Funded projects 2018

Postdoctoral research projects:

Global soil biodiversity and ecosystem function dynamics, PI: Nico Eisenhauer, iDiv / UL
Global land-use patterns and changes, PI: Carsten Meyer, iDiv / UL
Scale-dependent drivers of biodiversity change in marine and terrestrial ecosystems, PI: Helmut Hillebrand, UO - IVBM
Automated high throughput pollen diversity monitoring to study the ecosystem services of air quality regulation and pollination (wind and insect pollination), PI: Susanne Dunker, iDiv / UFZ
PhenObs - Botanical gardens as a global phenological observation network, PI: Christine Römermann, Univ. of Jena
Mobile insect citizen science observatory, PI: Aletta Bonn, iDiv/UFZ/Univ. of Jena
Macroevolutionary and macroecological patterns of plants and their chemical compounds, PI: Alexandra Muellner-Riehl, UL

Taproots projects:

Global soil biodiversity and ecosystem function dynamics. PI: Carlos Guerra, iDiv / MLU
Scale transition theory links coexistence theory with complex communities. PI: Tiffany Knight, UFZ / MLU / iDiv
Land-use and landscapes in space and time - data and theory on key proximate drivers for integrative biodiversity science. PI: Carsten Meyer, iDiv / UL
Greenspace & Health. PI: Melissa Marselle, iDiv
International phenObs workshop. PI: Isabell Hensen, MLU
Radar/lidar remote sensing of insect populations. PI: Christian Wirth, iDiv / UL