Margarita Hartlieb
Curriculum Vitae
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Since 2025
Dr. rer. nat in Biology at TU Darmstadt
Thesis Title: Balancing Biodiversity: Understanding the Influence of Management on Grassland Ecosystems
Since 2021
Research Associate at TU Darmstadt in the projects BioDivKultur and Biodiversity Exploratories
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Since 2020
Master of Science in Zoology and in Behaviour, Neurobiology and Cognition at the University of Vienna
Austrian Nationalpark Ranger at Nationalpark Thayatal
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Since 2016
Bachelor of Science in Biology at the University of Vienna
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Research interests
In my PhD, I am interested in the effects of grassland management on arthropod communities.
Research domains:
Species diversity
Human impact
Urban ecology
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Research projects
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Contact
margarita.hartlieb(at)tu-darmstadt.de
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B1|02 Room 207
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Margarita Hartlieb
Ecological Networks
Fachbereich Biologie
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Schnittspahnstr. 3
64287 Darmstadt
Germany
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Phone +49 6151 16-20039
Publications
2025
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Hartlieb M, Berger JL, Daum SNK, Freudenberg J, Zenglein F, Janich N, Blüthgen N (accepted) The living meadow: How mowing affects insects and spiders. Frontiers for Young Minds
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Hartlieb M (2025) Balancing Biodiversity: Understanding the Influence of Management on Grassland Ecosystems. Technische Universität Darmstadt. 10.26083/tuprints-00031414
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Hartlieb M, Staab M, Berger JL, Achury R, Gossner MM, Seibold S, Weisser WW, Blüthgen N (2025) Losers and winners: Responses of grassland arthropods to land-use components. Oikos e11404. https://doi.org/10.1002/oik.11404 Data
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Zenglein F, Berger JL, Hartlieb M (2025) Urban biodiversity and green space maintenance: limitations and chances in German cities. Urban Research & Practice, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/17535069.2025.2561703
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Hartlieb M (2025) Preserving the art of multivariate thinking: PCA and the wisdom of experience. Agronomy Journal 117 (5), e70151. https://doi.org/10.1002/agj2.70151
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Hartlieb M (2025) The importance of collaboration, interdisciplinarity, and transdisciplinarity in grassland research. Grassland Research, 4(3), 296–304. https://doi.org/10.1002/glr2.70015
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Raubitzek S, Hartlieb M, König P, Hinderling J, Mallinger K (2025) Multi-Class Machine Learning to Quantify the Impact of Nitrogen Management Practices on Grassland Biomass. Nitrogen 6(3), 52. https://doi.org/10.3390/nitrogen6030052
2024
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​Berger JL*, Daum SNK*, Hartlieb M* (2024) Simply The Green: Urban Refuges. Basic and Applied Ecology, 80, 108-119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2024.09.002 *shared first author
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Hartlieb M, Raubitzek S, Berger JL, Staab M, Vogt J, Ayasse M, Ostrowski A, Weisser W, Blüthgen N (2024) Assessing mowing intensity: A new index incorporating frequency, machinery, and technique. Grassland Research, 3(3), 264-274. https://doi.org/10.1002/glr2.12089 GitLab
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​Berger JL , Staab M, Hartlieb M, Simons NK, Wells K, Gossner MM, Vogt J, Achury R, Seibold S, Hemp A, Weisser WW, Blüthgen N (2024) The day after mowing: Time and type of mowing influence grassland arthropods. Ecological Applications, 34(6), e3022. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.3022
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​Sanetra D, Berger J, Hartlieb M, Simons N, Walther G, Blüthgen N, Staab M (2024) Disentangling how urbanisation influences moth diversity in grasslands. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 17(2), 229-242. https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12713
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2021
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Massen JJM*, Hartlieb M*, Martin JS*, Leitgeb EB, Hockl J, Kocourek M, Olkowicz S, Zhang Y, Osadnik C, Verkleij JW, Bugnyar T, Němec P, Gallup AC (2021) Brain size and neuron numbers drive differences in yawn duration across mammals and birds. Communications Biology, 4(1), 503. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02019-y *shared first author
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