Eleonore Slabbert

Research interests

Conservation ecologist with an keen interest in socio-ecological systems, community based natural resource management and different fields related to sustainable land management.

My PhD current research aimed to address knowledge gaps in understanding how land management impacts above- and belowground biodiversity. Investigating the scale-dependent and mechanistic impact of land use on multiple trophic groups for advancing multifunctionality within agroecosystems. The focus across the soil interface make this work especially interesting and novel. 

Projects / Collaborations

Terrestrail Environmental Observatories (TERENO) :

During my PhD I worked with the monitoring data from the Harz/Central Germany sites, collaborating with colleagues across the soil interface. We aimed to synthesis some of the datasets of above- and belowground taxa groups so as to gain a more holistic understanding of how agro-ecosystems are shaped by proportionally by biotic and abiotic factors.

Spatial Interaction Ecology (iDiv) Department of Community Ecology :  

PhD researcher was completed with support from Prof. Dr. Tiffany Knight and the Spatial Interaction Ecology working group. As well as Oliver Schweiger as Project Instigator, and other colleagues at the Department for Community Ecology.

Currently working within the SPRING project as part of the regional coordination team for the Central European region overseeing piloting of the monitoring scheme and supporting development of taxonomic trainings. 

Curriculum Vita & Scientific Career