Strategic Projects
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.
Flexpool Projects
iDiv’s Flexpool is an internal funding mechanism with the main purpose of instigating integrative and innovative research and strengthening links among iDiv members. The list below shows currently funded Flexpool projects.
Postdoctoral Research Projects
EcoGlassBird – Economics of avoiding bird collisions with glass structures
Main PI: Marten Winter, iDiv, UL
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, UFZ-MLU ; Bruno Glaser, MLU
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
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
Flexpool PhD Projects
Across the South American dry diagonals: Genetic exchange and connectivity between naturally isolated ranges and fragmented habitats
Main PI: Marcus Lehnert, MLU
iAnswer: Unveiling iDiv Knowledge Can Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs combined provide answers to people’s questions?
Main PI: Birgitta König-Ries, Uni 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, UL
MACAGUT: Impact of pesticides on the gut microbiome of mammalian wildlife foraging on palm-oil plantations
Main PI: Martin von Bergen, UFZ
PrimInvasGen – Genomic analysis of human-mediated crested macaque migration: a conservation perspective
Main PI: Anja Widdig, UL, MPI-EVA
ViralWeb – Viral hotspots and fluxes across above- and belowground food webs
Main PI: Anton Potapov, SMNG
Flexpool Support Fund Projects
Urban Biodiversity: Assessing Arthropod Communities Across Urban Gradients using novel molecular methods
Main PI: María Méndez Camarena, MLU
More Projects
iDiv researchers are engaged in so many projects that the selection shown is inevitably incomplete.
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