Affiliations
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Guest researcher at Senckenberg Institute for Plant Form and Function, Jena (Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung – Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research)
Postal address
Puschstraße 4
04103 Leipzig
Room: A.03.14
Contact details
Email: susanne.fritz@idiv.de
Phone: +49 341 9733165
My personal favourite 10 publications before iDiv
Eyres, A., J. T. Eronen, O. Hagen, K. Böhning-Gaese & S. A. Fritz (2021) Climatic effects on niche evolution in a passerine bird clade depend on paleoclimate reconstruction method. Evolution 75: 1046-1060. doi: 10.1111/evo.14209
Fritz, S. A., O. R. P. Bininda-Emonds & A. Purvis (2009) Geographical variation in predictors of mammalian extinction risk: big is bad, but only in the tropics. Ecology Letters 12: 538-549. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01307.x
Fritz, S. A. & A. Purvis (2010) Phylogenetic diversity does not capture body size variation at risk in the world’s mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277: 2435-2441. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0030
Fritz‡, S. A., J. Schnitzler‡, J. T. Eronen‡, C. Hof‡, K. Böhning-Gaese‡ & C. H. Graham‡ (2013) Diversity in time and space: wanted dead and alive. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 28: 509-516. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2013.05.004
Fritz, S. A., J. T. Eronen, J. Schnitzler, C. Hof, C. M. Janis, A. Mulch, K. Böhning-Gaese & C. H. Graham (2016). Twenty-million-year relationship between mammalian diversity and primary productivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113: 10908-10913. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1602145113
Holt‡, B. G., J.-P. Lessard‡, M. K. Borregaard, S. A. Fritz, M. B. Araújo, D. Dimitrov, P.-H. Fabre, C. H. Graham, G. R. Graves, K. A. Jønsson, D. Nogués-Bravo, Z. Wang, R. J. Whittaker, J. Fjeldså & C. Rahbek (2013) An update of Wallace’s zoogeographic regions of the world. Science 339: 74-78. doi: 10.1126/science.1228282
Huang‡, S., M. J. M. Meijers‡, A. Eyres, A. Mulch & S. A. Fritz (2019) Unravelling the history of biodiversity in mountain ranges through integrating geology and biogeography. Journal of Biogeography 46: 1777-1791. doi: 10.1111/jbi.13622
Phillips, A. G., T. Töpfer, K. Böhning-Gaese & S. A. Fritz (2018) Evidence for distinct evolutionary optima in the morphology of migratory and resident birds. Journal of Avian Biology 49: e01807. doi: 10.1111/jav.01807
Tobias, J.A., C. Sheard, A. L. Pigot, A. J. M. Devenish, J. Yang, F. Sayol, … [103 authors], K. Böhning-Gaese, C. Rahbek, S. A. Fritz, G. H. Thomas & M. Schleuning (2022) AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds. Ecology Letters 25: 581–597. doi: 10.1111/ele.13898
Voskamp, A., C. Hof, M. F. Biber, K. Böhning-Gaese, T. Hickler, A. Niamir, S. G. Willis & S. A. Fritz (2022) Projected climate change impacts on the phylogenetic diversity of the world’s terrestrial birds: more than species numbers. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 289: 20212184. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.2184
‡ equal contributions.
For a full publication list, please refer to ResearcherID M-9872-2014 or OrcID 0000-0002-4085-636X.
