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
A biodiversity hotspot faces intensification of viticulture: the role of Fynbos remnants for the conservation of plants and butterflies
Loos, J., Topp, E., Burghardt, S., Talanow, K., Martín-López, B., Underhill, L. & Edge, D.
01.04.18 → 30.06.20
Project: Research
Aboveground multitrophic plant-insect interactions in a Chinese subtropical forest (FOR 891 - Teilprojekt 09)
Klein, A., Blüthgen, N. & Bruelheide, H.
01.02.11 → 31.07.13
Project: Research
TM 1.3 C FuE-Projekt 12: Aktivierte Pflanzenkohle aus Elbauen - neue Wertschöpfungen durch die Entwicklung einer neuen Stoffstromstrategie für das Auengrünland der Elbe
01.05.13 → 31.12.15
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
Altitudinal distribution of non-native plants: the effects of climate, habitat and introduction history
01.03.06 → 31.12.10
Project: Dissertation project
iCon: Analysing plant invasions in their environmental context
Haider, S., Milanović, M. & Kühn, I.
01.01.21 → 31.12.23
Project: Research
BELOW: Analysis of root traits to test for environmental filtering and niche complementarity in grassland communities
Haider, S., Bruelheide, H., Jandt, U., Scheel, D. & Herz, K.
01.01.14 → 31.12.17
Project: Research
Biodiversity and its role in the ecosystem services and dis-services concept in agricultural landscapes in Israel
Klein, A. & Mandelik, Y.
01.12.10 → 31.12.12
Project: Research
Biodiversity and productivity in rangelands and their management
01.01.15 → 30.06.15
Project: Research
Biosecurity in mountains and northern ecosystems: current status and future challenges
Haider, S., Milbau, A., Albihn, A., Alexander, J. M., Burgess, T. I., Daehler, C., Essl, F., Evengård, B., Greenwood, G. B., Muths, E., Nuñez, M. A., Pauchard, A., Pellissier, L., Rabitsch, W., Robertson, M. & Sanders, N. J.
01.01.15 → 31.12.18
Project: Research
Bridging The Great Divide in Sustainability Science: Bridging The Great Divide in Sustainability Science: Linking High-Performance Modeling and Transition Experiments to Foster Transformational Change Towards Sustainability
Lang, D. J., Kümmerer, K., von Wehrden, H., Forrest, N., Engler, J., Zimmermann, H., Wiek, A., Laubichler, M., Ghosh, A., Reich, M., John, B. & Feller, R. L.
01.06.16 → 30.09.19
Project: Research
Diptera Phenology: Changes in long term population dynamics of Diptera at Rothamsted, Harpenden
Grabener, S., Harrington, R., Shortall, C. R. & Oldeland, J.
01.11.14 → 31.05.15
Project: Research
Climate and Environmental Variability during the late Middle Pleistocene at the Paleolithic Sites of Schöningen, Northern Germany
01.04.17 → 01.07.22
Project: Research
Combined effects of altitude, fire and biotic interactions on the regeneration of subtropical mountain forest species in Central Argentina
von Wehrden, H., Hensen, I., Renison, D. & Marcora, P. I.
01.01.16 → 05.10.20
Project: Research
Conservation of the endangered Danube Clouded Yellow butterfly (Colias myrmidone) in Natura 2000 sites of Romania
Loos, J., Börsch, J., Gallersdörfer, J., Kortmann, E., Nippen, P., Dolek, M., Kastal, A., Lengyel, P. & Vizauer, T.
01.04.18 → 30.09.22
Project: Research
DANCE: DArwin's Naturalization Conundrum rEvisited (DANCE) – Darwin meets omics
Haider, S., Galmán, A., Neumann, S., van Dam, N. M., Uthe, H., Winter, M. & Daehler, C.
01.01.20 → 31.12.23
Project: Research
KLAM: DAS: Klimaanpassung managen! Weiterbildung für Bildungsakteure, Naturschutzexpert_Innen, Umwelt-, Nachhaltigkeits- und Klimaschutzbeauftragte in Kommunen sowie Multiplikator_innen zu regionalen Klimaanpassungsmanager_Innen
Urban, B., Fischer, K. & Katz, C.
