Previous seminars
| Date | Seminar |
|---|---|
| Summer Semester 2019 | |
| 19 Apr | No seminar - Good Friday |
| 26 Apr | Korinna Allhoff - Surviving academia |
03 May | Free slot(s) |
| 10 May | Free slot(s) |
| 17 May | Shirley Deng - TBA
Shanghua Li - Characterization of dynamic feedbacks between the vegetation and hydrology across a hydroclimatic gradient |
| 24 May | No seminar - PopBio |
| 31 May | Lena Wesenberg - Effects of stimuli on Volvox aureus and Euglena gracilis as basic research for future Pavlovian experiments
Sandra Roller - Can plants prepare for future stress? – The effect of plant priming against pathogen infection |
| 07 Jun | Lisa Merkens - Comparison of on-site threshing and a regional seed mixture to establish species-rich grassland
Norina Pagano - Connecting the green and the grey world – an experimental approach to separating climate, vegetation and geochemical effects on nutrient cycling along a climate gradient |
| 14 Jun | Sophie Weides - TBA
Free slot (short) |
| 21 Jun | DRIeR BSc students - Extreme drought in forests and grasslands on the Swabian Alb (until15:00) |
28 Jun | Christina Richards - Understanding mechanisms of response to complex environmental conditions in non-model plants
Free slot (short) |
| 05 Jul | Free slot(s) |
| 12 Jul | Angelika Hodina - The effects of grazing and mowing on the evolution of plant phenotypic plasticity
Free slot (short) |
| 19 Jul | Tobias Moritz Rein - Growth responses to light and root competition in Taraxacum sect. Ruderalia
Aljoscha Mengel - Effect of management and history on dry grassland vegetation – the Spitzberg as case study |
| 26 Jul | Maximilien Oly - Fungal endophytes of the Sebacinales modulate plant growth and environmental stress tolerance – a multispecies approach
Free slot (short) |
| 2 Aug | No Seminar |
| 9 Aug | Extrasemestrial seminar: Elodie Kugler - Soil with peat compared to soil without peat |
| Winter Semester 2018/2019 | |
| 19 Oct | Jannik Kohl - The effects of hybridization on seed germination in two closely related Campanula species in the European Alps
Free slot (short) |
| 26 Oct | Leah Kirchhoff - Disentangling biotic and abiotic effects on local adaptation of Plantago lanceolata
Free slot (short) |
02 Nov | Free slot |
| 09 Nov | Shanghua Li - Dynamic coupling of vegetation and hydrology greatly modifies results of classical static modeling approaches
Free slot (short) |
| 16 Nov | Free slot |
| 23 Nov | No seminar (Meeting StEvE) |
| 30 Nov | Neta Manela - The effect of fire and smoke on soil seed bank germination in Mediterranean woodlands
Angelika Hodina - The effects of grazing and mowing on the evolution of plant phenotypic plasticity |
| 07 Dec | Maximiliane Herberich - Unknown buffers – which facets of biodiversity stabilize grassland productivity against extreme drought?
free slot (short) |
| 14 Dec | Sebastian Kühnl - Identifying feedback patterns in empirical vs randomized systems of interference competition
Lena Wesenberg - Measuring the effect of stimuli gradients on Euglena and Volvox as basic research for future pavlovian experiments |
| 21 Dec | Heiko Hinneberg - Can plants and soil mesofauna from naturally variable environments cope better with extreme drought?
