Institut für Evolution und Ökologie
PhD theses
Dario Galanti 2024 Genome-epigenome dynamics and natural variation in Thlaspi arvense
Robert Rauschkolb 2022 Back to the future – Seed banks as a tool to investigate recent adaptation to global change
Franziska Willems 2021 Effects of global change on plants: traving the footprints of climate warming and land use from herbaria to forest understories
Anna Kirschbaum 2021 Evolution of plant phenotypic plasticity in response to grassland management
Bence Gáspár 2020 Evolutionary consequences of land use - epigenetic and phenotypic variation in Plantago lanceolata
Ying (Shirley) Deng 2019 Ecological and evolutionary relevance of plant responses to environmental variability
Master theses
Valerie Terasa2023Anti-herbivore defense of the invasive Japanese knotweed across a European latitudinal gradient using herbarium specimens
Farah Badreldin2022Testing for shifts in functional traits in the invasive Reynoutria japonica using herbaria
Anselm Lieb2022Influence of the widespread fungal endophyte Serendipita herbamans on the invasiveness of Reynoutria s.l.
Julia Braun2022Flower-seed-mixtures - how well do they work?
Zixin Li2020A trade-off between adaptation to drought stress and herbivory: rapid evolution in two Mediterranean plant species
Max Oly2019Fungal endophytes modulate plant growth and stress tolerance - a multispecies approach
Angelika Hodina2019The effects of grazing and mowing on the evolution of phenotypic plasticity in Trifolium pratense L.
Mirjam Peters2017Klimawandel und phänologische Verschiebungen - eine Herbariumstudie
Robert Rauschkolb2017Does ex situ cultivation of rare plants species in botanical gardens lead to loss of adaptation to the wild?
Patrick Gebbert2017Ausbreitungsgeschichte invasiver Pflanzenarten in Baden-Württemberg anhand von Herbarbelegen
Miriam Dürr2017Assisted migration: a species-specific matter
Anna Kirschbaum2017Effects of genetic diversity and nutrient supply on community invasibility
Jonathan von Oppen2017Tea Time On the Summits: Leaf litter decomposition in the Alpine environment
Arin Ali2014Species and tissue specificity of fungal endophytes in biological and conventional crop farming
Jan Helbach2014Soil biota and community resistance to invasion under increased environmental variability
Pascal Nassal2013Ectomycorrhizal fungal communities associated with roots of Bistorta vivipara populations along an altitudinal gradient
Bachelor theses
Julian Thomas2024Temperature and light stress resistance of communities of the freshwater alga Phacotus lenticularis in relation to intraspecific diversity
Yvonne Meyer2024Adaptation of Asteraceae to urban environments: does the concentration of flavonoids and alkaloids in leaves change due to urban habitat?
Theresa Rothfuchs2024Effects of hear and drought stress on plant performance of Japanese knotweed (Reynoutria japonica) in the context of climate change
Jamie Wiener2024Testing the response of functional leaf traits to experimental heat and drought stress in Reynoutria japonica
Silas König2024Do weedy Asteraceae change their early growth in response to urban environments?
Cosima Scheiner2024Anti-herbivore defence of invasive Japanese knotweed using herbarium specimens
Luise Kalitzin2023Effects of urban environments on plant herbivory and pathogen damage in native and invasive Asteraceae
Elodie Kugler2023Effects of urban environments on plant performance in native and invasive Asteraceae
Raffael Singvogel2023Effects of urban environments on plant phenology in native and invasive Asteraceae
Fiona Winz2023The impact of seed-borne microorganisms on the fitness of Lotus corniculatus
Luzia Hamma2023Investigating spatio-temporal responses of stomata and specific leaf area of invasive Asian knotweeds to climatic factors using herbarium collections
Jenny Trapp2023Latitudinal gradients in induced and constitutive chemical defences of invasive knotweed
Robin Binder2022Latitudinal variation in leaf palatability and traits related to defenses of European invasive knotweed
Luisa Feifel2022Flower-seed mixtures: how well do they support local pollinators?