01.06.16 → 31.03.19
Project: Transfer (professional training)
Die Nutzung ökologischer Potenziale von Buchenwäldern für eine multifunktionale Bewirtschaftung
Fichtner, A., Dolnik, C., Ellenberg, H., Fähser, L., Hampicke, U., Heeschen, G., Irmler, U., Lüderitz, M., Lütt, S., Rasran, L., Schäfer, A., Schrautzer, J., Sturm, K., Vahder, S., Vogt, K. & Wagner, J.
01.04.07 → 31.12.08
Project: Research
Ecological function of semi-open corridors
Aßmann, T., Härdtle, W. & Nolte, D.
01.07.12 → 31.07.16
Project: Research
Ecological valuation of crop pollination in traditional indonesian homegardens
01.05.11 → 09.09.13
Project: Research
Effects of climate and land use on the functional composition of plant communities and their ecosystem services
Haider, S. & Kühn, I.
01.01.14 → 31.12.16
Project: Research
Effects of woody species diversity and composition on individual plant growth and demography
19.02.14 → 12.04.19
Project: Research
Ermittlung der "Critical Loads" von Stickstoffdepositionen in Calluna-dominierten Küstenheiden
01.11.12 → 01.11.15
Project: Research
Experiment zur Ermittlung des Wirkungsschwellenwerts für den Stickstoffeintrag (empirischer Critical Load) in einem eutrophierungsgefährdeten Ökosystem
18.11.11 → 10.03.14
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
Factors controlling plant invasion: community niche, vegetation structure and local adaptation
Haider, S., Pahl, A. T. & Kollmann, J.
01.01.11 → 31.12.14
Project: Research
Förderung der Regelprofessur im Fach Ökosystemfunktionen im Rahmen des Professorinnenprogramms an der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
01.04.10 → 31.05.13
Project: Individual grant
Forschergruppe FOR 5375: Teilprojekt SP 8: Pflanzengemeinschaften im Unterstand von Wäldern und Primärproduktion"
01.06.23 → 30.05.26
Project: Research
GrassSyn - Biodiversity of Brazilian grasslands and savannas: patterns and drivers, ecosystem services, and strategies for conservation and restoration
Overbeck, G. E., Temperton, V., Anand, M., Santiago, B., Carlucci, M., Dechoum, M., Durigan, G., Fidelis, A., Guido, A., Menezes, L., Müller, S., Rosenfield, M. F., Sampaio, A., Sosinski, E., Staude, I., Tornquist, C. G., Turchetto, C., Veldman, J. W., Vélez-Martin, E. & Wiesmeier, M.
01.01.20 → 31.12.22
Project: Research
GrünlandVielfalt: Ökologische und gesellschaftliche Grünland-Transformation in der Ise-Niederung"
Petersen-Schlapkohl, U., Temperton, V. & Ernst, L. M.
01.10.22 → …
Project: Research
SESyP: Identifying social-ecological System Properties benefiting Biodiversity and Food Security
Fischer, J., Hanspach, J., Schultner, J., Dorresteijn, I., Collier, N., Dugo, G. S., Rodrigues, P., Jiren, T. S. & Manlosa, A. O.
01.06.14 → 31.05.19
Project: Research
Impacts of plant invasions on the taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional homogeni-zation of mountain ecosystems across a broad latitudinal gradient
Haider, S., Pauchard, A., Cavieres, L., Bustamante, R., García, R. A. & Marticorena, A.
01.01.18 → 31.12.22
Project: Research
INPLAMINT: Increasing agricultural nutrient-use efficiency by optimizing plant-soil-microorganism interactions
Temperton, V., von Wehrden, H., Brüggemann, N., Rillig, M. C., Schloter, M., Müller-Lindenlauf, M., Bonkowski, M., Koller, R., Kage, H. & Armbruster, M.