CV
Since 2024 Professor for Biodiversity in the Anthropocene at German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig and Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
2021-2024 Professor for Geobiodiversity Resarch at Goethe University Frankfurt in cooperation with Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt, Germany (Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung – Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research); Leibniz professorship funded by the Competition 2018 of the Leibniz Association
2014-2021 Emmy Noether research group leader, Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F) & Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany; funded by the German Research Foundation DFG
2011-2014 Postdoctoral researcher, Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F) & Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Frankfurt, Germany
2009-2011 Postdoctoral researcher, Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
2009 PhD degree, Imperial College London, UK. Thesis „Comparative analyses of extinction risk in vertebrates”
2006-2009 Marie Curie Early-Stage Researcher at Imperial College London. EU FP6 project „HOTSPOTS – Understanding and conserving the Earth’s biodiversity hotspots”
2005 Diplom in Biology, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
Current honorary positions
Subject Editor at Ecography, since 2014
Associate Editor at Frontiers of Biogeography, since 2013
Elected speaker of the Specialist Group for Macroecology in the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (Gesellschaft für Ökologie, GfÖ), since 2023
iDiv Publications
Publications 2024
Bastidas-Urrutia, Ana Maria, Biber, Matthias F., Böhning-Gaese, Katrin, Fritz, Susanne A., Kreft, Holger, Tobias, Joseph A., Weigelt, Patrick, Hof, Christian (2024): Species Traits and Island Biogeography: Wing Metrics Linked to Avian Dispersal Ability Predict Species Occurrence on Remote Islands Worldwide. Journal of Biogeography
My personal favourite 10 publications before iDiv
Eyres, A., J. T. Eronen, O. Hagen, K. Böhning-Gaese & S. A. Fritz (2021) Climatic effects on niche evolution in a passerine bird clade depend on paleoclimate reconstruction method. Evolution 75: 1046-1060. doi: 10.1111/evo.14209
Fritz, S. A., O. R. P. Bininda-Emonds & A. Purvis (2009) Geographical variation in predictors of mammalian extinction risk: big is bad, but only in the tropics. Ecology Letters 12: 538-549. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01307.x
Fritz, S. A. & A. Purvis (2010) Phylogenetic diversity does not capture body size variation at risk in the world’s mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277: 2435-2441. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0030
Fritz‡, S. A., J. Schnitzler‡, J. T. Eronen‡, C. Hof‡, K. Böhning-Gaese‡ & C. H. Graham‡ (2013) Diversity in time and space: wanted dead and alive. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 28: 509-516. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2013.05.004
Fritz, S. A., J. T. Eronen, J. Schnitzler, C. Hof, C. M. Janis, A. Mulch, K. Böhning-Gaese & C. H. Graham (2016). Twenty-million-year relationship between mammalian diversity and primary productivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113: 10908-10913. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1602145113
Holt‡, B. G., J.-P. Lessard‡, M. K. Borregaard, S. A. Fritz, M. B. Araújo, D. Dimitrov, P.-H. Fabre, C. H. Graham, G. R. Graves, K. A. Jønsson, D. Nogués-Bravo, Z. Wang, R. J. Whittaker, J. Fjeldså & C. Rahbek (2013) An update of Wallace’s zoogeographic regions of the world. Science 339: 74-78. doi: 10.1126/science.1228282
Huang‡, S., M. J. M. Meijers‡, A. Eyres, A. Mulch & S. A. Fritz (2019) Unravelling the history of biodiversity in mountain ranges through integrating geology and biogeography. Journal of Biogeography 46: 1777-1791. doi: 10.1111/jbi.13622
Phillips, A. G., T. Töpfer, K. Böhning-Gaese & S. A. Fritz (2018) Evidence for distinct evolutionary optima in the morphology of migratory and resident birds. Journal of Avian Biology 49: e01807. doi: 10.1111/jav.01807
Tobias, J.A., C. Sheard, A. L. Pigot, A. J. M. Devenish, J. Yang, F. Sayol, … [103 authors], K. Böhning-Gaese, C. Rahbek, S. A. Fritz, G. H. Thomas & M. Schleuning (2022) AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds. Ecology Letters 25: 581–597. doi: 10.1111/ele.13898
Voskamp, A., C. Hof, M. F. Biber, K. Böhning-Gaese, T. Hickler, A. Niamir, S. G. Willis & S. A. Fritz (2022) Projected climate change impacts on the phylogenetic diversity of the world’s terrestrial birds: more than species numbers. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 289: 20212184. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.2184
‡ equal contributions.
For a full publication list, please refer to ResearcherID M-9872-2014 or OrcID 0000-0002-4085-636X.
CV
Since 2024 Professor for Biodiversity in the Anthropocene at German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig and Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
2021-2024 Professor for Geobiodiversity Resarch at Goethe University Frankfurt in cooperation with Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt, Germany (Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung – Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research); Leibniz professorship funded by the Competition 2018 of the Leibniz Association
2014-2021 Emmy Noether research group leader, Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F) & Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany; funded by the German Research Foundation DFG
2011-2014 Postdoctoral researcher, Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F) & Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Frankfurt, Germany
2009-2011 Postdoctoral researcher, Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
2009 PhD degree, Imperial College London, UK. Thesis „Comparative analyses of extinction risk in vertebrates”
2006-2009 Marie Curie Early-Stage Researcher at Imperial College London. EU FP6 project „HOTSPOTS – Understanding and conserving the Earth’s biodiversity hotspots”
2005 Diplom in Biology, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
Current honorary positions
Subject Editor at Ecography, since 2014
Associate Editor at Frontiers of Biogeography, since 2013
Elected speaker of the Specialist Group for Macroecology in the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (Gesellschaft für Ökologie, GfÖ), since 2023