Jessica Weiss2022Impact of urbanization and global warming on the flowering phenology of native and invasive annual Asteraceae, using records from the Herbarium Berolinense and the Herbarium Senckenbergianum Frankfurt/M.
Johannes Kasper2022How does the difference in microbial community interact with Arabidopsis thaliana to affect plant disease resistance?
Nina Porath2022Microbiome influence on Arabidopsis thaliana: how does the microbiome affect plant health when facting heat fluctuations and pathogen stress?
Isabel Haidlauf2022Impact of urbanization and global warming on the flowering phenology of native and invasive annual Asteraceae using herbarium records
Hannah Staufenberger2021Flower mixtures and pollinators: an experimental study
Corinna Schönberger2020Large-scale natural variation in functional traits of Thlaspi arvense across Europe
Lina Ried2020Did invasive knotweed adapt to the abiotic environment in the new range?
Julia Rafalski2020Effects of nutrient treatments on native plant communities invaded by knotweed or goldenrod
Lisa Henres2020Using the resurrection approach to test for rapid evolution of germination behavior and seedling establishment in Mediterranean plant species
Marius Munschek2020The effect of herbivore exclosure and fluctuating nutrient availability on invaded plant communities 
Jonas Freimuth2019Differences in phenological shifts of plants and pollinators in Germany
Katrin Mayer2019Impacts of nutrient variability on invasibility of an artificial annual plant community
Leah Kirchhoff2019Plant-soil feedbacks play a minor role in explaining intraspecific phenotypic variation under natural conditions
Elisabeth Lang2019Differential effects of the endophytic fungus Serendipita herbamans on germination of herbaceous plant species
Jannik Kohl2019The effect of hybridization on seed germination in two closely related Campanula species in the European Alps
Franziska Werner2019Germination behaviour of Thlaspi arvense under different environmental conditions
Mara Breit2019Colonisation intensity of Serendipita herbamans in seedlings of riparian plants
Clarissa Zell2018Herbaria indicate decline of rare orchids in Baden-Württemberg
Eva Weber2018The influence of cultivation of wild flowers on their stress tolerance
Lisa Kuechen2017Competitive ability and invasive potential of ornamental sunflower cultivars
Anna Eiperle2017Responses of wild and cultivated sunflowers to temperature variability
Rebekka Ziegler2017Cryptic diversity in Microbotyrum pinguiculae on Pinguicula species: M. alpinum sp. nov. and M. liroi sp. nov.
Rouven Nagel2017Agricultural production of wild plant seeds causes trait changes within few generations
Melissa Sehrt2017Diversity of urban grasslands: Effect of reduced mowing frequency on plants and pollinators.
Janine Spreuer2016Ektomykorrhizapilze in Kiefernplantagen im Páramo von Ecuador
Jens Lüchow2016Influence of canopy cover, habitat, population density and population size on seed size of Alliaria petiolata
Florian Joos2016Ecological significance of biotic interactions for ecosystem restoration
Hanna Walter2015Climatic drivers of seed size and seed shape of garlic mustard in the native and introduced range
Ronja Rosenstein2015Phylogenetic diversity and composition of belowground endophytic fungal communities associated with wheat (Triticum aestivum) from organic and conventional farming systems
Annamaria Achtzehn2015Exotic ornamentals: potential invaders under future climate?
Sonja Winter2014Diversity, distribution and composition of belowground fungi associated with Fallopia japonica (Houtt.) Ronse Decraene
Dorothea Mosandl2014Lichtmikroskopische und molekulare Untersuchungen der Mykorrhizierung von Páramo-Pflanzen in Süd-Ecuador
Niklas Samuel2014Impact of Precipitation Change and Competition on Arabidopsis thaliana Ecotypes