Funded projects 2017

Doctoral research projects:

• Does competition for light drive loss of plant diversity under fertilization and exclusion of herbivory? PI: Harald Auge, UFZ
• Systemic signalling in mycorrhizal and plant herbivore interactions. PI: Franziska Krajinski-Barth, UL
• Using plant functional traits to reveal mechanisms behind species richness patterns along elevation gradients. PI: Sylvia Haider, MLU
• Improving alien species distribution knowledge by integrating data across scales. PI: Carsten Meyer, iDiv / UL
• Rare for a reason? - Scale-dependence of determinants of rarity and diversity of xylobiont beetles. PI: Martin Schlegel, UL

Postdoctoral research projects:

• iOmics - Integrative Analyses of Multi-Omics for Biodiversity Research. PI: Andreas Gogol-Döring, THM
• Modelling effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning across time, space, and wavelength: mBEF-Across. PI: Andreas Huth, UFZ