2026 ongoing

Charlotte Fabian: Computersimulation eines Topfexperiments zur Analyse von Trockenheitseffekten auf Pflanzengemeinschaften

Lillou Löser: Ressource allocation of grassland species under drought and competition (prelim)

Carolin Ostrowski: Straßenränder als Habitat für bestäubende Käfer (prelim)

Rica Rauschenberg: Wildwechsel von Paarhufern - Lassen sich eigenständige räumliche Strukturen in der Kernzone des Biosphärenreservats Thüringer Wald empirisch nachweisen?

Florens Waldschmidt: Untersuchung des Einflusses experimentell herbeigeführter Dürreeffekte auf die funktionellen Eigenschaften von Graslandarten, bei unterschiedlicher Landnutzung und zu verschiedenen Zeitpunkten im Jahresverlauf

2025

Charlot Bursch: Hitzetoleranz von C3- und C4-Gräsern: Mögliche Faktoren für das Überleben unter temporärem Hitzestress

Karla Erdmann: Geschlechtsspezifische Verteilung von Laufkäfern (Carabidae) entlang kleinskaliger Heterogenität in Söllen

Anna Hübner: The Role of Predator in Herbivore Coexistence: An Energetic Modeling Approach

Bianca Kietzmann: Intra- und interspezifische Körpergrößenvariation von Laufkäfern (Carabidae) entlang eines Feuchtigkeitsgradienten

Julia Schersach: Die Bedeutung der Sand-Grasnelke (Armeria maritima ssp. Elongata) für Wildbienen und Schwebfliegen an Straßenrändern

Hannes Seidel: Population assessment of a critically endangered ant species (Formica foreli) in Brandenburg

Lena Weisser: Hitzestress bei Gräsern und Sträuchern der Savanne: Toleranzgrenzen in Abhängigkeit von Verbreitung, Altersstadium und Interaktion

2024

Caroline Boeckmann: Tausendfüßer (Myriapoda) in Söllen der Uckermark – Einfluss kleinskaliger Gradienten auf die Artenzusammensetzung

Laurine Krippschock: Abundanz und Diversität von Isopoden entlang kleinräumiger Gradienten

Elena Meister: Assessing the foraging behavior of ground-dwelling insects in relation to daily fluctuations of environmental conditions

Milena Mensching: Disentangling the effects of habitat size and heterogeneity on different components of diversity

Nina Pellny: Landschaftsabhängige Populations- entwicklung der Armeria maritima subsp. elongata in Brandenburg über die letzten 19 Jahre

Nicole Pfaffmann: Hitzestress bei Gräsern und Sträuchern der Savanne: Toleranzgrenzen in Abhängigkeit von Verbreitung, Altersstadium und Interaktion

Nicole Ruth Hedwig Pfaffmann: Araneae (Webspinnen) in Söllen – Einfluss heterogener Strukturen auf die Abundanz und Artendiversität in verschiedenen Jahren

Leander Seidl

Johanna Tiepelmann: Intraspezifische Körpergrößenvariation von Laufkäfern (Carabidae) entlang eines kleinskaligen Gradienten in Söllen in der Uckermark

2023

Elena Loor: Einfluss kleinräumiger Heterogenität auf Laufkäfer (Carabidae) in Kleingewässern (Sölle)

Noa Terracina: The Vegetation distribution of kettle holes along the internal gradient and their changes during dorught years. 

2022

Virginia Balke

2021

Miriam Radtke: Einfluss inner- und zwischenartlicher Präsenz auf die Nahrungswahl der Gemeinen Rasenameise – Tertamorium caespitum

2020

Virginia Balke: Zoos als außerschulische Lernorte - sinnvoll oder durch Alternativen ersetzbar?

