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The projects of the
Biodiversity Exploratories

Currently, there are more than 40 projects involved. They investigate the cause-and-effect relations in the enlivened nature, both, by monitoring as well as experiments. Use the filter options to search for specific projects.

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Figure: The photo shows a meadow with a flock of sheep in front of a climate measuring station. On the right side of the picture there is a shepherd with dogs and another man. In the background there are more meadows and mixed forest on hills.
Synthesis (Core project)
Ecological synthesis
#Theory, Modelling & Upscaling  #BEF  #2023 – 2026  #2020 – 2023  #2017 – 2020  #2014 – 2017  #Statistics […]
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RecovFun (Contributing project)
Recovery mechanisms of above and belowground diversity and function of grassland, following reduction in intensity of land use
#Plants  #BEF  #Soil Ecology  #Plants  #REX/LUX  #2023 – 2026  #Soil microorganisms […]
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HearTheSpecies (Contributing project)
Using computer audition to understand the drivers of soundscape composition, and to predict parasitation rates based on vocalisations of bird species
#Animals  #BEF  #Remote Sensing, Lanscape and Modelling  #REX/LUX  #FOX  #2023 – 2026  #Ecoacoustics […]
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PEGasuS (Contributing project)
Plant-Enzyme Interactions along Gradients of Resource Stoichiometry
#Plants  #BEF  #Soil Ecology  #Plants  #BELongDead  #REX/LUX  #2023 – 2026  #Grassland […]
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ExploreNiche (Contributing project)
Belowground and temporal niche partitioning along land-use gradients in grasslands
#Plants  #Plants  #2023 – 2026  #Grassland […]
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FeeLoo (Contributing project)
Feedback loops between land use intensity, microbial diversity and easily available nutrients on the amount and degradation of phenolic C sources
#Soil biology & Element cycling  #Soil Ecology  #2023 – 2026  #Grassland […]
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MultiCrossBEF (Cooperation project)
Land-use impacts on above-belowground arthropod food webs, energy flux, and multitrophic ecosystem functioning
#Animals  #Soil biology & Element cycling  #Plants  #Ecosystem function of biodiversity  #Biotic Interaction  #2023 – 2026  #Multifunctionality […]
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Picture: The photo shows an unmown meadow with an area marked with white tape. In the foreground are project leader Professor Anja Linstädter and PhD student Florian Männer, both wearing hats to protect them from the sun. Ms. Linstädter is holding a black flat box in her hands at waist level. Inside the box is a white reference plate over which Mr. Männer is holding a field spectrometer to calibrate it. In the background of the image is a fenced climate measurement station and a row of bushes and trees. Meadows and forests can be seen on the horizon
SeBAS (Contributing project)
Sensing Biodiversity Across Scales
#Theory, Modelling & Upscaling  #Remote Sensing, Lanscape and Modelling  #Social-Ecology  #BEF  #Plants  #2023 – 2026  #2020 – 2023  #Functional diversity […]
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Picture: The photo shows a grove hoverfly, Latin Episyrphus balteatus, sitting with spread wings on a yellow flower and taking nectar.
HealthyPollination (Contributing project)
Effects of land-use intensity on pollinator health and pollination services
#Animals  #Biotic Interaction  #2023 – 2026  #2020 – 2023  #Grassland […]
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Picture: The photo shows a myxobacteria culture photographed from above in a Petri dish, spreading in a circle over an e-coli culture and eating it.
BE_CENSE (Contributing project)
A molecular census of land-use intensity effects on the soil biota in grasslands
#Microorganisms & Fungi  #Soil Ecology  #2020 – 2023  #Soil microorganisms […]
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Picture: The macro photo shows a piece of grey-brown soil aggregate with artificially added long red filamentous microplastic fibres in front of a black background.
BEMPL (Contributing project)
Microplastic occurrence and effects on soil fungi and processes along land-use gradients in the framework of the Biodiversity Exploratories
#Microorganisms & Fungi  #2023 – 2026  #2020 – 2023  #Land use […]
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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  #Grassland […]
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Picture: The diagram shows the relationship of the elements biodiversity, land use and ecosystem function. The three elements are symbolized as circles and placed in the form of a triangle. The upper center circle represents biodiversity and contains colored picture symbols for different plants. The lower left circle represents land use. Within the circle are the terms mowing, grazing, fertilization and soil texture. The lower right circle represents ecosystem function. Within the circle are the terms biomass production and standing biomass. From the circle for land use an arrow goes to the circle for biodiversity and to the circle for ecosystem function. From the circle for biodiversity an arrow goes to the circle for ecosystem function and from there an arrow goes back to the circle for biodiversity.
BEF-Loops (Contributing project)
Reciprocal relationships between plant diversity and ecosystem productivity
#Ecosystem function of biodiversity  #REX/LUX  #BEF  #2020 – 2023  #Land use […]
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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  #Grassland […]
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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  #Cultivation […]
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Picture: The photo shows a pollen-laden Earth Bumblebee, Latin Bombus terrestris, flying into an orange-red poppy flower hanging downwards. There are drops of water on the leaves of the flower. Green ears of grain can be seen in the background.
