Previous seminars
Date | Seminar |
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Summer Semester 2024 | |
19 Apr | no seminar |
26 Apr | Elizaveta Shcherbinina - Cadmium-Microplastic Interaction: Impacts on Arabidopsis halleri and Arabidopsis thaliana Plant Performance. Maud Moes - Plant community response to climate change and grazing in Middle Eastern rangelands. |
3 May | POPBIO FRANKFURT |
10 May | no seminar |
17 May | no seminar |
24 May | no seminar |
31 May | Alicia Dalhaus - Tangled threads: Effects of synthetic yarn on soil and plant growth. Johanne Gresse - Drought resistance and seed dormancy drive population temporal stability. |
7 Jun | Elizaveta Shcherbinina - Cadmium microplastic interaction: Impacts on Arabidopsis halleri and Arabidopsis thaliana. |
14 Jun | Annika Jurda - Effects of disturbance and climate on liana community assembly in tropical forests of Ghana. |
21 Jun | no seminar |
28 Jun | no seminar |
5 Jul | Elodie Kugler, Raffael Singvogel, Luise Kalitzin - Effects of urban environments on phenology, performance and herbivory damage of native and invasive Asteraceae. |
12 Jul | Franziska Koch - Latitudinal patterns in the structure and stability of competition networks. - cancelled - |
19 Jul | Anne Walcher - The Effect of Drought Stress on Nodule Size and Mass in different Varieties of Vicia faba. |
26 Jul | Anna-Lena Hummler - Adaptation of local herbivores on the invasive plant, Senecio inaequidens (DC.) with time since introduction. |
Winter Semester 2023/2024 | |
20 Oct | Carolin Eisele - Comparing short- vs. long-term effects of different plastic fragment concentrations and soil types on plant performance. |
27 Oct | Anna Wagner - The effects of grazing on vegetation in Middle Eastern rangelands. Julian Kirchner - Analysis of forest development phases of the ban forests in Baden-Württemberg. (via Zoom) |
3 Nov | Franziska Koch - Skewed interaction strengths enhance the effect of structure on stability in competition networks. (1 hour long seminar) |
10 Nov | Elizaveta Scherbinina - Cadmium-Microplastic Interaction: Impacts on Arabidopsis halleri and Arabidopsis thaliana Plant Performance |
17 Nov | Johanna Harrison - Effect of land-use intensity on belowground niche partitioning |
24 Nov | no seminar |
1 Dec | no seminar |
8 Dec | STEVE-Meeting |
15 Dec | Amaël Daval - Theoretical approach of rangeland plant diversity |
22 Dec | no seminar |
5 Jan | no seminar |
12 Jan | Marie Geisbusch - Restoration Effects on Peatland Vegetation – Integrating Field and Landsat Data Sami Mujahed - Green Rooftops in a Dry Climate: Exploring Climate Adapted Methods for Biodiversity Conservation in the West Bank |
19 Jan | Hanna Schänzle - The pollinators of Arum maculatum in Bad Urach. |
26 Jan | Lukas Janke - Bet hedging of seed traits in heterocarpic Asteraceae plants Said Mohammed Hassen - Diverse seed dormancy mechanisms determine the survival strategies of related invasive Lepidium species |
Summer Semester 2023 | |
21 Apr | Sarah Werner - Investigating the Influence of Different Microplastic Sizes on Biscutella didyma: A Study on Root and Plant Growth |
28 Apr | Lukas Janke - Bet hedging strategies in heterocarpic plants |
5 May | Carolin Eisele - What is the legacy effect of plastic on the performance of Plantago lanceolata? |
12 May | PoPBio Conference |
19 May | Marie Geisbusch - Analysis of the vegetation development of restored peatlands in the Nationalpark Bavarian Forest |
26 May | No seminar |
2 Jun | No seminar (Whitsun break) |
9 Jun | Julian Patrick Lotz - Land Degradation Risk Assessment in Dryland Savannah |
16 Jun | Ndamononghenda Hamunyela - Soil seed bank dynamics as potential indicators of grazing-induced land degradation threshold in a Dryland savannah |
23 Jun | Anna Wagner - Effects of grazing on vegetation along fence lines in Middle Eastern rangelands |
30 Jun | No seminar |
7 Jul | No seminar |
14 Jul | No seminar |
13 Jul | No seminar |
21 Jul | Undine Schoellkopf - Relationship between belowground niche partitioning, resource availability and biodiversity in grasslands |
