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

Future.Resto.Man – Synthesizing vulnerability to climate change for 30 grassland species as framework for future ecological restoration management

Main PI: Walter Durka, UFZ


Relating community assembly to ecosystem functioning (CAFE) across trophic levels in space and time

Main PI: Anne Ebeling, Univ. of Jena


BioACT – Act local and notice the impact: The emergence of personal and collective efficacy beliefs in biodiversity conservation

Main PI: Immo Fritsche, UL


BioSpec – Biological speciation revisited using the high Andean tree genus Polylepis (Rosaceae) as a model

Main PI: Isabell Hensen, MLU


ProtistQuant – Hidden key players in trophic interactions: combining metabarcoding and multispectral imaging flow cytometry for quantitification of protists

Main PI: Martina Herrmann, Univ. of Jena


PaDRE – Patterns and drivers of regional plant extinctions

Main PI: Sonja Knapp, UFZ


RS4BEF – Remote sensing for mapping biodiversity and ecosystem functioning revisited

Main PI: Miguel Mahecha, UL


Evofruit – Comparative genomic and macroevolutionary insights into the evolution of biotic dispersal traits

Main PI: Omer Nevo, Univ. of Jena


Ecomechanics under anthropogenic stress – Modelling motion patterns under different ecological parameters

Main PI: Manuela Nowotny, Univ. of Jena


Flexpool Support Fund Projects

Seed microbiome effects on the composition and diversity of organisms colonizing seedlings

Main PI: Peter Dietrich, MLU


Landscape impacts on pathogen sharing among managed and wild pollinators in Middle Germany: iPATHOS

Main PI: Christophe Dominik, UFZ


The more the merrier? Investigating the evolutionary relationship between chemodiversity and ploidy in a tropical tree genus

Main PI: Jana Ebersbach, UL


Mutualistic lizard-flower-interactions in the biodiversity hotspot Madagascar

Main PI: Belinda Kahnt, MLU


Microbiota and complete metamorphosis in insects

Main PI: Christin Manthey, MPI-CE


Monitoring large mammal community of a rewilding landscape: An eDNA metabarcoding approach

Main PI: María Méndez Camarena, iDiv, BioCon, MLU


Diversity, composition and nutritional quality of bee pollen diets in cities

Main PI: Panagiotis Theodorou, MLU


Impacts of alien species naturalization on the altitudinal gradients of pollination networks

Main PI: Qiang Yang, iDiv, SIE, MLU



More Projects

iDiv researchers are engaged in so many projects that the selection shown is inevitably incomplete.

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