Dr. Lars Opgenoorth

Telefon: 28-22080

Email: lars.opgenoorth[at]staff.uni-marburg.de

Raum: C 2063

Scientific background

Since 2009 Associate professor at the Department of Ecology in the working group of Prof. Dr. Roland Brandl

2005-2009 Research fellow at the Department of Conservation Biology in the working group of Prof. Dr. Birgit Ziegenhagen

2004 Research assistant at the Department of Biogeography in the working group of Prof. Dr. Georg Miehe

Scholarships and external research fundings

2010 BMBF, Opgenoorth & Brandl, 5 years, 322.793 €

2009 European network of Excellence Evoltree, mobility scholarship, 2.150 €

2005 DAAD, research scholarship, 1.952 €

2004 DAAD, research scholarship, 2.753 €

2001 The German National Merit Foundation, research scholarship, 1.500 €

1996-2003 The German National Merit Foundation, Scholar.

Publications in reviewed journals

2011

Schmidt, J., Opgenoorth, L., Höll, S., Bastrop, R. & Hundsdörfer, A. (submitted to Molecular Ecology): Molecular genetic analyses of the Ethira clade: testing morphological based taxonomy and biogeography of a Himalayan ground beetle species group

Miehe, G., Miehe, S., Kaiser, K. ,Hensen, I., Madsen, D., Opgenoorth, L. & Liu, J.Q. (submitted to Ecological Monographs): The human footprint in the world's largest alpine ecosystem. A review of multiproxy records from the Tibetan Plateau

Schmidt, J., Opgenoorth, L., Martens, J. & Miehe, G. (in review after resubmission in Quaternary Science Reviews): Neoendemic ground beetles and private tree haplotypes: two independent proxies attest moderate LGM summer temperature depression of 3 to 4K for the southern Tibetan Plateau

2010

Michalczyk, I., Lücke, Y., Opgenoorth, L., Huck, S. & Ziegenhagen, B. (2010), Genetic support for periglacial survival of juniper populations in Central Europe. The Holocene. doi:10.1177/0959683610365943

Opgenoorth, L*., Vendramin, G.G., Mao, K., Miehe, G., Miehe, S., Liepelt, S., Liu, J. & Ziegenhagen, B. (2010), Tree endurance on the Tibetan Plateau marks the world's highest known tree line of the Last Glacial Maximum. New Phytologist, 185 (1), 332-342. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.03007.x

*Paper was highlighted in the editorial section of that New Phytologist edition.

2009

Opgenoorth, L. (2009), Identification and characterization of nuclear microsatellites in Juniperus tibetica using next generation sequencing. Conservation Genetics Resources 1 (1), 253-255. doi:10.1007/s12686-009-9062-3

Kaiser, K., Opgenoorth, L. Schoch, W.H. & Miehe, G. (2009), Charcoal and fossil wood from palaeosols, sediments and artificial structures indicating Late Holocene woodland decline in southern Tibet (China). Quaternary Science Reviews, 28 (15-16), 1539-1554. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.02.016

2007

Miehe, G., Miehe, S., Will, M., Opgenoorth, L., La Duo, Tsering Dorgeh & Liu, J.Q. (2007), An inventory of forest relicts in the pastures of Southern Tibet (Xizang A.R.,China). Plant Ecology, 194 (2), 157-177. doi.org/10.1007/s11258-007-9282-0

Miehe, G., Schlütz, F., Miehe, S., Opgenoorth, L., Cermak, J., Samiya, R., Jäger, E. & Wesche, K. (2007), Mountain forest islands and Holocene environmental changes in Central Asia: A case study from the southern Gobi Altay, Mongolia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 250 (1-4), 150-166. doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.03.022

Book chapters and conference proceedings

2005

Opgenoorth L., Cermak J., Miehe G.& Schoch W. (2005) Isolated Birch and Willow Forests in the Govi Gurvan Sayhan National Park. Erforschung biologischer Ressourcen der Mongolei, 9, 247-258.

Cermak, J., Opgenoorth, L. & Miehe, G. (2005) Isolated Mountain Forests in Central Asian Deserts. A Case Study from the Govi Altay, Mongolia. In: Broll, G. & Keplin, B.(Hrsg.) Mountain Ecosystems. Springer. 253-273.

Cermak, J. & Opgenoorth, L. (2003): Dynamics of forest islands in the Govi Altay: microclimate and human impact. Berliner Paläobiologische Abhandlungen, 2: 28-29.

Presentations

2009

Opgenoorth, L., Vendramin, G., Mao, K., Miehe, G., Miehe, S., Liepelt, S., Liu, J. & Ziegenhagen, B., Genetic Evidence for Ice-Age endurance of juniper forests on the Tibetan Plateau. Workshop on Population and Ecological Genomics in Changing Forest Environments. CEALP, Italy 07 2009.

2007

Opgenoorth, L., Vendramin, G., Mao, K., Miehe, G., Miehe, S., Liepelt, S., Liu, J. & Ziegenhagen, B., Phylogeography and glacial refugia of Juniperus tibetica Kom. complex on the Tibetan Plateau. GFÖ Tagung 09 2007.

Opgenoorth, L., Miehe, S., Miehe, G., Liepelt, S., Mengel, T. & Ziegenhagen, B., Speciation and forest history of Juniperus in Southern Tibet. Tibet Workshop Marburg, 04 2005

Opgenoorth, L., Molekulare Methoden zur Artunterscheidung und Hybridisierungsgeschichte von Wacholder am Beispiel tibetischer Plateauarten, Wacholder Workshop Marburg, 03 2005

2004

Opgenoorth L., Cermak J., Miehe, G. & Schoch, W. (2004) Isolated Birch and Willow Forests in the Govi Gurvan Sayhan National Park. International Conference on “Ecosystem Research in the arid environments of Central Asia: Results, challenges, perspective”, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolei, 06 2004.

2003

Cermak, J., Opgenoorth, L. (2003) Dynamics of Betula-Salix Forest Islands in the Govi Altay. International Symposium “Environmental Change in Central Asia: Climate, Geodynamics, Evolution, Human Impact”, Berlin, 03 2003.