Forschungsprojekte

Der iDiv-Flexpool ist ein interner Finanzierungsmechanismus mit dem Ziel, integrative und innovative Forschung anzuregen und die Zusammenarbeit zwischen den iDiv-Mitgliedern zu stärken. Die folgende Liste zeigt die derzeit geförderten Flexpool-Projekte.

A Window to the Past – The Use of Archive Data for Collecting Baseline Information on Biodiversity

Main PI: Markus Bernhard-Römermann, Univ. of Jena ; Patrick Mäder, TU Ilmenau

A spatial framework to assess cultural and intrinsic values of Nature for conservation planning and scenarios

Main PI: Néstor Fernández, MLU

BioACT – Act local and notice the impact: The emergence of personal and collective efficacy beliefs in biodiversity conservation

Main PI: Immo Fritsche, UL

BioSpec – Biological speciation revisited using the high Andean tree genus Polylepis (Rosaceae) as a model

Main PI: Isabell Hensen, MLU ; Alexandra-Muellner-Riehl, UL

Disease transmission in insect societies

Main PI: Yuko Ulrich, MPI-CE ; Robert Paxton, MLU

EcoGlassBird – Economics of avoiding bird collisions with glass structures

Main PI:  Marten Winter, iDiv, UL

Ecomechanics under anthropogenic stress – Modelling motion patterns under different ecological parameters

Main PI: Manuela Nowotny, Univ. of Jena

Evofruit – Comparative genomic and macroevolutionary insights into the evolution of biotic dispersal traits

Main PI: Omer Nevo, Univ. of Jena

Future.Resto.Man – Synthesizing vulnerability to climate change for 30 grassland species as framework for future ecological restoration management

Main PI: Walter Durka, UFZ

HotSperm: Thermal effects on male reproduction and their relevance for predicting population and distributional responses to heat waves

Main PI: Claudia Fricke, MLU

LuCliVir: Impacts of land use and climate change on soil viromes, viral lifestyles and nutrient cycling

Main PI: Antonis Chatzinotas, UFZ

MINAS: Importance of tree diversity and mycorrhization as drivers of microbial growth and necromass accumulation in soil organic carbon

Main PI: Marion Schrumpf, MPI-BGC ; Bruno Glaser, MLU

OrthoDiv: Cryptic diversity and evolution in Orthoptera: A continent-wide perspective

Main PI: Holger Schielzeth, Univ. of Jena

PaDRE – Patterns and drivers of regional plant extinctions

Main PI: Sonja Knapp, UFZ

PhenEye – Having an eye on the fingerprint of global change: observing phenology using automated monitoring

Main PI: Christine Römermann, Univ. of Jena

PrioDiv: Prioritising biodiversity in decision-making: understanding information processing in the context of multiple crises and dynamic data using experiments and text analysis

Main PI: Ilkholm Soliev, MLU

ProtistQuant – Hidden key players in trophic interactions: combining metabarcoding and multispectral imaging flow cytometry for quantitification of protists

Main PI: Martina Herrmann, Univ. of Jena

Relating community assembly to ecosystem functioning (CAFE) across trophic levels in space and time

Main PI: Anne Ebeling, Univ. of Jena

RS4BEF – Remote sensing for mapping biodiversity and ecosystem functioning revisited

Main PI: Miguel Mahecha, UL

SYMBSIB: Symbiotic Interactions Impact to the Development and Evolution of the Siboglinid Tubeworms

Main PI: Andreas Hejnol, Univ. of Jena

TEMNM: Trait-Environment Matching in the Neotropical Mountains ; Macroevolution and macroecology of trait environment

Main PI: Alexandra Muellner-Riehl, UL

Towards a comprehensive National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP) for Nigeria

Main PI: Alexandra Muellner-Riehl, UL

Testing machine learning approaches for species delimitation in taxonomically complex groups

Main PI: Jana Ebersbach, UL

ABBE – Linking ABove- and BElowground Phenology in Perennial Herbaceous Species

Main PI: Robert Rauschkolb, Uni Jena

Urban Biodiversity: Assessing Arthropod Communities Across Urban Gradients using novel molecular methods

Main PI: María Méndez Camarena, MLU