SPP 1374:  Biodiversity Exploratories

• Subject Area: Biology ; Agriculture, Forestry and Veterinary Medicine ; Computer Science, Systems and Electrical Engineering ; Medicine ; Social and Behavioural Sciences
• Term: since 2008
• Website: Homepage
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 60761519

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• DFG Programme: Infrastructure Priority Programmes
• International Connection: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA

Projects

• A molecular census of land-use intensity effects on the soil biota in grasslands (Applicants Bonkowski, Michael ;  Urich, Tim )
• Acronym: TICK-SAVE TICK microbiome and pathobiome interactions with biotic factors to mitigate their SpreAd via wild VErtebrate hosts (Applicants Fischer, Susanne ;  Gogarten, Jan ;  Obiegala, Anna )
• Analysis of root traits to test for environmental filtering and niche complementarity in grassland communities (Applicants Bruelheide, Helge ;  Jandt, Ute ;  Scheel, Dierk )
• anthoDiv - Linking organismal and genetic diversity of floral microbiomes to ecosystem properties and functional plant traits (Applicants Junker, Robert R. ;  Keller, Ph.D., Alexander )
• Artificial Intelligence for an automated Insect Biodiversity Monitoring (AIforIBM) (Applicants Meyer, Sebastian Tobias ;  Mäder, Patrick )
• Assessment of structure and function of soil bacterial communties along land use and mangement gradients in the Biodiversity Exploratories (Applicant Daniel, Rolf )
• BE-Spring: Discovering Collembola biodiversity on grasslands with emerging genomic and metagenomic tools (Applicants Bálint, Miklós ;  Schneider, Ph.D., Clément )
• BEF-Up2: Upscaling exploratories data to understand the drivers of landscape multifunctionality (Applicant Manning, Peter )
• BEGenDiv – A multispecies genetic diversity baseline for the Biodiversity Exploratories (Applicants Bossdorf, Oliver ;  Durka, Walter ;  Heer, Katrin ;  Michalski, Stefan ;  Opgenoorth, Lars ;  Sekely, Jill ;  Thomassen, Henri A. )
• BEhealthy - Interacting effects of forest management, biodiversity and climatic events on human health (Applicants Bonn, Aletta ;  Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael ;  Werner, Christiane )
• BELongDead - Multitrophic functional diversity in deadwood (BLD-MultiFuncDiv) (Applicant Moll, Julia )
• Belowground functional traits of plants as drivers of biodiversity and ecosystem functions (Applicants van Kleunen, Mark ;  Rillig, Matthias C. )
• BESoilS – Sulfur cycling in soils along a land-use intensity gradient in German Biodiversity Exploratories (Applicant Bauke, Sara Louise )
• BEsound: the relationships between land use intensity, organismic diversity and acoustic complexity - adopting soundscape ecology in the Biodiversity Exploratories (Applicant Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael )
• BExudation - Integrating exudation into the root economics space to better understand carbon and nutrient cycling in managed grasslands (Applicants Bergmann, Joana ;  Holz, Maire )
• Biodiversity and land-use effects on root biomass and arbuscular mycorrhizal communities in roots (Applicant Hempel, Stefan )
• Biodiversity Exploratories as Biocultural Landscapes: Past, Present and Future (Applicants Plieninger, Tobias ;  Topp, Ph.D., Emmeline )
• Biodiversity Exploratories - Diversity of Enchytraeidae and their Functions (BE-DEF) (Applicants Bálint, Miklós ;  Scheunemann, Nicole )
• Biodiversity of Nitrate-Reducing Microbes in Grassland Soils by Massive Cultivation and Genomics (acronym: BE-Cult) (Applicants Behrendt, Undine ;  Horn, Marcus A. ;  Kolb, Steffen ;  Ulrich, Andreas )
• Biogeographische, genetische und funktionelle Diversität von pflanzenwachstumsfördernden, oberirdisch auf Pflanzen vorkommenden Methylotrophen (Applicant Kämpfer, Peter )
