Kim Lea Holzmann

I have a broad evolutionary & ecological research interest in the response of organisms to climate change, particularly in the context of thermal tolerances. In my research I aim to understand how the distribution of biodiversity is shaped by natural gradients and environmental changes. I am investigating these topics focusing on insects and mammals along tropical elevation gradients. My current fieldwork includes:

• insect sampling in Peruvian Andes and rainforest
• thermal tolerance tests
• mesocosm experiments
• camera-trapping of large mammals
• recording climate data

More information on my homepage: Kim Lea Holzmann – PhD student studying climate change responses

ANDIV - Patterns and drivers of insect diversity and their microbiome along a complete forest elevational gradient in the Peruvian Andes

ANDIV (uni-wuerzburg.de) 

September 2022 - now: PhD student at Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, University of Würzburg, Germany

August 2020 - August 2022: Erasmus Mundus Master of Evolution MSc program studying at 

1. University of Groningen, Netherlands
2. Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany
3. Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
4. Uppsala University, Sweden
5. The University of Arizona, USA

(Graduated with a MSc in Biology from Uppsala University and a MSc in Ecology, Evolution & Systematics from Ludwig Maximilian University)

October 2017 - July 2020: BSc in Biology at University of Göttingen, Germany, including

1. External thesis project at the Department of Zoology at the University Kassel, Germany
2. Semester abroad at University of Tasmania, Australia

Holzmann, K.L., Alonso-Alonso, P., Correa-Carmona, Y., Pinos, A., Yon, F., Lopera, A., Brehm, G., Keller, A., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Peters, M.K. (2025) Net primary productivity but not its remote-sensing proxies predict mammal diversity in Andean-Amazonian rainforests. Ecology. 106(3):e70059. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.70059

Holzmann, K.L., Alonso-Alonso, P., Correa-Carmona, Y., Pinos, A., Felipe, Y., Gunnar, B., Keller, A., Steffan-Dewenter, I. & Peters, M.K. (2025) Cold waves in the Amazon rainforest and their ecological impact. Biology Letters, 21, 2120240591. http://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0591

Holzmann, K.L., Walls, R.L. & Wiens, J.J. (2023) Accelerating local extinction associated with very recent climate change. Ecology Letters, 26, 1877–1886. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14303

Holzmann, K.L., Charrier, C. & Johansson, F. (2022) Weak effects on growth and cannibalism under fluctuating temperatures in damselfly larvae. Scientific Reports 12, 12910. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-17192-1.

Holzmann, K. L. (2022) Challenges in a changing climate: the effect of temperature variation on growth and competition in damselflies. Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years) thesis, Uppsala University. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-467582.

Woehler, E.J., & Holzmann, K.L. (2020) Polymelia and polydactyly in a Silver Gull Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae. Marine Ornithology 48, 169–170.