Research

Land use and climate change in Mongolian drylands

Biogeographical analysis of flora and vegetation of southern Mongolian drylands

MORE STEP – Mobility at risk: Sustaining the Mongolian Steppe Ecosystem

Population genetics and evolutionary biology of two key dryland species: Artemisia frigida Willd and A. scoparia Waldst. & Kit. (Anthemideae, Asteraceae) 

• Oyundelger Khurelpurev (PhD student)

Finished Projects:

Responses of plant performance and functional diversity along a climate and land use gradient in Mongolia

University Partnership Mongolia – Capacity building to improve research and teaching facilities in Mongolia 

WATERCOPE – Supporting national research capacity and policy development to cope with dwindling water resources and intensifying land use in the transborder Altay-Dzungarian region of Mongolia and China

Extrazonal steppes of northern Siberia

Finished Projects:

The end of the Pleistocene tundra steppe – interactions between vegetation, climate and large herbivores in Beringia during the late Quaternary

Steppe fragments in the agricultural belt of southern Siberia

Finished Project:

Kulunda – how to prevent the next dust bowl

Land use effects in Chinese steppes and Tibetan high altitude grasslands

Virtual encyclopedia of the steppes (China)

Finished Projects:

Kobresia Ecosystem Monitoring Area (KEMA) – Effects of grazing exclusion on biodiversity and matter fluxes of alpine mats in Tibet

Pasture Development Monitoring System (PaDeMoS) – Bioindikationssystem zur Bewertung von Beweidungseinflüssen im tibetischen Hochland

Flora of Germany

Rothmaler Field Flora of Germany

Identification of critical taxa of the Flora of Germany

Chromosomes database for the Flora of Germany

Virtual herbarium of Lusatia

FloraWebPLUS

New approaches to collection-based research

Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DISSCO)

FunSpec

Finished Projects:

Development of digitalization standards for capturing leaf venation from herbarium specimens using microradiography

Biodiversity in cultural landscapes of Central Europe

Integrative Analysis of the influence of pesticides and land use on biodiversity in Germany (INPEDIV)

Finished Projects:

• Ex-situ conservation – Comparison of reproductive traits and population genetics of wild and garden populations of selected arable plants
• BioChange Germany – Losses (and gains) in diversity of northern German agricultural landscapes over the last 5 decades
• Invasionbiology of Rosa rubiginosa: comparative analysis in native ranges of Central Europe and in invasive ranges of Argentina