Environmental changes in biodiversity hotspot ecosystems of
South Ecuador: RESPonse and feedback effECTs (FOR2730)

Overview of subprojects

A1 - Effects of nutrient manipulation (NUMEX) on the performance of tree species and the suitability of tree species as indicators for changing ecosystem properties

• Dr. Jürgen Homeier (PI)
  
  Conservation Ecology
  Philipps-Universität Marburg
  35032 Marburg

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A2 - TRENCH (Tree-Ring Environmental Network for Climate Change Monitoring): Developing a tree-based indicator system for environmental change impacts on forest ecosystems in southern Ecuador.

A3 - The soil animal community as indicator of changes in the structure and functioning of Andean ecosystems with altitude and nutrient input.

A4 - Responses of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to nutrient additions in Southern Ecuador.

A7 - The fate of phosphorus in forest and treeline ecosystems in Ecuador.

B2 - Pasture rehabilitation on, and management of degraded areas in the Andes of South Ecuador.

B3 - Improvement of forest management key strategies: a contribution to conservation and sustainable land use

B5 - Balancing regulating and provisioning ecosystem services: Comprehensive land-use concepts for effective conservation.

C2 - Remote sensing as surrogate for phylodiversity and functional processes along land use and elevation gradients.

C3 - Development and validation of functional indicators for avian seed dispersal.

• PD Dr. Matthias Schleuning (PostDoc)
  
  Senckenberganlage 25
  60325 Frankfurt am Main

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  0049 69 7542 1892

C4 - Maintenance of biodiversity through mutualistic networks between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and plants: robustness against human disturbance and climate change

C5 - Water consumption and carbon capture by trees of an evergreen and a dry forest in the Andes of South Ecuador as functional indicators of slow environmental changes.

C6 - Development of area-wide functional indicators using remotely sensed data.

C7 - Quantification functional hydro-biogeochemical indicators in Ecuadorian ecosystems and their reaction on global change.

• Pablo Peña (PhD student)
  
  030102 Azogues

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C9 - Towards a Guideline for Digital Soil Mapping in Ecuador.

C12 - Climate indicators on the local scale for past, present and future, and platform data management.

• Dipl. Inf. Maik Dobbermann (Technician)
  
  Laboratory for Climatology and Remote Sensing
  Faculty of Geography
  Deutschhausstr. 12
  Philipps University of Marburg
  35032 Marburg

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  +49(6421)28-24249

X1 - Cooperative project 1

X2 - A6. Response of element cycles in a tropical mountain rain forest to environmental and land-use change

• Dipl. Geogr. Andre Velescu (PostDoc)
  
  Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
  Institut für Geographie und Geoökologie
  Reinhard-Baumeister-Platz 1
  76131 Karlsruhe

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  +593-99-1059408
• Mr. Tobias Fabian (Diploma student)
  
  Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
  Institut für Geographie und Geoökologie
  Reinhard-Baumeister-Platz 1
  76131 Karlsruhe

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

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  +49 (0)721/60841621
• Dr. Moritz Bigalke (PostDoc)
  
  Geographic Institute
  Hallerstrasse 12
  3012 Bern

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  0041316314055