01.04.15 → 31.03.18
Project: Research
INPLAMINT II: Increasing agricultural nutrient-use efficiency by optimizing plant–soil-microorganism interactions
01.04.18 → 31.05.21
Project: Research
Individual plant growth and branch demography as a function of species richness and composition (FOR 891 - Teilprojekt 02)
01.02.11 → 26.08.15
Project: Research
Internationale wissenschaftliche Veranstaltung "On the Generalization of Newtons Experimentum Crucis", Berlin, 19.-22.09.2010
17.06.10 → 27.01.11
Project: Scientific event
Konkurrenz und Ressourcennutzung der Europäischen Honigbiene und Wildbienen in Bezug zur Lüneburger Heide
01.12.11 → 30.11.13
Project: Dissertation project
Land-use responses of dung beetle communities and their ecosystem services
Aßmann, T., Blüthgen, N. & Schmitt, T.
11.04.14 → 10.08.18
Project: Research
Leverage Points for Sustainability Transformation: Institutions, People and Knowledge
Vilsmaier, U., Lang, D. J., Newig, J., Fischer, J., Schomerus, T., von Wehrden, H., Sieveking, A., Klaniecki, K. T., Dorninger, C., Clarke, E. A., Horcea-Milcu, A. I., Lam, D., Patru-Duse, I. A., Jager, N. W., Derwort, P., Patru-Duse, I. A., Apetrei, C., Freeth, R. C., Engbers, M., Peukert, D., Berkau, A. J., Lutz, L. M., Leventon, J. & Abson, D.
01.04.15 → 31.03.21
Project: Research
Linkages between plant diversity, microbial diversity and ecosystem functioning in subtropical forest
Haider, S., Bruelheide, H., Ma, K., Erfmeier, A., Liang, Y., Liu, X., Trogisch, S., Wubet, T. & Zhang, N.
01.01.15 → 31.12.19
Project: Research
Linking soil chemical legacies with root economics to improve the predictability of plant-soil feedbacks
01.01.22 → 31.12.24
Project: Research
BIOTA Maroc: Long term vegetation monitoring in Southern Morocco
Jürgens, N., Finckh, M., Oldeland, J. & Grabener, S.
01.01.01 → …
Project: Research
Mechanisms of soil erosion, soil properties and Ecoscape analysis as a function of species richness and species composition in subtropical forests
Aßmann, T., Kühn, P., Scholten, T. & Schmidt, K.
19.02.14 → 12.04.19
Project: Research
RangeX: Mechanisms underlying the success and impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning of range-expanding species under climate change
Haider, S., Buhaly, M., Alexander, J. M., Clark, V. R., Høye, T. T., Kardol, P. & Vandvik, V.
01.04.21 → 31.03.24
Project: Research
Minderung der Barrierewirkung von Agrarflächen mittels halboffener Verbundkorridore
Härdtle, W., Aßmann, T., Drees, C., Hein, S. & Grabener, S.
01.09.16 → 30.04.22
Project: Research
MonViA: Monitoring der biologischen Vielfalt in Agrarlandschaften
Dieker, P. & Grabener, S.
01.03.19 → …
Project: Research
MIREN: Mountain Invasion Research Network
Haider, S., Seipel, T., Alexander, J. M., Arévalo, J. R., Küffer, C., Lembrechts, J. J., McDougall, K., Pauchard, A. & Rew, L. J.
01.01.06 → …
Project: Research
Moving to the real world: Testing biodiversity and priority effects for restoring multifunctional grasslands
Temperton, V. & Ernst, L. M.
01.10.20 → 30.09.23
Project: Research
Multi-trophic interactions of butterflies along a gradient of management intensity in grasslands and forest (BATMAN)
01.01.08 → 31.12.12
Project: Research
Multi-trophic plant-insect networks in a tree diversity experiment in China
19.02.14 → 11.06.19
Project: Research
Mycorrhizae in tree diversity effects on ecosystem functioning
Eisenhauer, N., Ferlian, O., Haider, S., Bruelheide, H. & Heklau, H.
01.01.17 → …
Project: Research
Near-infrared spectra of leaves as predictors for forest ecosystem functions
Haider, S., Proß, T., Bruelheide, H., Potvin, C. & Auge, H.
01.01.17 → …
Project: Research
Plant-insect interactions, flower traits, and pollination along an experimental plant diversity gradient (FOR 1451 - Teilprojekt 03)
01.05.10 → 05.05.15
Project: Research
Met-Total: Plant Meta-Metabolomics – Development of an Unbiased Survey of Habitat-Dependent Metabolic Diversity (Met-Total)
Wessjohann, L. & Haider, S.
