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2024-04-07: Our study Reducing the fatal attraction of nocturnal insects using tailored and shielded road lights led by Manuel Dietenberger has just been accepted for publication in Communications Biology. For this study we evaluated how a novel street lighting technology developed in the project "Tatort Streetlight" can reduce the amount of flying insects that are attracted towards street lights. +++ 2024-03-28: Our study on effects of warming on adaptive foraging behaviour led by Benoit Gauzens (iDiv) is now published in Nature Climate Change. The related data paper, that provides a detailed description of the empirical data base that we used for this study, is available in Scientific Data. You can also find a summary of the paper in a Nature Climate Change Research Briefing. +++ 2023-10-30: A framework for untangling the consequences of artificial light at night on species interactions led by Brett Seymoure has now been published as part of a theme issue on Light pollution in complex ecological systems in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. +++ 2023-08-30: Our paper Lichtverschmutzung – Stand der Forschung und Wissenslücken led by Franz Hölker is now published in Natur und Landschaft. The new publication (in German) is part of a special issue on light pollution. It represents an updated, condensed, and translated version of our longer review article 11 Pressing Research Questions on How Light Pollution Affects Biodiversity that was published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution in December 2021. +++ For earlier publications check the respective subpage.
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My name is Gregor Kalinkat and I study animals and how they interact with each other, with the environment, and last not least, with us humans (and vice versa). During my PhD I started out as animal ecologist aiming to connect theoretical and empirical approaches with a particular focus on predator-prey interactions and food webs. Over the years since my interests have diversified to include a broad range of topics and today I consider myself also a conservation biologist and biodiversity scientist. In my current position I'm a research scientist in the project AuBe (Artenschutz durch umweltverträgliche Beleuchtung translated as species protection through environment-friendly illumination). There we are trying to implement new lighting technologies and monitor responses of insect communities in different parts of Germany. Check out our project website to learn more.
If you wonder what we scientists actually mean when we say "ecology" you should start here. If you already know about the science of ecology and wonder where exactly my interests within this field are you should check out the research and publication pages.
Despite having been affiliated with freshwater focused research institutes over the last couple of years (particularly Leibniz IGB Berlin, DE, and Eawag Kastanienbaum, CH) I am not bound to a particular habitat when studying ecology, as you can see on the pictures below:
Sampling benthic invertebrates in the Mediterranean (photo by Doro Sandmann, ca. 2004).
Sampling soil organisms in the Swabian Alb (photo by Roswitha Ehnes, ca. 2009).
Deploying a temperature logger in an artificially heated stream (photo by Juliane Lukas, ca. 2016).
DE: Hinweis für Besucher, die Texte in deutscher Sprache suchen: Eine zweisprachige Webseite ist für die Zukunft geplant. Zum Einstieg gibt es hier eine Kolumne, die ich zusammen mit Susan Mücke für Krautreporter verfasst habe. Ausserdem kann ich einen Radiobeitrag über unsere Forschung zu Neozoen im Gillbach im Rheinland verlinken (aus 2017) sowie einen Radiobeitrag über eine Publikation zu charismatischen Neobiota (aus 2020). Hier gibt's noch ein Interview zu Insekten und Lichtverschmutzung vom Herbst 2022.
last update: 2023-04-07