Vita
Prof. Dr. Matthias Schleuning
Research group leader and Professor for Functional Ecology at Philipps-Universität Marburg Speaker of Research Field ‘Biodiversity and Climate’
matthias.schleuning@senckenberg.de
Fields of interest
Research
- Plant-animal interactions and ecological networks
- Functional diversity of ecological communities
- Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
- Pollination and seed dispersal by animals
- Nature’s contributions to people
Methods
- Observational and experimental field studies
- Functional trait measurements
- Network analyses
- Trait-based analyses and models
Study areas
- Tropical Andes
- Tropical and subtropical Africa
- Germany
Publikationen
Recent publications
Landim, A.R., Albrecht, J., Brito, J., Burneo, S., Erazo, S., Newell, F.L., Tinoco, B.A., Tschapka, M., Neuschulz, E.L., Schleuning, M. (2025). Delayed recovery of seed-dispersal interactions after deforestation. Current Biology, 35, 4794-4802.
Bianco, G., Manning, P., Schleuning, M. (2024). A quantitative framework for identifying the role of individual species in Nature’s Contributions to People. Ecology Letters, 27, e14371..
Bello, C., Schleuning, M. & Graham, C.H. (2023). Analyzing trophic ecosystem functions with the interaction functional space. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 38, 424-434.
Albrecht, J., Wappler, T., Fritz, S.A., Schleuning, M. (2023). Fossil leaves reveal drivers of herbivore functional diversity during the Cenozoic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120, e2300514120.
Schleuning, M., García, D., Tobias, J.A. (2023). Animal functional traits: Towards a trait‐based ecology for whole ecosystems. Functional Ecology, 37, 4-12.
Tobias, J.A., Sheard, C., Pigot, A.L., […], Neuschulz, E.L., […], Schleuning, M. (2022). AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds. Ecology Letters, 25, 581-597.