Dr. Martin Wiehle
Tropenzentrum (Centre for International Rural Development) | International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD)
assoc. Organic Plant Production and Agroecosystems Research in the Tropics and Subtropics (OPATS)
University of Kassel | Faculty 11
Monastery Building/Klostergebäude | Room 2140
Steinstraße 19
37213 Witzenhausen

Tel. +49 (0) 5542 98 1372 | Fax +49 (0) 5542 98 1230
Tel. +49 (0) 561 804 7395 (mainly Thu)

Career
• 2014-recent: Scientific coordinator of ICDD (International Center for Development and Decent Work) and Tropenzentrum (Center for International Rural Development), both University of Kassel
• 2013-Nov 2014: lectureship for agricultural production systems in the tropics and subtropics (University of Kassel)
• 2009-2013: Ph.D. candidate „Effects of transformation processes in `jubraka` agroforestry systems of the Nuba Mountains, Sudan, on plant diversity” (University of Kassel)
2009: Freelance work as biologist for digitalizing mycological records from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
• 2002-2009: Diploma “Microsatellite and root pruning applications on Populus euphratica a clonally integrated riparian forest species in Xingjiang, China” (Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University, Greifswald)

Current projects
• Juniperus seravshanica diversity and differentiation in Oman and adjacent countries
• Olea europaea subsp. cuspidata diversity and differentiation in Oman
• Agrobiodiversity of date palm (Phoenix dactylifera)
• Perennial plant species diversity and invasive species in West Africa

Selected Publications
• 2017 - Morphological and genetic diversity and seed germination behavior of a snow lotus (Saussurea involucrata, Asteraceae) from the Mongolian Altay Mountains, Western Mongolia
• 2016 - Effects of soil characteristics and date palm morphological diversity on nutritional composition of Pakistani dates
• 2016 - Population structure and genetic diversity of Populus laurifolia infragmented riparian gallery forests of the Mongolian Altai Mountains
• 2014 - Effects of transformation processes on plant species richness and diversity in homegardens of the Nuba Mountains, Sudan
• 2014 - The role of homegardens and forest ecosystems for domestication and conservation of Ziziphus spina-christi (L.) Willd. in the Nuba Mountains, Sudan
• 2014 - The African baobab (Adansonia digitata, Malvaceae)
• 2009 - Root suckering patterns in Populus euphratica

Research Interests
• Botany
• Molecular ecology
• Terrestrial and marine ecology
• Food products, incl. Non-Timber-Food Products
• Agrobiodiversity