• BuggedBugs: How land use and climate variability impact on hosts and their parasite communities (Applicants Archer, Catharine Ruth ;  Wilfert, Lena )
• Changes in Small Mammal Trophic Interactions (SMaTI) in response to land-use intensity and biodiversity (Applicant Tiede, Julia )
• Changes in soil food web structure of the decomposer system with land use intensity in forest systems (Applicant Scheu, Stefan )
• Changes in soil food web structure of the decomposer system with land-use intensity in forest systems (Applicant Scheu, Stefan )
• Changes in the biodiversity of algae in soils along land use gradients within the German Biodiversity Exploratories: community structures and functional roles (Applicant Friedl, Thomas )
• Changes in the genetic biodiversity of algae and cyanobacteria in terrestrial surface environments of forests and grasslands under the influences of land use and vegetation (SoilAlgae) (Applicant Friedl, Thomas )
• Chemical signatures of floral resource competition between honeybees and wild bees along a landuse gradient (Applicant Eltz, Thomas )
• CHIRPS – Connecting Health Indicators, Resources, ReProductive Success and Soundscapes on bird vocal behavior in relation to land use intensity (Applicant Schille, Laura )
• Comparative transcriptome analysis and phenotypic monitoring of Trifolium pratense (Fabaceae) under land use scenarios (TRATSCH II - Trifolium pratense RNA analysis to screen character heterogeneity) (Applicants Becker, Annette ;  Gemeinholzer, Birgit ;  Wissemann, Volker )
• Connecting process-based vegetation model to data from the Biodiversity Exploratories to unravel the mechanisms that connect biodiversity, land-use and ecosystem function (Applicant Dormann, Carsten )
• Coordination Funds (Applicant Fischer, Markus )
• Coordination Funds (Applicant Blüthgen, Nico )
• Core Project 2 - The Local Management Teams (Applicants Ammer, Christian ;  Blüthgen, Nico ;  Weisser, Wolfgang W. )
• Core Project 3: Instrumentation and Remote Sensing (Applicant Magdon, Paul )
• Core Project 4 - Exploratories for large-scale and long-term functional biodiversity research - Central Data Management (Applicant König-Ries, Birgitta )
• Core project 5: Plants (Applicants Hölzel, Norbert ;  Neuenkamp, Lena ;  Prati, Daniel )
• Core Project 6 - Forest structure (Applicant Ammer, Christian )
• Core project 7: Arthropods and arthropod-related processes (Applicants Staab, Michael ;  Weisser, Wolfgang W. )
• Core Project 8: Soil microbial diversity and community composition along land use gradients in the German Biodiversity Exploratories (Applicants Goldmann, Kezia ;  Schloter, Michael ;  Schulz, Stefanie ;  Vieira, Ph.D., Selma )
• Core Project 9 "Soil" Linking biodiversity and land use to soil functions (Applicant Schrumpf, Marion )
• Core project 10 - Biodiversity synthesis (Applicant Fischer, Markus )
• Core Project 10 - Exploratories for large-scale and long-term functional biodiversity research - Vertebrate diversity and ecosystem functioning (Applicant Tschapka, Marco )
• Core project 10 - Social Ecology (Applicant Mehring, Marion )
• Core Project 11 – Synthesis (Applicant Blüthgen, Nico )
• Core Projekt 9 - Monitoring of aboveground arthropod diversity with main emphasis on xylobionts (Applicant Linsenmair, Karl Eduard )
• Data, maps and mapping materials for the "Exploratories for large-scale and long-term functional biodiversity research (Applicant Fischer, Markus )
• Deadwood in the final decay class: Shifts in functions, processes and active microbial communities (Woodstock II) (Applicant Borken, Werner )
• DeMoLD: Nexus of Deadwood Moisture, Lignin Degradation and Matter Transport in Changing Forest Ecosystems (Applicants Blumenstein, Kathrin ;  Kalbitz, Karsten ;  Orlowski, Natalie ;  Stutz, Kenton )
