Seminare und Kolloquien
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2023
Freitag, 25. August 2023, 10:00 Uhr
Johannes Höfner, Department Biozönoseforschung, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ (Homepage): Matching patterns of genetic variation in a common grassland species to existing seed transfer zones
Dienstag, 18. Juli 2023, 13:30 Uhr
Simon Wogram, Martin Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg & Department Biozönoseforschung, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ: Drivers of pollen limitation in Scabiosa ochroleuca: Relative importance of environmental factors at local, site and landscape scales
Freitag, 23. Juni 2023, 10:30 Uhr
Bala Singavarapu, Uni Jena (zuvor im Department Biozönoseforschung, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ) Tree mycorrhizal type and tree diversity effects on the structure and functional potential of forest belowground microbial communities.
Dienstag, 25. April 2023, 10:00 Uhr
Yahya Al Naggar, Gastwissenschaftler im Department Biozönoseforschung des UFZ und assoziierter Professor am Department für Zoologie der Wissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Tanta Universität, Ägypten: The effects of the novel insecticides flupyradifurone and sulfoxaflor, alone or in combination with fungicides and pathogens, on honeybee health
Dienstag, 28. März 2023, 10:00 Uhr
Robin Schmidt: The abundance, origin and phylogeny of plants: effects on natural enemies and implications for plant coexistence in grasslands
Montag, 27. Februar 2023, 10:00 Uhr
Dinesh Thakur, Tschechische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Department für Populationsökologie,
Botanisches Institut: Differential effect of climate of origin and cultivation climate on structural and biochemical plant traits
2022
Walter Durka, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Department Biozönoseforschung (Homepage): RegioDiv: Nationwide assessment of genetic variation in 30 grassland plants and the design of seed transfer zones
Johannes Höfner, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Department Biozönoseforschung (Homepage): RegioDiv: Genetic differentiation in mixed-ploidy species and consequences for the design of seed transfer zones
Stefan Michalski, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Department Biozönoseforschung (Homepage): RegioDiv: Patterns of isolation-by-distance and effective migration across 30 grassland plant species
Eleonore L. Slabbert, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Department Biozönoseforschung (Homepage): Impacts of small- and large-scale drivers of agroecosystems on multi-trophic diversity across the soil surface
2021
Marija Milanović, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Department Biozönoseforschung (Homepage): The role of functional traits across different stages of plant invasion process
2020
Christina Weißbecker, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Department Bodenökologie (Homepage): Biodiversity and assembly processes of soil fungal communities in Chinese subtropical forests with variable tree diversity
2019
Ali Nawaz, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung – UFZ, Department Biozönoseforschung (Homepage): Mycobiome of the terrestrial subsurface aquifer system in the Hainich Critical Zone Exploratory
Rui Yin, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung – UFZ, Department Biozönoseforschung (Homepage): Effects of climate change and land use on the structure and function of soil fauna communities
Nico Jehmlich, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung – UFZ, Department Molekulare Systembiologie (Homepage): Metaproteomics: Harnessing the power of high performance mass spectrometry to identify the suite of proteins that control metabolic activities in microbial communities
Jaishanker Nair, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management - IIITM-Kerala: Floral Radiometry: A Case-study on the floral spectral reflectance of invasive vis-à-vis noninvasive plants
Eleonore Slabbert, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung – UFZ, Department Biozönoseforschung und Institut für Biologie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (Homepage): Scale-dependent impact of land management on above- and belowground biodiversity
Marija Milanović, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung – UFZ, Department Biozönoseforschung (Homepage): Trait – environmental relationship between native and non-native plant species
Paul Kardol, Schwedische Universität für Agrarwissenschaften (Homepage): Ecology up north: above- and belowground perspectives on the functioning of sub-arctic and boreal ecosystems
Julian Schrader, Universität Göttingen, (Homepage): Plant community assembly on small islands: Insights from a tropical archipelago
Marina Golivets, Universität Vermont (Homepage): Uncovering the drivers of non-native plant invasions using ecological data synthesis
Jennifer Born, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung – UFZ, Department Biozönoseforschung (Homepage):
Intraspezifische Differenzierungsmuster und Signaturen der Adaptation in der Feuchtgebietsart Juncus effusus
2018
Rebecca Harris, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Department of Conservation Biology: Extreme biological responses to the ‘press’ and ‘pulse’ of climate trends and extreme events
Prof. Dr. Konrad Fiedler, Universität Wien, Department für Botanik und Biodiversitätsforschung, Abteilung für Tropenökologie und Biodiversität der Tiere (Homepage): Moth communities and environmental gradients in the Anthropocene
