Research
Projects
Collaborative Research Centre 1357 Microplastics
Understanding the mechanisms and processes of biological effects, transport, and formation: from model to complex systems as a basis for new approaches to solutions.
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Christian Laforsch
more information (DFG website)
Our subproject (A02):
Effects of microplastic particles on model organisms of the soil-dwelling macrofauna and their associated microbiota (A02)
more information (DFG website)
Doctoral student: M. Sc. Anja Holzinger Doctoral student: M. Sc. Max Döring
BayÖkotox - Ecotoxicological effects of particulate matter from engine combustion processes on insects.
Funded by: Bavarian State Office for the Environment (LfU), 2020
Doctoral student: M. Sc. Dimitri Seidenath
MultiTroph - FOR 5281: Multi-Trophic Interactions in a Forest Biodiversity Experiment in China
more information (DFG website)
Our subproject:
Wood decomposition and decomposer interactions
more information (DFG website)
Doctoral student: M. Sc. Matteo Dadda
BETA-FOR - DFG FOR 5375: Enhancing the structural diversity between patches for improving multidiversity and multifunctionality in production forests
more information (DFG website)
Our subproject:
SP6: Plant animal-interactions - pollination, parasitism, and seed dispersal
more information (DFG website)
Doctoral student: M. Sc. Lisa Albert
MonitAnt: Developing a European-level Monitoring strategy for mound-building Formica Ants and symbiont communities residing in nest mounds
more information (DFG website)
Our project is supported by the DFG and part of the European Biodiversa+ research project 'MonitAnt'
Biodiversa+ website
Doctoral student: M. Sc. Melvin Opolka
Project: Pollinators threatened by global change: Effects of ozone, tire wear particles and heat stress on the buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
The PhD project is funded by the doctoral scholarship and the Marianne-Plehn-Program of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.
Doctoral student: M. Sc. Gwen Büchner
DFG FOR 5207: Reassembly of species interaction networks – Resistance, resilience and functional recovery of a rainforest ecosystem
more information (DFG website)
Our subproject:
SP7: Interactions between saproxylic insects and consequences for wood decomposition
more information (DFG website)
Doctoral student: M. Sc. Nina Grella
Bayerische Landesanstalt für Wald und Forstwirtschaft (LWF): Arthropod communities in mulm caves in the landscape context
more detailed information (website of the LWF, only in german)