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Core Professorships

iDiv hosts twelve research groups in Leipzig; nine are led by senior scientists.

Biodiversity and People

led by Prof Aletta Bonn

Our research focuses on the emerging field of ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation in a changing world.

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Biodiversity Conservation

led by Prof Henrique M. Pereira

Our research aims at understanding the patterns and processes of global biodiversity change, with the goal of informing environmental policy and management of ecosystems.

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Biodiversity Economics

led by Prof Martin Quaas

We aim at improving the scientific basis for establishing sustainability in human-nature relationships.

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Biodiversity in the Anthropocene

led by Prof Susanne Fritz

We investigate how biological diversity in species and their traits is distributed across the world today, and how it has evolved through geological history.

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Biodiversity Synthesis

led by Prof Jonathan Chase

Our overarching research mission aims to develop a cohesive framework for understanding the patterns of biodiversity, its heterogeneous distribution across multiple scales, and the underlying ecological drivers that influence those patterns.

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Experimental Interaction Ecology

led by Prof Nico Eisenhauer

We aim to embrace the complexity of terrestrial ecosystems by considering interactions among organisms above and below the ground and within and across trophic levels.

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Physiological Diversity

led by Prof Stan Harpole

We focus on species coexistence in a changing world.

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Species Interaction Ecology

led by Prof Tiffany Knight

We strive to understand how human mediated environmental changes are influencing plant population dynamics, plant-animal interactions and community patterns at multiple spatial scales.

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Theory in Biodiversity Science

led by Prof Ulrich Brose

We strive to understand how human-mediated environmental changes influence plant population dynamics, plant-animal interactions and community patterns at multiple spatial scales.

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