In 1959, GE Hutchinson posed one of ecology’s most important and enduring questions: Why are there so many species? Answers to this question have a new urgency because of human-driven environmental change. New questions we address are: how will multiple environmental changes affect species diversity, and what are the consequences of losing species for ecosystems? How do the numbers and types of environmental change factors (nutrients, water, temperature, toxins, etc.) depend on each other, and what minimum level of complexity do we need to understand in order to predict species loss?
Contact and Team
All team members
Head of Research Group
Prof Dr Stan Harpole
Phone: +49 341 973 3171
Email: stan.harpole@idiv.de
Skype: stan.harpole
Administrative Assistant
Juliane Smith
Email: juliane.smith@idiv.de
Phone: +49 341 9733201
Postal address
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
Puschstrasse 4
04103 Leipzig
Germany
Affiliation
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
