Sabbaticals

Stefan Bernhardt / iDiv

“I could not ask for a more enriching time at sDiv/iDiv.”

— David Currie, University of Ottawa

Stefan Bernhardt / iDiv

“My short time at iDiv was very intellectually stimulating. I particularly enjoyed discussions about the challenges encountered in research syntheses that involve large-scale data compilations.”

— Lenore Fahrig, Carleton University

Stefan Bernhardt / iDiv

“This proved to be a very productive environment for investigating questions of community change through time.”

— Malin Pinsky, Rutgers University

Stefan Bernhardt / iDiv

“The working atmosphere at sDiv/iDiv is extremely inspiring, friendly, fun, inclusive, collaborative, supportive, flexible and, exciting.”

— Angélica González, Rutgers University

Researchers on iDiv Sabbaticals help advance our mission by sharing their knowledge and engaging in our community. Both iDiv and our researchers gain from their vision, experience, and passion for biodiversity research.

The next call for projects will be launched in autumn 2025.

Contact

Stefan Bernhardt / iDiv

Luise Dietel

Event Coordinator

Phone:+49 341 9733204
Email: luise.dietel@idiv.de

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Stefan Bernhardt / iDiv

Prof W. Stanley Harpole

Chair of the Sabbatical Board

(the Sabbatical Board is a subgroup of the sDiv Board)

Phone: +49 341 9733201 (assistant)
Email: stan.harpole@idiv.de

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Current Sabbaticals

Gonzalo Rivas-Torres

Universidad San Francisco de Quito

Project: Monitoring Amazonian Trees: A Collaborative, Technology-Driven Approach to Assess Tropical Forest Ecosystem Dynamics.

Hosted by M. Mahecha, H. Feilhauer and sDiv

Selene Escobar Ramírez

Universidad San Francisco de Quito

Project: Ant Diversity and Interactions in the Galápagos: Unveiling the Ecological Impacts of Non-Native Species

Hosted by O. Schweiger, R. van Klink

Miguel Araújo

Spanish National Research Council

Project: Trophic Rewilding Under Climate Change

Hosted by H. Pereira

Past Sabbaticals

Name	Affiliation	Research Project	Year	Report
Priyanga Amarasekare	University of California Los Angeles	A framework for biodiversity maintenance: scaling up from modules to communities	2018
Meghan Avolio		Investigating the repeatability of global change field experiments	2023
Stephanie Bohlman	University of Florida	Linking biodiversity and demography through remote sensing of trait tradeoffs	2019
Cynthia Chang	University of Washington	Placing ecological succession in applied global change and restoration context	2022	Download (PDF)
Douglas Chesters	Chinese Academy of Sciences	Phylogenetic integration of insect community data	2019	Download (PDF)
Sandra Cuartas	Universidad de Antiquia, Medellin, Colombia	Meta-networks of species diversity and community pollination in the Andes of Colombia	2023	Download (PDF)
David Currie	University of Ottawa	A continental theory of biogeography: predicting geographic variation in species richness and range size	2016	Download (PDF)
Rodolfo Dirzo	Stanford University	Research on plant-herbivore interactions under climate change and collaborations on biodiversity science	2017
Robert Dunn	North Carolina State University	The Global Biogeography of Microbes and Mutualists Associated with Humans	2017
Lenore Fahrig	Carleton University	Dissecting SLOSS: Why are there more species in several small than few large patches?	2020	Download (PDF)
Benjamin Gilbert	University of Toronto	Project 1 – Neutrality, Demographic stochasticity and ecological drift Project 2 – Local interactions, Regional constraints, and multiple stable states	2017	Download (PDF)
Angélica González	Rutgers University	Understanding the interactive effects of temperature and nutrients on ecological processes: a meta-analysis	2018	Download (PDF)
Erik Hom	University of Mississippi	Of Sloths and Franken-Lichens: Elucidating the Biodiversity, Chemical Ecology, and Physiology of Algal Polycultures	2021
Christopher Klausmeier	Michigan State University	Synthesizing Trait-Based Ecological Theory	2019
Jeremy Lichstein	University of Florida	Plant functional diversity and forest ecosystem stability: insights from dynamic vegetation models	2018
Elena Litchman	Michigan State University	Trait-based community patterns in microbes	2019	Download (PDF)
Laura Lopez-Hoffman	University of Arizona	Governing biodiversity across space: Discovering principles of sustainability and equity for telecoupled social-environmental systems	2022
Fernando T. Maestre	Universidad Rey Juan Carlos	Climate change impacts on dryland soil biodiversity and associated ecosystem functions from local to global scales	2018, 2019, 2022	Download (PDF)
Angela Peace	Texas Tech	Structured Population Dynamics Subject to Stoichiometric Constraints	2022	Download (PDF)
Roxibell Pelayo Escalona	Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela	Ecological networks along altitudinal gradients in the Páramos in Venezuela	2023
George Perry	University of Auckland	Reconstructing movement and emergent ecological functions for extinct animals	2019
Malin Pinski	Rutgers University	Community response to changing temperatures across marine, freshwater, and terrestrial realms	2020	Download (PDF)
Patti Vitt	Chicago Botanic Garden	Phylogenetic Endemism, Functional Trait Diversity and Conservation Status in the Orchidaceae: a Global Synthesis	2018

Testimonials

Forest ecologist Jeremy Lichstein reflects on his iDiv sabbatical

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