Wesener Felix: 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

Yari Alexa Osenberg: Modelling of Common Eider populations in Iceland

Madlen Seliger: Effect of land use and soil textures on water fluxes in a Mediterranean-type ecosystem

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

Nataša Sredić: Effect of memory duration and costs on microbial priming

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

Katharina Ziegler: Simulating root architecture of grassland species

Joscha Krahl: Priming in fungi – towards understanding priming at the level of the community

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

Jarno Asmus: Biological Soil Crusts and Climate Change: Analysing the Effects of Drought and Heat on Biological Soil Crusts in Central Spain with a Process-Based Model

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)

Katja Irob: Human and environmental impact on shallow-water populations of the western rock lobster, Panulirus cygnus, at Rottnest Island, Western Australia

Julia Assmann: The role of plant functional diversity for water cycling in a Mediterranean-type ecosystem

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

Julia Henzler: Simulating the Interval Squeeze: Analyzing combined effects of changing fire-interval and more dry years on plant populations in Mediterranean-type Ecosystems

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

Stefanie Maß: Modelling the effect of different mycorrhizal fungi growth-strategies on plant-soil-feedback mechanisms dependent on nitrogen availability

Emilia Sinkeviciute: Die Flächenänderung des tropischen Regenwaldes im Amazonasbecken aufgrund klimatischer Veränderungen.

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

Katharina Ziegler: Impact of livestock grazing on savannah vegetation around water points:a simulation study on the emergence of piospheres

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

Lisa Braun: Resistenz gegen Antikoagulantien in Rattus norvegicus: Entwicklung eines Individuenbasierten Modells (toegther with Dr. Alexandra Esther, Julius Kühn-Institut, Quedlinburg) 

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)

Liubov Zakharova: Using ecohydrological plant traits to model and predict the impact of altered precipitation patterns on the performance of individual plants in warm drylands

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

2015/2016

Selina Baldauf: Coupled modelling of erosion risk in savanna ecosystems: Abiotic vs. biotic controls (Master student from Karlsruhe)

2015/2016

Yvonne Buchholz: Integrating ecohydrological feedback mechanisms to assess water availability under a single plant

2015

Susanne Zander: Trait-based modelling of vegetation dynamics in a Mediterranean-type landscape

2015

Firdevs Akgül: Impact of vegetation representation on socio-ecological assessments of biofuel production

BSc

2015

Nina Berndt: The impact of savanna stability on ecosystem productivity (Master student from LMU München)

MSc

2014/2015

Thomas Piernicke: Are future vegetation changes imposed by climate change stabilizing or destabilizing soil water conditions? (in cooperation with the Dryland Ecohydrology Group of the USGS)

2014/2015

Melanie Malchow: Plants as ecosystem engineers - the impact of plant morphology on local water distribution (together with Dr. van Schaik, University of Potsdam)

MSc

2014/2015

Philibert Pinkert: Effects of soil texture and precipitation intensity on the local water and vegetation heterogeneity in savannas

BSc

2014

Klarissa Lipowski: Effects of stress on the community structure of nectar yeasts (together with Dr. Wehner)

BSc

2014

Erik Faltin: A survey of trait-based approaches to assess the provision of multiple ecosystem services in Mediterranean-type landscapes

BSc

2011 – 2013

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

PhD

2013

Anna Maria Wolf: Stabilising and destabilising effects of a phytotelm ecosystem - A simulation study (together with Prof. Dr. Petermann)

BSc

2012

Thomas Piernicke: Modellierung der räumlichen Wasserverfügbarkeit in einer mediterranen Dünenlandschaft Westaustraliens

BSc

2012

Martin Pluta: Impacts of an increased atmospheric CO₂ level on vegetation composition and hydrological processes in a savanna system

BSc