iDiv runs six so-called Strategic Projects across a variety of disciplines, scales and iDiv locations. Strategic Projects promote highly integrative longterm research approaches that rarely get third party funding.
iDiv-Funded Projects
The iDiv Funding (formerly iDiv Flexpool) is an internal programme with the main purpose of fostering integrative and innovative research and strengthening links among iDiv members.
The list below shows iDiv-funded projects.
Postdoctoral Research Projects
EcoGlassBird: Economics of avoiding bird collisions with glass structures
Main PI: Marten Winter (iDiv, Leipzig University)
HotSperm: Thermal effects on male reproduction and their relevance for predicting population and distributional responses to heat waves
Main PI: Claudia Fricke (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
LuCliVir: Impacts of land use and climate change on soil viromes, viral lifestyles and nutrient cycling
Main PI: Antonis Chatzinotas (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ)
MINAS: Importance of tree diversity and mycorrhization as drivers of microbial growth and necromass accumulation in soil organic carbon
Main PI: Marion Schrumpf (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg) and Bruno Glaser (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
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 (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
SYMBSIB: Symbiotic Interactions Impact to the Development and Evolution of the Siboglinid Tubeworms
Main PI: Andreas Hejnol (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
TEMNM: Trait-Environment Matching in the Neotropical Mountains ; Macroevolution and macroecology of trait environment
Main PI: Alexandra Muellner-Riehl (Leipzig University)
Doctoral Research Projects
Across the South American dry diagonals: Genetic exchange and connectivity between naturally isolated ranges and fragmented habitats
Main PI: Marcus Lehnert (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
iAnswer: Unveiling iDiv Knowledge Can Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs combined provide answers to people’s questions?
Main PI: Birgitta König-Ries (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
HYPERSOIL: Links between fine-scale HYPERspectral image data and hotspot zones of microbial biomass and diversity in forest SOIL profiles under different site conditions (Fläming, Düben Heath)
Main PI: Michael Vohland (Leipzig University)
MACAGUT: Impact of pesticides on the gut microbiome of mammalian wildlife foraging on palm-oil plantations
Main PI: Martin von Bergen (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ)
PrimInvasGen: Genomic analysis of human-mediated crested macaque migration: a conservation perspective
Main PI: Anja Widdig (Leipzig University, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
ViralWeb: Viral hotspots and fluxes across above- and belowground food webs
Main PI: Anton Potapov (Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz)
Flexpool Support Fund Projects
Urban Biodiversity: Assessing Arthropod Communities Across Urban Gradients using novel molecular methods
Main PI: María Méndez Camarena (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
More Projects
iDiv researchers are engaged in so many projects that the selection shown is inevitably incomplete.
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