• Dependence of endophytic fungus - grass symbioses on land-use intensity (Applicant Krauss, Jochen )
• Die Effekte von Landnutzung und struktureller Heterogenität auf Biodiversität: eine neue Bewertungsmethode mittels kosteneffektiver Fernerkundung und feinskaliger Musteranalysen (Applicant Wiegand, Kerstin )
• Direct and indirect effects of climate change on future forest biodiversity (Applicant Seidl, Rupert )
• Direct and indirect effects of land use intensification on ant communities in temperate grasslands (Applicant Feldhaar, Heike )
• Disentangling the land-use effects on different dimensions of multitrophic ecosystem structure and functioning (Applicant Buzhdygan, Oksana )
• Disentangling the way land use intensity affects beta-diversity of soil bacterial and fungal communities. (Applicant Veresoglou, Ph.D., Stavros )
• Drivers and functions of foliar endophyte communities (Applicant Kambach, Stephan )
• Drivers of recruitment and diversity in symbioses: Assessing changes in fungal, algal, and bacterial communities of the lichen holobiont along land use gradients (Applicants Dal Grande, Ph.D., Francesco ;  Schmitt, Imke )
• Dynamics of soil aggregation as affected by land use in grasslands and forests (Applicant Barto, Kathryn E. )
• Dynamics of soil aggregation as affected by land use in grasslands and forests (Applicant Rillig, Matthias C. )
• ECHOEScapes – Ecoacoustic Composition in response to Habitat and landscape structure - effects On spatio-temporal sound distribution and its relevance as a cultural Ecosystem Service. (Applicant Mueller, Sandra )
• Ecological and economic consequences of using conditioners in grassland mowing (Applicants Birkhofer, Klaus ;  Wätzold, Frank )
• Ecological mechanisms underpinning species diversity changes along land-use intensity in temperate forests - from trees to landscapes (Applicants Krzystek, Peter ;  Müller, Jörg )
• Effects of climate and land use on arthropod biodiversity in deadwood (BEClimWood-Bugs) (Applicant Seibold, Sebastian )
• Effects of disturbance, seed addition and land-use intensity on plant community assembly and ecosystem functions in grasslands (ESCAPE II) (Applicants Hamer, Ute ;  Hölzel, Norbert ;  Kleinebecker, Till )
• Effects of environmental heterogeneity on birds and bats in anthropogenic landscapes (Applicant Jung, Kirsten )
• Effects of historical land-use change on species richness and community composition in fragmented and newly created habitats (HiLUCC) (Applicant Thiele, Jan )
• Effects of increasing land-use-intensity on the biodiversity and functions of microeukaryotes and microbial food webs in grasslands (MicroEuk) (Applicants Bonkowski, Michael ;  Urich, Tim )
• Effects of land use, dispersal and dead wood on the trophic ecology, community structure and reproductive mode of oribatid mites (Oribatida, Acari) (Applicant Maraun, Mark )
• Effects of land use intensity on pollinator health and pollination services (Applicants Ayasse, Manfred ;  Wilfert, Lena )
• Element cycles in forests and grasslands of the Biodiversity Exploratories: Response to management intensity and associated biodiversity (Applicants Kaupenjohann, Martin ;  Michalzik, Beate ;  Siemens, Jan )
• [Elementary] Land-use effects on the plant and animal elementome in grasslands and forests (Applicants Farwig, Nina ;  Junker, Robert R. )
• Enhancing the understanding of canopy biodiversity: Estimating forest canopy surface temperature by airborne laser scanning, thermal infrared scanning, and 3D radiation modeling (Applicant Kleinn, Christoph )
• Epigenetic diversity of grassland plants in the Biodiversity Exploratories (Applicants Bossdorf, Oliver ;  Durka, Walter )
