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2025 | News from our group

CRC_Sept_2025
Foto: Anja Linstädter

September 2025: Inspiring training course on functional plant strategies

On Monday 8th of September, Prof. Anja Linstädter and Dr. Vera Hesen from our working group hosted a special trainings course for PhD students on one of our group’s core topics: leaf functional traits. 
 

Marcescence Project
on work in plant bed
Foto: Dorit Siebert

August 2025: We are participating in a Marcescence Project

Our working group supports a follow-up project at the University of Jena as part of PhenObs.

AL: Radio Interviews July 2025
the pictures show desert landscapes
Foto: Jan-Herm Janßen, Thomas Bringhenti

July 2025: Radio interviews on the causes of desertification in Germany and Namibia

In two recent German radio interviews, Prof. Anja Linstädter compared the drivers of land degradation in Namibia and Germany, urging greater focus on prevention strategies as climate change increases desertification risks.

NamTiP Winter School
workshop participants
Foto: Anja Linstädter

June 2025: NamTip Project Hosts Winter School and Final Stakeholder Workshops in Namibia

The NamTip project engaged students, researchers, policymakers, and local communities in hands-on learning and dialogue on sustainable rangeland management and desertification prevention in Namibia.

Linde Excursion
This is the Linde Excursion Team
Foto: Linde Excursion Team

June 2025: Studierende erheben Daten zu Blühstreifen in Agrarflächen

Als Teil einer integrativen Lehrveranstaltung in unserer Arbeitsgruppe erheben Studierende ökologische Daten in einem echten Feldexperiment.

Essay Future Rural Africa
elephants in a pond
Foto: Liana Kindermann

June 2025: Was Elefanten mit Kohlenstoff zu tun haben

Deutschsprachiger Essay veröffentlicht

Pint of Science_May 2025

May 2025: Vortrag bei Pint of Science Potsdam: die Vergangenheit im Heute

Beim Pint of Science Event Potsdam wird Liana Kindermann über alte Bäume sprechen.

2025: New Journal Publication from our Research in Namibia

April 2025: New Journal Publication from our Research in Namibia

Our research on carbon storage in African savannas is published in Global Chance Biology Journal.