Institute of Ecology
Organisational unit: Institute
- Junior Professorship of Sustainable Use of Natural Resources
- Professorship for Ecology, especially Animal Ecology
- Professorship for Ecology, especially Landscape Ecology and Nature Conservation
- Professorship for Ecosystem Functioning and Services
- Professorship for Vegetation Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation
Topics
Forschungsschwerpunkte am Institut für Ökologie sind die Auswirkungen von globalen Veränderungen wie Klimawandel und Landnutzungswandel auf Organismen und ihre Lebensgemeinschaften und auf biologisch funktionelle und chemische Prozesse. Dazu zählen auch die Auswirkungen eines vermehrten Anbaus von Energiepflanzen oder auch verschiedenste Verschmutzungen in terrestrischen und aquatischen Ökosystemen. Im Fokus stehen die Ursachen und die Auswirkungen des Rückgangs von Tier- und Pflanzenpopulationen sowie des aktuellen Biodiversitätsverlustes und der damit einhergehenden Veränderung abiotischer und biotischer Ökosystemfunktionen. In Zusammenarbeit mit humanwissenschaftlichen Arbeitsgruppen der Leuphana Universität werden auch sozio-ökonomische Faktoren der Ökosystemforschung gemeinsam betrachtet.
Die experimentelle Forschung findet sowohl in Laboren, im Gewächshaus und auf Freiflächen der Leuphana Universität statt. Weiter finden viele Untersuchungen in Kulturlandschaften und in städtischen Gebieten statt. Die Freilanduntersuchungen werden in den verschiedensten Ländern der gemäßigten und mediterranen Breiten und der Tropen und Sub-Tropen durchgeführt aber auch regional wie z.B. in Lüneburg und der Lüneburger Heide. Forschungskooperationen bestehen hierbei mit vielen verschiedenen nationalen und internationalen Universitäten und außeruniversitären Einrichtungen wie z.B. lokalen Naturschutzorganisationen und Schulen. Besonders hervorzuheben sind die Kooperationen mit der Alfred Töpfer Akademie für Naturschutz und die Biosphärenreservatsverwaltung Niedersächsische Elbtalaue.
- 2024
Member of the Expert Evaluation Committee for Plant Sciences of the DFG (German Science Foundation) representing the topic Ecology, Biodiversity of Plants and Ecosystems
Vicky Temperton (Consultant)
01.05.2024 → 30.04.2028Activity: Consultancy
Food security and livelihoods in restoration landscapes in western Rwanda: An overview and some reflections on the path to the Rwanda Restore DFG Research Unit on social-ecological restoration in western Rwanda.
Vicky Temperton (Speaker)
09.04.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Government and the German Ministry of the Environment in Natural Climate Solutions
Vicky Temperton (Consultant)
19.03.2024 → …Activity: Consultancy
- 2023
A story about grasslands that needs to be told: their importance, assembly dynamics and ecological restoration in a changing world
Vicky Temperton (Lecturer)
17.01.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
- 2022
Ecological restoration as a tool out of multiple crisis - examples from grassland restoration
Vicky Temperton (Oral presentation)
08.11.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Priority effects and ecological restoration of grasslands
Vicky Temperton (Keynote Speaker)
24.06.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Restoration Ecology (Journal)
Emanuela W A Weidlich (Editorial Board)
2022 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
- 2021
The Implementation of Urban Nature-Based Solutions for Water Retention in the Delta Cities Hamburg and Rotterdam
Teresa Spantzel (Speaker), Hendrike Clouting (Speaker) & Brigitte Urban (Coauthor)
17.11.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Journal of Applied Ecology (Journal)
Emanuela W A Weidlich (Editorial Board)
2021 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
SER Conference (online)
Emanuela Weidlich (Speaker), Joao P. Ernzen (Speaker), I. Conti (Speaker) & Maria A. Neves (Speaker)
2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
- 2020
Best Practice in Maritime Spatial Planning: Towards Mutually Beneficial Outcomes for Fishers, Renewable Energy Production and Marine Conservation
Cormac Walsh (Consultant)
01.11.2020 → 28.02.2021Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Transfer
GAC Mitgliederversammlung
Thorsten Aßmann (Oral presentation), Estève Boutaud (Oral presentation), Ingmar Harry (Speaker), Claudia Drees (Speaker), Jörn Buse (Speaker), Rikjan Vermeulen (Speaker), Matthias Kaiser (Speaker) & Ulrich Irmler (Speaker)
14.02.2020 → 16.02.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (Journal)
Stefan Ortiz-Przychodzka (Reviewer)
2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
International Journal of Astrobiology (Journal)
John-Oliver Engler (Reviewer)
2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Scientific Reports (Journal)
John-Oliver Engler (Reviewer)
2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
- 2019
Building territories of peace between the countryside and the city. Urban agroecologies and agri-food circuits for peace.
Stefan Ortiz-Przychodzka (Speaker)
08.12.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
20th Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research - INQUA 2019
Mario Tucci (Speaker) & Brigitte Urban (Speaker)
25.07.2019 → 31.07.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
A radical reassessment of the stratigraphy, palaeoenvironmental processes and dating of the Middle Pleistocene deposits at Schöningen, northern Germany
Charles Turner (Coauthor), Brigitte Urban (Speaker) & Thijs van Kolfschoten (Coauthor)
25.07.2019 → 31.07.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Middle Pleistocene interglacial environmental changes inferred from aquatic microfossils at the paleolithic site of Schöningen, Germany
Kim Jasmin Krahn (Coauthor), Julien Pilgrim (Coauthor), Brigitte Urban (Speaker), Mario Tucci (Speaker) & Antje Schwalb (Coauthor)
25.07.2019 → 31.07.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Sedimentological and high-resolution pollen and aquatic microfossil analysis of Middle Pleistocene lakeshore deposits of paleolithic site Schöningen 13 II-4, Germany
Mario Tucci (Speaker), Kim J. Krahn (Coauthor), Brigitte Urban (Speaker) & Antje Schwalb (Coauthor)
25.07.2019 → …Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research