Marcela Suarez-Rubio
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Marcela Suarez-Rubio
Institute of Zoology (ZOO)
Location Gregor-Mendel-Straße 33, 1180 Wien
Email marcela.suarezrubio@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-83316
Career
- 2017 Senior Scientist, Institute of Zoology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna
- 2016 Habilitation (Venia docendi) in Landscape Ecology, Privatdozent, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna
- 2012 - 2016 University Assistant, Institute of Zoology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna
- 2011 PhD in Ecology, University of Maryland, USA
- 2010 Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University, USA
- 2005 - 2007 Curriculum Development Coordinator, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, USA
- 2005 MSc in Biology, University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico
- 2005 - 2007 Principal Instructor, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, USA
- 2000 BSc in Biology, Universidad del Valle, Colombia
Awards
- Year: 2022 Awards: ERASMUS+ Teaching Mobility, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
- Year: 2022 Awards: National Parks Austria Research Award to the Master Thesis of Lena Schneider and Georg Gruber (Supervisors: Marcela Suarez-Rubio and Markus Milchram)
- Year: 2019 Awards: Top Downloaded Paper 2018-2019 in Ecology and Evolution: Suarez-Rubio et al. 2018 (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.3897)
- Year: 2018 Awards: ERASMUS+ Teaching Mobility, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain
- Year: 2017 Awards: ERASMUS+ Teaching Mobility, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain
- Year: 2016 Awards: BOKU Teaching Award 2016 - 2. Place
- Year: 2016 Awards: ERASMUS+ Teaching Mobility, University of Mandalay, Myanmar
- Year: 2015 Awards: First prize for oral presentation for Kathrine Schack Madsen: "Influence of landscape parameters on reproductive success of great tits (Parus major) along an urban gradient." ELLS Conference, Prague
- Year: 2011 Awards: Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Award
- Year: 2011 Awards: Who’s who in America for Professional Achievements
- Year: 2011 Awards: NASA-MSU Professional Enhancement Award
- Year: 2010 Awards: Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Travel Award
- Year: 2010 Awards: USDA-NIFA Professional Enhancement Award
- Year: 2008 Awards: American Ornithologists' Union Student Travel Award
- Year: 2008 Awards: Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Travel Award
- Year: 2008 Awards: Golden Key International Honour Society Member
- Year: 2006 Awards: Dr. José Ramón Ortiz Award (Fundación Ríos Pasarell)
- Year: 2005 Awards: Auburn University Center for Forest Sustainability Travel Fellowship
- Year: 2005 Awards: Fellowship for Dissertations, thesis and equivalent projects. Dean’s Office of Graduate and Research Studies, University of Puerto Rico
- Year: 2004 Awards: Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool Fellowship
Projects
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Presentations
Year: 2023 - Life History, Immunantwort auf aviäre Hämosporidiose, und Vektoren als Gesundheitsrisiko für Kohlmeisen in Relation zu unterschiedlichen Waldtypen im Biosphärenreservat Wienerwald
Autoren: Liball, K; Schneider, S; Kirchmair, R; Suarez-Rubio M
Event: 156. Jahresversammlung der Deutschen Ornithologen-Gesellschaft
Year: 2023 - Bird communities in tropical southeast Asian cities: dissimilarities with temperate areas?
Autoren: Suarez-Rubio, M; Bates, PJJ; Aung, T; Hlaing, NM; Oo, SSL; Ohn Mar, SM; Myint, A; Fehrmann, L; Renner, SC
Event: 156. Jahresversammlung der Deutschen Ornithologen-Gesellschaft
Year: 2022 - Birds and bats in a changing word: the pressure of land-use change on diversity
Autoren: Suarez-Rubio, M
Event: Invited speaker, Seminar Series Department of Environment and Biodiversity, University of Salzburg
Year: 2022 - Forest management: Effects on birds and bats
Autoren: Suarez-Rubio, M
Event: Invited speaker, Forest Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Technische Universität Dresden
Year: 2022 - Bird responses to urbanization change depending on reference level, rural or natural
Autoren: Batáry, P; Kurucz, K; Suarez-Rubio, M; Chamberlain, DE
Event: 6th European Congress of Conservation Biology 2022
Year: 2021 - Local and landscape factors influence urban ground dwelling arthropods in non-recreational green spaces
Autoren: Fischer, J; Suarez-Rubio, M
Event: World Conference of the Society for Urban Ecology 2021
