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Professorship for Ecosystem Functioning and Services

Organisational unit: Professoship

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Reseach focusses on grassland ecology and productivity with two key questions:
How interactions between plants (whether negative or positive) influence nutrient cycling and productivity, and how interactions between plants influence assembly and ecosystem functioning. Recently the reasearch focus has moved towards root-root interactions and the potential role of priority effects during assembly as a tool for ecosystem management and restorations.

Publications (134)

Exposure of Bromus hordeaceus to fossil- and plant-based micro- and nanoplastics: Impacts and plant-plastic interactions vary depending on polymer type and growth phase

Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

Mapping and assessing the knowledge base of ecological restoration

Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

Measuring at all scales: sourcing data for more flexible restoration references

Research output: Journal contributions › Scientific review articles › Research

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Projects (13)

FOR5501: A social-ecological systems approach to inform ecosystem restoration in rural Africa. Subproject SP1: Biodiversity impacts-local-scale restoration effects in western Rwanda

Project: Research

FOR5501: A social-ecological systems approach to inform ecosystem restoration in rural Africa. Subprojekt SP7: A living lab for social-ecological restoration in western Rwanda

Project: Research

GrünlandVielfalt: Ökologische und gesellschaftliche Grünland-Transformation in der Ise-Niederung"

Project: Research

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Activities (23)

Member of the Expert Evaluation Committee for Plant Sciences of the DFG (German Science Foundation) representing the topic Ecology, Biodiversity of Plants and Ecosystems

Activity: Consultancy

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.

Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Government and the German Ministry of the Environment in Natural Climate Solutions

Activity: Consultancy

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