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.
- 2013
Biodiversity and ecosystem funtions in annual oil seed production: Camelina and pennycress double-cropping in Germany
Alexandra-Maria Klein (Oral presentation)
18.08.2013 → 23.08.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Biodiversity and crop pollination services
Alexandra-Maria Klein (Oral presentation)
14.08.2013 → 17.08.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Rethinking economy, nature use and development: Caring as a socio-ecological concept for sustainability and gender justice
Christine Katz (Speaker) & Daniela Gottschlich (Speaker)
31.07.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Competencies for sustainable development of rural areas need the integration of Gender
Anja Thiem (Speaker) & Christine Katz (Speaker)
29.07.2013 → 01.08.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Ramsey discounting of ecosystem services
Stefan Baumgärtner (Speaker), Alexandra-Maria Klein (Coauthor), Denise Thiel (Coauthor) & Klara Winkler (Coauthor)
26.06.2013 → 29.06.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Nachhaltig & Geschlechtergerecht - Widerspruch oder Synergien?
Sabine Hofmeister (Lecturer)
24.06.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Nachhaltig & Geschlechtergerecht - Widerspruch oder Synergien?
Christine Katz (Lecturer)
24.06.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Nachhaltigkeit & Geschlechtergerecht - Widerspruch oder Synergien?
Christine Katz (Lecturer)
24.06.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Western Closure of the Corinth Rift : Stratigraphy and structure of the Lakka fault block
Nikos Palyvos (Speaker), Mary Ford (Coauthor), Marco Mancini (Coauthor), Daniela Esu (Coauthor), Odoardo Girotti (Coauthor) & Brigitte Urban (Coauthor)
07.04.2013 → 12.04.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Identifying Conservation Priorities in the face of future development: applying development by design in the mongolian gobi
Henrik Wehrden (Reviewer)
2013Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
- 2012
Annual Meeting of the British Ecological Society 2012
Anika Hudewenz (Coauthor)
17.12.2012 → 20.12.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Paper Writing Workshop 2012
Gesine Pufal (Organiser)
13.12.2012 → 18.12.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Tagung "Gender trifft Nachhaltigkeit - Nachhaltigkeit braucht Gender" - NaGe 2012
Sebastian Heilmann (Organiser), Sabine Hofmeister (Organiser), Christine Katz (Organiser), Anja Thiem (Organiser) & Tanja Mölders (Participant)
10.12.2012 → 11.12.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Wald und Gender
Christine Katz (Speaker)
10.12.2012 → 11.12.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Simposio Internacional Conservacion de la Biodiversidad y Educacion Ambiental - 2012
Gesine Pufal (Speaker)
12.11.2012 → 16.11.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tri-trophic interaction networks along a tree diversity gradient in BEF-China: How tree diversity effects higher trophic levels
Michael Staab (Speaker)
26.10.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Resource use and competition between honey bees and wild bees in the Lüneburger Heath
Anika Hudewenz (Speaker)
13.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Spillover effects and importance of urban gardens for trap-nesting bees and wasps
Maria Helena Pereira Peixoto (presenter)
12.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
North America’s Pacific coastal rainforest under climate change: Deriving recommendations for conservation management from spatial modelling approaches
Patric Brandt (Speaker)
11.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Pollination of Camelina sativa and Thlaspi arvense: Two new potential oil crop species in Germany
Janna Henrike Groeneveld (Speaker)
11.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Science and Practitioners: Transdisciplinary research a bridge to create socially robust knowledge
Patric Brandt (Speaker) & Fabienne Gralla (Speaker)
11.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Bear activity in traditional woodpastures in souther Transylvania, Romania
Henrik von Wehrden (presenter)
10.09.2012 → 14.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Developing robust field survey protocols in landscape ecology: A case study on birds, plants and butterflies
Henrik von Wehrden (Speaker)
10.09.2012 → 14.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Different responses of ant species to sugars and amino acids in a subtropical forest of China
Michael Staab (Coauthor)
10.09.2012 → 14.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Genetic markers and climate niche models indicate glacial refugia for the flightless ground beetle Carabus sylvestris north of the Alps
Patric Brandt (Speaker)
10.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Landscape effects on bird and rodent cummunities and seed predation to agriculture in Israel
Henrik von Wehrden (Speaker)
10.09.2012 → 14.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Lessons for conservation biology under global change conditions: a case study on two burnet moth species in the high altitudes of the Pyrenees
Henrik von Wehrden (Speaker)
10.09.2012 → 14.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
North America's Pacific coastal rainforest under climate change: Deriving recommendations for conservation management from spatial modeling approaches
Henrik von Wehrden (Speaker)
10.09.2012 → 14.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Platform for Sustainable Aviation Fuels - Combining Ecological Research and Sustainability Management with Industrial Needs
