EU: PAPILLONS - Plastic in Agricultural Production: Impacts, Lifecycles and Long-term Sustainability

Micro- and nanoplastics research in agriculture

2021 - 2025

EU: PlasticsFatE - Plastics Fate and Effects in the human body

Research into the effects of plastic particles on the human body and development of a health policy strategy for risk assessment

2021 - 2025

BMBF: Rhizosphere traits enhancing yield resilience to drought in modern cropping systems

Assessing the capability of key rhizosphere traits of high yield varieties vs. old landraces of wheat and maize to increase both resistance and resilience of crops to secure yields under drought

2020 - 2024

StMUV: BayÖkotox - Projektverbung Ökotoxikologie in Bayern

The aim of the project network "BayÖkotox − Ökotoxikologische Bewertung von Stoffen in der Umwelt" is to develop promising strategies for the ecotoxicological assessment of substances, substance mixtures and substance inputs into the environment.

2020 - 2023

Diversity components in mosquito-borne diseases in face of climate change

2020 - 2023

Microplastics in Europe´s freshwater ecosystems: From sources to solutions

2019 - 2023

Diffuse phosphorous input to surface waters - new concepts in removal, recycling and management (P-TRAP)

2019 - 2023

Effects of multiple stressors on streams in climate change

2018 - 2023

DFG CRC 1357: MIKROPLASTICS 
Understanding the mechanisms and processes of biological effects, transport and formation: From model to complex systems as a basis for new solutions

2019-2022

BMBF: SUSALPS

Sustainable use of alpine and pre-alpine grassland soils in a changing climate

2015-2021

Environmental changes in biodiversity hotspot ecosystems of South Ecuador: RESPonse and feedback effECTs

BMBF/FONA-Projekt PLAWES
Microplastic contamination of the model system Weser-National Park Wadden Sea

2017 - 2020

EU: ECOPOTENTIAL
Improving future ecosystem benefits through earth observations

DFG-IRTG TERRECO
Complex Terrain and Ecological Heterogeneity

2009 - 2014

2007 - 2013

Joint research projekt EGER
ExchanGE processes in mountainous Regions (EGER)
DFG PAK 446

FORKAST (StMWFK Bavaria)
Effects of Climate Change on ecosystems and climatic adaption strategies

2009 - 2012

DFG Research Unit 580
Electron Transfer Processes in Anoxic Aquifers

2006 - 2012

DFG Research Unit 562
Dynamics of soil processes under extreme meteorological boundary conditions 

2005 - 2011

finished 12/2007

BMBF Ecosystem research
Bayreuth Institute for Terrestrial Ecosystem Research 

finished 12/2004

DBU Wasser verbindet

finished 12/2004