Lena Neuenkamp, University of Tartu, Department of Botany, Plant Ecology Lab (Homepage): Disentangling the role of light availability and AM fungi in shaping plant species composition of European (semi natural) grasslands
Elena Motivans, Deutsches Zentrum für Integrative Biodiversitätsforschung (iDiv) und Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung – UFZ, Department Biozönoseforschung (Homepage): Unraveling plant-pollinator networks across land use gradients
Leana Zoller, Deutsches Zentrum für Integrative Biodiversitätsforschung (iDiv) und Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (Homepage): A glimpse into the past: a comparison of historic and present-day plant-pollinator interactions at high northern latitudes
Arunava Datta, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung – UFZ, Department Biozönoseforschung (Homepage): Analysing plant invasions across multiple scales using Ageratina adenophora as a case study
Anna-Maria Madaj, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung – UFZ, Department Biozönoseforschung (Homepage): Predicting evolutionary dynamics of plant species in extensively managed grassland ecosystems in response to ongoing climate change
Cornelia Sattler, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung – UFZ, Department Biozönoseforschung: Arthropod Communities in Rice Agroecosystems in Northern Vietnam - Quantifying the Impact of Pesticides and Land Cover Heterogeneity
Prof. John M. Halley, Department of Biological Applications and Technology, University of Ioannina, Greece (Homepage): Understanding the Dynamics of Biodiversity Loss
Dr. Anu Eskelinen, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung – UFZ, Department Physiologische Diversität und Deutsches Zentrum für Integrative Biodiversitätsforschung (iDiv) (Homepage): Biotic and abiotic modulators of global change effects
Dr. Christian Melsheimer, Institut für Umweltphysik, Universität Bremen, Deutschland (Homepage): Climate Change, ice at the North Pole, and we
Olga Tzortzakaki Department of Biology, University of Patras, Greece (Homepage): Butterfly diversity patterns in a densely-built Mediterranean city (Patras, Greece)
Eleonore Louise Slabbert, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung – UFZ, Department Biozönoseforschung: Impact of land use on the multifunctionality of agroecosystems
2017
Aldo Compagnoni, Department Biozönoseforschung, UFZ; iDiv; Martin Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg (Homepage): The effect of climate on plant populations: insights from a demographic approach
Natalia Carrasco-Farias, Department Biozönoseforschung, UFZ: Fine-scale effects of anthropogenic and environmental factors on diversity patterns of spontaneous vascular plants in a medium–sized city in South America (Chile)
Johannes Timaeus, Department Biozönoseforschung, UFZ (Homepage): Exploring diversification in agricultural systems: between tradition and innovation
Alexandra Papanikolaou, Department Biozönoseforschung, UFZ (Homepage): Spatiotemporal responses of pollinators to global change drivers at landscape scale
Andros Tarouco Gianuca, Department Biozönoseforschung, UFZ (Homepage): Taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic metacommunity ecology and scale-dependent community assembly processes
Matthias Bernt, Department Molekulare Systembiologie, UFZ (Homepage): Gene orders and Cophylogeny
Johannes Timaeus, Department Biozönoseforschung, UFZ (Homepage): Biocultural systems: coevolution of cultivated biodiversity and human culture
Dr. rer. nat., Dr. agr. habil. Thomas Fester, Scivit – Visual Storytelling for Sciences (Homepage): Science, lies and social media - are we fit for the future?
Aline Schneider, MSc-Kandidatin Biologie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle Wittenberg (Homepage): Modelling plant species richness in Germany: The role of soil moisture as a predictor
Prof. Dr. Oliver Bossdorf, Universität Tübingen (Homepage)
2016
Prof. Dr. David J, Currie, Biology Department, University of Ottawa (Homepage): The curiously unsettled matter of why so many more species coexist in some places than in others
Dr. Masha van der Sande, Department of Community Ecology, UFZ; iDiv (Homepage): Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across spatial scales
Dr. Dylan Craven, Department of Community Ecology, UFZ; iDiv (Homepage): Impacts of global change drivers and biodiversity on ecosystem stability
Michael Wohlwend, Institute of Biology, MLU; iDiv (Homepage): Interactions between the aggressive invader Lespedeza cuneata and an experimental prairie
Dr. Joanne Bennett, Institute of Biology, MLU; iDiv (Homepage): Global change drivers are increasing pollen limitation in wild plants
Dr. Maarja Öpik, Department of Botany, University of Tartu (Homepage): Species pools and dark diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
Andreas Menzel (Homepage): Effects of the mycorrhizal symbiosis on plant distributions and alien plant invasions at a large spatial scaleChristian Kempe (Homepage): Influence of ant diversity on populations of the Dusky Large Blue Butterfly Maculinea nausithous2015
Sven Jelaska (Homepage): 5(0) shades of spatial aspects in success of invasive plants
Stefan Dullinger (Homepage): Climate warming and range dynamics of alpine plants
Sylvia Haider (Homepage): Altitudinal diversity patterns of native and exotic plant species at regional and global scales
Arunava Datta (Homepage): Adaptation of invasive Ageratina adenophora in Western Himalaya
Mark Frenzel (Homepage): Bird communities in agricultural landscapes: what are the drivers of temporal trends?
Jeroen Everaars (Homepage): Twelve years of wild bee monitoring; what drives bee communities, land use or weather?