01.01.22 → 31.12.24
Project: Research
KT 03 TM 1.1 Biokerosin: Platform for Sustainable Aviation Fuels
Klein, A., Schaltegger, S., Averdunk, K., Barua, K. K., Groeneveld, J. H., Hüsing, E., Kügemann, M., Lüdeke-Freund, F., Moser, C., Wahl, N., Walmsley, D., Wreesmann, J., Bailis, R. & Burritt, R. L.
01.01.11 → 31.12.15
Project: Research
Potenzial nachhaltig produzierten Camelina-Öls als Grundstoff für die Biokerosin-Produktion
Schaltegger, S., Klein, A. & Averdunk, K.
30.04.11 → 29.10.12
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
POEM: PriOrity Effect Mechanisms (POEM): mechanisms of priority effects and their persistence over time in dry acidic grasslands
Temperton, V., Delory, B. & Niemeyer, T.
01.04.20 → 31.03.24
Project: Research
PoST: Processes of Sustainability Transformation (Promotionskolleg)
Barth, M., Kater-Wettstädt, L., Fischer, D., Halberstadt, J., Schaltegger, S., Leventon, J., Heinrichs, H., Lang, D. J., Wiek, A., Kümmerer, K., von Wehrden, H., Vilsmaier, U., Rodriguez Aboytes, J. G., Pöggel, K., Hübel, C., Buhr, M., Beyers, F., Laudan, J., Albrecht, S., Weber, H., Rathgens, J., Keβler, L., Hilser, S. & Juarez Bourke, S.
08.12.16 → 31.12.21
Project: Research
Prospects for sustainable development: The future of plants and butterflies in Transylvania
01.07.11 → 15.06.15
Project: Dissertation project
Proyecto de educación ambiental para la conservación del Área Protegida Municipal Bosque de Bolognia
Miranda, O., Benavides Frias, C., Flores, S. & Antezana, N.
01.04.16 → …
Project: Teaching
Regionalisierte sozio-technische und -kulturelle Erfolgsfaktoren für ein nachhaltiges Wasser- und Landmanagment
01.05.09 → 31.12.09
Project: Research
Responses of plant performance and functional diversity along a climate and land-use gradient in Mongolia
von Wehrden, H., Wesche, K. & Römermann, C.
01.05.14 → 31.08.19
Project: Research
Schutz von Buchenwäldern in einem System von Prozessschutzgebieten
01.08.08 → 30.11.11
Project: Research
Move'n'Sense: Sense of place and mobility in cross-border contexts – essentialist and progressive perspectives
Gottwald, S. & Kołodyńska, I.
05.11.21 → 02.01.25
Project: Research
sPlot "Plant trait-environment relationships across the world's biomes"
Bruelheide, H. & Haider, S.
01.01.13 → …
Project: Research
Sukzessions- und Regenerationsmodelle, vegetationskundliche Referenzsysteme
01.09.97 → 31.03.01
Project: Research
sUMMITDiv "Europe’s alpine flora: past, present and future"
Wipf, S., Haider, S., Rixen, C., Steinbauer, M. J., Jurasinski, G., Grytnes, J. A. & Bjorkmann, A.
10.11.14 → 31.12.18
Project: Research
"Sustainability and Digitalization - a European perspective"
Barth, M., Trittin-Ulbrich, H., Lang, D. J. & von Wehrden, H.
01.12.19 → 31.08.22
Project: Teaching
SUSTIL: Szenarien zur Umsetzung der UN-Nachhaltigkeitsziele in Stadt und Landkreis Lüneburg: Implikationen für die Steuerung von Landnutzung
Hörisch, J., Lang, D. J., von Wehrden, H., Ackerschott, A., Kohlhase, E. & Schmidt, A.
01.02.20 → 31.01.25
Project: Research
The future of biodiversity conservation in farming landscapes in south-eastern Australia
01.04.19 → 31.08.22
Project: Research
The future of the European brown bear (Ursus arctos) in Transylvania II: How to maintain coexistence in a rapidly changing system
01.02.13 → 20.04.15
Project: Research
The Mountain TransPlant Network
Haider, S., Chisholm, C., Walker, T. W. N. & Alexander, J. M.
