Research

Our department implements reconstructions of vegetation cover and climate via pollen analysis, anatomical appraisal of wood and macro-botanical material.

Ongoing Projekts:

Southamerica

Late-Glacial and Holocene vegetational stability of southern South America

Analysis and synthesis of palaeoecological data revealing patterns of mountain vegetation and plant diversity dynamics and its response to climate, fire, land use changes in biodiversity hotspots

Pleistocene and holocene environmental changes in a brazilian area of Amazonia

Reconstruction and modelling of late Quaternary and modern landscape dynamics (vegetation, biodiversity, climate, fire, land use) in the Podocarpus National Park and neighbouring regions in Ecuador

Africa

Studies on late Quaternary environmental dynamics (vegetation, biodiversity, climate, soils, fire and human impact) on Mt. Kilimanjaro

Asia

Studies on the indicators of Palaeoenvironmental Evolvement on the Kunlun Mt. (China)

Holocene dynamics of tropical rainforest, climate, fire, human impact and land use in Sulawesi and Sumatra, Indonesia

Europe

Dynamics of Mid-latitude/Mediterranean climate during the last 150 ka: Black Sea /Northern Anatolian Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions

Emmy Noether Junior Research Group

Quantitative reconstructions of past land cover change – A basis for evaluating consequences of Global change for vegetation

Quantitative reconstructions of past land cover change

Towards pollen accumulation rates as a measure of plant abundance – a case study in NE-Germany

Dendrochronology in Nothern Germany

Dendroökologische Untersuchungen subfossiler Moor-Kiefernwälder in Niedersachsen