Alexandra Papanikolaou (Homepage): Green infrastructure mitigates the effects of temperature rise on wild bees
Cornelia Baessler (Homepage): Temporal changes of plant functional diversity and related ecosystem services along land use intensity and environmental gradients
Antje Kautzner (Homepage): TERENO and what is in for vegetation science
Anja Bindewald (Dept. Biozönoseforschung, UFZ) Der Erfolg von Pflanzenarten in natürlichen und anthropogen geprägten Ökosystemen
Alfredo Saldana (Depto. de Botánica, Universidad de Concepción, Chile; Homepage) Light as a key factor in plant distribution and functional responses in the temperate rainforest of southern Chile
2014
Tina Buchmann (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Department Biozönoseforschung) The role of plant functional traits and trait variation for community assembly and productivity in semi-natural and experimentally manipulated grasslands
Jennifer Born (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Department Biozönoseforschung; Homepage) Intraspecific genetic variation and differentiation in functional traits of the widespread wetland plant Juncus effusus
Anja Schmidt (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Department Biozönoseforschung; Homepage) A matter of straw - Invertebrate contribution to decomposition depends on crop residue management practices in tropical rice fields
Stephan Kambach (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Institut für Biologie / Geobotanik und Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Department Biozönoseforschung; Homepage) Niche breadth of vascular plants across the European Alps
Ivan Torres Galán (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Department of Environmental Sciences) Assessing the effects of the interaction between drought and fire in a Mediterranean shrubland
Stephan Kambach (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Institut für Biologie / Geobotanik und Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Department Biozönoseforschung; Homepage) Tree Diversity and Herbivory, a Meta-analysis
Andreas Menzel (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Department Biozönoseforschung; Homepage) Plants' mycorrhizal status - the so far overlooked functional plant trait in macroecological analyses
Panagiotis Theodorou (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Institut für Biologie / Zoologie; Homepage) Mapping genetic and species diversity of pollinators to the ecosystem service of pollination across changing landscapes
Annett Hahn (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Institut für Biologie / Geobotanik und Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Department Biozönoseforschung) Shift of trait compositions driven by different land-use regimes along an altitudinal gradient
Anna Roeder (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Department Biozönoseforschung) Diversity effects on plant life‐cycle characteristics and population structure as a base for understanding community assembly and stability
Christian Kempe (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Department Biozönoseforschung) The influence of ant diversity on occurrence and conservation of the Dusky Large Blue Butterfly Maculinea nausithous
Christoph Hahn (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Department Biozönoseforschung; Homepage) Genetic structure in a subtropical Chinese forest: a multispecies study
Alrun Siebenkäs (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Department Biozönoseforschung; Homepage) The role of variation in environmental factors for diversity effects on plant trait variation, species interactions and productivity
Robin Schmidt (Deutsches Zentrum für integrative Biodiversitätsforschung (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig; Homepage) The influence of antagonistic interactions on plant species coexistence and ecosystem functions
Katharina Gerstner (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Department Landschaftsökologie; Homepage) The Global Distribution of Plant Species Richness in a Human-Dominated World
Anja Schmidt (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Department Biozönoseforschung;
Homepage) How do management practices influence the activity of invertebrate decomposers in tropical rice fields?
Alexandra Papanikolaou (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Department Biozönoseforschung; Homepage) Measuring temporal synchrony in pollinator populations to assess the potential effects of impementing Green Infrastructure
Prof. Volker Grimm (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Department Ökologische Systemanalyse; Homepage) Individual-based models combined with trait databases predict diversity patterns in grassland plant communities: a tool for experimental design and theory development?
Franziska Taubert (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Department Ökologische Systemanalyse) An individual-based grassland model for analysing diversity-ecosystem function relationships including management and climate change aspects
2013
Dr. Rainer M. Krug (Université Paris Sud XI, Orsay, France & Centre for Invasion Biology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa; Homepage): Bringing Science to Management: using Simulation- and Scenario-Based Approaches to Guide Decision Making in Invasive Species Management - one tool which can do both
Dr. M. Ameur Manceur (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Department Landschaftsökologie; Homepage): Preferential sampling and inference from presence-only data
Melanie Hartman (Masterstudentin, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Institut für Biologie): Relative impact of environmental factors on distribution of wild bees on different spatial scales
Melanie Hänsel (Masterstudentin, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Institut für Biologie): Functional traits determine the distribution of wild bees across spatial scales
Dr. Leonie Fischer (Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Ökologie; Homepage): The potential of grassland restoration in novel urban ecosystems
Dipl. Geogr. André Schmiedel (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Department Biozönoseforschung): Clades, Traits & Environments - Aspects of Diversity of Swiss Dry Grasslands
Dr. Peer Schnitter
(Landesamt für Umweltschutz Sachsen-Anhalt, Fachbereich 4 - Naturschutz;
Homepage): Zur Umsetzung der FFH-Richtlinie in Sachsen-Anhalt und Deutschland - Erfassung, Bewertung des Erhaltungszustandes und Monitoring der Tierarten nach Artikel 11 & 17
Dr. Daniel Doktor
(Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Department
Landschaftsökologie;
Homepage): Scale-specific remote sensing of vegetation using hyperspectral and optical satellite data
Katrin Schneider (Koordinationsstelle Invasive Neophyten in Sachsen-Anhalt beim Unabhängigen Institut für Umweltfragen e.V.; Homepage): Viele Fragen - einige Antworten: Neophytenmanagement in Schutzgebieten Sachsen-Anhalts
Prof. Dr. Martin von Bergen (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Departments Proteomics & Metabolomics; Homepage): Proteomics and Metabolomics for characterising adaptation processes and species interaction
Dr. Claudia Stein (Department of Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, USA; Homepage): Regime shifts and threshold dynamics in California grasslands
Dr. John Maron (Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, USA; Homepage): Indirect effects of top predators in a grassland ecosystem
Prof. Dr. Jasmin Joshi (Biodiversitätsforschung / Spezielle Botanik, Institut für Biochemie und Biologie, Universität Potsdam; Homepage): Factors characterizing plant winners and losers to environmental change
Prof. Dr. Nico Eisenhauer (Institut für Ökologie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena; Homepage): Soil biodiversity: too redundant to be true?