Sara Klingenfuss - The ANPP - Precipitation relationship in drylands and how we could use it to predict critical transitions and prevent desertification |
28 Dec | Winter break |
| 04 Jan | Winter break |
| 11 Jan | Franziska Bauer - Detection of cyanotoxin genes in Bavarian lakes
Simone Rost - Identifying cyanobacterial community shifts in small Bavarian lakes over the last 100 years using sedimentary DNA: Impact of eutrophication and climate chang |
| 18 Jan | Lara Braun - The influence of habitat heterogeneity on population sizes, extinction rate and plant diversity in an experimental grassland ecosystem
Ronja Ratzbor - TBA (cancelled) |
| 25 Jan | Lisa Henres - Using the resurrection approach to test for rapid evolution of drought resistance
Franziska Werner - Germination behaviour of Thlaspi arvense under different environmental conditions |
| 01 Feb | Kathrin Schratt - Larch tree stand dynamics along environmental gradients at the north-eastern treeline in Siberia
Free slot (short) |
| 08 Feb | Ingeborg Haug - Mycorrhizal investigations in tropical montane forests in Ecuador
Hagen Ritter - Observation based spatial modelling of interference competition in |
| 15 Feb | Extrasemestrial seminar
Sebastian Kühnl - Identifying feedback patterns in empirical vs randomized systems of interference competition
Free slot (short) |
| Summer Semester 2018 | |
| 20 Apr | Robert Rauschkolb - Back to the Future: using seed banks as a tool to investigate recent adaptation to climate change Free slot (slot) |
| 27 Apr | Franziska Merle Willems - Effects of forest management on the phenology of early-flowering understory herbs Maxi Herberich - Temporal storage effect promotes coexistence of plant functional type across the full range of soil water availability |
04 May | No Seminar (PopBio) |
| 11 May | Dario Galanti - Structure, stability and ecological significance of natural epigenetic variation in European Thlaspi arvense populations Free slot (short) |
| 18 May | Leah Kirchhoff - Disentangling biotic and abiotic effects on local adaptation in Plantago lanceolata Free slot (short) |
| 25 May | No Seminar (Vorlesungsfrei) |
| 01 Jun | Free slot |
| 08 Jun | Heiko Hinneberg - Drought response of common perennial meadow plants and soil mesofauna Free slot (short) |
| 15 Jun | Hannah Gelaudie - Herbivory induces clonal foraging for nutrient in plants Free slot (short) |
| 22 Jun | Hagen Ritter - Observation-based spatial modelling of interference competition in Marlena Reußwig - Characterization of grassland species growth under different habitat conditions |
29 Jun | Ioanna Jakob (KIT) - Experiments on the bioprocess development of Phacotus lenticularis |
| 06 Jul | Ronja Ratzbor - HEDGE 2 - and now there is data (cancelled) |
| 13 Jul | No seminar: Clara Nesongano will defend her PhD thesis at 10am |
| 20 Jul | Juliana Almario - TBA Madalin Parepa - Fluctuating resources and plant invasion: a field test |
| 27 Jul | Maria Majekova - Wilting point and osmotic adjustment in grassland plants 2nd slot filled - TBA |
| 10 Aug | Extrasemestrial seminar: Thais Henn Werner - Can plants remember their future? Free slot (short) |
| 17 Aug | Extrasemestrial seminar: Eleanor Gibson-Forty - Plant-Animal interactions in the Brassicaceae family along a steep rainfall gradient in the Eastern Mediterranean Basin |
| Winter semester 2017 | |
| 20 Oct | Javier Morente - Disentangling local adaptation and genetic drift in marginal populations of a Mediterranean mountain plant. |
| 27 Oct | Anna Kirschbaum - Evolution of plant phenotypic plasticity in response to grassland management Allen Kandjai - Reseeding Anthephora pubescens and Brachiaria nigropedata as a restoration measure at the Waterberg, central Namibia; impacts of rainfall, soil properties and nutrients |
