Main research topics and selected grants
Main research topics
 Ecology and socio-economics of land-use change |
 Spatial plant ecology |
 Scales, heterogeneity and neutral landscapes |
Selected Grants
- LUSci - Integrative Land Use Science for Sustainable Development (under review)
see LUSci
- B10 - Landscape-level assessment of ecological and socioeconomic functions of rainforest transformation systems in Sumatra (Indonesia)
see EFForTS, since 2012
- B01 - Agricultural biodiversity and associated services across rural-urban landscapes - modelling studies
see FOR2432 , since 2016
- Population- and community-level plant trait variability in changing arid environments
funded by Volkswagen foundation, since 2016
- P2-6: Spatial scaling methods for ecological patterns
within Research Training Group 1644 Scaling problems in statistics funded by German Science Foundation (DFG)
see P2-6, since 2010
- P2-8: Understanding landscape moderation of biodiversity patterns
within Research Training Group 1644 Scaling problems in statistics funded by German Science Foundation (DFG)
see P2-8, since 2010
- P3-7: The Role of Heterogeneity in Spatial Plant Population Dynamics
within Research Training Group 1644 Scaling problems in statistics funded by German Science Foundation (DFG)
see P3-7, since 2010
Previous Grants
- Towards a mechanistic understanding of biodiversity and its functional consequences - the biodiversity exploratory additional modeling component - BEAM .
within Biodiversity Exploratories funded by German Science Foundation (DFG)
- Integrated modelling of land-use changes at rainforest margins in Indonesia
see ELUC , funded by German Science Foundation (DFG)
- IDESSA - An Integrative Decision Support System for Sustainable Rangeland Management in Southern African Savannas
see IDESSA
- Collaborative ecological modelling and experimentation to uncover the causes of bush encroachment in African savannas
with David Ward funded by Volkswagen foundation, program of partnership
- Ecology of arid savannas based on the patch dynamics paradigm by means of simulation modelling
funded by German Science Foundation (DFG)
- The effects of land-use and structural heterogeneity on biodiversity: A new assessment method using cost-effective remote sensing and fine-scale pattern analysis - STRUCTURE
within Biodiversity Exploratories funded by German Science Foundation (DFG)
- Modelling the role of complementarity, species identity, and neutrality for diversity maintenance in deciduous forests
within Research Training Group 1086 The role of biodiversity for biogeochemical cycles and biotic interactions in temperate deciduous forests funded by German Science Foundation (DFG)
- Scales of bacterial interactions on the leaf surface
within Research Training Group 1644 Scaling problems in statistics funded by German Science Foundation (DFG)
- Profiling plants to predict success and longevity of climate change-induced invasions
funded by German Science Foundation (DFG)