Dr. Nina Schwarz (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Department Landschaftsökologie; Homepage):
Does urban form matter? Explaining the urban heat island in European cities
Dr. Carlo Ricotta (Department of Environmental Biology, University of Rome "La Sapienza"):
The problem and promise of phylogenetics in invasion ecology
PD Dr. Ewald Weber (Institut für Biochemie und Biologie, Universität Potsdam);Homepage):
Invasive plant species in China and India: Patterns in numbers and distributions
2012
Miaomiao Shi (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Department Biozönoseforschung): Patterns of genetic diversity and their underlying processes in a dominant subtropical tree Castanopsis eyrei at multiple scales
Karoline Weißhuhn (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Department Biozönoseforschung; Homepage): Adaptation in grassland plants across scales
Prof. Stefan Siebert (North-West University, Potchefstroom South Africa):
Does culture and socio-economics drive biodiversity in homegardens as important contributors to urban green infrastructure in northern South Africa?
Xueqin Zeng (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Department Biozönoseforschung)
Eva Völler (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Department Biozönoseforschung; Homepage):
The evolutionary impact of land use: quantitative genetic differentiation in common grassland plants.
Dr. Dean E. Pearson (US Forest Service, USDA; Rocky Mountain Research Station: Homepage):
Biological invasions as natural experiments: plant invasion alters predator-prey interactions and trait and density-mediated indirect effects
Dr. Sven Bacher (University of Fribourg (CH); Department of Biology, Unit of Ecology & Evolution: Homepage):
Using a macroecological approach to tackle questions in population ecology, evolution and conservation
Prof. Dr. J. Wolfgang Waegele, Head of Dept. Systematic Zoology (Uni Bonn), Director Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig (Homepage): DNA Barcoding: new chances for monitoring of biodiversity (see also UFZ Colloquium page)
Dr. Jessica Gutknecht, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ; Department of Soil Ecology (UFZ): The role of soil microorganisms in ecosystem response to global change
Annika Meyer, Martin-Luther University, Halle (Saale): Analyse funktioneller Blattmerkmale in der Vegetation urbaner Grünflächen in Valdivia (Chile)
Prof. Bill Shipley: Département de Biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke (Québec) (Lab Page): CATS: a model of Community Assembly by Trait Selection
Prof. Jörn Fischer, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Institue of Ecology, Sustainable Landscapes (Lab Page): A social-ecological approach to understanding landscape change: case studies from Australia and Romania
2011
Dr. Annette Kolb, Vegegationsökologie und Naturschutz, University of Bremen (Uni Bremen): Einfluss von Habitatfragmentation auf die Ökologie und Evolution von Pflanzenpopulationen.
