Overview of subprojects

A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 B1 B2 B3 B4 X1 Z1

A1 - Changes of water and carbon fluxes in mountain wet and dry forests under environmental changes - observations, area-wide remote sensing and LSMAtmo.


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A2 - From field scale eco-hydrological process understanding to landscape scale water fluxes.


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A3 - Nutrient supply as driver of biomass production and associated ecosystem water fluxes along a land-use and climate gradient


  • Jose Luis Pena Caivinagua (Technician)
    Jose Luis Pena Caivinagua
    Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
    Institut für Geographie und Geoökologie
    Loja

    0995423273
  • Esthela Margarita Gonzalez Sarango (PhD student)
    Esthela Margarita Gonzalez Sarango
  • Dipl. Geogr. Andre Velescu (PostDoc)
    Andre Velescu
    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)
    Tobias Fabian
    Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
    Institut für Geographie und Geoökologie
    Reinhard-Baumeister-Platz 1
    76131 Karlsruhe

    017699095113
  • Francisco José Moreno (Technician)
    Francisco José Moreno
    Canguraca
  • Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wilcke (PI)
    Wolfgang Wilcke
    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
    Institute of Geography and Geoecology
    Reinhard-Baumeister-Platz 1
    76131 Karlsruhe

    +49 (0)721/60841621
  • Manuel Fabian Castillo Armijos (Technician)
    Manuel Fabian Castillo Armijos
    110108 Loja
  • Mr. Pablo Armando Alvarez Figueroa (PhD student)
    Pablo Armando Alvarez Figueroa
    Institute of Geography and Geoecology
    Reinhard-Paumeister-Platz 1
    76131 Karlsruhe

    +49-721-60841619
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A4 - Plant functional trait diversity, biotic interactions and ecosystem processes in nutrient- versus water-limited tropical mountain forests.


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A5 - Innovative scenarios of land-use change - simulating shifts in land allocation under climate change at landscape and ecosystem scales.


  • Prof. Dr. Thomas Knoke (PI)
    Thomas Knoke
    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
  • Karla Pintado (PhD student)
    Karla Pintado
    Institute of Forest Management
    Technical University of Munich
    Hans Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2
    85354 Freising

    08161714703
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B1 - Linking tree above- and belowground traits across gradients of elevation and climate in highly diverse tropical montane forests.


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B2 - Tree physiological and structural properties as response and effect traits of biotic-atmospheric interactions in natural and anthropogenic eco-systems in South Ecuador.


  • Prof. Dr. Achim Bräuning (PI)
    Achim Bräuning
    University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
    Institute of Geography
    Wetterkreuz 15
    91058 Erlangen

    ++49 (0)9131 85 29372
  • Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Erwin Beck (PI)
    Erwin Beck
    Universitätsstr. 30
    Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Geoscience
    University of Bayreuth
    95440 Bayreuth

    +49-921-553037
  • Dr. Volker Raffelsbauer (PostDoc)
    Volker Raffelsbauer
    03044 Cottbus

    017645906947
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B3 - Trait-dependent effects of abiotic and biotic filters on plant regeneration in mountain dry forest and mountain rain forest.


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B4 - How abiotic drivers and trait diversity shape herbivory and other biotic processes with consequences for ecosystem functions across mountain ecosystems.


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X1 - Phenology of tropical tree species – environmental cues, molecular mechanisms, and consequences for plant-animal interactions


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Z1 - Coordination


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