Alumni
2019-2022 |
Katja Irob: Impacts of wildlife management on ecohydrological feedbacks in a Namibian savannah system |
PhD |
2016-2021 |
Wesener Felix: Priming in fungi - towards understanding priming at the level of the community |
WiMi, PhD |
2014-2021 |
Sebastian Fiedler: Ecosystem services through restoration: Improving restoration outcomes through trait-based modelling |
WiMi, PhD |
2020-2021 |
Hagen Ritter: Modelling interactions between above- and belowground communities in grassland systems |
WiMi |
2017-2019 |
Jianshuang Wu: Effects of grazing and functional trait diversity on productivity of alpine grasslands along environmental gradients across the Northern Tibetan Plateau |
PostDoc |
2019-2020 |
Yari Alexa Osenberg: Modelling of Common Eider populations in Iceland |
MSc |
2018-2020 |
Madlen Seliger: Effect of land use and soil textures on water fluxes in a Mediterranean-type ecosystem |
MSc |
2018-2020 |
Jannis Weil: Effects of grazing and functional trait diversity on productivity of alpine grasslands along environmental gradients across the Northern Tibetan Plateau |
SHK |
2018-2020 |
Nataša Sredić: Effect of memory duration and costs on microbial priming |
MSc |
2018/2019 |
Jonas Roth: Ecosystem services through restoration: Improving restoration outcomes through trait-based modelling |
SHK |
2017-2019 |
Katharina Ziegler: Simulating root architecture of grassland species |
SHK |
2019/2020 |
Joscha Krahl: Priming in fungi – towards understanding priming at the level of the community |
MSc |
2015-2019 |
Oksana Buzhdygan: Using trophic network analysis to reveal impacts of plant diversity loss on above- and below-ground functions and ecosystem stability. |
PostDoc |
2018/2019 |
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 |
MSc |
2016-2019 |
Yvonne Buchholz: |
WiMi |
Sebastian Hausmann: Interactions of pollinators and nectar-occupying yeast communities stabilize coexistence in meta-communities in dynamic agricultural landscapes. (together with Prof. Dr. Rillig) |
PhD | |
2018 |
Katja Irob: Human and environmental impact on shallow-water populations of the western rock lobster, Panulirus cygnus, at Rottnest Island, Western Australia |
MSc |
2018 |
Julia Assmann: The role of plant functional diversity for water cycling in a Mediterranean-type ecosystem |
MSc |
2016-2018 |
José A. F. Monteiro: Ecosystem services through restoration: Improving restoration outcomes through trait-based modelling (DFG funded project) |
PostDoc |
2017/2018 |
Andreas Meltl: Modelling the impact of the invasive American Mink on seabird populations in Iceland |
MSc |
2015-2018 |
Hanna Weise: Ecosystem resilience towards climate change – the role of interacting buffer mechanisms in Mediterranean-type ecosystems (DFG funded project) |
PostDoc |
2017/2018 |
Cornelis Savelsberg |
SHK |
2017 |
Julia Henzler: Simulating the Interval Squeeze: Analyzing combined effects of changing fire-interval and more dry years on plant populations in Mediterranean-type Ecosystems |
MSc |
2017 |
Marie-Sophie Rohwäder: Research in databases for literature and plant traits and statistical evaluation of the traits and other vegetation data |
SHK |
2016/2017 |
Stefanie Maß: Modelling the effect of different mycorrhizal fungi growth-strategies on plant-soil-feedback mechanisms dependent on nitrogen availability |
MSc |
2017 |
Emilia Sinkeviciute: Die Flächenänderung des tropischen Regenwaldes im Amazonasbecken aufgrund klimatischer Veränderungen. |
BSc |
2012 – 2017 |
Tong Guo: The role of diversity in savannas: modelling plant functional diversity and its effects on ecosystem functioning |
PhD |
2017 |
Maximilian Windolf: Processing and analysis of geospatial data |
SHK |
2016/2017 |
Katharina Ziegler: Impact of livestock grazing on savannah vegetation around water points:a simulation study on the emergence of piospheres |
MSc |
2016/2017 |
Maik Billing: Developing a rain generator producing stochastic precipitation time series |
SHK |
2015 – 2016 |
Camille Guilbaud: Predicting the fate of a community from initial conditions and the structure of the metacommunity |
PostDoc |
2015/2016 |
Lisa Braun: Resistenz gegen Antikoagulantien in Rattus norvegicus: Entwicklung eines Individuenbasierten Modells (toegther with Dr. Alexandra Esther, Julius Kühn-Institut, Quedlinburg) |
MSc |
2011 – 2016 |
Alexis Synodinos: Impact of fire and herbivory on vegetation dynamics in a savanna system (at University of Potsdam, together with Prof. Dr. Jeltsch) |
PhD |
2011 – 2016 |
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) |
PhD |
2015/2016 |
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 |
MSc |
2015 – 2016 |
Lena Elisa Dressler: Database research on savanna plant traits (within the OPTIMASS project) |
SHK |
2016 |
Gabriel Follin-Arbelet: Extending EcoHyD by a third soil layer to assess groundwater recharge |
Internship |
2015/2016 |
Susanne Zander: Developing a rain generator for the Eneabba region |
SHK |
2015/2016 |
Selina Baldauf: Coupled modelling of erosion risk in savanna ecosystems: Abiotic vs. biotic controls (Master student from Karlsruhe) |
MSc, SHK |
2015/2016 |
Yvonne Buchholz: Integrating ecohydrological feedback mechanisms to assess water availability under a single plant |
MSc |
2015 |
Susanne Zander: Trait-based modelling of vegetation dynamics in a Mediterranean-type landscape |
BSc |
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) |
MSc |
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 |