Overview of subprojects
A1 Effects of nutrient manipulation (NUMEX) on nutrient use and carbon allocation of Andean forests: Stand level response and the performance of single tree species
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Prof. Dr. Christoph Leuschner (PostDoc)
Plant Ecology
Georg-August University Göttingen
Untere Karspüle 2
37073 Göttingen
+49-551395718 -
Dr. Jürgen Homeier (PI)
Faculty of Resource Management
University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HAWK)
37077 Göttingen
+49-(0)551-3925723
A2 Root and mycorrhizal responses to nutrient additions in a tropical mountain forest and in pastures after forest conversion
A3 The soil fauna of a tropical montane rain forest: regulatory forces and functioning in the decomposer system
A4 Herbivore communities in the Andean mountain forest zone – comparisons within selected plant species along contrasting environmental dimensions
A5 Limitations to the growth of epiphytes and the productivity of associated methanogens in neotropical moist forests
A6 Response of element cycles in a tropical mountain rain forest to environmental and land-use change
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Dr. Moritz Bigalke (PostDoc)
Geographic Institute
Hallerstrasse 12
3012 Bern
0041316314055 -
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wilcke (PI)
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Institute of Geography and Geoecology
Reinhard-Baumeister-Platz 1
76131 Karlsruhe
+49 (0)721/60841621 -
Dipl. Geogr. Andre Velescu (PhD student)
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
Institut für Geographie und Geoökologie
Arbeitsgruppe Geomorphologie und Bodenkunde
Reinhard-Baumeister-Platz 1
76131 Karlsruhe
+49-721-60841622 -
Mr. Tobias Fabian (Diploma student)
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
Institut für Geographie und Geoökologie
Reinhard-Baumeister-Platz 1
76131 Karlsruhe
017699095113 -
Jose Luis Pena Caivinagua (Technician)
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
Institut für Geographie und Geoökologie
Loja
0995423273 -
Esthela Margarita Gonzalez Sarango (Diploma student)
A7 Changes in soil internal N cycle and trace gas fluxes under elevated nutrient input
B1 The biology of southern bracken in the anthropogenic ecosystem in the San Francisco valley of South Ecuador
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Prof. Dr. Jörg Bendix (PI)
Faculty of Geography
Deutschhausstraße 10
Philipps University of Marburg
Laboratory for Climatology and Remote Sensing
35032 Marburg
+49 06421/2824266 -
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Erwin Beck (PI)
Universitätsstr. 30
Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Geoscience
University of Bayreuth
95440 Bayreuth
+49-921-553037
B2 Impact of land use, natural disturbances and climate change on vascular plant diversity
B3 Interactions of organic matter and microbial dynamics in pasture soils along management chronosequences
B4 The role of arbuscular mycorrhizas (AM) in the establishment of rainforest tree seedlings, and the application of AM fungi for reforestation approaches
C1 Exploration and consolidation of silvicultural knowledge for sustainable management of forest sites in the South Ecuadorian Andes
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Jonathan Torres Celi (Diplomand)
Loja
C2 Arbuscular mycorrhizal communities in different stages of succession after loss of pristine forest
C3 Market inclusion of ecosystem services: A viable option to achieve sustainable land use in the tropics?
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Prof. Dr. Thomas Knoke (PI)
Center of Life and Food Science Weihenstephan
Institute of Forest Management
Technische Universität München
Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2
85354 Freising
+49-(0)8161-71-4700
C4 Human ecological parameters and their relevance in preserving biodiversity and improving livelihoods in the Biosphere Reserve Podocarpus – El Cóndor
D1 Analysis and synthesis of palaeoecological data revealing patterns of mountain vegetation and plant diversity dynamics and its response to climate, fire, land use changes in biodiversity hotspots through space and time
D2 Tree growth and wood anatomy along elevational and nutritional gradients in tropical forests in southern Ecuador
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Prof. Dr. Achim Bräuning (PI)
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Institute of Geography
Wetterkreuz 15
91058 Erlangen
++49 (0)9131 85 29372
D3 Impacts of environmental change on climate and ecosystem in southern Ecuador
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Prof. Dr. Jörg Bendix (PI)
Faculty of Geography
Deutschhausstraße 10
Philipps University of Marburg
Laboratory for Climatology and Remote Sensing
35032 Marburg
+49 06421/2824266 -
Prof. Dr. Katja Trachte (PostDoc)
Atmospheric Processes
Burger Chaussee 2
Campus Nord, LG 4/3
Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg
03044 Cottbus
+49(355)69-1105
D4 Catchment scale hydro-biogeochemical fluxes and aquatic diversity under global change
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Prof. Dr. Lutz Breuer (PI)
Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26
Institute for Landscape Ecology and Resources Management
Justus-Liebig-University Gießen
35392 Gießen
+49-641-9937380 -
Dr. David Windhorst (Doktorand)
35390 Gießen
+49 641 99 37554
D5 Functional soil landscape modelling in the Andean mountain forest zone: impact of land use and natural disturbances
D7 Forest dynamics, landslide dynamics, and their interactions – a process-based landscape modelling approach for a mountain rain forest in South Ecuador
T1 Knowledge Transfer in South Ecuador: Facilitation of biodiversity in montane ecosystems by large-scale conversion of monocultures into mixed forests
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Mr. Milton David Ortega Montaño (Praktikant)
Loja
T2 Knowledge Transfer in South Ecuador: RADARNET SUR - Operational rainfall monitoring in southern Ecuador
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Prof. Dr. Jörg Bendix (PI)
Faculty of Geography
Deutschhausstraße 10
Philipps University of Marburg
Laboratory for Climatology and Remote Sensing
35032 Marburg
+49 06421/2824266
Z1 Data Warehouse
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Dipl. Inf. Maik Dobbermann (Techniker)
Laboratory for Climatology and Remote Sensing
Faculty of Geography
Deutschhausstr. 12
Philipps University of Marburg
35032 Marburg
+49(6421)28-24249 -
Prof. Dr. Jörg Bendix (PI)
Faculty of Geography
Deutschhausstraße 10
Philipps University of Marburg
Laboratory for Climatology and Remote Sensing
35032 Marburg
+49 06421/2824266
Z2 Administration and Coordination
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Frau Birgit Kühne-Bialozyt (Techniker)
AG Bendix
Faculty of Geography
Deutschhausstr. 12
35032 Marburg
+49 6421 28 26 543 -
Prof. Dr. Jörg Bendix (PI)
Faculty of Geography
Deutschhausstraße 10
Philipps University of Marburg
Laboratory for Climatology and Remote Sensing
35032 Marburg
+49 06421/2824266 -
Dr. Felix Matt (PI)
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