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Project

Scaling up functional biodiversity research: from individuals to landscapes and back.
Code
01GD0114
Duration
01 January 2014 → 31 October 2020
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Plant biology
  • Agricultural and food sciences
    • Forestry sciences
Keywords
Biodiversity ecosystem functioning
 
Project description
 

This project aims to advance our understanding of how biological drivers at different spatial scales affect relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (photosynthesis, nutrient cycling, pest and disease dynamics) through an individual-based, mechanistic and multi-disciplinary study of foodweb dynamics in a real-world forest landscape. We therefore integrate high-resolution sampling, measurement and observation schemes with field- and lab experiments and statistical modeling.