Jacob Jansen: Accelerometer data for classification of animal behavior – creating a database for Eland and Kudu antelopes

2026 ongoing

Clara Franz-Berenguer: Acoustic risk perception of ungulates in the Namibian savannah: a predator-sound-experiment

Caroline Boeckmann: Microhabitat effects on Myriapoda in depressional wetlands (prelim)

Sophie Dückers: Insect family distribution in the aerosphere (prelim)

Laura Felske: Functional diversity of carabids along small-scale hydrological gradients in kettle holes

Leon Lunow: Behavioural Information in Integrated Step-Selection Analysis: Comparing GPS-Based and Accelerometer-Based Approaches in Namibian Antelopes

Marie-Noelle Newbon: Insect Diversity on Road Verges in Brandenburg: A Camera Trap Study on Armeria maritima subsp. elongata

Arenella Rollo: How do road density and traffic intensity influence the spatial patterns of wildlife distribution and activity within Olifants West Nature Reserve?

Helena Jung: TBD

Lubna Rachid: Resistant People, Resistant Ecologies: Nature Conservation Drivers and Practices under Chronic Colonial Violence

Ilka Meier: Transmission biases of the grooming handclap across Chimpanzee populations and the role of network position in style adherence within one group

Katharina Hoevel: From Farmland to Savanna: Long term changes in grass communities over time and under the influence of native herbivores in Welgevonden Game Reserve - South Africa

Theresa Lahn: Exploring winter bird diversity in an agroforestry system in Brandenburg using passive acoustic monitoring

Verena Korban: Sex-related distribution in spiders (Aranea) along small-spatial gradients (prelim)

Liv Kürschner (start October): Testing lightweight next generation ear tags: Comparing behavioural classifications from accelerometers mounted on the ear with accelerometers mounted on neck collars

Putri Utami Saryanti Caesaria: Effects of drought timing and eutrophication on above- and belowground traits in plant communities (prelim)

Anna Sawyer: Responses of leaf traits to drought at different time points in the year (prelim)

Anna Schmidt: Intra- und interspezifische Konkurrenz-Effekte verschiedener Pflanzenarten in einem Trockenrasen-Experiment

Leon Schlenger: Unveiling the Unrecognized: The Role of Sea Cucumbers in Coral Reef Health

Mathias Siegwardt: Effects of drought timing and eutrophication on the phenology of dry grassland plant communities

Hannah Wischnewski: Vegetation changes in continental dry grasslands in Eastern Brandenburg (prelim)

2025

Lena Chowdhury: Assessing the impact of personal values on support for EU policies and Willingness to pay for sustainable soil management options: Insights from a cross-national survey

Mia Hoffmann: A pattern-oriented approach to modelling expansion strategies of dune plants

Jonas Hurtig: Plant Pollinator Interactions of a Threatened Plant Species in Isolated Dry Grasslands

Lilly Lucius: Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Seed Banks in Temporary WetlandsIsabel Merz: Influence of competition on functional traits of calcareous dry grassland perennials

Dorothea Oberschelp de Meneses: Pollination and seed predation in a landscape context of Armeria elongata

Eva Paulischkies: Investigating how a set of realistic disturbance regimes affects demographic resilience along the pace of life continuum

Sarah Poldrack: Mechanisms driving the Species-Area-Relationship: A Study on Plants in Kettle Holes in Brandenburg

Richard Robold: Powered down? The effect of solar parks on wolf and ungulate behavior

Nena Ulbrich: Acoustic communication and social dynamics: investigating the correlation between specific whistle-vocalization, behavior, and group size in Striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) in the Aegean sea

Nina Wallmann: Diurnal Changes in the Allocation of Nutrients in African Savanna Plants

Richard Weston: Environmental and Microclimatic Drivers of Nest Site Selection for the Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) in the Karpaz Peninsula, Northern Cyprus

2024

Kolja Breese: Understanding the movement ecology of an apex predator on one of the most densely populated islands worldwide

Nils Hermann: Raumverhalten sendermarkierter Wölfe in Ostdeutschland

Charlotte Keyser: Endangered plant species in Sanssouci Park (Potsdam, Brandenburg) – comparison of population distribution in 2008 and 2022

Tobias Kollmorgen: Solitary wasps as non- bee pollinators in agricultural landscapes. How are they influenced by landscape parameters and local factors?