David Walmsley (Speaker)
10.09.2012 → 14.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Seed predation of common grassland species along an experimental plant diversity gradient
Gesine Pufal (Speaker)
10.09.2012 → 14.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Transdisciplinary research - a bridge between science and practitioners to produce reliable knowledge
Henrik von Wehrden (Speaker)
10.09.2012 → 14.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Tri‐trophic interaction networks along a tree diversity gradient of BEF‐China
Michael Staab (Speaker)
10.09.2012 → 14.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Vegetation changes along a climatic gradient during a severe drought year in the El Nino region
Henrik von Wehrden (presenter)
10.09.2012 → 14.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Visiting communities of extrafloral nectaries in a subtropical Chinese forest
Michael Staab (Coauthor)
10.09.2012 → 14.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
20th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms - ESA 2012
Henrik von Wehrden (Speaker)
09.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
3rd European Congress of Conservation Biology - ECCB 2012
Claire Brittain (Speaker)
28.08.2012 → 01.09.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Ant Course 2012
Michael Staab (Participant)
06.08.2012 → 16.08.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Publications of environmental education programs reveal interdisciplinary boundaries
Gesine Pufal (presenter)
05.08.2012 → 10.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Seed fate of common grassland species along an experimental plant diversity gradient
Gesine Pufal (Speaker)
05.08.2012 → 10.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Sustainable Land Use: Gender Perspectives - Session 61 A: Introduction “Gender – Culture – Nature
Christine Katz (Speaker)
02.08.2012 → 03.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Does resin represent a neglected component of bee ecology? A comparison between Old and New World bees.
Sara Leonhardt (Speaker)
08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Towards and interdisciplinary understanding of ecological novelty 2012
Alexandra-Maria Klein (Speaker)
08.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Competencies for Sustainability – Does Gender play any Role?
Christine Katz (Speaker)
28.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
In the forest: doing gender by doing nature
Christine Katz (Speaker)
28.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Ramsey discounting of ecosystem services
Stefan Baumgärtner (Speaker), Alexandra-Maria Klein (Speaker), Denise Thiel (Speaker) & Klara Winkler (Speaker)
03.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Ecology & Evolution, Lecture series 2012
Alexandra-Maria Klein (Speaker)
05.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Workshop on occasion of the 10th anniversary DFG Research Unit for 456/1451 2012
Alexandra-Maria Klein (Speaker)
05.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
How do secondary seed dispersal and post-dispersal seed predation influence the successful recruitment of common grassland species?
Gesine Pufal (Lecturer)
18.04.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Badischer Imkertag 2012
Alexandra-Maria Klein (Speaker)
04.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Summer School in the context of Biodiversity-Ecosystem Functioning 2012
Michael Staab (Participant)
16.03.2012 → 22.03.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Leaving you mother - what next?: seed dispersal and seed predation
Gesine Pufal (Lecturer)
14.03.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Wie beeinflussen sekundäre Samenausbreitung und Samenfraß die erfolgreiche Etablierung von Wiesenkräutern?
Gesine Pufal (Lecturer)
14.03.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Biodiversity and ecosystem functions in the public - views, misconceptions and misunderstandings
Gesine Pufal (presenter)
02.03.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Ammoniak-Emmissionen nach Ausbringung von Biogasrückständen und konventionellen Güllen
Andreas Siegfried Pacholski (Speaker), Kang Ni (Speaker), Robert Quakernack (Speaker), Dirk O. Gericke (Speaker) & Henning Kage (Speaker)
01.03.2012 → 02.03.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Biodiversity and pollination in the public
Gesine Pufal (Speaker)
01.03.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Workshop "Biodiversity and pollination services – from basic and applied science to stakeholders and policy" 2012
Anika Hudewenz (Participant)
01.03.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Behavioral Ecology (Journal)
Sara Leonhardt (Reviewer)
03.2012Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Ecological Applications (Journal)
Sara Leonhardt (Reviewer)
03.2012Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Competition between honey bees and wild bees? Ecological research to solve stakeholder conflicts in the Lüneburger Heath
Anika Hudewenz (presenter)
29.02.2012 → 02.03.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Natural habitat and orchard management can benefit wild insect pollinators and fruit set in California almond
Claire Brittain (Coauthor)
29.02.2012 → 02.03.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Biotropica (Journal)
Sara Leonhardt (Reviewer)
02.2012Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Führen Nachhaltigkeitskompetenzen an die Spitze? Geschlechterrelevante Faktoren des Gelingens und Scheiterns
Christine Katz (Speaker) & Anja Thiem (Speaker)
