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Group members
The following people currently build the research group:
Group leader
Secretary
N.N.
Researchers
- MSc Lukas Flinspach (PhD student)
- MSc Diana Jiménez (PhD student)
- MSc Nishtha Prakash (PhD student)
- Dr. Lirey Ramirez (postdoc & lecturer)
Guest researchers
- Dr. Lee Ping Ang (Main affiliation: Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden)
- Dr. Xiangbo Yin (Main affiliation: Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden)
Technical Assistant
Former group members:
Dr. Nada Nikolic: former PhD student. Current affiliation: University of La Réunion
Dr. João P. Costa Elias: former visiting PhD student (2020-2022), epiphyte biogeography. Current affiliation: Universidade Federal de Alfenas
Dr. Glenda Mendieta Leiva: former post-doc and lecturer (2015-2023), ecology and diversity of vascular epiphytes. Current affiliation: University of Marburg, Department of Biology, Biodiversity of Plants.
Dr. Monica B. Berdugo Moreno: former post-doc (2019-2023), epiphytic bryophytes. Current affiliation: University of Marburg, Department of Biology, Plant Ecology and Geobotany.
MSc Elodie Moureau: researcher (2016-2020), rainforest bryophytes. Current occupation: School teacher, France.
Dr. Rafaella Canessa: former PhD student (2016-2021), plant functional ecology. Current affiliation: Biodiversity Research, University of Halle.
Dr. Eyvar E. Rodríguez Quiel: former PhD student (2016-2020), tropical bryophytes. Current affiliation: UCH Herbarium, Universidad Autónoma de Chiriquí, República de Panamá.
Dr. Anna Mezaka: former post-doc (2016-2019), epiphyll dynamics in a tropical rain forest. Current affiliation: Daugavpils University.
Dr. Francisco E. Méndez Castro: former post-doc (2016-2019), island biogeography of spiders in epiphytes and in vegetation islands at alpine treeline. Current affiliation: Phytopathology, KWS group
Dr. Diana Gómez: former PhD student, epiphyte ecology and hydrology in a tropical montane forest, graduated in Oldenburg, 2017. Current affiliation: Universidad Autónoma de Chiriquí, República de Panamá.
Dr. Zhe Wang: former post-doc (2015-2017), moss ecophysiology. Current affiliation: Shanghai Normal University
Dr. Hannah Loranger: former PhD student, tree regeneration at the alpine treeline, graduated in Oldenburg, 2016. Current occupation: permaculture consultant.
Dr. Carolina García: former PhD student, facilitation effects on high-Andean cushion plants, graduated in Concepción (Chile), 2016. Current affiliation: GLORIA project, BOKU, Vienna