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
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
Trap-nesting insects´ interactions in an urban-rural gradient
Maria Helena Pereira Peixoto (Speaker)
05.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › 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
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
Wald und Gender
Christine Katz (Speaker)
10.12.2012 → 11.12.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Zu Bodenhydrologie und Kohlenstoffhaushalt sandiger Ackerböden im Klimawandel: Umgang mit Unsicherheiten bei der Modellierung
Brigitte Urban (Speaker) & Karin Schmelmer (Speaker)
02.09.2013 → 03.09.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
- Peer review of publicationen
African Entomology (Journal)
Sara Leonhardt (Reviewer)
09.2010Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
African Journal of Ecology (Journal)
John-Oliver Engler (Editorial Board)
07.03.2019Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
African Journal of Ecology (Journal)
John-Oliver Engler (Reviewer)
2018Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (Journal)
Stefan Ortiz-Przychodzka (Reviewer)
2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
American Journal of Agricultural Economics (Journal)
John-Oliver Engler (Reviewer)
01.05.2016 → 01.10.2016Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Animal Behaviour (Journal)
Sara Leonhardt (Reviewer)
2012Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Apidologie (Journal)
Sara Leonhardt (Reviewer)
01.2012Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Apidologie (Journal)
Sara Leonhardt (Reviewer)
01.2011Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Apidologie (Journal)
Sara Leonhardt (Reviewer)
09.2010Activity: 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
Behavioral Ecology (Journal)
Sara Leonhardt (Reviewer)
03.2012Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Biological Conservation (Journal)
Henrik von Wehrden (Reviewer)
2011 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Biotropica (Journal)
Sara Leonhardt (Reviewer)
02.2012Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Biotropica (Journal)
Sara Leonhardt (Reviewer)
03.2011Activity: 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 Applications (Journal)
Sara Leonhardt (Reviewer)
03.2012Activity: 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
Ecology and Society (Journal)
John-Oliver Engler (Reviewer)
01.12.2015Activity: 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
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
Folia Geobotanica (Journal)
Henrik von Wehrden (Reviewer)
2010 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › 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
International Journal of Astrobiology (Journal)
John-Oliver Engler (Reviewer)
2020Activity: 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 Insect Physiology (Journal)
Sara Leonhardt (Reviewer)
06.2010Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Natural Resources Forum (Journal)
John-Oliver Engler (Editorial Board)
30.11.2017Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Natural Resources Forum (Journal)
John-Oliver Engler (Reviewer)
2017Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Remote Sensing of Environment (Journal)
Henrik von Wehrden (Reviewer)
2010 → …Activity: 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
Sustainability Science (Journal)
Henrik von Wehrden (Reviewer)
2011 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
- Peer review of project proposals
Traditional knowledge and conservation and use of agrobiodiversity. The case of peasant communities in the upper basin of the Ñambí River, Nariño-Colombia
Stefan Ortiz-Przychodzka (Reviewer)
07.2019Activity: Other expert activities › Peer review of project proposals › Research
- Academic Consultant
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
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
- Visiting an external academic institution
Arizona State University
John-Oliver Engler (Visiting researcher)
23.10.2017 → 22.11.2017Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
University of Bologna
Ute Stoltenberg (Visiting lecturer)
2008Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Education
- Learned societies and special interest organisations
Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ) (External organisation)
Sylvia Haider (Member)
2006 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
- Bodies of public institutions
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) (External organisation)
Sylvia Haider (Member)
2014 → …Activity: Membership › Bodies of public institutions › Research
- Academic councils, panels and committees
Corporación Universitaria Minuto De Dios-Uniminuto (External organisation)
Stefan Ortiz-Przychodzka (Member)
27.09.2016 → 12.09.2017Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (External organisation)
Stefan Ortiz-Przychodzka (Member)
17.07.2019Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
- Consultancy
Member of the Advisory Board advising the Ministry of Environment and German Government on Natural Climate Solutions
Vicky Temperton (Consultant)
19.03.2024 → …Activity: Consultancy
- Guest lectures
Agrobiodiversity and culture in rural Bogota
Stefan Ortiz-Przychodzka (Speaker)
07.04.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Agroecology and Ethnobotany in rural Bogota
Stefan Ortiz-Przychodzka (Speaker) & D. Pérez (Speaker)
06.04.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education