• EvoPlast - Evolution of plant phenotypic plasticity in response to grassland management (Applicant Scheepens, Johannes Fredericus )
• EXClAvE II – Morphological and physiological land use responses of plant (and bacterial) communities in a common garden, a field experiment, and in the greenhouse (Applicant Junker, Robert R. )
• Exploratories for large-scale and long-term functional biodiversity research: the core project (Applicants Buscot, Francois ;  Fischer, Markus ;  Kalko, Elisabeth ;  Linsenmair, Karl Eduard ;  Schulze, Ernst-Detlef ;  Weisser, Wolfgang W. )
• ExploreNiche: Belowground and temporal niche partitioning along land-use gradients in grasslands (Applicant Májeková, Maria )
• ExploreStab: effects of land use and climate change on the stability of plant communities and its underlying mechanisms (Applicant Májeková, Maria )
• Exploring a cradle of multi-resistant bacteria -- antibiotic resistance in soil and its link to different land use types and intensities (Applicant Nacke, Heiko )
• Factors driving the distribution and diversity of protistan plant pathogens in grasslands and forests of the Biodiversity Exploratories (PATHOGEN) (Applicant Bonkowski, Michael )
• Feedback loops between land use intensity, microbial diversity and easily available nutrients on the amount and degradation of phenolic C sources (FeeLoo) (Applicants Bauke, Sara Louise ;  Bi, Qing-Fang ;  Schloter, Michael ;  Schrumpf, Marion ;  Schulz, Stefanie )
• FinalCut: Understanding the variability in deadwood decomposition and organismic diversity in the BELongDead deadwood logs after 17 years of decay (Applicants Borken, Werner ;  Bässler, Claus ;  Hoppe, Björn ;  Kellner, Harald ;  Noll, Matthias ;  Seibold, Sebastian ;  Weisser, Wolfgang W. )
• Forest Gaps and Habitat Specialists: The Impact of Canopy Openings and Deadwood Management on Insect Communities (Applicant Kortmann, Mareike )
• ForGenDiv: The influence of forest management on genetic diversity of plant and animal species: a cross-species study (Applicants Bossdorf, Oliver ;  Thomassen, Henri A. )
• Functional diversity of mycorrhiza in relation to land-use changes and ecosystem functions / Code ECTOMYC (Applicant Polle, Andrea )
• Functional role of phyllosphere fungi in litter decomposition in response to land use (Applicants Begerow, Dominik ;  Persoh, Derek )
• Functional traits and ecological preferences of soil dwelling vampyrellid amoebae (Vampyrellida, Rhizaria) in a management intensity gradient (Applicant Hess, Sebastian )
• Fungal Necromass and Black Carbon from Deadwood in Soil Carbon Cycling (FungiCarb) (Applicants Glaser, Bruno ;  Kaiser, Klaus )
• Fungal peroxidases in soils: functional and taxonomic diversity and enzymatic activities under varying land use regimes in the German biodiversity exploratories (Applicants Hofrichter, Martin ;  Krüger, Dirk )
• Funktionelle Ökologie: Die Auswirkung unterschiedlicher Landnutzungsintensität auf die Diversität chemischer Pflanzenduftstoffe, strukturelle Komplexität der Vegetation und Wirt-Parasitoid Interaktionen (Applicants Meiners, Torsten ;  Obermaier, Elisabeth )
• Gap Response In Forest Insects – From Communities To Cellular Processes (GapResIn) (Applicants Müller, Jörg ;  Vogel, Heiko )
• Genetic and adaptive variation in beech (Fagus sylvatica): Which factors influence their spatial distribution patterns? (acronym: BEECHADAPT) (Applicant Finkeldey, Reiner )
• Genetic diversity in key regulator genes and their association with environmental, forest management and biodiversity gradients (Applicant Gailing, Oliver )
• Genomische Diversität für die Widerstandsfähigkeit gegen den Klimawandel - TREEvolution II (Applicants Heer, Katrin ;  Lampei, Christian ;  Opgenoorth, Lars )