MacroBEEs (Contributing project)
How does land use affect bee-plant interactions and their mutualistic outcomes?
#Animals  #Biotic Interaction  #2020 – 2023  #Species biodiversity […]
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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  #Species communities […]
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Picture: The photo shows a specimen of a field mouse, Latin Microtus arvalis, in the grass of a meadow.
SMaTI (Contributing project)
Changes in Small Mammal Trophic Interactions (SMaTI) in response to land-use intensity and biodiversity
#Animals  #BEF  #Biotic Interaction  #REX/LUX  #2023 – 2026  #2020 – 2023  #Grassland […]
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Picture: The photo shows a slightly hilly landscape in summer under a blue sky. In the front left of the picture there are high bushes, a tree and a field path that turns to the left further back. From the middle to the right to the edge of the picture there is a field with beige-coloured ears of grain. Behind the field there is a mown meadow with short green grass on a slightly rising hill. On the left of the meadow there is a fenced climate measuring station. On the right of the meadow there is an unmown experimental area with tall brown and green grass. Behind the meadow there is a dense row of deciduous trees running through the picture.
SPRINT (Contributing project)
Seed predation and diversity of arthropod communities in response to land-use intensity
#Animals  #Biotic Interaction  #REX/LUX  #2020 – 2023  #Grassland […]
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Picture: The photo shows a slightly hilly landscape in spring under a blue sky. In the centre of the photo is a green meadow with many yellow flowering plants. On the left edge of the picture bare branches and twigs of shrubs can be seen. Beside and behind the meadow there are single trees without leaves. On the horizon leafy groups of trees, some buildings, green and yellow overgrown fields as well as single clouds can be seen.
TrophCost (Contributing project)
Incorporating trophic interactions into the optimisation of cost-effective agri-environmental schemes for biodiversity conservation in grassland
#Theory, Modelling & Upscaling  #Biotic Interaction  #Social-Ecology  #2023 – 2026  #2020 – 2023  #Grassland […]
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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  #Plants  #REX/LUX  #BEF  #2023 – 2026  #2020 – 2023  #Plant diversity […]
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Picture: The macroscopic photo shows the hairs of a root in bright green color against a black background
HAIRphae (Contributing project)
The economic trade-off between root hairs and mycorrhizal extraradical hyphae along a land-use gradient
#Plants  #Remote Sensing, Lanscape and Modelling  #BEF  #2023 – 2026  #2020 – 2023  #Species biodiversity […]
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Picture: The photo shows a hand in a turquoise glove lifting a piece of soil between meadow grass. The thickness of the piece of soil is estimated at ten to fifteen centimetres.
SCALEMIC (Contributing project)
The function of the hyphosphere in carbon and nutrient partitioning between plants and microorganisms in grassland soils under different land-use intensities
#Microorganisms & Fungi  #BEF  #Soil Ecology  #2023 – 2026  #2020 – 2023  #Nitrogen cycle […]
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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  #2017 – 2020  #2014 – 2017  #2011 – 2014  #2008 – 2011  #2006 – 2008  #Species biodiversity […]
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ESuDis (Contributing project)
Effects of land management on the Supply and Distribution of ecosystem services
#Transfer & Society  #2023 – 2026  #Ecosystem services […]
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Picture: The drawing shows a historical map of the Hainich from the year eighteen hundred and seventy.
HiLUCC (Contributing project)
Effects of historical land-use change on species richness and community composition in fragmented and newly created habitats
#Theory, Modelling & Upscaling  #Remote Sensing, Lanscape and Modelling  #2020 – 2023  #2017 – 2020  #Species biodiversity […]
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Picture: The photo shows the cross-section of the stem of a specimen of ribwort plantain, Latin Plantago lanceolata, which appears blue due to polarized light, against a black background.
ForbAge (Contributing project)
Land-use effects on longevity and stem anatomical traits of perennial dicotyledonous species in grasslands
#Plants  #2020 – 2023  #2017 – 2020  #Plant age […]
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Picture: The collage includes sixteen photographs of soil-dwelling Acari and Collembola taken from a micro-arthropod sample from the Biodiversity Exploratory Greenlands.
RESOILIENCE (Contributing project)
Resilience of invertebrate communities in grassland soils
#Animals  #BEF  #Soil Ecology  #2020 – 2023  #2017 – 2020  #Species biodiversity […]
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Picture: The screenshot shows the image analysis of a root system with the program Winrhizo
RootFun (Contributing project)
Belowground functional traits of plants as drivers of biodiversity and ecosystem functions
#Plants  #2020 – 2023  #2017 – 2020  #Mycorrhiza fungi […]
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Picture: The photo shows a tractor with trailed implement tearing up the meadow surface to cause a disturbance.
SADE (Contributing project)
Effects of disturbance and seeding on the reformation of plant communities and ecosystem functions
#Plants  #2020 – 2023  #2017 – 2020  #2014 – 2017  #Species biodiversity […]
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Picture: The photo shows, photographed from above, two young female scientists on the right and left of the picture, lying on a sunlit meadow and busy with the determination of seedlings. The female scientist on the right is noting something on paper in a clipboard lying on the ground in front of her. In front of the head of the female scientist on the left, a thin marking stick is stuck in the ground, next to her lies an unfolded folding ruler.
