Our research aims to develop models to improve our mechanistic understanding of how climate and land use change affect biodiversity and subsequent ecosystem processes. We aim to develop mitigation concepts to maintain both the use of resources in times of climate change and the maintenance of biodiversity. For this purpose, we foster collaborations with international research groups, stakeholders, and conservation authorities.

We consider different taxonomic groups (e.g., plants, fungi, bacteria, insects) within our research and use classical (e.g., field surveys) and molecular methods (e.g., metabarcoding, phylogenetic analysis) together with advanced statistical analyses to characterize and understand biological communities. Our studies are based on survey and experimental data at different spatial and temporal scales.