Postdoctoral research projects:

• Future.Resto.Man - Synthesizing vulnerability to climate change for 30 grassland species as framework for future ecological restoration management, main PI: Walter Durka, UFZ
• Relating community assembly to ecosystem functioning (CAFE) across trophic levels in space and time, main PI: Anne Ebeling, Univ. of Jena
• 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
• 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
• PaDRE - Patterns and drivers of regional plant extinctions, main PI: Sonja Knapp, UFZ
• RS4BEF - Remote sensing for mapping biodiversity and ecosystem functioning revisited, main PI: Miguel Mahecha, UL
• Evofruit - Comparative genomic and macroevolutionary insights into the evolution of biotic dispersal traits, main PI: Omer Nevo, Univ. of Jena
• Ecomechanics under anthropogenic stress – Modelling motion patterns under different ecological parameters, main PI: Manuela Nowotny, Univ. of Jena
• OrthoDiv - Cryptic diversity and evolution in Orthoptera: a continent-wide perspective, main PI: Holger Schielzeth, Univ. of Jena

Flexpool Support Fund projects:

• Seed microbiome effects on the composition and diversity of organisms colonizing seedlings, main PI: Peter Dietrich, MLU
• Landscape impacts on pathogen sharing among managed and wild pollinators in Middle Germany: iPATHOS, main PI: Christophe Dominik, UFZ
• The more the merrier? Investigating the evolutionary relationship between chemodiversity and ploidy in a tropical tree genus, main PI: Jana Ebersbach, UL
• Mutualistic lizard-flower-interactions in the biodiversity hotspot Madagascar, main PI: Belinda Kahnt, MLU
• Microbiota and complete metamorphosis in insects, main PI: Christin Manthey, MPI-CE
• Monitoring large mammal community of a rewilding landscape: An eDNA metabarcoding approach, main PI: María Méndez Camarena, iDiv, BioCon, MLU
• Diversity, composition and nutritional quality of bee pollen diets in cities, main PI: Panagiotis Theodorou, MLU
• Impacts of alien species naturalization on the altitudinal gradients of pollination networks, main PI: Qiang Yang, iDiv, SIE, MLU