Links

People and groups we collaborate with ...

... inside the Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry

• Model Data Integration Group
• Biospheric Theory and Modelling Group
• Biogeochemical Processes
• Biogeochemical Systems

... in Germany

• Kerstin Wiegand, Institut für Ökologie, Universität Jena
• Wolfgang Weisser, Institut für Ökologie, Universität Jena
• Helmhloltz Center for environmental Research - UFZ

• Jürgen Bauhus, Institut für Waldbau, Universität Freiburg
• Martin Wilmking, AG Ökosystem Dynamik, Universität Greifswald
• Helge Bruelheide, Institut für Geobotanik, Universität Halle
• Florian Jeltsch, Vegetationsökologie und Naturschutz, Universität Potsdam
• Thomas Hovestadt, Universität Würzburg
• Herrmann Heilmeier, TU Bergakademie Freiberg

... abroad

• Kiona Ogle's lab, Wyoming State University, Laramie, USA
• Steve Pacala's lab, Princeton University, USA
• Drew Purves, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, England
• Anatoly Prokushkin, Biogeochemistry Group, VN Sukachev Institute for Forest, Krasnoyarks, Russia
• Sergey Verkhovets, Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
• Jean-Francois Soussana, Grassland research unit, INRA Clermont-Ferrand, France
• Terry Chapin, University of Fairbanks, Alaska
• Markus Fischer's lab, Plant Ecology, University of Bern, Switzerland
• Christian Messier, Center of Forest Science, University of Quebec, Canada
• Hans Cornelissen, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Projects we participate in

• TRY Initiative, IGBP, DIVERSITAS, QUEST, MPG
• The Jena-Experiment, DFG
• The Biodiversity Exploratories, DFG
• DISCOVER Project, ANR, France
• GINKGO, Network for climate and global ecosystem modelling

Useful Tools

We agreed to move in the direction of 'open software' as a sign of sharing knowledge. This is a collection of Open Source Software that is useful for our work.

• GRASS GIS the largest open source GIS
• LATEX
• Octave, a matlab clone
• R, statistical computing language
• BUGS, Bayesian inference using GIBBS sampling
• GLA canopy and solar radiation analysis software
• OxCal calculation of probable age ranges through radiocarbon calibration

Vegetation Databases

• TRY database, plant functional traits of the flora world wide
• BIOLFLOR, biological and ecological traits of the flora of Germany
• LEDA, traits of the flora of the northwest European flora
• Ecoflora, the ecological flora of the British Isles
• FloraWeb, general information about the flora of Germany
• BIOPOP, plant traits of the flora of Germany
• SID, the seed information database of the Royal Botanical Gardens, KEW
• GLOPNET, the global plant trait network forming the leaf economic spectrum