Projects (as of 2010)

Current Projects (external funding)

• Modelling Diversity-Functioning relations in grasslands (DFG)
• DISCOVER (ANR, France)
• Siberian tall tower inventory project (ISTC)
• Forest diversity and carbon cycling - the BEAM-Project (DFG)
• Biodiversity and Ecosystem Funtioning Experiment China (DFG)
• Intra- and interannual variability of anatomy and delta¹³C in tree rings (INTAS)
• TRY trait database project (IGBP - DIVERSITAS - AIMES)

Current projects (MPG funded)

• FET database project
• FIBOR database project (DFG)
• Multiple successional pathways after fire in Siberian forests
• Non-equilibrium dynamics in old-growth dark taiga in Siberia

Completed projects

• Forest carbon balance in Thuringia and Kyoto-Protocol (BMBF)
• Climate change, disturbances and C-balance of boreal forests (DFG)
• Vegetation shifts between black and white spruce forests after fire (DFG)