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.
- Conference Presentations
Does Gender matter in gaining advantage in scientific fields of sustainability?
Anja Thiem (Speaker) & Christine Katz (Speaker)
10.02.2011 → 12.02.2011Activity: 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
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
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 the potential role of priority effects for ecological restoration
Emanuela Weidlich (presenter)
22.08.2016 → 26.08.2016Activity: 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
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
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
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
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
In the forest: doing gender by doing nature
Christine Katz (Speaker)
28.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › 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
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
MännerWeltWald - Natur- und Geschlechterkonstruktionen in Handlungsmustern von WaldakteurenInnen
Christine Katz (Speaker)
11.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Monitoring Phenological phases of the crops using TerraSAR-X Spotlight Images based on Factor Analysis
Dalia Farghaly (Speaker), Emad Elba (Speaker) & Brigitte Urban (Coauthor)
21.10.2015 → 23.10.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Navigating cognition biases in the search of sustainability
John-Oliver Engler (Speaker)
06.02.2019 → 08.02.2019Activity: 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
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
Overview on the long west European pollen records
Brigitte Urban (Speaker)
24.03.2003 → 28.03.2003Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Participatory research from the ‘Sentipensar’ concept: towards the plurality of knowledge
Stefan Ortiz-Przychodzka (Speaker)
26.11.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Plant functional group order of arrival and sown diversity are strong drivers of plant community assembly and ecosystem functioning in dry acidic grasslands
Emanuela Weidlich (presenter)
11.12.2017 → 14.12.2017Activity: 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
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
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
Priority effects and ecological restoration of grasslands
Vicky Temperton (Keynote Speaker)
24.06.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Priority effects influence plant traits and biomass in a grassland field experiment
Emanuela Weidlich (presenter)
22.08.2016 → 26.08.2016Activity: 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
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
Relational ontologies in rural Bogota: experiences on agrobiodiversity.
D. Pérez (Speaker) & Stefan Ortiz-Przychodzka (Speaker)
19.10.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Research on agroecosystems and socioecological resilience
Stefan Ortiz-Przychodzka (Speaker) & C. Quiroga (Speaker)
22.07.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › 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
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
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
Riparian Atlantic Forest restoration: water table depth and planting spacing affected the growth of planted trees
Emanuela Weidlich (presenter)
27.08.2017 → 01.09.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Roe deer browsing induces changes in phytohormones, primary metabolites and defense chemistry in beech and maple saplings
Bettina Ohse (Speaker)
08.09.2014 → 12.09.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Rosa rubinosa invades various habitat types and climates throughout Argentina despite highly reduced genetiv diversity
Henrik von Wehrden (Speaker)
09.2010Activity: 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
Seed dispersal and predation: Interactions, ecosystem functions and services
Gesine Pufal (Speaker)
08.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › 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
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
SER Conference (online)
Emanuela Weidlich (Speaker), Joao P. Ernzen (Speaker), I. Conti (Speaker) & Maria A. Neves (Speaker)
2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Sociocultural aspects in ecosystems’ transformation: methodological tools
R. de la Pava (Speaker), Stefan Ortiz-Przychodzka (Speaker), Dario Pérez (Speaker) & Lina Maria Cortés-Gutiérrez (Speaker)
05.08.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Stories of a journey: tracing traditional knowledge associated to orphan crops across agrifood circuits in Bogota
Stefan Ortiz-Przychodzka (Speaker)
26.10.2018Activity: 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
Sustainable use of arable lands within the Elbe river biosphere reserve in Lower Saxony, Germana using SAR-Data
Emad Elba (Speaker), Dalia Farghaly (Speaker) & Brigitte Urban (Speaker)
23.03.2015 → 25.03.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Sustainable use of High Aswan Dam Reservoir in view of climate change
Emad Elba (Speaker), Brigitte Urban (Coauthor) & Dalia Farghaly (Coauthor)
21.10.2015 → 23.10.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Chronostratigraphy and environmental development of the Middle Pleistocene sequence of Schöningen.
Daniel Richter (Speaker) & Brigitte Urban (Speaker)
01.09.2014 → 07.09.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › 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