Kopper Constantin

Constantin Kopper, BSc MSc

University assistant (prae doc)
PhD Student
4. floor, room 414
t: +43 (0)1 4277-540 83
m: constantin.kopper@univie.ac.at

Title of the Doctoral Thesis

Pollinations syndromes, pollinator shifts and floral evolution in Melastomataceae

Research Interest

Pollination biology, floral diversity and evolution in Melastomataceae
Pollinator shifts in the context of mountain habitats and biogeography in Melastomataceae
Melastomataceae pollination biology in the old-world tropics
Adaptations to changing bee-pollinator communities across elevational gradients in Melastomataceae

Curriculum Vitae

Current position

2021– University assistant (prae doc)

Education and scientific career

2021– PhD Biology, University of Vienna
2020 Scholarship abroad (KWA)
2018–2021 Student project worker FWF-Project P 31101-B29
2018–2021 MSc Botany, University of Vienna
2018 Erica-Project, University of Vienna (Dr. Yannick Städler)
2013–2018 BSc Zoology, University of Vienna
2000–2008 Secondary School

Publications

2025

von Balthazar, M., Lachmayer, M., Hawranek, A.-S., Kopper, C., Schönenberger, J., & Chartier, M. (2025). Pollination and reproductive systems in columbines (Aquilegia, Ranunculaceae) - Review and insights. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 186(1), 38-52. https://doi.org/10.1086/733070

Chartier, M., Kopper, C., Münch, M., Messinger Carril, O., Díaz-Infante, S., Lachmayer, M., Ulrich, S., Wilson, J. S., Schönenberger, J., & von Balthazar, M. (2025). Pollination biology and secondary pollinators in seven North American Aquilegia species. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 186(1), 20-37. https://doi.org/10.1086/733068

2024

Kopper, C., Schönenberger, J., & Dellinger, A. S. (2024). High floral disparity without pollinator shifts in buzz-bee-pollinated Melastomataceae. New Phytologist, 242(5), 2322-2337. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19735

Reginato, M., Ordónez-Parra, C. A., Messeder, J. V. S., Brito, V. L. G., Dellinger, A., Kriebel, R., Marra, C., Melo, L., Cornelissen, T., Fuzessy, L., Sperotto, P., Calderón-Hernández, M., Guerra, T. J., Kopper, C., Mancipe-Murillo, C., Pizo, M. A., Posada-Herrera, J. M., Hasui, É., Silva, W. R., & Silveira, F. A. O. (2024). MelastomaTRAITs 1.0: A database of functional traits in Melastomataceae, a large pantropical angiosperm family. Ecology, 105(6), Article e4308. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4308

Kopper, C., Schönenberger, J., & Dellinger, A. (2024). Mountain Colonization Triggered Evolutionary Pollinator Shifts Away From Bee-Pollination in Melastomataceae. In The 38th Annual meeting of the Scandinavian Association for Pollination Ecology. Abstracts (pp. 30). Article T38

Kopper, C., Schönenberger, J., & Dellinger, A. (2024). Pollination syndromes and pollinator shifts can be explained by climatic and elevational gradients. In XX International Botanical Congress IBC 2024, Spain. Book of Abstracts. Oral presentations (pp. 56). FASE 20 EDICIONES, Madrid, Spain.

2023

Kopper, C., Schönenberger, J., & Dellinger, A. (2023). Pollination syndromes in Melastomataceae: pollinator shifts and species richness explain patterns of disparity in an ancestrally buzz-bee pollinated family. In SCAPE 2023 - Abstract Book Article T28

2022

Dellinger, A. S., Kopper, C., Kagerl, K., & Schönenberger, J. (2022). Pollination in Melastomataceae: A Family-Wide Update on the Little We Know and the Much That Remains to Be Discovered. In R. Goldenberg, F. A. Michelangeli, & F. Almeda (Eds.), Systematics, Evolution, and Ecology of Melastomataceae (pp. 585-607). Springer International Publishing Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99742-7_26

2019

Kopper, C., Pamperl, S., Lachmayer, M., von Balthazar-Schönenberger, A. M. L., Städler, Y., Schönenberger, J., & Chartier, M. (2019). Spur shape and vasculature in Aquilegia, a pilot study: Poster presentation. In Abstract Book GM Austria 2019 (pp. 19).

Chartier, M., Pamperl, S., Kopper, C., Lachmayer, M., von Balthazar-Schönenberger, A. M. L., Städler, Y., & Schönenberger, J. (2019). 3D pollination syndromes in Aquilegia, a pilot study. In Abstract Book GM Austria 2019 (pp. 12)