Year: 2020 - The effect of surrounding land use, vegetation cover and temperature on arthropod assemblages on vacant lots, extensive green roofs and railway embankments in Vienna, Austria
Autoren: Fischer, J; Suarez-Rubio, M
Event: Simbiose symposium
Year: 2019 - Effects of urbanization in birds and bats
Autoren: Suarez-Rubio, M
Event: International workshop Biodiversity and the urban-rural interface: conflicts vs. opportunities 2019
Year: 2019 - Identifying and assessing indicators for quantifying urbanization gradients
Autoren: Suarez-Rubio, M; Krenn, R
Event: IALE WORLD CONGRESS International Association for Landscape Ecology 2019
Year: 2019 - Conservation of bats along an urbanization gradient: The effect of vegetation structure, buildings and artificial light
Autoren: Suarez-Rubio, M; Reier, S; Höfinger, E; Bruckner A
Event: IALE WORLD CONGRESS International Association for Landscape Ecology 2019
Year: 2018 - Hemeroby and the urban soil fauna: Including anthropogenic disturbance improves assemblage models
Autoren: Bruckner, A; Shrubovych, J; Zehetner, F; Suarez-Rubio, M
Event: 48th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland GfÖ 2018 - Ecology – Meeting the Scientific Challenges of a complex World
Year: 2018 - The influence of landscape heterogeneity for establishing Woodlark breeding territories
Autoren: Suarez-Rubio, M; Resch, M
Event: 27th International Ornithological Congress
Year: 2018 - Haemosporidia prevalence in Parus major nestlings along an urbanization gradient
Autoren: Neumann, AE; Suarez-Rubio, M; van Hoesel, W; Renner, SC
Event: 48th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland GfÖ 2018 - Ecology – Meeting the Scientific Challenges of a complex World
Year: 2018 - Biodiversity assessment of the Hkakabo Razi passerine fauna – implications on taxonomy and conservation from molecular genetics
Autoren: Renner, SC; Suarez-Rubio, M; Päckert, M
Event: Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft (DO-G)
Year: 2018 - Haemosporidia prevalence in Parus major nestlings along an urbanization gradient
Autoren: Neumann, AE; Suarez-Rubio, M; van Hoesel, W; Renner, SC
Event: Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft (DO-G)
Year: 2018 - Biodiversity of the Hkakabo Razi passerine fauna – implications on taxonomy and conservation from molecular genetics
Autoren: Renner, SC; Suarez-Rubio, M; Päckert, M
Event: 48th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland GfÖ 2018 - Ecology – Meeting the Scientific Challenges of a complex World
Year: 2018 - Ecología del movimiento de aves en corredores restaurados en un paisaje fragmentado en la cordillera central de Colombia
Autoren: Montealegre-Talero, C; Suarez-Rubio, M; Renner, S; Renjifo, LM
Event: II Simposio Nacional de Ecología del Paisaje
Year: 2018 - Bats along an urbanization gradient: the relative importance of artificial light and vegetation structure
Autoren: Suarez-Rubio, M; Reier, S; Bruckner, A
Event: 48th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland GfÖ 2018 - Ecology – Meeting the Scientific Challenges of a complex World
Year: 2018 - Effects of urbanization on birds and bats
Autoren: Suarez-Rubio, M
Event: International workshop: “Biodiversity and the urban-rural interface: conflicts vs. opportunities” within the project “Land use contrasts and edge effects – a comparative approach”
Year: 2018 - Biodiversity assessment of the Hkakabo Razi passerine avifauna – implications on taxonomy and conservation from molecular genetics
Autoren: Renner, S; Suarez-Rubio, M; Päcker, M
Event: 27th International Ornithological Congress
Year: 2017 - Pursuing Graduate Studies Abroad
Autoren: Suarez-Rubio, M
Event: Invited lecturer, Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Year: 2017 - The Anthropocene: Effects on Birds and Bats
Autoren: Suarez-Rubio, M
Event: Invited lecturer, Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Year: 2017 - Avifauna in re-connected Andean forests 10 years after the restoration of connectivity corridors
Autoren: Montealegre, C; Echeverry-Galvis, MA; Renner, SC; Suarez-Rubio, M; Renjifo, LM
Event: International Congress of Conservation Biology
Year: 2017 - Der Einfluss von künstlichem Licht auf Aktivität und Artenreichtum von Fledermäusen entlang eines urbanen Gradienten in Wien
Autoren: Reier, S; Bruckner, A; Suarez-Rubio, M
Event: 4. Tagung Fledermausforschung in Österreich 2017
Year: 2017 - Impacts of habitat changes on food availability for the Warbler finch in the Scalesia Forest, Galápagos
Autoren: Rabitsch, I; Zechmeister‐Boltenstern, S; Tebbich, S; Suarez‐Rubio, M; Armstrong, K; Watzinger, A; Hood‐Nowotny, R;
