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Experiments for determining the causes of plant range boundaries

Development of classification methods and vgetation databases

Vegetation database Saxony-Anhalt
Improvement of the Cocktail algorithm
Establishment of a numerical classification of plant communities in Saxony-Anhalts
Linking vegetation and range map databanks

Biodiversity Experiments

Planned DFG project for a new Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning experiment in China (Dujiangyan, Szechuan, China) (link to the Research Database Saxony-Anhalt )

Desert ecology and desertification research

DFG-Projekt " Establishment conditions and development of phreatophytic vegetation in the foreland of the river oases in the Southern Taklamakan Desert, Xinjiang Province,China " (DFG BR 1698/5-1) (link to the Research Database Saxony-Anhalt )
Project planning "Sustainable use of water and natural resources in Dzungarian river oases (SUWANDRO)" (link to the Research Database Saxony-Anhalt )
EU project "The ecological basis for the sustainable use of the natural vegetation in a Central Asian Desert " EU (ERB 3514 PL 972474). (concluded) (to the project homepage )

Forest dynamics

DFG project "The relationship between herb layer diversity and structural heterogeneity in a beech forest after wind throw" (DFG BR 1698/4-1). Zur homepage von Ute Luginbühl (Doktorandin) (link to the Research Database Saxony-Anhalt )
"The role of gap dynamics for the regeneration of natural spruce forests in the Harz National Park" (Zur homepage von Sabine Kammermeier (Doktorandin) ( link to the Research Database Saxony-Anhalt )

Studies in population biology of endangered or rare species

Investigations on the river corridor distribution of three Viola species (link to the Research Database Saxony-Anhalt )

Ecological and genetical differences between central and peripheral plant populations

DFG project "Climatic tolerance of submediterrean therophytes and its genetic basis as a cause for plant range boundaries " (DFG BR 1698/2-1 und 2-3). (concluded)

Ecological and genetical causes for the invasiveness of plant species

DFG project „Ecological and genetical causes for the invasiveness of Rhododendron ponticum-populations of different origin" (DFG BR 1698/3-1 und 3-2). (concluded). For research in invasion biology see the homepage of Dr. Alexandra Erfmeier)