Dr. Vera Pfannerstill
Project:
“GreenGrass - Innovative use of grassland for sustainable intensification of agriculture on a landscape scale”
Research interests:
- Sustainable and innovative pasture management
- (Learning) behaviour of animals
- Conservation Social Sciences
Short CV:
since 2025: Research assistant in the Department of Grassland Sciences at the University of Göttingen and at the Alfred Toepfer Academy for Nature Conservation (NNA)
2023-2025: Employee in the scientific department at Frankfurt Zoo
2019-2023: Doctorate in the Department of Wildlife Sciences at the University of Göttingen
2015-2017: M. Sc. Ingénierie en écologie et gestion de la biodiversité (IEGB)/Engineering in Ecology and Biodiversity Management at the University of Montpellier
2011-2014: B. Sc. Biodiversity and Ecology at the University of Göttingen
Publications:
Franceschi, I. Dornas, R. Lermen, I., … Pfannerstill, V., …, Kindel, A., Coelho, I. (2024). Camera trap surveys of Atlantic Forest mammals: a dataset for analyses considering imperfect detection. Ecology, 2024.
Pfannerstill, V., Balkenhol, N., Bennitt, E., Maboga, O. S., & Scheumann, M. (2023). Assessing the potential of conspecific playbacks as a post‐translocation management tool for white rhinoceros. Conservation Science and Practice, 5(9), e12996.
Pfannerstill, V., Härdtner, R., Maboga, O. S., Balkenhol, N., Bennitt, E., & Scheumann, M. (2023). Dehorning impacts white rhinoceros behaviour less than social events: evidence from Botswana. Journal of Zoology, 321(4), 249-259.
Pfannerstill, V., Signer, J., Fitt, M., Burger, K., Balkenhol, N., & Bennitt, E. (2022). Effects of age and sex on site fidelity, movement ranges and home ranges of white and black rhinoceros translocated to the Okavango Delta, Botswana. African Journal of Ecology, 60(3), 344-356.
Pfannerstill, V., & Maboga, O. S. (2021). Not so solitary? White rhinos seek company when relaxed. Pachyderm, 62, 130-134.