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Group members

Stefan Harnischmacher
AG Ecological Plant Geography, July 2024 (missing: Lukas Flinspach, Nishtha Prakash, Marianne Schäfer)

The following people currently build the research group:

Group leader

Prof. Dr. Maaike Bader

Secretary

Marianne Schäfer

Researchers

Technical Assistant

Foto: Stefan Harnischmacher
AG Ecological Plant Geography, January 2023 (missing: Lukas Flinspach, Marianne Schäfer)
Foto: Stefan Harnischmacher
AG Ecological Plant Geography, November 2018

Former group members:

Dr. João P. Costa Elias: former visiting PhD student (2020-2022), epiphyte biogeography. As of 2023: planning for a postdoc project.

Dr. Glenda Mendieta Leiva: former post-doc and lecturer (2015-2023), ecology and diversity of vascular epiphytes. As of 2023: Research Fellow at the University of Marburg, Department of Biology, Biodiversity of Plants.

Dr. Monica B. Berdugo Moreno: former post-doc (2019-2023), epiphytic bryophytes. As of 2023: Research Fellow at the University of Marburg, Department of Biology, Plant Ecology and Geobotany.

MSc Elodie Moureau: researcher (2016-2020), rainforest bryophytes. Current occupation: Yoga teacher, France.

Dr. Rafaella Canessa: former PhD student (2016-2021), plant functional ecology. As of 2021: Postdoc at University of Tübingen, Institute of Ecology and Evolution.

Dr. Eyvar E. Rodríguez Quiel: former PhD student (2016-2020), tropical bryophytes. As of 2020: Professor / Laboratory analyst at the 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: Assoc. guest professor, senior researcher at the 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. As of 2019: post-doc at the Czech Academy of Science, Trebon

Dr. Diana Gómez: former PhD student, epiphyte ecology and hydrology in a tropical montane forest, graduated in Oldenburg, 2017. Current affiliation: Researcher at the Universidad Autónoma de Chiriquí, República de Panamá.

Dr. Zhe Wang: former post-doc (2015-2017), moss ecophysiology. As of 2017: lecturer at 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: Researcher at the University of Halle, Plant Ecology group.