Research

At a glance

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  H2020 Forgenius | Improving access to FORest GENetic resources Information and services for end-USers

  The EU-funded FORGENIUS will characterize Forest Genetic Resources presently existing in 35 European countries by using state-of-the-art indices ranging from genomics and phenotyping to remote sensing and predictive models.

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  LOEWE Nature 4.0 | Comprehensive nature conservation monitoring through networked sensors and integrated data analysis

  Nature 4.0 develops a prototype of a sensor based monitoring system of interaction networks in forests. My working group focuses on the sensor-based phenotyping of trees such as the quantification of their primary production including fruit production,

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  H2020 EpiDiverse | Epigenetic Diversity in Ecology, European Training Network (ETN)

  EpiDiverse will train a new generation of multidisciplinary epigenetic experts capable of using, managing and translating high-resolution genomic and bioinformatic tools to study the role of epigenetics in ecology.

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  DFG LocalAdapt | Local adaptation of Nothofagus pumilio along the latitudinal gradient of the Andes

  The goals of this study are to identify the genetic and phenotypic basis of local adaptation, and to determine the spatial scale at which demographic history, natural selection, gene flow, and major environmental drivers affect genetic diversity and local adaptation in N. pumilio.

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  DFG research unit 2358 | The Mountain Exile Hypothesis: How humans benefited from and re-shaped African high altitude ecosystems during Quaternary climate changes - C1/C2 Core project, scientific services and synthesis

  The objectives are (i) the linking of ancient DNA analyses with other environmental history proxies, (ii) the support of genetic and genomic investigations including bioinformatics for subprojects P1-P4, P7, and (iii) the overall synthesis of the research results of the research group.

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  DFG research unit 2358 | P3 Ecology, Paleoecology and Evolutionary Ecology

  Here we investigates the ecology of the largest alpine ecosystem in Africa, the Bale Mountains of Southern Ethiopia, which is determined by fire, grazing and soil-rooting small mammals.

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  DFG research unit 2358 | P7 Phylogeography of Ground Beetles as a human-independent paleoenvironmental proxy in the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia

  Using phylogeographic and phylogenetic analysis of extant primarily-wingless ground beetles in combination with subfossil beetle remains, provides a new proxy for paleoenvironments that is human-independent, spatially explicit and coherent.

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  BEECHgenomes | Genomic variation in common beech: analysis of the adaptation and adaptability of a forest species of great ecological and economic importance threatened by climate change

  The BEECHGENOMES project will establish a reference genome for the common beech, obtain high-density polymorphism data from a large sample (> 2000 trees) obtained across Europe, and identify patterns of local multi-scale adaptation, from the stand to the distribution area, including the massif and the region.

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  H2020 GenTree | Optimising the management and sustainable use of forest genetic resources in Europe

  GenTree provides the European forestry sector with better knowledge, methods and tools to improve the conservation and use of adapted and genetically diverse FGR in European forests in the context of global environmental change and evolving societal demands for a diversified range of forest products.