Dr. Anouschka Hof

Biography

Anouschka Hof is an Associate Professor at Wageningen University, specializing in landscape ecology with a focus on wildlife conservation. Her research interests center around understanding the impacts of anthropogenic activities on ecological processes, particularly how they affect the distribution of wildlife at landscape scales. Anouschka combines modeling techniques with fieldwork to assess species responses to environmental changes. Her doctoral research at Royal Holloway, University of London, investigated the potential drivers behind the decline of the West European hedgehog in the UK. She also leads a conservation project for the locally endangered black guillemot population in the Baltic Sea region, employing camera traps and monitoring efforts to study breeding behaviors. Anouschka has experience as a postdoctoral researcher at Umeå University in Sweden, focusing on subarctic and arctic species that are highly vulnerable to climate change. Her current work utilizes Species Distribution Modeling techniques to examine the effects of climate change on species distributions and forest ecosystems, seeking insights into habitat restoration and wildlife conservation.

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