28 Jul | No seminar |
Winter Semester 2022/2023 | |
21 Oct | Agueda de La Vega - Testing associative learning in plants (first talk) Paula Schreiner - Changes in the diaspore-ratio in response to drought in three heterocarpic annuals from an aridity gradient (second talk) |
28 Oct | Meeting StEVE - no seminar |
4 Nov | No seminar |
11 Nov | Maud Moes - Plant Community Response to Climate Change and Grazing in Middle Eastern Rangelands |
18 Nov | Guest talk: Daniela Francisca Aros Mualin - Water-carbon relations in ferns |
25 Nov | Anna Lena Hummler - Adaptation of local herbivores on the invasive plant, Senecio inaequidens (DC.) with time since introduction |
2 Dec | Jia Xuan Leong (ZMBP) - A battle between bacterial effector and plant autophagy |
9 Dec | NN. - tba |
16 Dec | NN. - tba |
23 Dec | NN. - tba |
30 Dec | NN. - tba |
6 Jan | Holiday |
13 Jan | NN. - tba |
20 Jan | NN. - tba |
27 Jan | Fiona Winz - The impact of seed-borne microorganisms on stress tolerance in Lotus corniculatus |
3 Feb | Sarah Werner - The influence of three different microplastic sizes on root and plant growth using the example of Biscutella didyma |
10 Feb | Amaël Daval - Modelling the dynamic of nematode transmission by the environment at the interface between roe deer and sheep |
Summer Semester 2022 | |
22 April | Celina Heckhorn - tba |
29 April | Weihan Zhao - University of Konstanz, guest seminar: Biogeographic variation in growth and defence traits of Reynoutria japonica between invasive and native ranges |
6 May | No seminar |
13 May | No seminar |
20 May | POPBIO CONFERENCE |
27 May | Julian Lotz - Multispectral risk assessment in Greater Waterberg Landscape, Namibia (first talk) Paula Schreiner - Changes in seed ratio as a response to drought in three heterocarpic annuals from an aridity gradient |
3 June | No seminar |
10 June | No seminar |
17 June | Said Mohammed (Debre Berhan University) - Developing Ecological Strategies to Control Eragrostis tef Weeds under Projected Climate Change - ZOOM TALK |
24 June | No seminar |
1 July | Isabel Haidlauf - Impact of urbanization and global warming on the flowering phenology of native and invasive annual Asteraceae using herbarium records |
8 July | No seminar |
15 July | No seminar |
22 July | Clara Hampf - tba |
29 July | Lena Barth - Land degradation assessment using Residual Trend Analysis of Enhanced Vegetation Index(EVI), soil moisture and rainfall in Great Waterberg Landscape |
Winter semester 2021/2022 | |
22 Oct | Jannik Kohl - Asynchrony and stability of winter annual communities along a steep environmental gradient in the Eastern Mediterranean Basin |
29 Oct | Alexander Kelemen - Nutrient limitation of plants along a climate gradient in the chilean coastal cordillera (first talk) Meike Ebenslander - the interaction of experimental drought and herbivory on plants along a climate gradient (second talk) |
5 Nov | External Guest: Marjolein Lof, Wageningen University: Pollination and natural pest control ecosystem services |
12 Nov | Denis Bourguet, Thomas Guillemaud and Marjoaline Hamelin, French National Research Institute of Agronomy and Environment (INRAE) - Peer Community In: A free alternative to evaluate, validate (and publish?) preprints (1 hour long presentation) |
19 Nov | Celina Heckhorn - The influence of different microplastic fiber types on two soils using the example of Arabidopsis thaliana (first talk) Franz Weyerer - Studying the eco-evolutionary response of plant-pollinator systems to declining pollinator population |
26 Nov | Steve Meeting |
3 Dec | Hannah Staufenberger - flower mixtures: Plant composition and pollinators - Pollinators' side of the story (first talk) Julia Braun - flower mixtures: Plant composition and pollinators - Plants' side of the story (second talk) |
10 Dec | Leandra Block - Phenology of five grassland species under competition – focusing the biotic impact of global change (first talk) Anselm Lieb - Influence of a widespread and host unspecific fungal endophyte on knotweed invasiveness (second talk) |