03 Nov | Ellie Gibson-Forty - Reproduction in the desert, is it limited by pollinators? A gradient-approach in Israel Maike Domogalla - Response of grassland plants to extreme drought |
| 10 Nov | No Seminar - Meeting StEvE |
| 17 Nov | Free slot |
| 24 Nov | Sirona Hillenbrand - Associative learning in Arabidopsis thaliana: can the light induced stomatal opening be coupled with a gravitational stimulus? Anubhav Mohiley - Chemical defense and chemical warfare are two sides of the same coin |
| 01 Dec | Franziska M. Willems - Tracking (long-term) phenological changes: mining herbaria and roaming the forests |
| 08 Dec | Maxi Herberich - Density-dependent dynamics in plant communities deviate from simple rules due to age structure, multiple species and abiotic stress |
| 15 Dec | Miriam Heck - Thermonastic reactions in Rhododendron – intensity in different species and influence of leaf herbivory Jannik Kohl - The effects of inbreeding and hybridization on seed germination in two closely related Campanula species in the European Alps |
| 22 Dec | Rüdiger Hampp - Vitality of lichens of different light climates in the Atlantic Rain Forest |
29 Dec | No Seminar - Winter holidays |
| 05 Jan | No Seminar - Winter holidays |
| 12 Jan | Luzia Tiggeman - Establishing multispectral imaging techniques to monitor vegetation characteristics at HBT |
| 19 Jan | Jan Ruppert - TBA |
| 26 Jan | Eva Weber - The influence of cultivation of wild flowers on their stress tolerance |
| 2 Feb | Free slot |
| 9 Feb | Bence Gaspar - Large-scale patterns of epigenetic diversity in natural populations of Plantago lanceolata Nicola Lechner - Drought impacts on herbaceous plants: Separating resistance and resilience mechanisms |
| 16 Feb | EXTRA SEMINAR: Mark Bilton - Bilton goes biltong: the search for elephants |
| Summer semester 2017 | |
| 21 Apr | Rebecca Peters - Herbivore damage along a climate gradient in Chile |
| 28 Apr | Liliana Szczeparska - Rapid adaptation of rare species to ex-situ cultivation conditions |
| 05 May | Katja Tielbörger - The wombat story - and other animals |
| 12 May | Lara Braun - More is less: the effect of soil depth on species richness Clara Nesongano - Drought and elevated CO2 effects on trees and grasses in southern African savannas |
| 19 May | No Seminar - PopBio Halle |
| 26 May | Anastasia Leonova - Interactions between invasive plants and soil biota - example of Impatiens glandulifera |
| 02 Jun | Deokjoo Son - Potential habitats of submerged macrophytes in the rivers of South Korea |
| 09 Jun | No seminar - Vorlesungsfrei |
| 16 Jun | Chris Bauch - How to capture human behaviour in mathematical models, and why it matters for understanding socio-ecological forest ecosystems |
| 23 Jun | Lisa Küchen - Competitive abilities and invasive potential of ornamental sunflower cultivars Chris Bauch - Dynamics of Scirpus maritimus in a temporally varying environment |
| 30 Jun | Ronja Ratzbor - HEDGE 2: from the common garden to the Biodiversity Exploratories Madhur Anand - Biodiversity optimization in mosaic landscapes |
| 07 Jul | Ramon Diaz Grados - Assessing the evolutionary change of Ambrosia artemisiifolia to ambient and elevated temperature |
| 14 Jul (N11) | Anna Eiperle - Responses of wild and cultivated sunflower (Helianthus annuus) varieties to temperature variability |
| 21 Jul | Viktoria Ferenc - Mating systems of annual crucifer species along a rainfall gradient Sara Klingenfuss - The influence of habitat heterogeneity on plant species diversity in an experimental grassland community |
| 28 Jul | Katja Tielbörger - Almost all the plants in the South and West of Oz |
| Winter semester 2016 | |
| 21 Oct | Rouven Nagel - Selection in cultivation of wild plants for seed production |
| 28 Oct | Anna Kirschbaum - TBA |
| 04 Nov | |
| 11 Nov | Jonas Dornbach - Exploit or Tolerate: Drought and grazing strategies under climate change Melissa Sehrt - Effect of low mowing frequency on diversity of plants and pollinators |
