Konrad Lorenz Institute for Comparative Ethology
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A scientific institute devoted to the study of animal behavior, ecology, and evolutionary biology. We are located in the outskirts of Vienna, Austria, in the beautiful Vienna Woods.

Konrad Lorenz Institute for Ethology
an Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
 



Researchers & Staff   M.Sc. Wetzel

  

M.Sc., Dipl. Ing. (FH) Florian Wetzel

Position: PhD Student
Phone: (+43) (1) 51581- 2745
Email:

Research Interests
  • Landscape Ecology and Behavior
  • Geographical Information Systems
  • Extinction Risk in threatened species
  • Urbanization and human population growth

Curriculum Vitae
  current PhD Student at KLIVV
  2003-2006 M.Sc., Major Courses: Theory of Ecology, Population Biology, Limnology and Wildlife Biology. Technical University of Munich, Germany
  2002 Internship at the German Ministry for Consumer Protection, Nutrition and Agriculture in Bonn and at the German Parliament in Berlin, Germany
  2001 Internship at the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), European Policy Office, Brussels, Belgium
  1998-2002 Dipl. Ing. (FH), Forestry, Landscape Planning and Geographical Information Systems. University of Applied Sciences Rottenburg, Germany

Publications
  • Wetzel, F.T., Beissmann, H. & Penn, D.J. (2008): Islands are Particularly Vulnerable to Sea-Level Rise from Climate Change. In Eureco-GFOE 2008 Proceedings, vol. 38 (ed. Stadler, J., Schöppe, F. & M. Frenzel), pp. 194. Leipzig, Germany.
  • Wetzel, F. (2007): Visitors in Grey. International Wolf, Vol 17 (1),
    8-9.
  • Wetzel, F. (2006): Lupus ante portas. Wild und Hund, 21, 22-25.
  • Wetzel, F. (2006): The ethological plasticidy of the wolf (Canis lupus) under the conditions of civilization. A first survey of the phenomenon "Habituation“ towards humans and  artefacts". Thesis, Technical University of Munich.
  • Wetzel, F. (2002):  Forests in the EU Enlargement Process – An analysis of the forest measures in the SAPARD Programme of the European Union“. Thesis, University of Applied Sciences Rottenburg.

Talks and Poster presentations
  • Talk: 18. April 2007: "Humans and other Animals – Perception of Space and Interactions.” Kunstuniversität Linz, Space & Designstrategies.
  • Poster: Florian T. Wetzel, Helmut Beissmann & Dustin J. Penn (2008): Islands are Particularly Vulnerable to Sea-Level Rise from Climate Change. Conference of the European Ecological Federation & GFOE: "Biodiversity in an Ecosystem Context", Leipzig, Germany,
    2008.
  • Talk: Florian T. Wetzel, Helmut Beissmann & Dustin J. Penn (2008): Sea level rise and the ups and downs of life on islands. Conference of IALE-D: Global Change and Landscape Response, Bonn, Germany, 2008.
  • Talk: Wetzel, Florian., Beissmann, H. & Penn, D.J. (2009): “Oh Islands in the Sun – Climate change, the global sea-level rise and effects on coastal areas.” 15. ESRI GIS User Conference, 05.-07. May 2009, Festspielhaus, Bregenz, Austria.
  • Talk: 19th May 2009: Wetzel, Florian , Beissmann, H. & Penn, D.J. (2009): “Assessment of global change and the cascading impacts in the African and Pacific region.” Ecology Behavior & Evolution Section, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, USA.
 

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