ESCAPE II (Contributing project)
Effects of disturbance and seed addition on plant community assembly and ecosystem functions
#Plants  #2020 – 2023  #2017 – 2020  #Species enrichment/ Species loss […]
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Figure: The photo shows a hilly landscape with a meadow and a deciduous forest under a blue sky in spring.
BE_CH4 (Contributing project)
Land-use intensity effects on soil methane cycling microbes in grassland and forest soils
#Microorganisms & Fungi  #2017 – 2020  #Bacteria […]
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Picture: The graphic shows information on the central thesis of the project.
BE-Cult (Contributing project)
Biodiversity of Nitrate-Reducing Microbes in Grassland Soils by Massive Cultivation and Genomics
#Microorganisms & Fungi  #2017 – 2020  #Climate change […]
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Picture: The photo shows a captured, living mason bee in a transparent plastic tube with blue printed graduations, which is held horizontally in front of the camera. In the background meadow soil can be seen.
MicroBEEs (Contributing project)
MicroBEEs: Consequences of land-use for solitary bee microbiota composition and function
#Animals  #2017 – 2020  #Species biodiversity […]
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Picture: The photo shows a hand in a turquoise glove lifting a piece of soil between meadow grass. The thickness of the piece of soil is estimated at ten to fifteen centimetres.
SCALEMIC (Contributing project)
Response of soil microbial community composition and function to changes in land-use intensity, i.e. intensification and de-intensification
#Microorganisms & Fungi  #2017 – 2020  #Soil […]
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Figure: The photo shows a meadow with a flock of sheep in front of a climate measuring station. On the right side of the picture there is a shepherd with dogs and another man. In the background there are more meadows and mixed forest on hills.
Synthesis (Core project)
Core project – Ecological synthesis
#Theory, Modelling & Upscaling  #2017 – 2020  #Species biodiversity […]
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Picture: The photograph shows an unmown meadow containing numerous large, grey, rectangular, open-topped containers for mesocosms containing grassland plants. The containers are under open semi-circular tunnel-shaped metal poles that can presumably be covered with foil. Shrubs and deciduous trees can be seen in the background.
BETol II (Contributing project)
The role of nutrients in the variability of drought effects on grassland composition and productivity along land use gradients – a trait-based approach
#Plants  #2017 – 2020  #Functional traits […]
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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  #Species biodiversity […]
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AIforIBM (Contributing project)
Artificial Intelligence for automated Insect Biodiversity Monitoring
#Animals  #BEF  #Biotic Interaction  #2023 – 2026  #deep-learning […]
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Picture: The photograph shows an unmown meadow containing numerous large, grey, rectangular, open-topped containers for mesocosms containing grassland plants. The containers are under open semi-circular tunnel-shaped metal poles that can presumably be covered with foil. Shrubs and deciduous trees can be seen in the background.
BETol I (Contributing project)
The role of nutrients for the variability of drought effects on community composition and productivity across land use gradients in grasslands: a trait based approach
#Plants  #2014 – 2017  #Grassland […]
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Picture: The photo shows a hand in a turquoise glove lifting a piece of soil between meadow grass. The thickness of the piece of soil is estimated at ten to fifteen centimetres.
SCALEMIC (Contributing project)
Microbial Colonization Strategies and Resource Partitioning in Grassland Soils under Different Land-Use Intensities
#Microorganisms & Fungi  #2014 – 2017  #Soil […]
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Picture: The photo shows, photographed from above, two young female scientists on the right and left of the picture, lying on a sunlit meadow and busy with the determination of seedlings. The female scientist on the right is noting something on paper in a clipboard lying on the ground in front of her. In front of the head of the female scientist on the left, a thin marking stick is stuck in the ground, next to her lies an unfolded folding ruler.
ESCAPE I (Contributing project)
Effects of disturbance and seeding on composition and ecosystem functions of plant communities
#Plants  #2014 – 2017  #Grassland […]
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Figure: The photo shows a meadow with a flock of sheep in front of a climate measuring station. On the right side of the picture there is a shepherd with dogs and another man. In the background there are more meadows and mixed forest on hills.
Synthesis (Core project)
Core project – Ecological synthesis
#Theory, Modelling & Upscaling  #2014 – 2017  #2011 – 2014  #Synthesis […]
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Picture: The photo shows a hand in a turquoise glove lifting a piece of soil between meadow grass. The thickness of the piece of soil is estimated at ten to fifteen centimetres.
SCALEMIC (Contributing project)
Soil microbial communities in grasslands – Biogeography at the local and regional scale
#Microorganisms & Fungi  #2011 – 2014  #Soil microorganisms […]
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Picture: The photo shows a hand in a turquoise glove lifting a piece of soil between meadow grass. The thickness of the piece of soil is estimated at ten to fifteen centimetres.
SCALEMIC (Contributing project)
Effect of Land-Use Intensity on Spatial Structure and Function of Soil Microbial Communities
#Microorganisms & Fungi  #2008 – 2011  #Soil […]
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