Dipl.-Biol. Lydia Betz
Research Fellow
betz@umwelt.uni-hannover.de
Topic
- Effects of land-use change and agricultural intensification on faunal diversity in rice cultivation areas in Wayanad, India
Affiliation
Research Field/Expertise
- 2009: Research assistant in the AnimalBase project (AnimalBase Project Group, 2005-2010. AnimalBase. Early zoological literature online. - World wide web electronic publication (www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de))
- 2008: Four months field work in Sulawesi, Indonesia; data collection for diploma thesis
Current Research Interests
- Tropical (agro)ecology
- Spiders and their role as natural enemies
- Social-ecological research
- Agriculture and conservation: a contradiction?
Academic Background
- 2009: Diplom in Biology (Dipl.-Biol.). University of Göttingen, Germany
Conferences
- Annual conference of the Society for Tropical Ecology: "Tropical organisms and ecosystems in a changing world". Presentation on "Spider-cicada-plant relationships in rice fields of changing Indian landscapes". April 2nd - 5th 2013, Vienna, Austria.
- Biodiversity Asia 2012: Science, Policy, and Governance. The 2nd Asia Regional Conference of the Society for Conservation Biology – Asia Section. Poster presented on "Agricultural transformation in Wayanad: How does it affect spider diversity?". August 7th - 10th 2012, Bangalore, India.
- Statusseminar of the Social-Ecological Junior Research Groups, paper presented on “Sind Adivasi Bevölkerungsgruppen resilient gegenüber Transformationsprozessen? Eine sozial-ökologische Studie zu Wayanad, Südindien, with Isabelle Kunz, Prajeesh Parameswaran, Suma T.R. und Martina Padmanabhan, April 16th - 17th 2012, Berlin, Germany
Publications to Date
- Betz, L. & Jose, M. (2011). Lockie Stewart, Carpenter David, Editors, Agriculture, Biodiversity and Markets: Livelihoods and Agroecology in Comparative Perspective (2010). Earthscan, London, Washington, DC, 336 pp. Ecological Economics 72. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.10.002
- Clough, Y. Abrahamczyk, S. Adams, M-O. Anshary, A. Ariyanti, N., Betz, L., Buchori, D., Cicuzza, D., Darras, K., Putra, D.D., Fiala, B., Gradstein, S.R., Kessler, M., Klein, A-M., Pitopang, R., Sahari, B., Scherber, C., Schulze, C.H., Shahabuddin Sporn, S., Stenchly, K., Tjitrosoedirdjo, S.S., Wanger, T.C., Weist, M., Wielgoss, A., Tscharntke, T. (2010). Biodiversity patterns and trophic interactions in human-dominated tropical landscapes in Sulawesi (Indonesia): plants, arthropods and vertebrates. In: T. Tscharntke, C. Leuschner, E. Veldkamp, H. Faust, E. Guhardja, A. Bidin (Eds) (2010): Tropical Rainforests and Agroforests under Global Change. Ecological and Socio-economic Valuations. (pp. 15-71). Springer Verlag, Berlin
- Kessler, M., Betz, L., Roedde, S. (2006). Red List of the Pteridophytes of Bolivia. PDF made available on http://www.systbot.uzh.ch/static/fernsofbolivia
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