» Biodiversity Experiments
Funding: DFG | different project phases
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Biodiversity Exploratories
core project 8 - Microorganisms
"Soil fungal diversity and community composition of grassland and forest ecosystems along land-use gradients in three German Biodiversity Explanatories"
Project term: 2017 - 2020 (fifth phase)
Contact:
Prof. Dr. François Buscot , Dr. Tesfaye Wubet , Dr. Kezia Goldmann , Ricardo Schöps , Beatrix Schnabel , Luise Kaiser
Web: Microorganisms
MicroSYSteM II (contributing project)
"Microbial Data Synthesis and Meta-analysis for the Biodiversity Exploratories"
Project term: 2017 - 2020 (fifth phase)
Contact:
Prof. Dr. François Buscot
Web: MicroSYSteM II
BLD-FFD-HZG II (contributing project)
"BELongDead - Fungal Functional Diversity - Halle/Zittau/Grafenau (BLD-FFD-HZG). Fungal and bacterial structural diversity and the expression and diversity of wood decay relevant genes in coarse woody debris"
Project term: 2017 - 2020 (fifth phase)
Contact:
Prof. Dr. François Buscot , Dr. Julia Moll , Dr. Björn Hoppe
Web: BLD-FFD-HZG II
core project 9 and 11 - Microorganisms
"Soil fungal diversity and community composition of grassland and forest ecosystems along land-use gradients in three German Biodiversity Explanatories"
Project term: 2014 - 2017 (forth phase)
Contact for core project 9: Prof. Dr. François Buscot , Dr. Tesfaye Wubet , Ricardo Schöps , Dr. Kathrin Patsias, Beatrix SchnabelContact for core project 11: Prof. Dr. François Buscot , Dr. Tesfaye Wubet , Kezia Goldmann , Sandra Klemmer , Beatrix Schnabel
Web: Microorganims
MicroSYSteM (contributing project)
"Microbial Data Synthesis and Meta-analysis for the Biodiversity Exploratories"
Project term: 2014 - 2017 (forth phase)
Contact: Prof. Dr. François Buscot
Web: MicroSYSteMBLD-FFD-HZG (contributing project)
"BELongDead - Fungal Functional Diversity - Halle/Zittau/Grafenau (BLD-FFD-HZG). Fungal and bacterial structural diversity and the expression and diversity of wood decay relevant genes in coarse woody debris"
Project term: 2014 - 2017 (forth phase)
Contact: Prof. Dr. François Buscot , Dr. Björn Hoppe
Web: BLD-FFD-HZG
core project - SOILFUNGI
"Long-term investigation of soil fungi in grasslands and forests; spatio-temporal variations of fungal communities"
Project term: 2011 - 2014
Contact: Prof. Dr. François Buscot , Dr. Tesfaye Wubet , Sandra Klemmer , Kezia Goldmann
Web: SOILFUNGI
Funwood and Funwood II (contributing projects)
"The effect of forest management intensity on the diversity of wood-decaying fungi and dead wood decomposition"
Project term: 2009 - 2013 (Funwood), 2011 - 2014 (Funwood II)
Contact: Prof. Dr. François Buscot , Dr. Dirk Krüger, Björn Hoppe , Witoon Purahong
Web: Funwood IIFuPerS (contributing project)
"Fungal perioxidases in soils: functional and taxonomic diversity and enzymatic activities under varying land use regimes in German biodiversity exploratories"
Project term: 2008 - 2011
Contact: Prof. Dr. François Buscot , Dr. Dirk Krüger, Danuta KapturskaWeb: FuPerS
Funding: BiodivERsA | Project term: 2017 - 2020
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BiodivERsA
BiodivERsA - the network programming and funding research on biodiversity and ecosystem services across European countries and territories. It is an ERA-NET Co-fund, funded under the EU’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation.
