Vita
Prof. Dr. Matthias Schleuning
Arbeitsgruppenleiter und Professor für Funktionelle Ökologie an der Philipps-Universität Marburg, Sprecher des Forschungsbereichs ‘Biodiversität und Klima’
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
Rabeau, A.J.C, Pigot, A.L., Tobias, J.A., Schleuning, M. (2026). Projected Impacts of Climate Change on Interactions Between Plants and Avian Frugivores Across the Americas. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 35, e70271.
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.
Schleuning, M., García, D., Tobias, J.A. (2023). Animal functional traits: Towards a trait‐based ecology for whole ecosystems. Functional Ecology, 37, 4-12.