Dr. Mark Frenzel, Biozönoseforschung, UFZ (UFZ): Towards indicator standardization and harmonization in long term ecosystem research and monitoring: approaches within LTER-Europe and the Life+ project EnvEurope
Susanne Lachmuth, Geobotanik, MLU Halle/Vegetationsökologie, Potsdam (Potsdam): Towards a mechanistic understanding of how demography, genetic differentiation and environmental factors interact to generate the invasion dynamics of Senecio inaequidens
Dr. Martin Wiemers, Biozönoseforschung, UFZ: Biodiversitätsindikatoren für Klimaveränderungen am Beispiel der Tagfalter und Libellen Sachsens
Dr. Sven Trautmann, Dachverband Deutscher Avifaunisten, DDA: Monitoring of common breeding birds in the face of climate change
Prof. Dr. Jonathan Levine, Pflanzenökologie, ETH Zürich (ETH or Santa Barbara): The importance of niches for the maintenance of species diversity
Dr. Sven Lautenbach, Computational Landscape Ecology, UFZ (UFZ): Quantification of Ecosystem Services and Trade-Offs - Modelling and Optimization to support Landscape and River Basin Management
Dr. Andy MacDonald, Rothamsted Research Station, UK (Rothamsted): The Rothamsted Long-term Experiments – past, present and future; 14. September, 10:00
Prof. Dr. Kris Verheyen (Dept.Forest and Water Management, Ghent University, Belgium): Effects of land-use legacies on forest biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. 14. March, 14:00
Dr. Vincent Devictor (CNRS, Institute of Evolutionary Sciences of Montpellier, France): Community ecology and global changes: tracking rapid shifts. 2 March
Prof. Dr. Jürg Stöcklin (Botanical Institute, University of Basel): Genetic diversity, phenotypic variation and local adaptation in the alpine landscape: case studies with alpine plant species. 10. January
2010
Dipl. Biol. Michael Beckmann (Dept. Botany, Martin-Luther University, Halle): Is there evidence for better UV-adaptation of New Zealand populations of an invasive plant? 20. December
Dr. Benjamin Burkhard (University of Kiel): A conceptual framework for indicator selection in ecosystem monitoring. 1. December
Dipl. Biol. André Schmiedel (Dept. Community Ecology, UFZ): Naturalization/invasion of ornamental and crop plants / functional and phylogenetic diversity along environmental gradients. 29 November
Dipl. Biol. Anett Huth-Schwarz (MLU Halle, HIGARDE PhD): Factors influencing infection rates of the parasite Nosema bombi in natural populations of bumblebees. 9. November
Dr. Josef Settele (Dept. Community Ecology, UFZ): The LEGATO project (ecosystem services in irrigated rice landscapes in South-East Asia). 26. Oktober
Dipl. Biol. Jan Hanspach (Dept. Community Ecology, UFZ): Assessing the influence of global change on plant species distribution using statistical models. 26. July
Xueqin Zeng (Dept. Community Ecology, UFZ): Genetics of trees and shrubs, and their relevance for fitness and the biodiversity ecosystem founctioning relationship. 26. April
Dr. Torsten Meiners (FU Berlin, Inst. Applied Zoologie): Chemodiversity of habitat odours: Formation and impact on multitrophic interactions. 12. April
Dr. Thomas Ranius (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Dept of Ecology, Uppsala): Metapopulation dynamics and conservation of a beetle, Osmoderma eremita, living in hollow trees in Europe. 8 March
Dr. Jochen Krauss (Dept. of Animal Ecology, University of Bayreuth): Endophtic fungi in grass species: Effects on higher trophic levels. 4 March
Dr. Daniel Prati (University Bern): Functional Diversity in Grasslands of the Biodiversity Exploratory Project. 23. February
Dr. Mascha Jacob (Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Göttingen): Ecosystem functions influenced by tree diversity? A comprehensive study from temperate forest stands. 11 January
2009
Jeroen Everaars (PhD-Student, Dept. Computational Landscape Ecology): a) Do nesting behaviour and body size matter for solitary bees and pollination? b) Habitat selection of Osmia bicornis in the urban area of Leipzig. 2. November
Prof. Liliane Ruess (Humboldt University Berlin): Unravel the black box - biochemical markers provide new insight into multitrophic interactions in soil. 9 October
Dr. Jens Mutke (University of Bonn): Continental to global plant diversity - patterns and causes. 22. Juni
Prof. Dr. Caroline Müller (University of Bielefeld): Chemo-ecological aspects of interactions between (invasive) plants and herbivorous insects. 8. Juni
Dipl. Geogr. Susanne Mühlner (Forschungsanstalt Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon ART, Schweiz): Habitatmenge versus Habitatvernetzung - Effekte auf die Biodiversität in Schweizer Hochstammobstgärten. 2. Juni
Dipl. Biol. Eva Völler (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung), Dipl. Biol. Sabine Kammermeier (MLU, Geobotanik ): The slender, the tougher - assessment of frost hardiness of high- and low-altitude morphotypes of Norway spruce. 25. Mai
Dipl. Biol. Josephine Haase (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Is genetic variation and genetic diversity important for litter decomposition? 13. Mai
PD Dr. Martin Zimmer (Zoological Institute / Limnology, Christian Albrechts University Kiel): How biotic interactions translate into decomposition processes. 4. Mai