• Global change effects on forest understorey: how do interactions between drought and land-use intensity affect water, carbon and nitrogen cycling? (Applicants Bruelheide, Helge ;  Gessler, Arthur ;  Weiler, Markus )
• HearTheSpecies: Using computer audition to understand the drivers of soundscape composition, and to predict parasitation rates based on vocalisations of bird species (Applicants Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael ;  Schuller, Björn )
• HEDGE 2- From land management through habitat heterogeneity to biodiversity in grassland ecosystems: A combined theoretical, experimental, and observational study (Applicants Kadmon, Ronen ;  Tielbörger, Katja )
• HerbAdapt – Adaptation of understorey herbs to forest management (Applicant Scheepens, Johannes Fredericus )
• How does land-use affect intraspecific variation in flower traits and subsequently plant-pollinator interactions and pollination? (IntraFlor) (Applicants Keller, Ph.D., Alexander ;  Leonhardt, Sara Diana )
• How does land use affect the architecture of plant-insect interactions in managed grasslands? (Applicant Brändle, Martin )
• Impact of contemporary and historical landscape structure on neutral and adaptive genetic markers in ground beetle populations (Applicant Assmann, Thorsten )
• Impact of deadwood on functional diversity and biogeochemical traits in underlying forest soils (Applicants Begerow, Dominik ;  Borken, Werner )
• Impact of land-use and functional diversity on diversity and stability of grassland communities in fragmented landscapes (Applicant Wiegand, Kerstin )
• Impact of Land-use on Biogeographical Diversity of Soil Prokaryotes and their Functional Links to Atmospheric Chemistry (Applicant Drake, Harold L. )
• Impact of soil negative feedbacks on plant-species diversity (Applicants Joshi, Jasmin ;  Rillig, Matthias C. )
• Impacts of canopy openness and forest management intensity on decomposition processes and decomposer communities (Applicant Seibold, Sebastian )
• Impacts of forest management on the spatiotemporal variability of forest microclimate (Applicant Ehbrecht, Martin )
• INCORPORATING TROPHIC INTERACTIONS INTO THE OPTIMIZATION OF COST-EFFECTIVE AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL SCHEMES FOR BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION IN GRASSLANDS (TrophCost) (Applicants Birkhofer, Klaus ;  Wätzold, Frank )
• Influence of land use intensity on the decomposition rate of dead mammals in conjunction with the biodiversity of the carcass associated insect fauna (Applicants Ayasse, Manfred ;  Steiger, Sandra )
• Intra-specific genetic diversity and ecophysiological performance of the aeroterrestrial green alga Klebsormidium (Klebsormidiophyceae, Streptophyta) in biological soil crusts along a gradient of land-use intensity (Applicant Karsten, Ulf )
• "Killing the winner" only? The virome of grassland soils under different land use intensity as the driver for microbial community structure and function (KiWion) (Applicants Chatzinotas, Antonis ;  Griebler, Christian ;  Schloter, Michael )
• Knowledge Transfer 2.0 - Making Biodiversity Research Effective for Biodiversity Conservation (Applicant Ammer, Christian )
• Land use and biodiversity determine the contribution of microbial necromass to soil carbon storage (BioNeCS) (Applicants Bi, Qing-Fang ;  Glaser, Bruno ;  Goldmann, Kezia ;  Kaiser, Klaus ;  Prada-Salcedo, Ph.D., Luis Daniel ;  Schrumpf, Marion )
• Land use, Biodiversity and Rodent-borne diseases (Applicants Imholt, Christian ;  Mayer-Scholl, Anne ;  Obiegala, Anna )
• Land-use effects on longevity and stem anatomical traits of perennial dicotyledonous species in grasslands (Applicant Roscher, Christiane )
• Land-use effects on patterns and processes in decomposer metacommunities in tree holes (Applicants Petermann, Jana ;  Weisser, Wolfgang W. )