Lena Rosa Scherer

Christin Schöpkewitz: Ants in the city: changes in species richness and morphological intraspecific trait variation under the effect of urbanization

2023

Swantje Lina Bansen: Bare soils in a large-scale dynamic savanna vegetation model - a refining approach

Tina Birnbach: Relative importance of local wildlife for zooplankton and plant dispersal in an agricultural landscape

Alice Cimenti: Investigating the State and farmers’ perception of biodiversity in Norther Namibia

Diana Guerrero: Activity specific energy expenditure in European brown hares

Kira Hohmeyer: Effect of personality on behaviour, activity and energy use in European hares – An experimental approach in a controlled environment 

Noa Terracina: The Vegetation distribution of kettle holes along the internal gradient and their changes during dorught years. 

Lucas Vollbehr: Niche differentiation of ants on dry grasslands at forest edges in Brandenburg, Germany

2022

Sophia Hibler: Anpassung und Anwendung eines digitalen Formats der partizipativen Folgenabschätzung zur Entwicklung nachhaltiger Managementpraktiken für Wisent und Elch in Deutschland

Bettina Knauf: Effects of remote sensing landscape parameter on species-area relationships across three vegetation types

Anna Paulina Kraus: Behavioural classification using accelerometer data in springbok

Arved Otte: Foraging Activity and Competition of the Pavement Ant Tetramorium caespitum in Dry Grasslands

Janice Pahl: Energy budgets of European hares - impact of extreme weather events on activity

Julius Seiler: Impacts of wind parks on the movement patterns of European hares (Lepus europaeus) in an agricultural landscape

2021

Jennifer Brunkhardt: The influence of small-scale heterogeneous structures on spiders (Araneae) − a study of kettle holes in agricultural landscapes (Uckermark, Brandenburg)

Thibault Fronville: The influence of weather conditions on the abundance, biomass, and diversity of flying insects. A field study on natural area and arable 

Sophie Luise Grimm: Simulating Skylarks - A pattern-oriented analysis of a novel individual-based

Saskia Klauschke

Tamara Knecht

Milena Müller

Yvonne Rychlak: Spatial use and population development of the Eurasian otter Lutra lutra in Sielmanns Naturlandschaft Groß Schauen and the state of Brandenburg

Magdalena Schmittlein: Determinants of species abundance at the landscape scale within the past 140 years in the Uckermark

Pia Stein

Leonna Szangolies: Namibian rangelands in transition: A large-scale dynamic savanna vegetation model

Jessica Thimian: Understanding rodent community structures: Individual-based simulation approach

Anne-Marie Weiß: Assessing the influence of spatial gradients in kettle holes on above- and belowground plant communities

Helena Wiskott: Resting site selection of female springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis) in a predator rich savanna landscape: insights from GPS tracking and remote sensing data

ongoing

Hering, Robert | Understanding large African herbivore movements in the Anthropocene

Eckhardt, Michelle | GrassYear

Polldrack, Sarah | GrassYear

Reichert, Markus | Spatio-temporal patterns in biodiversity and linguistic diversity

Roth, Jonas | Mobile link functions in unpredictable agricultural landscapes 2.0 - integrating animal energetics 

Submitted

Herkenrath, Tim | From precipitation to evapotranspiration: biotic and abiotic controls of ecohydrological processes in Southern African savannas

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Completed

Berry, Paul (2024) Behavioural Responses of African Antelope to Environmental Stressors in Drylands

Stiegler, Jonas (2023) Mobile link functions in unpredictable agricultural landscapes

Bergholz, Kolja (2019) Trait-based understanding of plant species distributions along environmental gradients

Marquart, Arnim (2019) Feedbacks between macropores and soil water infiltration in semi-arid savannah systems.