| 18 Nov | Ellie Gibson-Forty - Changing herbivore pressure across a rainfall gradient |
| 25 Nov | Shujuan Wei - Phylogeny or taxonomy should we care? Deal with multispecies non-independence in meta-analyses on plant responses to elevated CO2 |
| 02 Dec | Uta Grünert - Life-cycle adaptations of a calcifying freshwater green algae |
| 09 Dec | Jonathan von Oppen - Tea time on the summits - litter decomposition in alpine peak soils Lara Braun - The effect of fertilisation, mowing, soil depth and treading on biodiversity and productivity |
| 16 Dec | Ronja Wedegärtner - Under-cover?! Species shifts and snow cover in the Southern Scandes |
| 23 Dec | Canceled - too few people around |
30 Dec | Winter holidays |
| 06 Jan | Winter holidays |
| 13 Jan | No presentations |
| 20 Jan | Robert Rauschkolb - Does ex situ cultivation of rare plant species in botanical gardens lead to loss of adaptation to the wild? |
| 27 Jan | Madalin Parepa & Zhiyong Liao - In China for Knotweed |
| 03 Feb | Samuel Hamard - TBA |
| 10 Feb | Liliana Szczeparska - Genetic variation in Iris pumila L. populations from kurgans and other Pontic steppe refugia in southern Ukraine |
| Summer semester 2016 | |
| 15 Apr | Josephina Nübold - Wurzelbeimpfungen mit VAM-Sporen, Bodenbakterien und organischen Düngemitteln an Mostbirnen im Vergleich Niek Scheepens - Environmental variability and intraspecific diversity affect population invasibility |
| 22 Apr | Svenja Block & Lara Braun - Brazilian flora and fauna |
| 29 Apr | Yan Sun - Predicting environmental impact of non-resident species additions (& upcoming studies at Uni-Tuebingen) |
| 6 May | No seminar (PopBio Trebon) |
| 13 May | Kilian Dorbath - Dionysia: Pollination experiments and investigation of heterostyly Jennifer Cross - Insect communities of exotic and native Rorippa austriaca genotypes in a common garden experiment |
| 20 May | No seminar (Whitsuntide) |
| 27 May | Stefanie Herbst - Will climate change facilitate plant invasions? Max Schön - Biodiversity assessment of belowground fungal communities: Metabarcoding the rhizosphere of Norway Spruce (Picea abies) |
| 3 Jun | Zhiyong Liao - A Brief Introduction to Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden |
| 10 Jun | Shirley Deng - Variable heat stress effects in more than one generation |
| 17 Jun | Edwin Mudongo - Rangeland management in face of drought - the DroughtAct Experiment |
| 24 Jun | Christine Sheppard (Uni Hohenheim) - Long-term dynamics of plant invasions |
| 1 Jul | Cecilia Ndunge - Shrub encroachment in Namibian savannas - Testing shrub-grass interactions using reciprocal transplants |
| 8 Jul | Anastasia Leonova - The role of soil biota in the invasive success of Impatiens glandulifers |
| 15 Jul | Liesbeth van den Brink - Connecting the green and the grey world - Fieldwork in Chile Rebecca Peters - Herbivorous damage along a climate gradient |
| 22 Jul | Maxi Herberich - The self-thinning rule or where is the red line? Nicola Lechner - Drought impacts on herbaceous plants - separating resistance and resilience mechanisms |
| 29 Jul | Extra-semestrial presentation: Fabian Slowik - TBA |
Winter semester 2015 | |
| 16. Oct | Barbara Eckel - Ecological and evolutionary significance of epigenetic variation |
| Clarissa Anders - Clonal cooperation and habitat heterogeneity: Does clonality help in heterogeneous habitats and are heterogeneous habitats good for clonal plants? | |
| 23. Oct | Marie Sroka - Influence of habitat heterogeneity on plant species diversity in a native grassland community - the second year |
| Bence Gáspár - What have I been doing? | |
| 06. Nov | Alexander Kubisch (Uni Hohenheim) - Where am I and why? - A new general framework for the formation of range limits |
| 13. Nov | Wellencia Clara Nesongano - Effects of climate change and elevated CO2 on shrub encroachment and the balance between herbaceous and woody plants in (Namibian) savanna ecosystems |