European Joint Call 2015-2016 – funded project:
SoilForEurope - Predicting European forest soil biodiversity and its functioning under ongoing climate change
contributing project
"Determination of soil microbial communities and their ecosystem functions according to tree species richness in different types of European forests."Contact:
Prof. Dr. François Buscot , Dr. Kezia Goldmann , Luis Daniel Prada Salcedo
Web: SoilForEurope
Platforms: FunDivEurope forest exploratories (boreal to Mediterranean forests) and two European sites from TreeDivNet (global network of tree diversity experiments)
Funding: DFG | Project term:2014 - 2017
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AquaDiva
Collaborative Research Centre SFB 1076 “AquaDiva – Understanding the Links between Surface and Subsurface Biogeosphere” of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and three non-university research institutes in Jena or Leipzig
BIODIV3 - Towards functional microbial subsurface biodiversity research (contributing project)
"Links between surface and subsurface fungal communities along the land use gradients" Contact: Prof. Dr. François Buscot , Dr. Tesfaye Wubet , Ali Nawaz
Funding: DFG | Project term: 2014 - 2016 (third phase)
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BEF China
DFG Research Group "The role of tree and shrub diversity for production, erosion conrtol, element cycling, and species conservation in Chinese subtropical forest ecosystems" (FOR 891)
BEF China - a joint Chinese-German-Swiss research project
BEF2ChinaSP7 - Soil microbial and mycorrhizal fungal diversity (contributing project)
“Interplay of tree and shrub diversity with diversity and biomass of soil micro-organisms and mycorrhizal fungi in subtropical forests in China“ Contact: Prof. Dr. François Buscot , Dr. Tesfaye Wubet , Christina Weißbecker
Web: Soil microbial and mycorrhizal fungal diversityBEFChinaSP13 - Microbial biomass and activity (contributing project)
“Biomass and activity of the soil microbial community as a function of tree and shrub biodiversity, litter diversity, and soil erosion potential in subtropical forests”
Contact: Prof. Dr. FrançoisBuscot , Dr. Jessica Gutknecht, Zhiqin Pei
Web: Microbial biomass and activityBEFChina-Phase III (contributing project)
“Rhizosphere and decomposer metagenomes of subtropical forest tree species along tree species diversity and genetic diversity gradients”
Contact: Prof. Dr. François Buscot , Dr. Tesfaye Wubet , Dr. Witoon Purahong
Funding: DFG | Project term: since 2002
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The Jena Experiment
The Jena Experiment - Exploring mechanisms underlying the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
Contributing project:
“Diversity and functions of arbuscular mycorrhizal and soil fungi with oxidative potential in grasslands with different levels of plant diversity”
Contact: Prof. Dr. François Buscot
Web: project description
» Oak – an important forest tree: physiology, traits, biotic/abiotic interactions, adaption under a changing environment
Funding: iDiv – Flexpool (DFG) | Project term: 2017 - 2019
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iDiv-Flexpool
PlastOak
“How trees adapt to changing abiotic and biotic pressure during their long life? Using the endogenous rhythmic growth trait of oak trees to disentangle interplays between morphological, genetic and defence-metabolic plasticity.”
Contact:
Prof. Dr. François Buscot Dr. Sylvie Herrmann , Dr. Mika Tarkka , Dr. Iván Fernández López , Dr. Martin Schaedler ,
Funding: iDiv – Flexpool (DFG) | Web:
iDiv-Flexpool
Flexpool project
“Oak Clone DF 159 helps to depict the natural history of ectomycorrhizal symbiosis and the answer of the multitrophic interactome on trees to changing field conditions.”
Project term: 2014 - 2016
Contact: Prof. Dr. François Buscot , Dr. Sylvie Herrmann , Dr. Mika Tarkka , Dr. Marie-Lara Bouffaud
Flexpool project
“Cross comparing molecular and physiological regulation in ectomycorrhizal interactions of different fungi with oak trees: a way to understand biodiversity emergence in symbioses.”