• Land-use effects on plant-herbivore stoichiometry: micro- and macronutrients (Applicants Blüthgen, Nico ;  Kleinebecker, Till ;  Mody, Karsten )
• Land-use effects on plant regeneration strategies in grasslands and their relation to community assembly (Applicant Roscher, Christiane )
• Land use effects on response diversity in animal - plant interactions (Acronym: RESPONSE) (Applicant Blüthgen, Nico )
• Land-use effects on trophic niche variation across taxonomic groups and trophic levels (TrophNiche) (Applicant Parreno, Maria Alejandra )
• Land use intensity as a driver for abundance, diversity and activity of nitrifying microbes in soils from forest ecosystems (Applicants Schloter, Michael ;  Schulz, Stefanie )
• Land-use intensity effects on soil methane cycling microbes in grassland and forest soils (Applicants Kolb, Steffen ;  Marhan, Sven ;  Urich, Tim )
• Land-use intensity mediated effects of microclimate on insect diversity (Applicants Fassnacht, Fabian ;  Staab, Michael )
• Land-use responses of dung beetle communities and their ecosystem services (Applicants Assmann, Thorsten ;  Blüthgen, Nico ;  Schmitt, Thomas )
• Landscape heterogeneity and functional biodiversity (LANDSCAPES) (Applicant Westphal, Catrin )
• Learning from the Exploratories to make prediction beyond them: AI-based mapping and explanation of grassland biodiversity and ecosystem functions for entire landscape units (BEyond) (Applicants Hölzel, Norbert ;  Meyer, Hanna )
• Linking biodiversity to biogeochemical cycling (C-N cycling) in grasslands by soil structure (BIOSTRUC) (Applicants Franko, Uwe ;  Illerhaus, Bernhard ;  Joschko, Monika )
• Linking land use intensity, biodiversity, soil microbial processes and organo-mineral interactions for a mechanistic understanding of full nitrogen balances in grassland ecosystems (BE_BioMON II) (Applicants Dannenmann, Michael ;  Schloter, Michael ;  Schulz, Stefanie ;  Schweizer, Steffen )
• Links and fluxes in forest soil micro-food webs under different land use intensity (Applicant Rueß, Liliane )
• LitterLinks2 - Changes in soil food web structure and functioning as influenced by forest management (Applicants Junggebauer, André ;  Maraun, Ph.D., Melanie M. )
• LUMiClim: Interactive effects of land-use and microclimate on drought resistance and their ecophysiological basis in insects (Applicants Menzel, Florian ;  Schmitt, Thomas )
• MetGrass2 - Understanding the determinants and long-term dynamics of land use management on the methane sink microbiome biodiversity in grassland, forest and arable soils (Applicants Kolb, Steffen ;  Marhan, Sven ;  Urich, Tim )
• Microbial Data Synthesis and Meta-analysis for the Biodiversity Exploratories (Applicants Bonkowski, Michael ;  Buscot, Francois ;  Daniel, Rolf ;  Kandeler, Ellen ;  Overmann, Jörg )
• Microplastic occurrence and effects on soil fungi and processes along land use gradients (Applicant Rillig, Matthias C. )
• Mineral surfaces as hotspots for microbes and element cycling in the Biodiversity Exploratories (Applicants Kaiser, Klaus ;  Kandeler, Ellen ;  Mikutta, Christian ;  Schrumpf, Marion )
• Modeling land-use effects on forest soil food webs (Applicant Brose, Ulrich )
• Monitoring diversity patterns of active flagellate taxa in different grassland ecosystems as a tool in terrestrial ecology (Applicant Chatzinotas, Antonis )
• Multi-BEF: Impacts of the surrounding multitrophic biodiversity on ecosystem multifunctionality (Applicant Le Provost, Ph.D., Gaetane )
• Multi-trophic interactions of Butterflies Along a gradienT of MANagement intensity in grasslands and forest (BATMAN) (Applicant Klein, Alexandra-Maria )
