Recent research topics geoecology students have focused on in their Master's thesis, sorted by work groups (year)

Animal Evolutionary Ecology / Prof. Nico Michiels

• Feuersalamander Monitoring in Tübingen (2023)
• Processing wildlife tracking data from Automated Radio Telemetry Systems (ARTS): A framework and example application (2023)
• Redirected flickering light can create achromatic contrasts between a retroreflector and ist surroundings (2024)
• Redirected flickering light can create achromatic contrasts between a retroreflector and ist surroundings (2025)
• Seasonal changes in macrozoobenthic communities in tidal creeks of the German Wadden Sea (2025)
• Population Genetics of Central European Meadow Pipits (2025)
• Effects of management type on predation of artificial ground nests in organic farming (2025)

Animal Physiological Ecology / Prof. Heinz Köhler, Prof. Rita Triebskorn

• The Influence of Glyphosate on Oxidative Stress Biomarkers and Alterations in the Detection of Microbial EPSP Synthase Genes in Brown Trout (Salmo trutta f. fario) (2024)
• Evaluating the pH-dependent toxicity of acetylsalicylic acid and dichlorophenol in Danio rerio (2024)
• Benthic Hardbottom Communities of the Aland Islands: Spatial diversity differences and sensitivity to artificial light at night (2024)
• Empirische Sensitivität aquatischer Invertebraten gegenüber multiplen Stressoren (2025)
• Einfluss des Herbizids Glyphosat, seiner Formulierung Roundup® LB Plus und seines Hauptmetaboliten Aminomethylphosphonsäure auf die Histopathologie von Leber und Darm juveniler Forellen (Salmon trutta) (2025)

Biogeology / Prof. Hervé Bocherens

• Charakterisierung von Dünensubstrat der Namibwüste mit Bezug auf Standort und Hydrologie (2022)

Environmental Biotechnology / Prof. Lars Angenent

• Assessment of spatial demand and protein yield of a power-to-protein system in Ethopia (2023)
• Discovery of Novel Carbon Monoxide Dehydrogenase Encoding Genes via Purely Activity-Based Metagenomic Screening (2025)

Environmental Mineralogy / Prof. Stefan Haderlein

• Nitrate isotopes as tracer of processes in the marine nitrogen cycle in upwelling filaments of the northern Benguela Upwelling System (2024)
• Development of a method for cleaning organophosphonates samples from microbial growth media matrix for isotope analysis with LC-IRMS (2025)
• Impact of the soil mineral goethite on the biotransformation of glyphosate and AMPA (2025)

Environmental Systems Analysis / Prof. Christiane Zarfl

• Erfassung und Bewertung der Ökosystemleistungen Biodiversität und Kohlenstoffbindung im urbanen Raum (2023)
• Investigating the structure-stability relationship in competitive networks with an individual-based model (2023)
• Eco-evolutionary plant resource allocation in response to herbivory and pollination and its implications for plant diversification (2023)
• Assessment of spatial demand and protein yield of a power-to-protein system in Ethopia (2023)
• Extreme flood impact on riparian vegetation dynamics in the Ahr river catchment, Germany (2025)
• Bruterfolg des Braunkehlchens am Federsee - zu nahe am Wasser gebaut? (2025)

Environmental Toxicology / Prof. Beate Escher

• Cytotoxicity as a proxy for particle-associated and dissolved organic contaminant loads in rivers during storm events (2022)

Evolutionary Biology of Invertebrates / Prof. Oliver Betz

• Ökologie und Phänologie der Rot- und Grünwidderchen (Lepidoptera, Zygaenidae) aus dem Val d'Agnielles, Hautes-Alpes, Frankreich (2023)

Geo-Biosphere Interactions / Prof. Michaela Dippold

• Environmental drivers of soil microbial storage on the field scale (2024)

Geomicrobiology / Prof. Andreas Kappler

• The biogeochemical impact of historical submarine copper mine tailings on the Repparfjord, Northern Norway (2023)
• Impact of humics-coated biochar particles on electron transfer between Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 and ferrihydrite (2023)
• pH-dependence of different nitrate-reducing Fe(II)-oxidizers (2023)
• The Influence of salinity increases on methane and carbon dioxide emissions from Wadden Sea marsh sediments (Schleswig-Holstein) (2023)
• Impact of rhizosphere processes on organic carbon cycling in salt marshes (2024)
• Fe und N cycling in the anoxic sediment of an acidic mine drainage river (Río Tinto, Spain): Effect of pH, salinity and heavy metals on the microbial community (2024)

Isotope Geochemistry / Prof. Ronny Schönberg

• Geochemical comparison of volcanic with peridotitic olivines and Cr isotopic characterisation of periodotitic olivines (2024)

Micropaleontology / Dr. Annett Junginger

• Adaptation of diatom assemblages to water quality change over time in an artificial lake in southern Germany (2023)

Near-Surface Geophysics / Prof. Reinhard Drews

• Investigation of Infiltration Behaviour and Groundwater Recharge at the Lauswiesen Site (2023)

Petrology and Mineral Resources / Prof. Gregor Markl

• Ökologie und Phänologie der Rot- und Grünwidderchen (Lepidoptera, Zygaenidae) aus dem Val d'Agnielles, Hautes-Alpes, Frankreich (2023)

Plant Biogeochemistry / Jun.-Prof. Marie Mühe

• Influence of plant-specific root traits on the release of greenhouse gases from thawing permafrost soils (2024)
• Effect of artificial versus field-sampled root exudates on soil biogeochemical processes and greenhouse gas emissions along a permafrost thaw gradient (2025)

Plant Evolutionary Ecology / Prof. Oliver Bossdorf

• Zustand und Entwicklung artenreicher FFH-Mähwiesen (2025)
• Fire, nutrients or drought: Functional resistance of Fynbos' Proteaceae seedlings to environmental change (2025)

Soil Science and Geomorphology / Prof. Thomas Scholten

• Assessing the transferability of satellite-based soil organic carbon models: A case study of cropland soils in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria (2022)

Terrestrial Palaeoclimatology / Prof. Madelaine Böhme

• Die Obermiozäne Karpoflora der Hammerschmiede (2023)

Vegetation Ecology / Prof. Katja Tielbörger

• Land Degradation Risk Assessment in Dryland Savannah (2023)
• Bet-hedging of diaspore traits in heterocarpic Asteraceae plants (2024)
• Effects of light-availability and climate on liana seedling community assembly in tropical forests of Ghana (2025)