17 Dec | Lorenz Krüger - Invenstigating the structure-stability relationship in competitive networks with an individual based model (first talk) Anaelle Regen - HEDGE Project 2: The role of beta diversity in ecosystem functioning (second talk) |
14 Jan | Meike Ebenslander - The interaction of experimental drought and herbivory on plants along a climate gradient (II) (first talk) |
21 Jan | Malina Palmer - Eco-evolutionary dynamics in plant-pollinator metacommunities - connecting ecology, evolution and a compex spatial landscape (first talk) Johanne Gresse - Plant traits as determinants of population and community stability (second talk) |
28 Jan | Nina Porath - Microbiome influence on Arabidopsis thaliana: How does it affect plant health when facing fluctuating environmental and pathogen stress? (first talk) Johannes Kasper - Diversity of microorganisms on Arabidopsis thaliana and their influence on resistance to Pseudomonas (second talk) |
4 Feb | No seminar |
11 Feb | Mara Breit - What determines heavy metal hyper-accumulation efficacy of Arabidopsis halleri more? – Plant or soil biogeochemistry? (first talk) Johannes Schumann - RSR and optimum distances to neighbours in cold environment (second talk) |
Summer Semester 2021 | |
23 Apr | Korinna Allhoff - A crash course in dynamical systems theory - can differential equations help to bush encroachment? |
30 Apr | No seminar |
07 May | No seminar |
14 May | Dario Galanti - Climatic and genetic basis of epigenetic natural variation in Thlaspi arvense (first talk) Smilla Stroetmann - Seed and seedling responses to parental drought exposure of grassland species from the Swabian Alb, Germany (second talk) |
21 May | Jinlong Wan - Long term dynamics of defense in invasive plants: an evolutionary perspective on the shifting defense hypothesis |
28 May | No seminar - PopBio2021 conference |
04 June | Johannes Schumann - allocation of root and shoot biomass under varying levels of stress in adult plants and seedlings of lowland and alpine plants (second talk) |
11 June | No seminar |
18 June | No seminar |
25 June | Alexander Kelemen - Nutrient limitation of plants along a climate gradient (first talk) Anne Krehl - How is the ability of soil to retain water under drought conditions affected by different concentrations of microplastic? |
02 July | No seminar |
09 July | No seminar |
16 July | No seminar |
23 July | Isolde Van Riemsdijk - First glance at invasive knotweed epigenetic and genetic data from Europe |
30 July | Undine Schöllkopf - Plastic fragments in soil influence soil-water retention, biomass and fitness of Arabidopsis thaliana |
Winter Semester 2020/2021 | |
16 Oct | Wei Yan - Pervasive low-allele dominance associates with biomass heterosis in Arabidopsis thaliana |
23 Oct | Verena Schluecker - What happend to the mysterious wet meadows? (2nd talk) |
30 Oct | Smilla Stroetmann - Rapid evolution in germination rate and drought mortality (Bsc, 1st talk) Katja Tielbörger -The twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss. Rehearsal for keynote talk EMBL conference (Our house is burning) |
06 Nov | Heiko Hinneberg - Building a conservation concept for forest butterflies - prerequisites and first results (1st talk) Stefanie Gotterbarm - Heterospecific plant soil feedback strenght in relation to phylogenetic distance |
20 Nov | Lina Reid - Did invasive Knotweeds adapt to the abiotic environment in the new range? (1st talk) |
27 Nov | Lara Saul - Resistance and resilience of grasslands to extreme drought - the role of clonality (2nd talk) |
04 Dec | Vistorina Amputu - Assessment of rangeland condition in a dryland systemusing UAV-based multispectral imagery |
11 Dec | Annika May - Phenotypic plasticity to neutral and green shade in the heavy metal hyperaccumulator Arabidopsis halleri |
08 Jan | Anne Krehl - How is the ability of soil to retain water under drought conditions affected by different concentrations of microplastic? |
22 Jan | Rosa Kramp - Functional responses of plant communities to extreme climate events |
