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2025 | News from our group

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.

2024 | News from our group

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December 2024: Radio interview on global desertification

Prof. Linstädter discussed key challenges and solutions for global desertification on the German radio program “Deutschlandfunk Kultur”.

Phenotypic Plasticity in Plants
plants in boxes
Photo: AG Linstädter

October 2024: New research project "Phenotypic Plasticity in Plants"

Our working group participates in the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1644 “Phenotypic Plasticity in Plants (PhenPlast)”.

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September 2024: PhD candidates at the 53rd GfÖ conference

Our PhD candidates Lisa-Maricia Schwarz and Sophia Meyer presented their results at the 53rd Annual Conference of the German Ecological Society in Freising

Final GreenGaDe Workshop
the team
Photo: Prof. Anja Linstädter

September 2024: Final GreenGaDe Workshop in Kumasi, Ghana

The final workshop of the Greenhouse Gas Determination in West Africa’s Agricultural Landscape Project was held at the Forestry Research Institute of Ghana

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in South Africa
Photo: Vincent Mokoka & Liana Kindermann

August 2024: New “Nature” Journal Publication

Results from a large coordinated global study on climate change impacts on dryland vegetation make it into Nature Journal.

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research work
Photo: Prof. Anja Linstädter

August 2024: Research in the News

Recently published research with contributions from our working group highlights that biodiversity is key under future climate conditions.

VernissageJune2024
women standing in greenhouse between plants and exhibition posters
Photo: Dorit Siebert

June 2024: Vernissage at the Bot. Garden Potsdam “Microbiological structures in fashion and design”

What does fashion have to do with microscopy?

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April 2024: One degree Celsius warmer means that tulips will flower one week earlier

During the past two years, the phenology of herbaceous plants has been monitored within a citizen science project called Plant Climate Culture!

Fieldwork NamTip

March 2024: NamTip researchers complete a successful fieldwork campaign in Namibia

NamTip researchers visited the study sites and collected data as part of the main fieldwork campaign of NamTip’s second phase.

New project coordinators GreenGaDe
the coordinators standing in front of tropical plants
Photo: T. Bringhenti

March 2024: New project coordinators for the GreenGaDe project

We are happy to welcome two new project coordinators for the GreenGaDe project to our working group.

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March 2024: Project Kick-Off Meeting in Namibia with local partner and stakeholders

The Kick-Off Meeting of NamTip Phase II was held in Windhoek, Namibia, with the participation of local partners and stakeholders.

New Learning

January 2024: New learning opportunities for our students

Working group and project members learn about scientific writing and multivariate statistics