• Mycorrhizal mycelia production in relation to forest management intensity and ecosystem functions (Applicant Pena, Ph.D., Rodica )
• Nanofauna (flagellates, amoebae) diversity in relation to land use and ecosystem functioning NANOFAUNA DIVERSITY (NANOFAUN) (Applicants Arndt, Hartmut ;  Bonkowski, Michael )
• P-Niche: Parent material and land-use intensity as driver for niche complementarity in phosphorus mobilisation between plants and microbes (Applicants Kamal, Nadia ;  Oelmann, Yvonne ;  Schloter, Michael ;  Schulz, Stefanie )
• Partitioning of Prokaryotic Functional Diversity under Different Land Use (Applicants Friedrich, Michael ;  Overmann, Jörg )
• pETchy: Patterns of evapotranspiration changing throughout the year (Applicants Lischeid, Gunnar ;  Sommer, Michael )
• Phosphorus cycling in grasslands and forests of differing diversity and land use (Applicant Oelmann, Yvonne )
• Plant-enzyme interactions along gradients of resource stoichiometry (PEGasuS) (Applicants Hamer, Ute ;  Kleinebecker, Till ;  Tischer, Alexander )
• Project vehicles for the "Exploratories for large-scale and long-term functional biodiversity research" (Applicant Fischer, Markus )
• Prokaryotic Diversity Changes and their Functional Interrelation to Land Use (ProFIL) (Applicants Friedrich, Michael ;  Overmann, Jörg )
• Quantifying the impact of forest management intensity and neighborhood diversity on individual tree shape and canopy space filling (Applicant Ammer, Christian )
• Rapid Biodiversity Assessment using DNA Barcodes in Exploratories: A case study on Diptera (Applicants Weisser, Wolfgang W. ;  Wägele, Johann Wolfgang )
• Reciprocal relationships between plant diversity and ecosystem productivity (BEF-Loops) (Applicant Weigelt, Alexandra )
• Recovery mechanisms of above and belowground diversity and function of grassland, following reduction in intensity of land use: RecovFun (Applicants Hamer, Ute ;  Hölzel, Norbert ;  Neuenkamp, Lena )
• Relationship between chemical profiles of plants, their herbivore biodiversity and land-use (Applicant Müller, Caroline )
• Resilience of grassland plant communities as influenced by root herbivores under different land use intensities (Applicants Jeltsch, Florian ;  Wurst, Susanne )
• Resilience of invertebrate communities in grassland soils (Applicant Wolters, Volkmar )
• Resource fluctuations and niche separation in plant communities: Can land-use effects on soil moisture explain observed patterns in plant diversity? (Applicant Dormann, Carsten )
• Response of birds to forest management and host-parasite-vector interactions (Applicants Renner, Swen Christoph ;  Schaefer, H. Martin )
• Satellite supported generation of area wide climate and vegetation datasets for an integrative analysis of ecosystem biodiversity relationships on grassland areas (Applicant Nauss, Thomas )
• Seasonal dynamic of yeast fungi in soils along land use gradients of beech forests (Applicant Yurkov, Andrey )
• Sebacinales community structure in roots and soils along land use gradients of the German Biodiversity Exploratories (Applicant Hempel, Stefan )
• Seed and seedling traits as related to plant diversity and community assembly in grasslands at different land-use intensity (Applicant Roscher, Christiane )
• Seed Predation and diversity of arthropod communities in Response to land-use INTensity (SPRINT). (Applicant Ott, David )
• Sensing Biodiversity Across Scales (SEBAS) (Applicants Dubovyk, Olena ;  Linstädter, Anja )
• Socio-cultural Dynamics of German Cultural Landscapes (SoCuLa) – A Future-oriented Perspective to 2030/2045 (Applicant Mehring, Marion )
• SpaceMic- Spatial assembly in soil microbial communities across scales, land cover, and land use (Applicant Jurburg, Stephanie )
• SPIDERFUN: Land-use effects on the functional role of spiders in food webs in permanent grasslands (Applicants Birkhofer, Klaus ;  Harms, Danilo ;  Krehenwinkel, Henrik )