29 Jan | Genevie Allen - Getting to the root of the problem: the rhizosphere microbiome of Fallopia japonica |
05 Feb | Undine Schoellkopf - Do different sizes of micro-mesoplastic affect growth of Arabidopsis under drought? |
12 Feb | Anselm Lieb - Influence of a widespread and host unspecific fungal endophyte on knotweed invasiveness |
26 Feb | Belén Benítez Domínguez - Can metal hyperaccumlation increase drought tolerance? |
Summer Semester 2020 | |
17 Apr | Franziska Koch - The complex dance of competition: Hierarchy promotes stability in benthic competition networks (short talk) |
24 Apr | Eliane Schuster - Resistance and resilience of the forest herb layer to extreme drought as a function of light (short talk) Malina Palmer - Effects of population asynchrony on plant community stability in face of an extreme drought (short talk) |
08 May | Zixin Li - Rapid evolution in two resurrection plants - A trade-off between adaptation to water availability and herbivory (short talk) Maximiliane Herberich - Drought in semi-natural ecosystems (short talk) |
15 May | Grey Monroe (MPI Developmental Biology Tübingen) - From satellites to sequences: uncovering the drivers and genomics of plant climate adaptation (long talk) |
22 May | Verena Schlücker - The mysterious apperance of 3.3 km² wet meadows - a tour through the biotope mapping database of Baden-Württemberg (short talk) |
06 Jun | No seminar - Pfingsferien / Whitsun break |
12 Jun | Jana Fauß - Prey selection in metal hyperaccumulating plants (short talk) |
19 Jun | Lara Saul - Resistance and resilience of grasslands to extreme drought – the role of clonality (short talk) Charlotte Møller - Adaptation of understorey herbs to forest management (short talk) |
26 Jun | Mona Merkle - Effect of competition on plant phenology (short talk) |
03 Jul | Eliane Schuster - Resistance and resilience of the forest herb layer to extreme drought as a function of light (short talk) Julia Schädle - The role of soil water in extreme drought experiments (short talk) |
10 Jul | Inga Tegetmeyer - Unraveling eco-evolutionary feedbacks in heterocarpic plants (short talk) Vistorina Amputu - Vegetation secondary succession in response to time since last fire in a broad-leaved savanna in central Namibia (short talk) |
17 Jul | Franziska Koch - Surprising insights into the (in)stability of competitive communities from a mathematical network perspective (short talk) |
24 Jul | Rosa Kramp - Drought tolerance strategies under extreme drought (short talk) Sophie Weides - Where does the water come from: quantifying diversity of water-uptake depths of plants (short talk) |
31 Jul | Steffanie Gotterbarm - Ghost effects of plant-soil feedback (short talk) Annika May - Can metal hyperaccumulating plants differentiate between neutral (rocks) vs. green share (competition)? (short talk) |
07 Aug | Zixin Li - Rapid evolution in two resurrection plants - A trade-off between adaptation to water availability and herbivory (short talk) Ramona Irimia - Geographic mosaic of local adaptation in an invasive thistle (short talk) |
Winter Semester 2019/2020 | |
04 Oct | Miriam Ruocco (Stazione Zoologica Naples) - Seagrass plasticity across environmental gradients and multi-level response to climate change impacts |
18 Oct | Sophie Weides - Vegetation changes along grazing gradients in drylands (short talk) Free slot |
25 Oct | Sandra Roller - Can plants prepare for future stress? – The effect of plant priming against pathogen infection (short talk) Laura Fink - Resilience of productivity and community composition after extreme drought in forests and grasslands on the Swabian Alb (short talk) |
01 Nov | No Seminar - All Saints' Day |
08 Nov | Frank Reis - Effects of plant age, genotype and environment on the Lotus corniculatus microbiome (short talk) Jun Hee Jung - Interactions between Pseudomonas and plant microbiome: how stable are they across plant genotypes and environments? (short talk) |
