Projects in Central and South America

• Environmental change and ecological response inferred from marine sediment cores (Gu > 2018)
• Changes in vegetation and climate in western Amazonia (Rodríguez-Zorro > 2017)
• Investigating environmental change of eastern Amazonia during Pleistocene and Holocene (Alizadeh > 2017)
• Pleistocene and holocene environmental changes in a brazilian area of Amazonia (Hermanowski > 2012)
• Integration of biological and geological data as key for the biodiversity analysis (> 2007)
• Palaeoenvironmental recontructions in Amazonia (> 2006)

• Studies on vegetation, fire and climate dynamic “Mata Atlantica” in southern Brazil (Jeske-Pieruschka > 2011)
• From Landscape to Ecosystem: Across-scales Functioning in Changing Environments
• Vegetationsdynamik, multivariate Analyse ökologischer und paläoökologischer Daten aus Südbrasilien.

• Late Quaternary vegetation, climate and fire dynamics in Podocarpus National Park, south-eastern Ecuador
• Reconstruction and modelling of late Quaternary and modern landscape dynamics (vegetation, biodiversity, climate, fire, land use) in the Podocarpus National Park
• 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

• Mangrove eco-physiological responses to Holocene environmental changes: A multiproxy approach
• Paläoökologische Studien an tropischen Küstenökosystemen in Nordost Pará und angrenzender Gebiete im Rahmen des MADAM III-Projektes ("Mangrove Dynamics and Management")