Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

Mag.

Katharina Stefke

Position: staff scientist, currently on maternity leave

Function:

Contact:

katharina.stefke@nhm-wien.ac.at
Phone: 01/52177-311

Since 2007 Assistance of the Mammal Collection at the Natural History Museum Vienna
2001 - 2010 Academic studies on biology and zoology at the University of Vienna
2008-2010 Diploma thesis: Non invasive monitoring of corticosterone metabolites in faeses of japanese quail and chicken. At the Konrad Lorenz Research Station in cooperation with the institute of biochemistry at the Vet. Med. University of Vienna
September 2009: Summer School at the IZW in Berlin on "Non invasive monitoring of hormones"
Since 2010: Hairanalysis on wildcats for the National Park Thayatal
Summer 2010 & 2011: Project on dispersal, habitat selection, population density and ecology of Microtus bavaricus for the conservation bureau of Tyrol, in cooperation with Simon Engelberger
2011: On request volunteer of the Central Europe Poject "European Lakes Under Environmental Stressors" working on verification of Microtus oeconomus. Project executing organisation: Austrian Conservation Association, Burgenland; Agent Dr. B. Herzig
2014 to 2015 & 2017: Ground suirrel mapping for Vienna on behalf of MA 22.
2019 Plattform Wildkatze

L. Landler & K. Stefke (2021): Long-term monitoring of common spadefoot toad activity in a European steppe using barn owl pellets, Journal of Biological Research - Thessaloniki 28, Article Number 4.

K. Stefke & L. Landler (2020): Long-term monitoring of rodent and shrew communities in a biodiversity hot-spot in Austria using barn owl (Tyto alba) pellets, Acta oecologica 109.

A. Corduneanu, A. D. Sándor, A. M. Ionica, S. Hornok, N. Leitner, Z. Bagó, K. Stefke, H.-P. Führer & A. D. Mihalca (2018): BArtonella DNA in heart tissues of bats in central and eastern Europe and a review of phylogenetic relations of bat-associated bartonellae, Parasites & Vectors, 11: 489.

A. Corduneanu, K. Hrazdilová, A. D. Sándor, I. A. Matei, A. M. Ionica, L. Barti, M.-A. Ciocanau, D. S. Mantoiu, I. Coroiu, S. Hornok, H.-P. Führer, N. Leitner, Z. Bago, K. Stefke, D. Modrý & A. D. Mihalca (2017): Babesia vesperuginis, a neglected piroplasmid: new host and geographical records, and phylogenetic relations, Parasites & Vectors, 10: 598.

B. Herzig, K. Spreitzer & H.-M. Berg (2017): Kurt Bauer 1926-2016, Annalen des naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie B, 119, 5-6.

Johan B. M. Thissen, Dick L. Bekker, Katharina Spreitzer & Barbara Herzig-Straschil (2015): The distribution of the Pannonic root vole (Microtus oeconomus mehelyi Ehik, 1928) in Austria, Lutra, Volume 58 - Number 1, 3-22.
Hirschenhauser K., Spreitzer K., Kotrschal K., Lepschy M. & Möstl E. (2012): Excreted corticosterone metabolites differ between two galliform species, japanese quail and chicken, between sexes and between urine and faecal parts of dropping, Journal of Ornithology, 153: 1179-1188.

Spreitzer K., Hirschenhauser K., Kotrschal K., Lepschy M. & Möstl E. (2009): Non invasive monitoring of stress hormones from droppings: a comparative analytical study in galliforms, 7th International Conference on Behaviour, Physiology and Genetics of Wildlife, 183 (Abstract).

Poster:

7th International Conference on Behaviour, Physiology and Genetics of Wildlife, 21.-24.09.2009 Berlin
ISAE - International Society for Applied Ethology, 25.09.2009 Vienna
KLF Anniversary Symposium, 24./25.09.2010 Vienna