Research interests
I am interested in plant adaptation and rapid
evolution. For my master thesis I have used the ex-situ collections from the
Botanical Garden of Tübingen to investigate possible maladaptive processes
caused by cultivation. After using material collected from populations to study
adaptation and rapid evolution during my Masters I currently use stored seed
material for my PhD Project Back to the Future. In this project I aim to
investigate recent adaptation to environmental changes (e.g. climate change)
using the resurrection approach
Projects
· Back to the future - Seed banks as a tool to investigate recent adaptation to climate change
CV
2018 - now PhD student at Plant Evolutionary
Ecology, University of Tubingen, Germany
2015 - 2018 MSc Geoecology at University of
Tübingen, Germany
2012 - 2015 BSc Environmental Sciences at
University of Bielefeld, Germany
Publications
Rauschkolb R, Henres L, Lou C, Godefroid S, Dixon L, Durka W, Bossdorf O, Ensslin A, Scheepens JF (2021) Historical comparisons show evolutionary changes in drought responses in European plant species after two decades of climate change. Basic and Applied Ecology accepted.
Rauschkolb R, Szczeparska L, Kehl A, Bossdorf O,
Scheepens JF (2019) Plant populations of three threatened species experience
rapid evolution under ex-situ cultivation. Biodiversity
and Conservation, 28: 3951-3969. Link
Scheepens JF, Rauschkolb R, Ziegler R, Schroth V, Bossdorf O (2017) Genotypic diversity and environmental variability affect the invasibility of experimental plant populations. Oikos, 127: 570-578. Link
