Wo wir arbeiten oder beteiligt waren:ForschungIn unserer Abteilung werden mit Hilfe der Pollenanalyse, holzanatomischer Untersuchungen und der Beurteilung pflanzlicher Makroreste Rekonstruktionen der Pflanzendecke und des Klimas durchgeführt. Aktuelle Projekte sind:SüdamerikaPleistocene and Holocene environmental changes in neotropical ecosystems with a focus on Amazon rainforest (PhD-student B. Wang since 2019) Impacts of Climate, Sea Level Changes and Humans on Coastal Vegetation in Northeastern Brazil during the Late Quaternary (PhD-student Alves de Moraes since 2018) Holocene vegetation dynamics and disturbance regimes in north Patagonia, Argentina (40 degrees South) (PhD-student Alvarez Barra until 2020) Holocene vegetation and disturbance dynamics in Araucaria araucana forests of southern South America: towards a scientific basis for conservation (PhD-student R. Moreno until 2019) AsienEnvironmental changes and way of life in Central Oman during the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC. (>2024) Studies on Holocene vegetation-, fire-, climate- and human history - comparing multi-site evidence from the forest-steppe biomes in Mongolian Altai, Tosontsengel and Orkhon Valley (2020>) Putting the carbon back into peat (Dr. Hapsari 2018>) Neogene vegetation history in north China with a palynological perspective and and its response to the major geological and environmental events (PhD-student Jian Wang 2019>) Long-term vegetation dynamics along altitudinal and longitudinal gradients in the Hyrcanian forest region (northern Iran) (PhD-student Homami Totmaj 2018>) EFForTS-CRC990 - A01 - Long-term vegetation dynamics, plant phenology and plant-pollinator interactions in rainforest and rainforest transformations in central Sumatra (Dr. Setyaningsih 2016 >) Using the biological and chemical diversity in Iranian honey for successful beekeeping and bee care (Dr. Khansaritoreh >2020) Economic revival of Iranian licorice (ERIL), from farm to market (>2018) Studies on vegetation, fire, climate and human history in the mid- to late Holocene. A contribution to protection and management of the forest-steppe biome in the Mongolian Altai (>2019) Coastal wetlands of Indonesia (>2018) AfrikaCalibrated pollen-based reconstruction of East African vegetation and landscape change ~ 250,000 yr Lake Challa sediment record (Dr. van der Plas >2022) Untersuchungen zur spätquatären Umweltdynamik (Vegetation, Klima, Böden, Feuer und anthropogener Einfluss) am Mt. Kilimanjaro (>2017) Multi-proxy micropaleontological studies on Holocene climate change and biodiversity history in Western Desert, Egypt (>2015) EuropaDynamics of Mid-latitude/Mediterranean climate during the last 150 ka: Black Sea /Northern Anatolian Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions DeutschlandHuman impact and environmental changes as reflected in the central sediment of the cirque lakes in the Northern Black Forest Dendrochronologie in Norddeutschland Dendroökologische Untersuchungen von Grubenhölzern am "Rammelsberg" bei Goslar und der Grube "Roter Bär" bei St. Andreasberg. Ein Beitrag der Montanarchäologie im Harz zur Erschließung eines Bergbau- und Umweltarchivs