Dipl. Biol. Nicole Winkler (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): 27. April
Dr. Christian Wirth (MPI Biogeochemistry Jena, Junior Research Group Organismic Biogeochemistry): Ecosystem functions of old-growth forests. 20. April
Dipl. Biol. Miaomiao Shi (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): 30. März
Dipl. Biol. Karoline Weißhuhn (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): 23. März
Dr. Jens Mutke (Nees Institute for Botany, University of Bonn): 16. März
Dipl. Biol. Xuequin Zeng (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): 2. März
Dipl. Biol. Gitte Hornemann (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Genetic variation and species diversity of plant populations in isolated dry grasslands. 23. Februar
Dipl. Biol. Sylvia Ritter (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Local adaptations and cryptic speciations in the socialparasitic Large Blue Butterflies Phengaris (Maculinea) nausithous and P. (M.) teleius. 16. Februar
Dipl. Biol. Lena Kloss (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): The link between genetic diversity and species diversity: patterns and processes in grassland plants. 9. Februar
Dr. KL Heong (IRRI, Philippinen): Ecological Engineering - the practical application of ecosystem services in rice dominated Asian landscapes. 15. Januar
Dr. Susanne Wurst (FU Berlin, Institut für Biologie): Below-aboveground linkages - Soil organisms and their effects on plants and aboveground interactions . 14. Januar
2008
Dipl. Biol. Marten Winter (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Aspects of biotic homogenization - from regional to global scales. 9. Dezember
Judy Fisher (University of Western Australia, Kings Park Botanical Gardens): Causes and consequences of plant invasion in a Biodiversity Hotspot: implications for restoration. 10. Juli 2008
Claudia Bräuniger (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Do lunch or be lunch - Is the relative importance of insect herbivores affected by disturbance? 21. April 2008
Lydia Hantsch, Sven Pompe (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Auswertung phänologischer Daten aus zwei floristischen Standardwerken. 31. März 2008
2007
Prof. Dr. Matthias Rillig (Systematische Botanik und Pflanzengeographie, Institut für Biologie, FU Berlin): Vortragstitel wird noch bekannt gegeben. 14. Dezember 2007
Dipl. Biol. Sven Pompe (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Modellierung klimainduzierter Arealverschiebung der Flora von Deutschland. 12. November 2007
Nita Tallent-Halsell (USEPA/ORD/NERL, Landscape Ecology Branch, Las Vegas): The effect of an introduced species, Buddleja davidii, on New Zealand plant community dynamics. 2. Oktober 2007
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Weisser (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Institut für Ökologie): Das Jena-Experiment: Pflanzen-Insekten Interaktionen. 26. September 2007
Dipl. Biol. Christian Anton (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Trophische Beziehungen und Populationsstruktur von Bläulingen und ihren natürlichen Gegenspielern. 3. September 2007
Dipl. Biol. Eva Küster (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Plant traits and successful invasions - Emerging patterns and prospects. 25. Juni 2007
Prof. Dr. Isabell Hensen (Institut für Geobotanik und Botanischer Garten, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg): Südamerikanische Polylepis-Wälder: Klima, Mensch und Regeneration. 18. Juni 2007
Dr. Christine Römermann (Uni Frankfurt): Patterns and processes of plant species frequencies and life-history traits. 11. Juni 2007
Dr. Tatjana Böttger (UFZ, Dept. Isotopenhydrologie): Anwendungen stabiler Isotopen-Methoden in der Umwelt- und Klimaforschung. Übersicht über die am UFZ durchgeführten Forschungen und Perspektiven. 4. Juni 2007
Dr. Wieslaw Babik (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): New development in high-throughput sequencing. 21. Mai 2007
Dipl. Biol. Haike Ruhnke (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Effects of resource heterogeneity in trees upon insect herbivory. 14. Mai 2007
Dipl. Biol. Christiane Stark (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Genetische Diversität und anthropogene Standorte. 7. Mai 2007
Dipl. Geoökol. Sonja Knapp (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Diverse Verhältnisse - Merkmalsmuster zwischen Stadt und Land. 23. April 2007
Dipl. Biol. Josephine Haase (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Bäume, Laub und Krabbelvieh. 16. April 2007
Jessica Bergmann (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Szenarien neuer Artenpools unter Klimawandel in Deutschland zum Ende des 21.Jahrhunderts . 30. März 2007
Prof. Jacek M. Szymura (Jagiellonian University, Krakow): Phylogeography of the fire-bellied toads, Bombina: independent Pleistocene histories inferred from mitochondrial genomes. 26. März 2007
Dr. Oliver Bossdorf (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Ecological Epigenetics. 19. März 2007