16.01.2012 → 17.01.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Konkurrenz & Ressourcennutzung von Honig- und Wildbienen in der Lüneburger Heide
Anika Hudewenz (Speaker)
15.01.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
45th Population Genetics Group Meeting - PGG45 2012
Henrik von Wehrden (Speaker)
04.01.2012 → 07.01.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Apidologie (Journal)
Sara Leonhardt (Reviewer)
01.2012Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Applied Vegetation Science (Journal)
Henrik von Wehrden (Reviewer)
01.2012 → 12.2013Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
10th Brazilian Bee Research Meeting (Encontro sobre Abelhas) 2012
Sara Leonhardt (Speaker)
2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
5th European Conference of Apidology - EurBee 2012
Sara Leonhardt (Speaker)
2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Animal Behaviour (Journal)
Sara Leonhardt (Reviewer)
2012Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (Journal)
Henrik von Wehrden (Reviewer)
2012 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Ecological Indicators (Journal)
Henrik von Wehrden (Reviewer)
2012 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Environmental Evidence (Journal)
Henrik von Wehrden (Reviewer)
2012 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Gesellschaft für Ökologie Veranstaltung
Henrik von Wehrden (presenter)
2012 → …Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Journal of Applied Ecology (Journal)
Henrik von Wehrden (Reviewer)
2012 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
- 2011
Power poles and tall trees adjacent to sunflower fields increase pest damage caused by the invasive Rose-ringed Parakeet in Israel
Jessica Schäckermann (Speaker), Yael Mandelik (Speaker) & Alexandra-Maria Klein (Speaker)
07.12.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
25th International Congress for Conservation Biology - ICCB 2011
Alexandra-Maria Klein (Speaker)
12.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
1st European Brachypodium Workshop 2011
Benjamin Delory (Coauthor)
19.10.2011 → 21.10.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
HBSC Earthwatch Workshop - 2011
Michael Staab (Speaker)
21.09.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Responses of herbivory and pollinators to grassland management and plant diversity
Alexandra-Maria Klein (Speaker) & Anika Hudewenz (Speaker)
09.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Seed dispersal and predation: Interactions, ecosystem functions and services
Gesine Pufal (Speaker)
08.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Why is the rare dispersal mechanism hygrochasy so common around the world?
Gesine Pufal (Speaker)
08.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
41st Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland - 2011
Patric Brandt (Coauthor)
07.09.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Landscape factors affecting Parakeet damage to sunflower fields in Israel.
Alexandra-Maria Klein (Speaker)
07.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
The climate niche of a mountain carabid: consequences under climate change
Patric Brandt (Speaker) & Henrik von Wehrden (Speaker)
07.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Trap-nesting insects' interactions in an urban-rural gradient
Alexandra-Maria Klein (Speaker)
07.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie - GFÖ-Tagung 2011
Alexandra-Maria Klein (presenter)
07.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
41st Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland - 2011
Anika Hudewenz (Participant)
05.09.2011 → 09.09.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Genetic diversity and extent of hybridization of invasive Ulmus pumila.
Henrik von Wehrden (Speaker)
05.09.2011 → 08.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Trap-nesting insects´ interactions in an urban-rural gradient
Maria Helena Pereira Peixoto (Speaker)
05.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
A quantiative review of the ecological impacts of the chernobyl disaster
Henrik von Wehrden (presenter)
09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Global warming triggers loss of genetic diversity of Z. exulans populations in Euro-pean high mountain systems
Henrik von Wehrden (Speaker)
09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Growth and competition of tree saplings of subtropical China
Henrik von Wehrden (Speaker)
09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
14th Symposium of Insect Plant Interactions - SIP 2011
Sara Leonhardt (Opponent)
13.08.2011 → 18.08.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Food & Chemical Toxicology (Journal)
Sara Leonhardt (Reviewer)
08.2011Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Insectes Sociaux (Journal)
Sara Leonhardt (Reviewer)
08.2011Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Colombian coffee production: a local culture in a global market dynamic
Stefan Ortiz-Przychodzka (Speaker)
19.07.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Colombian rural development and land tenure conflicts 2011
Stefan Ortiz-Przychodzka (Organiser)
19.07.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
12th European Heathland Workshop - 2011
Thorsten Aßmann (Speaker)
11.06.2011 → 18.06.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
24th Annual conference of the Plant Population Biology Section of the Ecological Society of Germany, Switzerland and Austria - PopBio 2011
Henrik von Wehrden (Speaker)
02.06.2011 → 04.06.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
10th International Pollination Symposium Mexico - ICPBR 2011
Claire Brittain (Speaker)
06.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research