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.
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
Konkurrenz & Ressourcennutzung von Honig- und Wildbienen in der Lüneburger Heide
Anika Hudewenz (Speaker)
15.01.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Journal of Insect Physiology (Journal)
Sara Leonhardt (Reviewer)
06.2010Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Journal of Applied Ecology (Journal)
Henrik von Wehrden (Reviewer)
2012 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Journal of Applied Ecology (Journal)
Emanuela W A Weidlich (Editorial Board)
2021 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Joint Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) and the Society for Tropical Ecology (GTÖ) - 2009
Sara Leonhardt (Opponent)
26.07.2009 → 29.07.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Jahrbuch des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins für das Fürstentum Lüneburg von 1851 (Journal)
Werner Härdtle (Editor)
01.01.2016 → 31.12.2016Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Jahrbuch des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins für das Fürstentum Lüneburg von 1851 (Journal)
Werner Härdtle (Editorial Board) & Johannes Prüter (Editorial Board)
01.01.2016 → 31.12.2016Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of series › Research
Is a better understanding of assembly a way to help reassemble communities for restoration?
Emanuela W. A. Weidlich (presenter)
23.08.2015 → 27.08.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Invasion success of Ulmus pumila L. in North America and Argentina:Environment or adaptation?
Henrik von Wehrden (Speaker)
09.2010Activity: 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
International Meeting of theAssociation for Tropical Biology and Conservation - 2010
Alexandra-Maria Klein (presenter)
09.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
International Journal of Astrobiology (Journal)
John-Oliver Engler (Reviewer)
2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
International Conference "Equality, Growth and Sustainability - Do they mix?'' - 2010
Christine Katz (Speaker) & Anja Thiem (Speaker)
25.11.2010 → 26.11.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Intercultural Perspectives - 2009
Christine Katz (Speaker)
2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Insectes Sociaux (Journal)
Sara Leonhardt (Reviewer)
08.2011Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Insect Chemical Ecology 2014 - Doctoral Course - ICE 2014
Benjamin Delory (Coauthor)
01.06.2014 → 15.06.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › 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
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
HBSC Earthwatch Workshop - 2011
Michael Staab (Speaker)
21.09.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Growth and competition of tree saplings of subtropical China
Henrik von Wehrden (Speaker)
09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › 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
Global change biology of ground beetles: Insights from wingless species in mountains
Henrik von Wehrden (Speaker)
2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
GIS program – Geographischer Informationssyteme
Maria Helena Pereira Peixoto (Participant)
18.02.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Gesellschaft für Ökologie Veranstaltung
Henrik von Wehrden (presenter)
2012 → …Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) (External organisation)
Sylvia Haider (Member)
2014 → …Activity: Membership › Bodies of public institutions › Research
German Annual IPCC Meeting - 2019
John-Oliver Engler (Speaker)
20.03.2019 → 21.03.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › 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
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
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
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
Foresters understanding of forest nature and its gender
Christine Katz (Lecturer)
19.06.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
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
Food & Chemical Toxicology (Journal)
Sara Leonhardt (Reviewer)
08.2011Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Folia Geobotanica (Journal)
Henrik von Wehrden (Reviewer)
2010 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Fachtagung Frauen und kommunaler Umweltschutz der Landesgemeinschaft kommunaler Frauenbüros/Gleichstellungsstellen NRW
Christine Katz (Speaker)
11.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Fachgespräch der AG Frauen im Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung - 2010
Christine Katz (Chair), Tanja Mölders (Chair) & Annemarie Burandt (Participant)
19.03.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Exploring the potential role of priority effects for ecological restoration
Emanuela Weidlich (presenter)
22.08.2016 → 26.08.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Exploring priority effects in a central European grassland field experiment in order to inform restoration (Symposium)
Emanuela Weidlich (presenter)
17.08.2017 → 01.09.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Exploring plant community asembly
Emanuela W. A. Weidlich (presenter)
08.09.2014 → 12.09.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Environment, Development and Sustainability (Journal)
John-Oliver Engler (Editorial Board)
01.02.2018Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Environment, Development and Sustainability (Journal)
John-Oliver Engler (Reviewer)
2018Activity: 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
Eemian and early weichselian vegetation and uranium/thorium and thermoluminescence age determinations from sections in Northeast Lower-Saxony, Germany
Brigitte Urban (Speaker)
18.04.2002 → 21.04.2002Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Ecology and Society (Journal)
John-Oliver Engler (Reviewer)
01.12.2015Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › 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
Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ) (External organisation)
Sylvia Haider (Member)
2006 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
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
Ecological Indicators (Journal)
Henrik von Wehrden (Reviewer)
2012 → …Activity: 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