Dr. Erik Welk (MLU Halle-Wittenberg, Institut für Geobotanik / Botanischer Garten): Accounting for varying relationships of climate and plant distribution: using chorological plant traits to improve climate based distribution models. 15. März 2007
Dr. Karin Ulbrich (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Können modellgestützte Software-Tools zum Erhalt der Biodiversität beitragen? 12. Februar 2007
Prof. Jeremy Thomas (Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - CEH Dorset, United Kingdom): Long term biodiversity monitoring in the UK: the use of indicators and lessons for the continent. 30. Januar 2007
Cornelia Rißmann und Claudia Stein (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): 1. Cornelia: Beeinflussen verschiedene Mykorrhizen die Interaktionen zwischen Graslandarten und dem Hemiparasiten Rhinanthus minor? 2. Claudia: Wie sehen diese Beziehungen in einer experimentellen Pflanzengemeinschaft aus? 19. Januar 2007
Dr. Vicky Temperton (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institut für Chemie und Dynamik der Geosphäre, ICG-III Phytosphäre): Positive biodiversity effects on ecosystem properties: some results from The Jena Experiment and some new approaches for testing their validity. 15. Januar 2007
Karoline Weißhuhn (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Konkurrenzverhalten von Senecio inaequidens im Topfversuch mit Artemisia vulgaris, arbuskulärer Mykorrhiza und Aktivkohle. 12. Januar 2007
Dipl. Biol. Christel Roß (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Erkenntnisse aus dreieinhalb Jahren Forschung an Mahonia aquifolium. 8. Januar 2007
2006
Prof. Ragan M. Callaway (Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, USA): The role of novel biochemical weapons in plant invasions: the implications for community evolution. 27. Februar 2006
Dr. Michael Hofreiter (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig): Untersuchungen eiszeitlicher Wanderungen mit Hilfe alter DNA. 6. März 2006
Dipl. Biol. Cornelia Baessler (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Differently structured landscapes affect the genetic diversity of a common plant species! 20. März 2006
M.Sc. Jennifer Williams (Div. of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula): An experimental demographic approach to exotic plant success: Cynoglossum officinale in its native and introduced ranges. 24. April 2006
Dr. Mark Frenzel (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Does origin and habitat of invasive Senecio affect the attack by native insects? 24. April 2006
Dipl. Biol. Marten Winter (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Extinction, Eradication, Replacement: Finding evidences for ecological impacts of synanthropic carnivores in Europe. 2. Mai 2006
Dipl. Geoökol. Sonja Knapp (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Artenvielfalt in städtischen und ländlichen Schutzgebieten. 4. Mai 2006
Prof. Milan Chýtrý (University of Brno; CZ): Vegetation of southern Siberian mountain ranges: a window to the past landscapes of Central Europe. 15. Mai 2006
Prof. Katrin Boehning-Gaese (Universität Mainz, Institut für Zoologie): Biodiversität von Vögeln: Evolution, Ökologie, Naturschutz. 12. Juni 2006
Dipl. Biol. Anett Richter (University of Canberra): Biodiversity conservation in Australia - a study on invertebrates in natural temperate grassland. 26. Juni 2006
Prof. Andrew Bennett (University of Deakin, Australia): Conservation in agricultural land mosaics: a ‘landscape-scale’ study of woodland birds in rural environments of southern Australia. 14. Juli 2006
Dipl. Biol. Holger Loritz (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Bericht von der ALTERNet Summerschool 2006. 6. November 2006
Dipl. Biol. Susanne Angelstein (UFZ, Dept. Fließgewässerökologie / Seenforschung): Experimentelle Untersuchungen an Elodea nuttallii. 8. November 2006
Dipl. Biol. Jan Hanspach (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Schutzgebiete und Klimawandel. 20. November 2006
Dr. Susanne Kühnholz (Halle): The Ecology of farming beetles. 11. Dezember 2006
2005
Dipl. Biol. Birgit Binzenhöfer (UFZ, Dept. Naturschutzforschung, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Habitatmodelle und Konnektivitätsanalysen bei tagaktiven Schmetterlingen. 10. Januar 2005
Dr. Martin Schädler (Universität Marburg): Mehr als die Summe der einzelnen Teile? Streudiversität und Abbauprozesse. 17. Januar 2005
PD Dr. Jürg Stöcklin (Universität Basel): Die Biodiversität in den Alpen geht im Zuge sozio-ökonomischer Veränderungen stark zurück. 24. Januar 2005
Dipl. Biol. Cornelia Baessler, Dr. Mark Frenzel (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Präsentationen gestalten und "verkaufen". 31. Januar 2005
Dipl. Biol. Claudia Stein (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Pflanzendiversität in Grünlandökosystemen: Die Bedeutung von regionalem Artenpool, Invasionen und Herbivorie. 7. Februar 2005
Prof. John Maron (University of Montana, Division of Biological Sciences): An introduced predator transforms plant communities across the Aleutian archipelago. 5. April 2005
Prof. John Maron - informal talk -: Ecological research at John Maron's lab.
