Team

Scientific coordinator:

Dr. habil. Martin Schädler

Internal steering committee:

Dr. Harald Auge

Prof. Dr. Francois Buscot

Dr. Stefan Klotz

Dr. Thomas Reitz

Dr. habil. Martin Schädler

Prof. Dr. Nico Eisenhauer

Agricultural Site Management

Dr. Ines Merbach

Technician

Konrad Kirsch

External advisory board:

Prof. Dr. Nina Buchmann (ETH Zurich)

Dr. habil. Stefan Hättenschwiler (CNRS Montpellier)

Prof. Dr. Ingrid Kögel-Knabner (Technical University Munich)

Prof. Dr. Jørgen Eivind Olesen (Aarhus University)

Dr. Jacques Roy (CNRS Montpellier)

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schmid (University of Zurich - UZH)

Project partners:

Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research:

Department of Community Ecology

Ingolf Kühn (Head), Harald Auge, Lotte Korell, Walter Durka, Stefan Klotz, Ines Merbach, Stefan Michalski, Martin Schädler, Rui Yin, Tesfaye Wubet

Department of Computational Landscape Ecology

Ralf Seppelt (Head), Angela Lausch

Department of Ecological Modelling

Karin Frank (Head), Volker Grimm

Department of Environmental Microbiology

Hauke Harms (Head), Antonis Chatzinotas

Department Monitoring & Exploration Technologies

Peter Dietrich (Head), Jan Bumberger, Paul Remmler

Department of Soil Ecology

Francois Buscot (Head), Claudia Breitkreuz, Thomas Reitz, Mika Tarkka, Tesfaye Wubet, Witoon Purahong, Sara Wahdan

(Department of Physiological Diversity --> see iDiv)

(Working group Spatial Interaction Ecology --> see iDiv)

German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)

Experimental Interaction Ecology

Nico Eisenhauer (Head), Julia Siebert

Spatial Interaction Ecology

Tiffany Kniht, Lotte Korell, Martin Andrejzak

Physiological Diversity

Stan Harpole (Head), Christiane Roscher, Yva Herion

Theory in Biodiversity Science

Ulrich Brose (Head), Björn Rall, Esra Sohlström

University of Halle

Department of Geobotany

Helge Bruelheide (Head), Erik Welk

Department of Plant Ecology

Isabell Hensen (Head), Carolin Plos

University of Leipzig

Department Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity

Christian Wirth (Head), Alexandra Weigelt

University of Potsdam

Chair of Biodiversity Research and Systematic Botany

Anja Linstädter (Head), Magnus Dobler, Liana Kindermann

University of Lüneburg

Institute of Ecology, Vegetation Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation

Sylvia Haider (Head)

University of Hohenheim

Institute of Landscape and Plant Ecology

Frank Schurr (Head), Petra Högy, Christine Sabine Sheppard

Institute of Crop Science

Torsten Müller, Sabine Zikeli