| Ellie Gibson-Forty - Phenotypic and genetic variation in Biscutella didyma and other Brassicaceae and adaptation to environmental change | |
| 20. Nov | Hanna Walter - Climatic drivers of seed size and seed shape of garlic mustard in the native and introduced range |
| Viktoria Ferenc | |
| 04. Dec | Annamaria Achtzehn - Exotic ornamentals: potential invaders under future climate? |
| Mark Bilton - ORN groups are great! | |
| 11. Dec | Joachim Bickhofe - Evolution of flowering phenology and the consequences under climate change |
| Tobias Mohr - Phenotypic plasticity in plants and its role in climate change adaptation | |
| 18. Dec | Niek Scheepens - The effects of timing and frequency of temperature stress on phenology and fitness of Arabidopsis thaliana ecotypes |
| Ruichang Zhang - Facilitation within plant species - generality and mechanisms: a review | |
| 08. Jan | Anna Lampei Bucharova - How many seeds can I collect from a plant population without threatening it? |
| 15. Jan | Alexandra Ickes - Wirkung von Bokashi-Biokohle-Pellets auf Wachstum und Ertrag von Balkontomaten und Begonia dietrichina |
| 22. Jan | Ruichang Zhang - Positive interactions and SGH in conspecific cohorts: a case study |
| 29. Jan | Svenja Block - The results from the WhoIsNext project: The effect of drought timing, drought intensity and drought duration on the success of ornamental plants |
| 05. Feb | Anubhav Mohiley |
| Claudia Hener | |
| 12. Feb | Philipp Klein - The importance of genetic diversity and local adaptation for plant restoration |
| Zhiyong Liao - Adaptation of invasive Chromolaena odorata plants to enemy release | |
| Summer semester 2015 | |
| 16. Apr | Svenja Block - WhatISNext: upcoming experiments within my WhoIsNext PhD project |
| 23. Apr | Rob Colautti - Results from the global garlic mustard field survey |
| 30. Apr | Clarissa Anders - Clonal plants in heterogeneous habitats |
| Ingeborg Haug - Monitoring of fungal communities on reforestation plots and pristine forest: Cloning and Sanger sequencing versus deep sequencing | |
| 21. May | Lea Böttinger - How does plant inbreeding affect chemical defenses, herbivores, and pollinators? |
| Michal Gruntman - To fight or not to fight: decision making in plants under competition | |
| 28. May | Maxi Herberich - Coupled modelling of vegetation–hydrology dynamics |
| 11. Jun | Johannes Reisel - Maternal effects on seed dormancy strategies |
| 18. Jun | Nicola Lechner - Influence of habitat heterogeneity on plant species diversity in a native grassland community |
| 25. Jun | Jane Devos - Retracing the path of epigenetics out of the maze of natural variation |
| 01. Jul | Patrick Kuss - Phylogeny, biogeography, and diversification in Pedicularis (Orobanchaceae) |
| 02. Jul | Michal Gruntman - A matter of time: invasion history and the evolution of an alien plant |
| 09. Jul | Sabine Urban - Ecological consequences of increased climate variability |
| Jennifer Cross - Insect communities on Rorippa austriaca | |
| 23. Jul | Claudia Hener |
| 30. Jul | Anubhav Mohiley - The role of ecological interactions in determining metal hyperaccumulation in two model Brassicaceae species |
| Ronja Rosenstein - Phylogenetic diversity and composition of belowground endophytic fungal communities associated with wheat (Triticum aestivum) from organic and conventional farming systems | |
| Winter semester 2014 | |
| 31. Oct | Jonas Dornbach - Explaining ORN patterns: A drought x grazing x competition experiment |
| 07. Nov | Sara Tomiolo - To mycorrhiza or not to mycorrhiza? A multispecies approach to test mycorrhiza contribution to plant performance |
| 14. Nov | Bence Gáspár - Epigenetic diversity in grassland plants |
| 21. Nov | Shirley Deng - Stress and epigenetics in aligator weed |
