Transdisciplinary projects – Biodiversity Exploratories

Illustration: The photo shows from a hill down a green landscape of meadows, small forests and some buildings in between. In the background yellow rape fields can be seen.

Goals

The aim of the cooperation is the development and implementation of transdisciplinary biodiversity research in the Hainich National Park and Hainich-Dün area.

The common goal of the projects and the Biodiversity Exploratories is the exchange of data and the joint planning and implementation of transdisciplinary research projects on the development of biodiversity under the influence of climate change and different human use.

Project ‘Microclimate maps for the Hainich region’

Aim: Synthesis and joint analysis and use of existing weather records in the Hainich-Dün area

Project partners: Biodiversity Exploratories, Hainich National Park Administration, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Philipps-University Marburg

Project ‘ClimChangeNet’

‘ClimChangeNet’ stands for open research network to study the impacts of climate change on biodiversity and ecosystem processes in the Hainich National Park.
Aim: Quantification and process-oriented analysis of the impacts of climate change on biodiversity and ecosystem processes in Hainich National Park

Project partners: Biodiversity Exploratories, Hainich National Park Administration, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Northwest German Forest Research Institute, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

Cooperations are projects financed by the cooperation partners’ own funds and thus financially independent of the DFG-funded infrastructure priority program ‟Biodiversity Exploratories (BE)”. They complement the BE with further interesting research content on biodiversity research and in return benefit from the infrastructure of the Biodiversity Exploratories.