Event: 15th Stable Isotope Network Austria SINA Meeting 2017
Year: 2017 - Effects of Vegetation Structure on Bats Along an Urban Gradient
Autoren: Wiesinger, F; Bruckner, A; Suarez-Rubio, M
Event: 4. Tagung Fledermausforschung in Österreich 2017
Year: 2017 - Influence of Buildings and Vegetation Structure on Bat Activity and Richness Along an Urban Gradient
Autoren: Vetter, M; Bruckner, A; Suarez-Rubio, M
Event: 4. Tagung Fledermausforschung in Österreich 2017
Year: 2017 - Habitatmodellierung für die Fledermäuse im Nationalpark Harz
Autoren: Schröder, A; Suarez-Rubio, M; Bruckner, A
Event: 4. Tagung Fledermausforschung in Österreich 2017
Year: 2016 - Importance of suburban areas for birds: a hierarchical meta-analysis
Autoren: Kurucz, K; Suarez-Rubio, M; Chamberlain, DE, Batáry, P
Event: 46th Annual Conference of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland GfÖ 2016
Year: 2016 - Results of the 1st Research Trip to the Northern Mountain Forest Complex - Landscape parameters and birds
Autoren: Renner, SC; Myint Aung; Suarez-Rubio, M;
Event: Scientific research workshop on NMFC biodiversity - Nomination of the Hkakabo Razi Forests as World Heritage
Year: 2015 - „Potentielle Konnektivität urbaner Grünflächen für die Fledermäuse Wiens“
Autoren: Sprick, F.; Bruckner, A; Suarez-Rubio, M
Event: 3. Tagung Fledermausforschung in Österreich 2015
Year: 2015 - Breeding birds in urban green spaces: The role of habitat, surroundings and connectivity
Autoren: Suarez-Rubio, M
Event: International Bird Workshop Myanmar 2015
Year: 2015 - Returning home: movement strategies of Sub-Andean birds in a modified landscape
Autoren: Suarez-Rubio, M; Montealegre-Talero, C; Renjifo, LM; Renner, S
Event: 10th Neotropical Ornithology Congress 2015
Year: 2015 - Response of bats to landscape structure surrounding urban green areas
Autoren: Koppensteiner, W; Suarez-Rubio, M; Bruckner, A
Event: 45th Annual Conference of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland GfÖ 2015
Year: 2015 - The role of habitat, surroundings and connectivity of urban green spaces for birds
Autoren: Suarez-Rubio, M; Mair, E
Event: 10th Conference of the European Ornithologist's Union
Year: 2015 - Functional connectivity of urban green spaces for insectivorous bat species
Autoren: Suarez-Rubio, M; Sprick, F; Bruckner, A
Event: World Congress International Association of Landscape Ecology
Year: 2015 - Die Reaktion der Fledermäuse auf die umgebende Landschaftsstruktur von urbanen Grünräumen
Autoren: Koppensteiner, W; Bruckner, A; Suarez-Rubio, M
Event: 3. Tagung Fledermausforschung in Österreich 2015
Year: 2015 - Vorkommen der Nymphenfledermaus Myotis alcathoe in Österreich
Autoren: Reiter G., Bruckner A., Kubista C. E., Plank M., Pollheimer M., Suarez-Rubio M., Wegleitner S., Hüttmeir U.
Event: Verbreitung und Ökologie der Nymphenfledermaus, Bayrisches Landesamt für Umwelt, Fachtagung
Year: 2013 - Forest birds’ response to residential development beyond the urban fringe
Autoren: Suarez-Rubio, M; Lookingbill, T
Event: 1st Congress of the Society for Urban Ecology 2013 - Progress in urban ecology and ecological challenges in urban development
Year: 2013 - Effects of rural housing growth on forest birds’ habitat
Autoren: Suarez-Rubio, M; Lookingbill, T
Event: Ecological Society of America 2013
Year: 2012 - Housing development in rural areas deteriorates forest birds breeding habitats
Autoren: Suarez-Rubio, M; Wilson, S; Lookingbill, T
Event: 6th Annual Meeting of the Specialist Group on Macroecology of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland GfÖ 2012
Year: 2011 - Comparison of a pattern-based model and a spatially explicit econometric model to forecast low-density residential development
Autoren: Suarez-Rubio, M.; Lookingbill, T; Wainger, L
Event: IALE-D Jahrestagung 2011
Year: 2010 - Evaluation of the susceptibility of the Maryland Green Infrastructure to forecasted patterns of land use change
Autoren: Suarez-Rubio, M.; J. Ferrari; T. Lookingbill
Event: Chesapeake Modeling Symposium
Year: 2008 - Does exurban development influence bird diversity in northern Virginia?
Autoren: Suarez-Rubio M, Leimgruber P, Renner SC
Event: 126th American Ornithologists’ Union 2007
Year: 2007 - Effects of land-use intensity on bird communities in Puerto Rico
Autoren: Suarez-Rubio, M.; Thomlinson, JR
Event: 7th IALE World Congress 2007
Year: 2005 - Effects of land-use intensity on bird communities in Puerto Rico
Autoren: Suarez-Rubio, M; Thomlinson, JR
Event: Urban Rural Interface International Conference