Karen Marie Pedersen
CV
2019-Present
PhD Candidate TU Darmstadt
2015-2018
Community-based environmental conservation volunteer-Perú
2012-2015
Masters Student Wright State University
2010-2010
Research assistant primate behavior,
Puerto Rico
2009-2009
Wildlife rehabilitation and environmental education intern Brukner Nature Center
2005-2009
Study of Biology at the Wright State University
Research interests
I am interested in tropical ecology with a focus on dung beetles, secondary seed dispersal, and mammals.
Contact
karen.pedersen@tu-darmstadt.de
B1|01, Room 264
Karen Marie Pedersen
Biology Department
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Schnittspahnstr. 3
64287 Darmstadt
Germany
Marín-Armijos D, Chamba-Carrillo A, Pedersen KM (2023). Morphometric changes on dung beetle Dichotomius problematicus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) related to conversion of forest into grassland: A case of study in the Ecuadorian Amazonia. Ecology and Evolution 13 e9831. DOI 10.1002/ece3.9831
Pedersen KM, Blüthgen N (2022) Seed size and pubescence facilitate secondary dispersal by dung beetles. Biotropica DOI: 10.1111/btp.13052
Pedersen KM, Shanee S, Olivera Tarifeño CM (2019) Evidence of opossum (Didelphis sp.) Predation by white-fronted capuchins (Cebus yuracus) in Copallín Private Conservation Area Amazonas, Perú. Neotropical Primates