Senckenberg

• Prof. T. Hickler The group develops dynamic vegetation and ecosystem models to understand how climate change, land use, and environmental drivers shape biodiversity, carbon cycling, and ecosystem functioning across spatial and temporal scales.
• Prof. D. Leigh The Genomic Biomonitoring team takes a top down and bottom up approach to studying genetic diversity. Through species specific population genomics we support conservation management and expand understanding of evolution in small populations. While, through large scale macrogenetic synthesis, we directly map and monitor multi-species genetic diversity to fill fundamental gaps in biodiversity knowledge.
• Prof. T. Mueller The group studies theoretical and applied questions in wildlife and movement ecology, from animal behavior and social interactions to ecosystem functions, macroecological movement patterns, and conservation in a rapidly changing world.
• PD E. Neuschulz In the Interaction Ecology and Climate group, we investigate how abiotic conditions and plant-animal interactions shape plant occurrence along environmental gradients using field observations, experiments, GPS telemetry, and advanced statistical modelling.
• Prof. M. Schleuning The Functional Ecology group uses trait-based approaches to investigate the impacts of climate and land-use change on ecological communities.