Completed projects

(2015-2024) Research Training Group BioMove (DFG)
(2019-2023) ORYCS - Options for sustainable land use adaptations in savanna systems: Chances and risks of emerging wildlife-based management strategies under regional and global change (BMBF) [more]
(2016-2022) BIBS - Bridging in Biodiversity Science
(2015-2018) OPTIMASS - Options for sustainable geo-biosphere feedback management in savanna systems under regional and global change (BMBF)
(2013-2019) Development of a novel approach for risk characterisation of non-target-terrestrial-plants at the plant community level (Bayer Crop Science)
(2014 - 2017) RootHerb II - Resilience of Grassland Plant Communities as Influenced by Root Herbivores under Different Land Use Intensities (DFG, Biodiversity-Exploratories)
(2011 - 2015) COMTESS - Sustainable COastal Land Management: Trade-offs in EcoSystem Services Modelling of biodiversity and plant-mediated ESS in response to land use management and environmental change & Trade-offs in multiple functions and services (BMBF)
(2011 - 2015) Understanding lifetime tracks and fitness of long-distance avian migrants (DFG/DIP)
(2011 - 2014) RootHerb – Land use intensity and insect root herbivores: from spatial pattern to plant community feedback (DFG, Biodiversity-Exploratories)
(2011 - 2014) TIP Vegetation-based climate reconstruction for the Tibetan Plateau: integrating vegetation modelling and pollen data reanalyses (DFG, SP 1372)
(2011 - 2014) Modeling past and future climate induced vegetation changes in East African savannas (DFG)
(2008 - 2012) The Biodiversity Exploratory additional modeling component BEAM (DFG, Biodiversity-Exploratories)
(2008 - 2011) Studying plant scale dependent biodiversity and life-history traits in a heterogenous landscape using advanced spatially-oriented technology (GIF)
(2008) Leaf traits and life strategies of the species in dry grassland on acidic sandy soils
(2006 - 2011) Integrating dynamic and statistical modelling approaches to improve predictions for scenarios of environmental change
(2006 - 2010) The impact of land use on plant functional trait diversity, productivity and resilience in grasslands: a mechanistic, scale-crossing approach
(2006 - 2009) Understanding and Predicting the Invasion Dynamics of the South-African Ragwort Senecio inaequidens in Central Europe
(2006 - 2009) Ecological processes determining the range dynamics of plant species, and their consequences for biodiversity conservation in the face of environmental change
(2006 - 2008) List of the endemic taxa of higher plants of Germany
(2005 - 2008) Options of land use in the catchment area of the River Havel: Reduction of the nutrient load accumulated in the sediments of river lakes by an increase of water discharge during summer
(2005 - 2006) Biotop mapping in Turkey: examples of two conservation sites
(2005 - 2006) Red Data Book and checklist of higher plants of the federal state of Brandenburg
(2004 - 2008) Spatio-temporal dynamics of vegetation in arid and semi-arid systems - effect of rainfall variability on annual plants (GLOWA, BMBF)
(2004 - 2007) Impact of overgrazing on reptile diversity and population dynamics in the southern Kalahari (BIOTA, BMBF)
(2004 - 2007) Investigating mechanisms maintaining plant species diversity in fire prone Mediterranean type vegetation using spatially explicit simulation models (DFG)
(2004 - 2005) Plant metapopulations and climate change - detecting sensitivity hierarchies of relevant processes
(2004) Comparison of the Strength of Self-incompatibility in Native and Invasive Populations of Lythrum salicaria (BMBF)
(2002 - 2006) Dynamic range limitation of distribution and reaction to climatic change - metapopulation processes in outpost occurrene of Juncus Atratus (DFG)
(2001 - 2012) GLOWA Jordan River - Simulation-based guidelines for management of uncultivated rangelands subject to climate change
(2000 - 2009) BIOTA Southern Africa Structural, functional and species diversity in semiarid savannas of southern Africa: scaling up and model-based integration
Impacts of native versus domestic ungulates on three trophic levels in arid savanna rangeland (DAAD)
Responses of bird functional types to climatic and land use changes in African savannas - An animal functional type approach