Margarita Hartlieb
Curriculum Vitae
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
Since 2020
Master of Science in Zoology and in Behaviour, Neurobiology and Cognition at the University of Vienna
Austrian Nationalpark Ranger at Nationalpark Thayatal
Since 2016
Bachelor of Science in Biology at the University of Vienna
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
Research projects
Contact
margarita.hartlieb(at)tu-darmstadt.de
B1|02 Room 207
Margarita Hartlieb
Ecological Networks
Fachbereich Biologie
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Schnittspahnstr. 3
64287 Darmstadt
Germany
Phone +49 6151 16-20039
Publications
2025
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
Hartlieb M (2025) Balancing Biodiversity: Understanding the Influence of Management on Grassland Ecosystems. Technische Universität Darmstadt. 10.26083/tuprints-00031414
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
2021
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