Project term: 2013
Contact: Prof. Dr. François Buscot , Dr. Sylvie Herrmann
Funding: DFG | Project term: 2010 - 2013 (2018)
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TrophinOak
RootPatho – EM (contributing project)
"Gene regulation and C and N fluxes during the endogenous rhythmic growth of oaks interacting with mycorrhizal as well as root pathogenic biotrophs"
Contact: Prof. Dr. François Buscot , Dr. Sylvie Herrmann
LeafPatho – MHB (contributing project)
"Physiological and molecular responses of the oak Quercus robur L. to powdery mildew Microsphaera alphitoides and to Mycorrhiza Helper Bacterium Streptomyces AcH 505"
Contact: Dr. Mika Tarkka
» GCEF – Global Change Experimental Facility: exploring ecosystem processes under climate and land use-specific changes
Funding: DBU (20015/391 | Project term: 2016 - 2019
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DBU
Project in frame of the DBU Doctoral Scholarship Programme
"Increasing the stress resistance of agricultural ecosystems through plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) using winter wheat (Triticum L.) production as a case study."
Contact: Claudia Breitkreuz , Dr. Mika Tarkka , Dr. Thomas Reitz
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GCEF
» Biological Data / Bioinformatics
Funding: DFG | Project term: 2013 - 2015 (GFBio), 2015 - 2018 (GFBio II)
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GFBio
GFBio – a sustainable, service oriented, national data infrastructure facilitating data sharing for biological and environmental research
Contact:
Prof. Dr. François Buscot
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Dr. Anna Heintz-Buschart
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Christina Weißbecker
» Further projects
Funding: BLE / BMEL | Project term: 2013 - 2017
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CARBOWERT
CARBOWERT - Hydrothermal carbonization of materials from the sanitation sector, and the sustainable reuse of their conversion products in terms of the biochar concept
A joint project of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ (Dept. UBZ, BOOEK, TUCHEM), Deutsches BiomasseForschungsZentrum (DBFZ), TerraNova Energy GmbH, Institute for Applied Material Flow Management (IfaS) at the Trier University of Applied Sciences, and the Institute of Agricultural and Urban Ecological Projects (IAsP) affiliated to Berlin Humboldt University.
Contributing project
"Long-term effects of hydrothermal carbonized biosolids (HTCB) in soils from sewage sludge: effects on soil microbial biomass, potential for carbon sequestration and mitigation of trace gas emissions"
Contact: Dr. Elke Schulz
Funding: DFG | Project term: 2008 - 2012 (FunLink I), 2012 - 2016 (FunLink II)
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FunLink
DFG Research Group „Carbon flow on belowground food webs assessed by isotope tracers“ (FOR 918)
FunLink I and FunLink II (contributing project)
„Symbiotic and saprobic fungi as link between plant derived carbon and soil food webs”Contact for FunLink I: Prof. Dr. François Buscot , Dr. Dirk Krüger, Julia Moll
Contact for FunLink II: Dr. Tesfaye Wubet , Prof. Dr. François Buscot , Dr. Dirk Krüger, Katharina Zeitler
Web: project description
Funding: Leibniz Gemeinschaft | Project term: 2011 - 2014
Work Package: Impact of Root Exudation on Microbial Community Dynamics
Contact:
Prof. Dr. François Buscot
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Dr. Tesfaye Wubet
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Carla Porges
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IPB Rhizo
Funding: BMBF (0313285H) | Project term: 2005 - 2010
subproject
"Mycorrhizal symbioses of transgenic apple trees with increased fungal resistance"
Contact: Prof. Dr. François Buscot
Web: project description
Funding: DFG | Project term: 2005 - 2009
Cooperation: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Bodenkunde (IFBK); Universität Hohenheim, Institut für Bodenkunde und Standortslehre, Fachgebiet Bodenbiologie
Contact:
Prof. Dr. François Buscot
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project description
Funding: BMBF | Project tem: 2000 - 2010
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BIOLOG
Project:
DIVA - The relationship between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in Grassland Ecosystems
A collaborative research effort of the Friedrich-Schiller-University and the Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry both in Jena, with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ in Halle and the University of Leipzig.
STOFF-MYKO (subproject)
"Soil carbon as well as soil fungi and mycorrhizal fungi in grassland ecosystems with different diversity"
Contact: Prof. Dr. François Buscot , Dr. Elke Schulz
Web: BIOLOG - DIVA / subproject STOFF-MYKO