01.01.17 → …
Project: Research
The role of herbivory in mediating ecosystem functions in species-rich forests
18.02.14 → 25.04.19
Project: Research
The role of herbivory in mediating ecosystem functions in species-rich forests
01.08.14 → 31.07.16
Project: Research
Towards robust detection of plant diversity & management in grasslands’ spectral signals
Doktor, D. & Haider, S.
01.01.22 → 31.12.24
Project: Research
TRACE: TRACE – TRAit-environment interactions driving elevational range expansions under ClimatE change
Haider, S. & Ratier Backes, A.
01.01.22 → 31.12.23
Project: Research
TreeDi: Tree Diversity Interactions: The role of tree-tree interactions in local neighbourhoods in Chinese subtropical forests; P2: Complementarity through trait variation
Haider, S., Harpole, W. S., Ma, Z. & Yang, B.
01.12.22 → 31.05.27
Project: Research
TreeDi: TreeDiversity Interactions (TreeDi): The role of tree-tree interactions in local neighbourhoods in Chinese subtropical forests - International Research Training Group funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Härdtle, W., von Oheimb, G., Fichtner, A., Perles-García, M. D., Bruelheide, H. & Wang, Y.
01.04.18 → 30.09.22
Project: Research
TreeDi: Tree Diversity Interactions (TreeDi): The role of tree-tree interactions in local neighbourhoods in Chinese subtropical forests; P1: Spatial above- and belowground complementarity
von Oheimb, G., Fichtner, A., Liu, X., Ma, K. & Bu, W.
01.12.22 → 31.05.27
Project: Research
Umwelt- und Klimarekonstruktion Forschungsbohrung Garding2
01.02.11 → 01.02.16
Project: Dissertation project
Understanding human-carnivore relationships: from social conflicts to ecosystem services
Martín-López, B., Lozano Mendoza, J., von Wehrden, H., Dorresteijn, I. & Fischer, J.
01.11.16 → 31.10.17
Project: Research
BETA-FOR: Understorey plant assemblages and primary production
von Oheimb, G. & Fichtner, A.
01.05.22 → 01.05.26
Project: Research
VaNaTe: Unravelling the relation between Values of Nature and Telecoupling
01.05.23 → 30.04.26
Project: Research
Using plant functional traits to reveal mechanisms behind species richness patterns along elevation gradients
Haider, S., Ratier Backes, A., Römermann, C., Knight, T. M., Keil, P., Alexander, J. M. & Arévalo, J. R.
01.01.17 → 31.12.21
Project: Research
KLIMZUG-NORD: Verbundvorhaben KLIMZUG-NORD: Anpassungsprozessedes Naturschutzes an den Klimawandel (Teilprojekt 3.7)
Urban, B., Härdtle, W., Runge, K. & Katz, C.
01.04.09 → 30.09.14
Project: Research
BiodiWert: Was sind erfolgreiche Konzepte zur Wiederherstellung artenreichen Grünlandes in Deutschland? Eine multiregionale Bewertung sozial-ökologischer Systeme und pilothafte Umsetzung (Grassworks)
Temperton, V., Leventon, J., Fischer, J., Martín-López, B., May, F., Tischew, S., Kirmer, A., Kollmann, J., Beckmann, V., Dieker, P., Thiele, J. & Metzner, J.
01.10.20 → 30.09.21
Project: Research
Wildlife, Values, Justice: Reconciling Sustainability in African Proteced Areas
Loos, J., Fust, P., Giliba, R., Kachali, R., Thomsen, S. & Räther, A.
01.07.18 → 31.12.24
Project: Research
Working group “Consensus network of invasion hypotheses”
Haider, S., Jeschke, J. M., Enders, M., Bernard-Verdier, M., Catford, J. A., Gómez-Aparicio, L., Heger, T., Meyerson, L. A., Novoa, A., Ricciardi, A., Vila, M., Essl, F., Hulme, P. E., van Kleunen, M., Lockwood, J. L., Pyšek, P., Strayer, D. L. & Yannelli, F. A.
01.01.18 → 31.12.18
Project: Research