Research

Our general mission is to develop a mechanistic understanding of how environmental changes and land use impact biodiversity dynamics. Using a spatial perspective we scale up from functional traits and individual organisms to populations and communities and link patch-level processes to landscape dynamics. Combining (mostly spatial) modeling with empirical studies and experiments we primarily work in the focal research fields of

• Dryland Ecology
• Community ecology of grasslands and agricultural landscapes
• Linking of movement ecology and biodiversity dynamics
• Applied regional conservation

Have a closer look on our completed projects here.