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Figure: The photo shows green grain ears backlit against the background of a dark deciduous forest.

BESoilS (Contributing project)

Sulfur cycling in soils along a land-use intensity gradient in German Biodiversity Exploratories

#Soil biology & Element cycling #Soil Ecology #2023 – 2026 #2020 – 2023 #Nutrients […]

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Illustration: The photo shows under dark clouds a sunlit herd of white-brown cattle on a meadow behind an electric fence. In the background a landscape with meadows, fields and forests can be seen.

ESuDis (Contributing project)

Effects of land management on the supply and distribution of ecosystem services

#Transfer & Society #Social-Ecology #2020 – 2023 #Biomass […]

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Picture: The photo shows the experimental garden of the Philipps University in Marburg, Germany, called "Common Garden". You can see swards with tall growing grasses in six rows of square sub-plots of fifty by fifty centimeters, where always two sub-plots are laid out next to each other. One row is thus one meter wide. Between the rows are paths. In the background are greenhouses, buildings and behind them a dense row of deciduous and coniferous trees under a sky covered with cumulus clouds

EXClAvE I (Contributing project)

Land-use effects on plant and microbe communities: An experimental common garden approach

#Plants #BEF #2020 – 2023 #Microbial community […]

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Picture: The photo shows a sunlit winter forest with a large area of flowering wood anemones stretching across the ground.

ForGenDiv (Contributing project)

The influence of forest management on genetic diversity of plant and animal species: a cross-species study

#Forest & Deadwood #Remote Sensing, Lanscape and Modelling #2023 – 2026 #2020 – 2023 #Land use […]

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Picture: The photograph shows a young scientist in a beech forest in summer standing under a branch several meters above him. With his right hand, the scientist is holding a very long leaf-collecting stick upwards into the foliage of the branch. With his left hand, he is pulling a black ribbon leading upwards to the tip of the stick, presumably to trigger a severing device.

GENEDIV (Contributing project)

Genetic diversity in key regulator genes and their association with environmental, forest management and biodiversity gradients

#Forest & Deadwood #FOX #2023 – 2026 #2020 – 2023 #Land use […]

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Picture: The photo shows an area of the science garden of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main on a sunny day. Plants are parked in the area shown. The area is surrounded by a scaffolding about two to three metres high, on which there are foils that can be pulled over the parking areas to protect them from the sun and precipitation. In the background, tall growing plants in large flower pots can be seen. In the foreground is a rectangular area several metres long between two paths on the left and right of the picture. The ground is covered with a black foil. On top of the foil are a large number of so-called "multi-trays", which are rectangular black tray-like collection containers with recesses for holding 54 plants each in 6 by 9 rows. The containers are visually very reminiscent of baking tins for muffins. All containers are filled and contain the five thousand three hundred and eighty-eight plants collected in the "Herbadapt" project. In each well of the multitrays, there is a labelled coloured strip in red, orange, blue or purple in the soil to identify the plant.

HerbAdapt (Contributing project)

Adaptation of understorey herbs to forest management

#Plants #2020 – 2023 #Genetic diversity […]

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Picture: The collage shows twelve photos of different seeds and seedlings.

SeedDiv (Contributing project)

Seed and seedling traits as related to plant diversity and community assembly in grasslands at different land-use intensity

#Plants #BEF #Plants #2023 – 2026 #2020 – 2023 #Grassland […]

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Figure: The photo shows a group of light brown mushrooms growing on a deadwood tree trunk.

WOODSTOCK I (Contributing project)

Linking deadwood decay and nitrogen cycling: diversity and function of diazotrophs

#Forest & Deadwood #BELongDead #2020 – 2023 #Functional diversity […]

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Picture: The photo shows a meadow with a female scientist and a male scientist kneeling on the ground and laying down markers. Both persons are smiling into the camera, in the background a climate measuring station and a forest can be seen.

Botany (Core project)

Plant diversity and plant-related processes

#Plants #BEF #Plants #REX/LUX #2023 – 2026 #2020 – 2023 #Time series […]

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Picture: The photo shows a beech forest in winter where a hole-cutting operation has been carried out. In an open area in front of standing trees, one can see tree stumps and sawn tree trunks lying on top of each other.

Forest structure (Core project)

Forest structure: Properties, structure and management of the forest experimental plots

#Forest & Deadwood #2020 – 2023 #Time series […]

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Picture: The illustration shows two overlapping coloured areas, one of which in blue represents the area of research and the other in green the area of business. The turquoise overlapping area is labelled with the phrase "Shaping and living transfer".

KnowledgeTransferProject II (Contributing project)

Knowledge Transfer 2.0 – Making biodiversity research effective for biodiversity conservation

#Transfer & Society #Forest & Deadwood #2020 – 2023 #2017 – 2020 #Ecosystem services […]

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Picture: The photo shows an earthworm and a horn mite on the forest floor.

LitterLinks (Contributing project)

Changes in soil food web structure of the decomposer system with land-use intensity in forest systems

#Animals #Soil biology & Element cycling #2020 – 2023 #Soil microorganisms […]

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Picture: The photo shows a piece of forest with sawed-off trees after a hole cutting has been carried out.

Forest structure (Core project)

Forest structure – Properties, structure and management of the forest experimental plots

#Forest & Deadwood #2017 – 2020 #Time series […]

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Picture: The photo shows an area of several square meters of flowering wood anemone, Latin Anemone nemorosa. In the upper right corner of the picture a part of a mossy tree root can be seen, which merges into the tree trunk

PhenoDiv (Contributing project)

Long-term changes in phenology and genetic diversity in Biodiversity Exploratories: a comparison of present-day plants with historical evidence

#Plants #2017 – 2020 #Fungi […]

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Figure: The photo shows storks looking for food in a meadow that has just been mowed. A tractor with attached equipment is driving on the right side of the photo. Other meadows as well as rows of shrubs and individual deciduous trees can be seen in the background.

HEDGE II (Contributing project)

From land use to habitat heterogeneity and biodiversity in grassland ecosystems: A combined theoretical, experimental and observational study

#Theory, Modelling & Upscaling #2017 – 2020 #Land use […]

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Figure: The photo shows seven cranes on a meadow. In the background a climate measuring station and a deciduous forest can be seen.

BEsound (Contributing project)

The relationships between land use intensity, organismic diversity and acoustic complexity

#Animals #2014 – 2017 #Land use […]

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Picture: The photo shows a piece of forest with sawed-off trees after a hole cutting has been carried out.

Forest structure (Core project)

Forest structure: Properties, structure and management of the forest experimental plots

#Forest & Deadwood #2014 – 2017 #Time series […]

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Picture: The photo shows a piece of forest with sawed-off trees after a hole cutting has been carried out.

Forest diversity (Core project)

Forest Diversity: Systematic Assessment of Forest Structure and Biodiversity Indicators

#Forest & Deadwood #2011 – 2014 #Forest […]

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Picture: The photo shows a close-up of a centipede on a brown leaf.

LitterLinks (Contributing project)

Change in food relationships in the soil as a function of forest use

#Animals #Soil biology & Element cycling #2011 – 2014 #2008 – 2011 #Soil microorganisms […]

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Picture: The photo shows a springtail on the forest floor.

LitterLinks (Contributing project)

Changes in soil food web structure of the decomposer system with land use intensity in forest systems

#Animals #Soil biology & Element cycling #2017 – 2020 #Soil microorganisms […]

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Picture: The photo shows a piece of forest with sawed-off trees after a hole cutting has been carried out.

Forest (Core project)

Pools and Fluxes / Forest

#Forest & Deadwood #2008 – 2011 #2006 – 2008 #Forest […]

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