• The Barcoding project: development of mass sequencing workflows. (Applicants Weisser, Wolfgang W. ;  Wägele, Johann Wolfgang )
• The economic trade-off between root hairs and mycorrhizal extraradical hyphae along a land use gradient (HAIRphae) (Applicant Bergmann, Joana )
• The effect of forest management and neighborhood diversity on seasonal tree growth responses (Applicant Ammer, Christian )
• The effect of forest management intensity, tree species and fungal-bacterial diversity on resource use, decomposition and gas emissions in dead Wood FunWood IV (Applicants Jehmlich, Nico ;  Noll, Matthias )
• The effect of land use intensity on biodiversity and functional role of biological soil crust communities with an emphasis on the biogeochemical cycling of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus - CRUSTFUNCTION III (Applicants Glaser, Karin ;  Karsten, Ulf ;  Schulz, Stefanie )
• The effect of land-use related diversity on plant-soil feedbacks and plant-community coexistence (Applicant Joshi, Jasmin )
• The function of the hyphosphere in carbon and nutrient partitioning between plants and microorganisms in grassland soils under different land-use intensities (Applicants Kandeler, Ellen ;  Marhan, Sven )
• The functional role of soil biodiversity in grassland habitats: effects of land use and climate on niche properties, decomposition and greenhouse gas fluxes (Applicant Wolters, Volkmar )
• The interaction between signal diversity and pollinator behaviour along a land use gradient (Applicant Schaefer, H. Martin )
• The link between genetic diversity and species diversity: patterns and processes in grassland plants (Applicant Durka, Walter )
• The relationship between neutral and adaptive genetic diversity in the context of historic and present land use and landscape structure - GENLAND (Applicant Durka, Walter )
• The role of biodiversity in controlling biogeochemical processes under experimental climate change in grassland and forest systems (Applicant Dormann, Carsten )
• The role of nutrients for the variability of drought effects on community composition and productivity across land use gradients in grasslands: a trait-based approach (BETol 2) (Applicant Engelbrecht, Bettina M.J. )
• Tracking long-term phenology and genetic diversity changes in the Biodiversity Exploratories: a comparison of contemporary plants and historical specimen (Applicants Bossdorf, Oliver ;  Burbano, Ph.D., Hernán )
• Tree species effects on the release of dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen from decomposing logs (Applicant Matzner, Egbert )
• TREELANDS – Trees as Islands – on the phylogenetic isolation of trees in mixed forests (Applicant Müller, Jörg )
• TreeVitalityNet – Effects of forest structure and canopy openness on tree vitality and ecosystem stability under climate change (Applicants Opgenoorth, Lars ;  Schuldt, Bernhard )
• Understanding the contribution of functional traits of individual fungal taxa to ecosystem functions under different land use scenarios (FunTrait) (Applicant Hempel, Stefan )
• Understanding the social-ecological Transformative potential of Farming initiatives (TransFarm) (Applicant Martín López, Berta )
• Understanding variation of silicon and calcium in managed grasslands - (BEsic) (Applicants Bergmann, Joana ;  Schaller, Jörg )
• Using biogeographical niche models to predict plant species responses to climate change in interaction with land use (Applicant Bruelheide, Helge )
• WaterWeb: Exploring land-freshwater dynamics under global change through the lenses of biodiversity (Applicant Parreno, Maria Alejandra )

• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Nico Blüthgen