Carola Kiene

Carola Kiene

Scientific staff

Contact

Soldmannstraße 15
17489 Greifswald
Tel.: +49 3834 420 4158

carola.kiene@uni-greifswald.de

Research focus

Research focus

  • Socio-economics and acceptance of renewable energy, especially agri-PV on peatland
  • Photovoltaics in combined with peatland rewetting
  • Sustainable land use through dual land use of agricultural land for crop production and electricity generation with photovoltaics (agrivoltaics)
  • Interaction between land use climate change impacts on temperate grasslands
Professional Background

Professional Background

Since 2024

Research assistant in the MoorPower project at the University of Greifswald, Chair of Landscape Economics

2022-2024

Climate protection manager for the county of Bayreuth

2017-2022

Research assistant at the University of Bayreuth at the Chair of Functional and Tropical Plant Ecology

Since 2017

PhD at the University of Bayreuth (Topic: The role of nutrients for the variability of drought effects on community composition and productivity across land-use gradients in grasslands, in the graduate programme ‘Ecology and Environmental Research’)

2014-2017

Master's programme ‘Biological Sciences’ at the University of Konstanz

2011-2014

Bachelor's programme ‘Biological Sciences’ at the University of Konstanz
Publications

Publications

2023

Kiene, C., Jung, EY. & Engelbrecht, B.M.J. Nutrient effects on drought responses vary across common temperate grassland species. Oecologia 202, 1–14 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-023-05370-5