PhD Student

Research Interests:

• Influence of farm structure and land use systems on phytodiversity and community structure of managed grasslands
• Patterns of phytodiversity and vegetation dynamics in cultural landscapes
• Application of results from biodiversity research in agro-environmental schemes
• Long-term floristic changes as affected by changes in environmental and land use conditions

Current Projects:

• Impact of farm structure on phytodiversity in managed grasslands –
  A comparison of beef and dairy cattle farms
• Scale-dependent patterns of grassland biodiversity under different management systems
• Phytosociological characterization of intensively used grasslands
• Monitoring floristic changes and vegetation dynamics of calcareous grassland in NATURA 2000-areas in southern Lower Saxony
• Floristic inventory of the phanerogams occurring in the wild in the county of Göttingen (Southern Lower Saxony) to create a local flora