Institut für Evolution und Ökologie

Teaching

The general herbarium and special collections provide a rare opportunity for students to learn about conserved plant diversity from all over the world and to work with the archival plant material. Students learn about plant variation and plant evolution in two Bachelor and Master courses, the 'Botanik Modul' and the 'Plant Evolution Ecology Course'.

Recent and Ongoing Bachelor and Master Theses

  • Carmen Oeschger, 2024 (MSc): Quantifying chemical defense against herbivores and pathogens of the invasive Japanese knotweed across a North American latitudinal gradient (to be submitted)
  • Cosima Scheiner, 2024 (BSc): Anti-herbivore defence of invasive Japanese Knotweed using herbarium specimens
  • Valerie Terasa, 2023 (MSc): Anti-herbivore defence of the invasive Japanese knotweed across an European latitudinal gradient using herbarium specimens
  • Luzia Hammer, 2023 (BSc): Investigating spatio-temporal responses of stomata and specific leaf area in invasive Asian knotweeds to climate factors
  • Farah Badreldin, 2022 (MSc): Testing for shifts in functional traits in the invasive Reynoutria japonica using herbaria
  • Jessica Weiß, 2022 (BEd): Impact of urbanization and global warming on flowering time of native and invasive Asteracea using records from the herbaria Senckenbergianum and Berolinense
  • Isabel Haidlauf, 2022 (BSc): Impact of urbanization and global warming on flowering time of native and invasive Asteracea using herbarium records
  • Jonas Freimuth, 2019 (BSc): Phenological mismatch of plant-pollinator interactions in Germany
  • Clarissa Zell, 2018 (BSc): Herbaria indicate decline of rare orchids in Baden-Württemberg
  • Miriam Peters, 2017 (MSc): Klimawandel und phänologische Verschiebungen - eine Herbarium Studie
  • Patrick Gebbert, 2017 (Zula): Ausbreitungsgeschichte in Baden-Württemberg anhand von Herbarbelegen