Scientific coordination, site and data management

• Applicants: Professor Dr. Christian Ammer; Professor Dr. Claus Bässler; Professor Dr. Jörg Müller; Professor Dr. Michael Scherer-Lorenzen; Professor Dr. Tobias Ullmann
• Subject Area: Ecology of Land Use ; Forestry ; Ecology and Biodiversity of Animals and Ecosystems, Organismic Interactions
• Term: since 2026
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 459717468

The project will substantially contribute to the coordination and realization of the tasks of BETA-FOR. In specific the tasks of the project are divided into six main coordination objectives: (WP1) the organization of coordinated biodiversity sampling campaigns for mammals, birds, bats, total insects, beetles, spiders, true bugs and moths across locations; (WP2) the measurement of general functions which are needed by SPs and highly important for syntheses, but cannot be covered by the subprojects; (WP3) the set-up of a deadwood experiment on all plots for volatile, insect and fungal/bacterial measurements and the survey of soil microbes; (WP4) repeated measurement of the trees on all patches including stem core samples for tree growth analyses; (WP5) one drone flight for all 234 patches covering the whole district the patches are embedded; and (WP6) the organization of data management and AI-based species identification services.

• DFG Programme: Research Units
• Subproject of: FOR 5375: Enhancing the structural diversity between patches for improving multidiversity and multifunctionality in production forests