Exploratories for large-scale and long-term functional biodiversity research
Coordination Office (BEO)The Biodiversity Exploratories are a German Science Foundation funded research project (DFG Priority Programm 1374).
Steering Committee
Prof. M. Fischer
(speaker, University Potsdam and Bern)Prof. W.W. Weisser
(University Jena)
Prof. E.-D. Schulze
(emeritus, MPI BGC, Jena)
Prof. E.K.V. Kalko
(University Ulm)Prof. K. E. Linsenmair
(emeritus, University Wuerzburg)
Prof. F. Buscot
(Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Halle)
The three exploratories serve as open research platform for all biodiversity and ecosystem research groups of Germany.
Study Objectives:
- the understanding of the relationship between biodiversity of different taxa and levels
- the role of land use and management for biodiversity and
- the role of biodiversity for ecosystem processes
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