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Join the lab!
Interested students are welcome to participate in the research conducted in our lab throughout the year. Open PhD and Postdoc positions will be announced at this page. We offer different topics for bachelor and master theses and also welcome your ideas and suggestions for other thesis topics. Please find a selection of topics listed or request further topics by contacting Prof. Nico Eisenhauer or Dr. Simone Cesarz.
Hiwi positions
Wir suchen eine studentische Hilfskraft für ein weitereichendes Aufgabengebiet. Neben Laborarbeiten (Proben sieben, mikrobielle Respirationsanalyse, Zählen von Nematoden), über Feldarbeiten (Probenahme in Wald und Grassländern), sollen auch organisatorische Aufgaben übernommen werden (Dateneingabe, Mitentwicklung eines verbesserten Probenarchivs, Archivierung/Sortieren von Proben) und teils kleine handwerkliche Arbeiten durchgeführt werden (Bauen von Mesokosmen und Einsätzen für die Tierextraktion).
Mehr Infos gibt's im PDF
We offer 2 MSc projects (2021/2022) together with 2 HiWi (student helper) positions (initially 15 h / week, 6 months, ideally starting in April) as part of an iDiv Ecotron experiment investigating joint effects of climate and
predation on above-belowground forest ecosystems. Ideally, candidates will support the experiment as student helpers (HiWi) and adopt one of the advertized thesis projects for their MSc.
Please see PDF for more info and contact Malte Jochum if you are interested.
Bachelor theses
We offer many topics for bachelor and master theses in our working group. Finding the right topic is not easy and we are happy to introduce our topics to you in more detail or discuss further ideas.
Title: Coupling the European Vegetation Archive with European soil samples
Contact: Carlos Guerra
PDF with details
Title: Using GBIF and EDAPHOBASE data to predict the distribution of soil biodiversity
Contact: Carlos Guerra
PDF with details
Title: Effects of tree dissimilarity on microbial biomass and respiration
Contact: Rémy Beugnon
Related project:Tree Dì (BEF-China)
PDF with details
Title: European Patterns of Soil Multifunctionality
Contact: Carlos Guerra
Related project: LUCAS Soil Ecosystem Functions
PDF with details
Title: Above-belowground interactions in the context of biological invasions
Contact: Lise Thouvenot
Related project:Ecoworm
PDF with details
Title: Bottom-up and top-down forces of herbivory in a tree diversity experiment
Contact: Olga Ferlian
Related project: MyDiv
PDF with more details
Title: Impacts of earthworm invasion on above- and belowground invertebrate communities in North American forest ecosystems
Contact:Malte Jochum
Related project: Ecoworm
PDF with more details
Title: Exploring length-dry body mass regressions and the relationship between dry and fresh body mass for temperate arthropods
Contact:Malte Jochum
Related project: NA
PDF with more details
Master theses
We offer many topics for bachelor and master theses in our working group. Finding the right topic is not easy and we are happy to introduce our topics to you in more detail or discuss further ideas.
Title: Using GBIF and EDAPHOBASE data to predict the distribution of soil biodiversity
Contact: Carlos Guerra
PDF with details
Title: Effects of tree dissimilarity on microbial biomass and respiration
Contact: Rémy Beugnon
Related project:Tree Dì (BEF-China)
PDF with details
Title: Above-belowground interactions in the context of biological invasions
Contact: Lise Thouvenot
Related project:Ecoworm
PDF with details
Title: European Patterns of Soil Multifunctionality
Contact: Carlos Guerra
Related project: LUCAS Soil Ecosystem Functions
PDF with details
Title: Impacts of earthworm invasion on above- and belowground invertebrate communities in North American forest ecosystems
Contact: Malte Jochum
Related project: Ecoworm
PDF with more details
Title: Bottom-up and top-down forces of herbivory in a tree diversity experiment
Contact: Olga Ferlian
Related project: MyDiv
PDF with more details
Title: Exploring length-dry body mass regressions and the relationship between dry and fresh body mass for temperate arthropods
Contact:Malte Jochum
PDF with more details
Title: Effects of nutrient enrichment and top-predator size structure on energy flux in a marine benthic community
Contact:Malte Jochum
PDF with details
Internships
Students can visit our lab to perform internships at any time. Interns can learn a multitude of methods in ecology with particular focus on soil ecology. Interns can learn how to ask scientific questions, to design respective experiments, to conduct experiments in the field or in the lab, and to analyze the data with statistical methods. Please send applications to Dr. Simone Cesarz.
