Marlene Schürz

Doctoral student

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Doctoral student

Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries

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Interests

Freshwater ecosystems and biodiversity Conservation planning Stressor-response relationship Programming Data analysis Geo-informatics

Education

  • MSc in Applied Limnology, 2013-2019
    University of Natural Resources and Life Science, Vienna, Austria
  • Research stay at the Aquatic Landscape Ecology Lab, 2017
    Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA
  • Trimester - Limnology and Wetland Management Program, 2015
    Egerton University, Nakuru, Kenya
  • BSc in Civil Engineering and Water Management, 2006-2013
    University of Natural Resources and Life Science, Vienna, Austria

Marlene Schürz is a doctoral student at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB). She is working on a high-resolution freshwater habitat characterization and is conducting analyses across spatial scales to highlight distinct patterns of aquatic insects and potential gaps in the global network of protected areas.

Projects

Publications (3)

Environment90m – globally standardized environmental variables for freshwater science at high spatial resolution (2026) · Earth System Science Data 2026, 1541–1559

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The Scale-Dependency in Freshwater Habitat Regionalisation Analyses (2025) · Ecohydrology, 18, e70018

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hydrographr: an R package for scalable hydrographic data processing (2023) · Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14, 2953-2963

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