to enhance biodiversity in production forests of Central Europe using an interdisciplinary, multi-scale approach (2020) in Ecology and Evolution
  • Abundance, species richness and diversity of forest bird assemblages - The relative importance of habitat structures and landscape context (2021) in Ecological Indicators
  • What do tree-related microhabitats tell us about the abundance of forest-dwelling bats, birds, and insects? (2020) in Journal of Environmental Management
  • Woodpecker cavity establishment in managed forests: relative rather than absolute tree size matters (2020) in Wildlife Biology
  • Ensuring tests of conservation interventions build on existing literature (2020) in Conservation Biology

Among frequent co-authors collaborating with Storch are:

  • Marco Basile
  • Sebastian Schwegmann
  • Manisha Bhardwaj
  • Grzegorz Mikusiński
  • Luca Corlatti

Best Publications

  • From connectivity to isolation: genetic consequences of population fragmentation in capercaillie across Europe.

    Gernot Segelbacher;J. Hoglund;I. Storch

  • Habitat selection by capercaillie in summer and autumn: Is bilberry important?

    Ilse Storch

  • Grouse : status survey and conservation action plan 2000-2004

    Ilse Storch

  • Predictors of forest fragmentation sensitivity in Neotropical vertebrates: a quantitative review

    Daniela Vetter;Miriam M. Hansbauer;Zsolt Végvári;Ilse Storch

  • Retention as an integrated biodiversity conservation approach for continuous-cover forestry in Europe

    Lena Gustafsson;Jürgen Bauhus;Thomas Asbeck;Andrey Lessa Derci Augustynczik

  • Grouse : status survey and conservation action plan 2006-2010

    Ilse Storch

  • Conservation status of grouse worldwide: an update

    Ilse Storch

  • Diet and habitat selection of the pine marten in relation to competition with the red fox

    I Storch;E Lindstrom;J de Jounge

  • Characterization of microsatellites in capercaillie Tetrao urogallus (AVES).

    G. Segelbacher;R. J. Paxton;G. Steinbrück;P. Trontelj

  • On Spatial Resolution in Habitat Models: Can Small-scale Forest Structure Explain Capercaillie Numbers?

    Ilse Storch

  • Annual home ranges and spacing patterns of capercaillie in Central Europe

    Ilse Storch

  • Conservation Status and Threats to Grouse Worldwide: An Overview

    Ilse Storch

  • Landscape-scale Edge Effect in Predation Risk in Forest-farmland Mosaics of Central Europe

    Ilse Storch;Evi Woitke;Stefan Krieger

  • Meta‐analysis: A need for well‐defined usage in ecology and conservation biology

    Daniela Vetter;Gerta Rücker;Ilse Storch

  • Capercaillie in the Alps: genetic evidence of metapopulation structure and population decline

    Gernot Segelbacher;Ilse Storch

  • Landscape ecology and resource management: linking theory with practice.

    John A. Bissonette;Ilse Storch

  • Habitat fragmentation, nest site selection, and nest predation risk in Capercaillie

    Ilse Storch

  • Male territoriality, female range use, and spatial organisation of capercaillie Tetrao urogallus leks

    Ilse Storch

  • Minimum Viable Population Size of Capercaillie Tetrao urogallus: Results from a Stochastic Model

    Volker Grimm;Ilse Storch

  • What do tree-related microhabitats tell us about the abundance of forest-dwelling bats, birds, and insects?

    Marco Basile;Thomas Asbeck;Marlotte Jonker;Anna K. Knuff

  • Habitat and survival of capercaillie Tetrao urogallus nests and broods in the Bavarian alps

    Ilse Storch

Frequent Co-Authors

John A. Bissonette
John A. Bissonette Utah State University
Veronika Braunisch
Veronika Braunisch University of Bern
Gernot Segelbacher
Gernot Segelbacher University of Freiburg
Jürgen Bauhus
Jürgen Bauhus University of Freiburg
Marc Hanewinkel
Marc Hanewinkel University of Freiburg
Jean Paul Metzger
Jean Paul Metzger Universidade de São Paulo
Rasoul Yousefpour
Rasoul Yousefpour University of Freiburg
Carsten F. Dormann
Carsten F. Dormann University of Freiburg
Barbara Koch
Barbara Koch University of Freiburg
Christian Messier
Christian Messier University of Quebec at Montreal

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