Current and finished Research Projects

• GiBBS - Biodiversity in the building material industry
• BiCO2 - Biodiversity and carbon storage along a forestry intensity gradient

• Rapid evolution in novel environment: a multispecies approach
• CopWoods - The biodiversity of traditional socio-ecological systems: Large coppiced woods in Germany
• Messengers of a changing world - the migration ecology of Asian land birds
• BALTRAK - Balancing trade-offs between agriculture and biodiversity in the steppes of Kazakhstan
• Biodiversity in Urban Grasslands
• Fit for climate change - Scientific steering and evaluation of the "Waldklimafonds" project: Fit for climate change - measures for a sustainable, near-natural adaptation of wet forests in the Münsterland to climate change
• Roads to diversity - Lifelines on sand [de]
• ESCAPE - Effects of disturbance and seed addition on plant community assembly and ecosystem functions
• STOICHIO - Land-use effects on plant–herbivore stoichiometry: micro- and macronutrients
• CANDYbog - Carbon, water and nutrient dynamics in vascular plant- vs. Sphagnum-dominated bog ecosystems in southern Patagonia
• Year-round grazing projects in Northwestern Germany
• Bog Restoration - Establishment of hummock peat mosses in rewetted cutover bogs
• Effects of grazing on calcareous grasslands in limestone querries of the Teutoburg Forest [de]
• SASCHA - Sustainable land management and adaptation strategies to climate change for the Western Siberian Grain Belt
• Steppe Ecosystems in Kazakhstan
• BioComp - Biodiversity Exploratories
• Climate Change and Biodiversity NRW