Projects

The Ecosystem Resilience Group is active in research projects at regional, national and international level. Here is an overview of ongoing and completed projects.

TitleProject staffFundingPeriod

BEClimWood-Bugs - Effects of climate and land use on arthropod biodiversity in deadwood

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Effects of climate and land use on arthropod biodiversity in deadwood – Biodiversity Exploratories

Stella Wimmer DFG2026-2029
FinalCut - Understanding the variability in deadwood decomposition and organismic diversity in the BELongDead deadwood logs after 17 years of decay  DFG2026-2029

Reconfiguration of detrital food-webs due to forest conversion across the globe: implications for decomposition in a changing climate 

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Dr. Bin TuoHumboldt Fellowship2026-2028

BIOCOMP - Consequences of global biodiversity loss and climate change for decomposer communities and implications for forest carbon fluxes 

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BIOCOMP

Dr. Shamik Roy, Dr. Denis Mburu NjorogeERC2023-2028

SafeNet - Safeguarding biodiversity and carbon-rich forest networks in Europe

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Home - SafeNet

Dr. Jia-Yun ZouHorizon Europe2025-2028
LabForest - Reallabor Universitätsforst für nachhaltiges Verjüngungsmanagement im Klimawandel  BMFTR2024-2027

CaFoDec - Impacts of canopy openness and forest management intensity on decomposition processes and decomposer communities 

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Effects of canopy opennes and forest management intensity on decomposition rate and decomposer communities of different types of necromass – Biodiversity Exploratories

Marit HertleinDFG2023-2026
    
Completed projects   
Interact - Effects of climate on interactions between wood-decomposing microbes and insects at a global scale DFG2023-2025