Reeg, Jette (2019)

Schäfer, Merlin (2019)

Teckentrupp, Lisa (2019) Understanding predator-prey interactions: The role of fear in structuring prey communities.

Ullmann, Wiebke (2019) Understanding animal movement behaviour in dynamic agricultural landscapes.

Marquart, Arnim (2018) Feedbacks between land use, diversity of bioturbating animals and plant available soil moisture - The role of biological macropores in enhancing soil water infiltration

Weiß, Lina (2017) Unterstanding the emergence and maintenance of biodiversity in grasslands: linking individual plant responses to community patterns.

Synodinos, Alexis (2016)

Pfestorf, Hans (2015) Land use intensity and insect root herbivores: from spatial patterns to plant community feedback.

Pagel, Jörn (2014) Statistical process-based models for the understanding and prediction of range dynamics.

May, Felix (2013) Spatial models of plant diversity and plant functional traits – towards a better understanding of plant community dynamics in fragmented landscapes.

Lachmuth, Susanne (2012) Towards a mechanistic understanding of how demography, genetic differentiation and environmental factors interact to generate the invasion dynamics of Senecio inaequidens.

Lohmann, Dirk (2012) Sustainable management of semi-arid African savannas under environmental and political change.

Buchmann, Carsten (2011) Modelling the structuring of animal communities in heterogenous landscapes – the role of individual home range formation, foraging movement, competition and habitat configuration.

Esther, Alexandra (2010) Investigating mechanisms maintaining plant species diversity in fire prone Mediterranean-type vegetation using spatially-explicit simulation models.

Cabral, Juliano (2009) Demographic processes determining the range dynamics of plant species, and their consequences for biodiversity maintenance in the face of environmental change.

Tietjen, Britta-Kristien (2009) Drylands under climate change – a novel ecohydrological modeling approach.

Schiffers, Katja (2008) Plant community response to small-scale disturbances – lessons from a molehill meadow.

Popp, Alexander (2007) An integrated modelling approach for sustainable management of semi-arid and arid rangelands.

Tschöpe, Okka (2007) Managing open habitats for species conservation: the role of wild ungulate grazing, small-scale disturbances, and scale.

·Wasiolka, Bernd (2007) The impact of overgrazing on reptile diversity and population dynamics of Pedioplanis l. lineoocellata in the southern Kalahari.

Pütz, Sandro (2005) Modelling small-scale grazing impacts on long-term vegetation dynamics of a semi-arid steppe.

Rossmanith, Eva (2005) Breeding biology, mating system and population dynamics of the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (Picoides minor): combining empirical and model investigations.

Schwager, Monika (2005) Climate change, variable colony sizes and temporal autocorrelation: consequences of living in changing environments.

Baufeld, Ralf (2004) GIS-gestützte Prognose der Biotopentwicklung auf Grundlage von Biotoptypen- und Vegetationserhebungen auf geplanten Rückdeichungsflächen an der Mittleren Elbe in Sachsen-Anhalt.

Petrů, Martina (2002-2004, weitergeführt in Tübingen): Responses of annual plants to variable rainfall patterns: an empirical test of three models.

Groeneveld, Jürgen (2003) Raum-zeitliche Artenmuster entlang von Stressgradienten - ein Simulationsmodell in Anlehnung an die Pflanzensukzession auf den trockengefallenen Aralseeböden.

Tews, Jörg (2003) The impact of climate change and land use on woody plants in semiarid savanna: Modelling shrub populations in the Southern Kalahari.

Wichmann, Matthias (2002) Survival in changing environments - Modeling the impact of climate change and land use on raptors in arid savanna.

Hansen, Frank (2001) Modellierung der raum-zeitlichen Dynamik des Fuchsbandwurms (Echinococcus multilocularis).