Katja Irob: Impacts of wildlife management on ecohydrological feedbacks in a Namibian savannah system

Felix Wesener: Priming in fungi - towards understanding priming at the level of the community

Sebastian Fiedler: Ecosystem services through restoration: Improving restoration outcomes through trait-based modelling

Hagen Ritter: Modelling interactions between above- and belowground communities in grassland systems

Jianshuang Wu: Effects of grazing and functional trait diversity on productivity of alpine grasslands along environmental gradients across the Northern Tibetan Plateau

Jannis Weil: Effects of grazing and functional trait diversity on productivity of alpine grasslands along environmental gradients across the Northern Tibetan Plateau

Jonas Roth: Ecosystem services through restoration: Improving restoration outcomes through trait-based modelling

Katharina Ziegler: Simulating root architecture of grassland species

Oksana Buzhdygan: Using trophic network analysis to reveal impacts of plant diversity loss on above- and below-ground functions and ecosystem stability

Yvonne Buchholz

Sebastian Hausmann: Interactions of pollinators and nectar-occupying yeast communities stabilize coexistence in meta-communities in dynamic agricultural landscapes. (together with Prof. Dr. Rillig)

José A. F. Monteiro: Ecosystem services through restoration: Improving restoration outcomes through trait-based modelling (DFG funded project)

Andreas Meltl: Modelling the impact of the invasive American Mink on seabird populations in Iceland

Hanna Weise: Ecosystem resilience towards climate change – the role of interacting buffer mechanisms in Mediterranean-type ecosystems (DFG funded project)

Cornelis Savelsberg

Marie-Sophie Rohwäder: Research in databases for literature and plant traits and statistical evaluation of the traits and other vegetation data

Tong Guo: The role of diversity in savannas: modelling plant functional diversity and its effects on ecosystem functioning

Maximilian Windolf: Processing and analysis of geospatial data

Maik Billing: Developing a rain generator producing stochastic precipitation time series

Camille Guilbaud: Predicting the fate of a community from initial conditions and the structure of the metacommunity

Alexis Synodinos: Impact of fire and herbivory on vegetation dynamics in a savanna system (at University of Potsdam, together with Prof. Dr. Jeltsch)

Istem Fer: Transient vegetation dynamics under paleoclimatic changes in the complex topography of the East African rift system (at University of Potsdam, together with Prof. Dr. Jeltsch)

2015 – 2016

Lena Elisa Dressler: Database research on savanna plant traits (within the OPTIMASS project)

2016

Gabriel Follin-Arbelet: Extending EcoHyD by a third soil layer to assess groundwater recharge

2015/2016

Susanne Zander: Developing a rain generator for the Eneabba region

2011 – 2013

Dirk Lohmann: Sustainable management of a semi-arid savanna under climate change (at University of Potsdam, together with Prof. Dr. Jeltsch)

PhD