15 Nov | Sara Fiedler - Effects of biodiversity on forest and grassland communities during an extreme drought (short talk) Malina Palmer - Effects of population asynchrony on plant community stability in the face of an extreme drought (short talk) |
22 Nov | Talia Karasov - From the Microbiome to the Gene: Mapping functionally important genes in the microbiomes of plant populations (MPI Developmental Biology Tübingen) |
29 Nov | Jonas Freimuth - Phenological shift of plants and pollinators in Germany (short talk) Ronja Ratzbor - An experimental test of the area-heterogeneity trade-off (short talk) |
06 Dec | No Seminar - Meeting StEvE |
13 Dec | Carola Nuglisch - Effects of energised water on plants |
20 Dec | Mona Merkle - Effect of competition on flowering time (short talk) Lisa Merkens - "Comparison of on-site threshing and regional seed mixture to establish species-rich grassland (short talk) |
27 Dec | No Seminar - Christmas break |
03 Jan | No Seminar - Christmas break |
10 Jan | Korinna Allhoff - Individual-based modeling for plant ecologists Inga Tegetmeyer - Unraveling eco-evolutionary responses of heterocarpic plants to fragmentation (short talk) |
17 Jan | Dario Galanti - Structure, Stability and ecological significance of DNA methylation in European Thlaspi arvense natural populations (short talk) Chen Chen - Heavy metals-induced oxidative stress affects the way of DNA methylation and gene expression in pokeweed (short talk) |
24 Jan | Aljoscha Mengel - Effect of management and history on dry grassland vegetation – the Spitzberg as case study (short talk) Carola Nuglisch - Effects of Energised Water on Plants (short talk) |
31 Jan | Grey Monroe (MPI Developmental Biology Tübingen) - From satellites to sequences: uncovering the drivers and genomics of plant climate adaptation -- Canceled! |
07 Feb | Mirijam Gaertner (HfWU Nürtingen) - Managing invasive species in urban ecosystems: a South African perspective |
10 Feb | Ana Caicedo (University of Massachusetts) - Crops, weeds, and wild plants: leveraging the agricultural environment for insight into plant adaptive evolution |
28 Feb | Ronja Wedegärtner (University Trondheim) - Hiking trails as shortcuts into novel environments?! – Non-native plants colonizing mountain areas along hiking trails (short talk) Lisa Henres - Using the Resurrection Approach to test for Rapid Evolution in Mediterranean Plant Species (short talk) |
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 2017/18 | |
20 Oct | Javier Morente - Disentangling local adaptation and genetic drift in marginal populations of a Mediterranean mountain plant. Robert Rauschkolb - Does ex situ cultivation of rare plant species in botanical gardens lead to loss of adaptation to the wild? |
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 Mirjam Peters - Climate change and phenological shifts - a herbarium study |
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 Anubhav Mohiley - The role of biotic interactions in determining metal hyperaccumulation |
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 2016/17 | |
21 Oct | Rouven Nagel - Selection in cultivation of wild plants for seed production Laura Bäumler - Measuring the Water-Use Efficiency of Biscutella didyma via Stable Carbon Isotopes |
28 Oct | Anna Kirschbaum - TBA Niv de Malach - Size asymmetry of resource competition and the structure of plant communities |
04 Nov | Meeting StEvE |
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 Juan Pablo Suárez - Are mycorrhizal communities associated to tropical epiphytic orchids structured around keystone mycorrhizal species? |
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 Maren Reinhardt - The influence of fertilization, soil depth and treading on plant biomass production and plant functional group composition |
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? Rebekka Ziegler - Cryptic diversity in Microbotryum pinguiculae on Pinguicula species |
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 | |
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 2014/15 | |
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 |