Siegfried Rieger

Siegfried Rieger is a Professor at the Faculty of Forest and Environment of Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, specializing in wildlife biology, management, and hunting operations. His research focuses on:

• Behavioral ecology of red deer and wolves
• Human-wildlife interaction dynamics
• Hunting bullet effectiveness
• Occupational safety in hunting operations
• Conservation grazing impacts
• Wildlife parasitology

Recent publications analyze wolf flight responses to human approaches using GPS tracking (Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution), red deer-livestock spatial interactions (European Journal of Wildlife Research), and helminth fauna diversity in muskrats (Animals). His methodological contributions include standardized protocols for experimental carnivore-human encounter studies.