7. April 2005
Dr. Gudrun Carl (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Räumliche Autokorrelation bei Generalisierten Linearen Modellen. 11. April 2005
Dipl. Biol. Susan Ebeling (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Regionale Anpassung als Ursache für den Invasionserfolg - Diskussion des experimentalen Designs. 18. April 2005
Dr. Harald Auge (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Adaptive Evolution und der Erfolg von Pflanzeninvasionen. 25. April 2005
Dr. Bärbel Kiesel (UFZ, Dept. Umweltmikrobiologie): Möglichkeiten und Grenzen mikrobieller Diversitätsforschung. 2. Mai 2005
Dipl. Biol. Bea Vonlanthen (MLU, Geobotanisches Institut): Establishment conditions and development of the phreatophytic vegetation in the foreland of river oases in the southern Taklmakan. 9. Mai 2005
Dipl. Biol. Nicol Fuentes (Universidad de Concepción, Chile): Reconstructing the spread of invasive plants in Chile from herbarium records. 17. Mai 2005
Mag. Oliver Schweiger (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Biodiversität in Agrarlandschaften - Mehr als Artenzahlen! 23. Mai 2005
Dr. Mark van Kleunen (Universität Potsdam, Biozönoseforschung): Similarity in latitudinal clines of and genetic differentiation in life-history traits between native and non-native populations of Mimulus guttatus. 6. Mai 2005
Dr. Kerstin Wiegand (Institut für Ökologie, FSU Jena): Importance of landscape structure and species-specific traits for metapopulation survival. 30. Mai 2005
Dr. Gabriele Schmidt-Adam (Massey University, Neuseeland): Reproduktionsbiologie und lokale Anpassung des neuseeländischen Endemiten Metrosideros excelsa (Myrtaceae). 20. Juni 2005
Madeleine Dubiel (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Räumliche Heterogenität von Diasporenbanken auf landwirtschaftlichen Flächen. 5. Juli 2005
Dipl. Biol. Haike Ruhnke (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Are sawflies adapted to host plant individuals? 6. Juli 2005, 10 Uhr
Prof. Zoltan Varga (University Debrecen, Ungarn): Heuschrecken- und Schmetterlingsgemeinschaften in Maculinea-Habitaten in Ungarn. 24. Oktober 2005
Dipl. Biol. Stefan Michalski (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Selfish rushes - flower biology of Juncus atratus. 14. November 2005
Dipl. Biol. Lars Götzenberger (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): The pollen-ovule ratio: adaptation or constraint? 14. November 2005
Dipl. Biol. Holger Loritz (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Human land use as driving factor of the persistence of two grassland butterflies. 28. November 2005
Dipl. Biol. Christian Anton (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Population structure and trophic interactions of a butterfly and its specialised parasitoid in a fragmented landscape. 28. November 2005
Dr. Gudrun Carl (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): "Wavelets" und autokorrelierte Daten. 12. Dezember 2005
Dr. Wieslaw Babik (UFZ, Dept. Biozönoseforschung): Phylogeography of the Eurasian beaver: mitochondrial and MHC data. 20. Dezember 2005
2004
Dipl.Biol. Lars Götzenberger (Sektion Biozönoseforschung): Die Bedeutung von Samenmerkmalen für den Lebenszyklus von Pflanzen. 12. Februar 2004
Kathleen Kuss (Sektion Biozönoseforschung): Räumliche und zeitliche Variabilität der Diasporenbank im Auengrünland an der Elbe. 12. Februar 2004
Dipl. Biol. Christel Ross (Sektion Biozönoseforschung): Invasionspotential von Zuchtformen einer gebietsfremden Zierpflanze: das Fallbeispiel <I>Mahonia aquifolium. </I>24. Februar 2004
Dipl. Biol. Marlene Rieger (Sektion Biozönoseforschung): Abschätzung des Invasionspotentials von Pflanzenarten: Analyse der Einführungswege und Merkmale erfolgreicher Arten. 24. Februar 2004
Dr. Brigitte Braschler (Universität Basel): Effects of experimental small-scale grassland fragmentation on the population dynamics of invertebrates. 4. März 2004
Dr. Sergey Venevsky (Japan). 4. März 2004
Dr. Kathrin Vohland (PIC - Potsdam Institute for Climatic Impact Research): 4. März 2004
Dr. Allan Spessa (Jena): Invasive species impact assessment and regional fire modelling. 5. März 2004
Dr. Thomas Metz (Italien, Rom): 5. März 2004
Dr. Florence Dubs (Frankreich, Bondy): 5. März 2004
Dipl. Biol. Oliver Bossdorf (Department Biozönoseforschung): Ecological genetics of plant invasions: a case study on <I>Alliaria petiolata</I>. 22. Juni 2004
Ulrike Mühle (Hochschule Zittau): What defines the alpha and beta diversity of the birds in the Monte desert, Argentina? 24. Juni 2004
Stefan Schröder (Hochschule Zittau): Der Europäische Hase in der Monte-Region, Argentinien: ein Konkurrent des Patagonischen Hasen? 24. Juni 2004
Holger Haase (Hochschule Zittau): Diet and habitat structure of the Burrowing Owl in the Monte Desert, Argentina. 24. Juni 2004
Dr. Bernhard Krauss (MLU Halle): Rare royals and vanishing alleles. 1. Juli 2004
Dr. Wieslaw Babik (Univ. Krakau, Poland): Phylogeography of the smooth and Montandon's newts. Multiple instances of mtDNA introgression across a species boundary. 8. Juli 2004
Dr. Pim van Hooft (Utrecht, Holland): Molecular ecology: spatial and temporal scales. 8. Juli 2004
Jennifer Williams (University of Montana, USA): Population dynamics of an invasive plant: houndstongue (Cynoglossum officinale) in its native and introduced ranges. 15. Juli 2004
Esther Gerber (CABI Bioscience, Delemont, CH): All about Ceutorhynchus scrobicollis, a weevil investigated for the biological control of garlic mustard in North America. 18. Oktober 2004
Dr. Daniel Prati(Department Biozönoseforschung): Geographical variation in resistance and tolerance in an invasive plant. 18. Oktober 2004
Dr. Jaan Liira (University of Tartu, Institute of Botany and Ecology): Forest structure and natural quality. 26. Oktober 2004