| 28. Nov | Fabian Slowik - bORN in America: Response of Climatic Niche Groups to Canadian grazing and climate manipulations |
| Julia Bruder - Bachelor thesis introduction | |
| 05. Dec | Philipp Unterweger - "Bunte Wiese": nature protection and investigations on urban biodiversity |
| 12. Dec | Miriam Paul - Bringing back the Rainforest - Reforestation Pathways in subtropical Australia and their impacts on Ecosystem Properties |
| 19. Dec | Jana Schmidt - Größen der Botanik in Tübingen - Ein Lernpfad im Botanischen Garten (German spoken, Englisch slides) |
| 09. Jan | Viktoria Ferenc - Combined impacts of water and nutrients levels on mycorrhiza dependency in different plant species |
| 16. Jan | Svenja Block - The effect of precipitation change on the invasion potential of ornamental plants - Update after the first experiment. |
| 23. Jan | Lara Braun - PhD thesis introduction |
| 30. Jan | Jun Shi |
| Nadine Mayer | |
| 06. Feb | Tanja Laaser - Root foraging in the metal hyperaccumulator Arabidopsis halleri |
| 13. Feb | Jake Alexander (ETH Zurich) - Indirect effects of climate change on mountain plant communities |
| 13. Feb | Students of the Plant Evolutionary Ecology course - five presentations on the results from experimental projects |
| 20. Feb | Elisa Scheib - Brechen der winterlichen Knospendormanz holziger Pflanzen durch Gibberelinsäure |
| Julia Bruder - Germination experiments with Namibian seeds | |
| 27. Feb | Moisés Expósito Alonso (MPI) - High-throughput phenotyping in field conditions |
| Niek Scheepens - Adaptation to environmental variability in Arabidopsis thaliana ecotypes | |
| 6. Mar | Sara Tomiolo - Moving up or laying low - limits of Pinus contorta invasion into alpine zones |
| 13. Mar | Martine Huberty - Above and belowground: Herbivore defending stragies of a range expanding plant |
| Anna Bucharova - Regional seeds in ecosystem restoration: Plant ecotype identity affects interacting organisms over two trophic levels | |
| Summer semester 2014 | |
| 10. Apr | Maxi Herberich - Coupled modelling of vegetation-hydrology dynamics |
| Ronja Ratzbor - Population viability analysis of an endangered stage-structured population of Pedicularis sceptrum-carolinum L. | |
| 15. Apr | Jonas Dornbach - The pollination ecology of the genus Arisaema |
| 17. Apr | Svenja Block - The effect of precipitation change and precipiation variability on the invasion potential of ornamentals - first experimental ideas |
| 24. Apr | Jan Helbach - The role of soil biota in habitat resistance against invasive knotweed and the influence of environmental variability |
| Dorothee Gross - Bachelor project introduction | |
| 8. May | Mark Bilton - Betting against change: Do seed dormancy strategies of Mediterranean annuals provide resistance to climate change? |
| 15. May | Nadine Bihler - Bachelor project introduction |
| Bettina Bauer - Bachelor project introduction | |
| 22. May | Martine Huberty - Testing the EICA and SDH below ground for a range expending invasive species: Rorippa austriaca |
| Sarah Gebauer - Insect herbivore resistance of native and invasive populations of the invasive plant Lythrum salicaria | |
| 05. Jun | Lisa Schmid - Bacholer project results |
| 12. Jun | Barbara Piškur - Diagnostics of tree diseases in Slovenia |
| 26. Jun | Niek Scheepens - PostDoc-project introduction: Phenotypic plasticity and plant adaptation to variable climates |
| 03. Jul | Niklas Samuel - Impact of precipitation change and competition on Arabidopsis thaliana ecotypes |
| 10. Jul | Ingeborg Haug - Mycorrhizal Research in South Ecuador |
| Elisabeth Früh - PhD project introduction | |
| 17. Jul | Dorothea Mosandl - Mycorrhization of paramo plants in South Ecuador |
| Katharina Greiner-Perth | |
| 31. Jul | Extra-semestrial guest lecture: Marcin Piatek - Uncharted terrain: exploring the diversity of smut fungi in West Africa |