Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil.Jürgen Dengler
Participating ScientistRoom: Zurich University of Applied Sciences
e-Mail: dr.juergen.dengler(at)gmail.com
University of Bayreuth, Plant Ecology
Universitätsstraße 30
95447 Bayreuth
Germany
Fields of Research in BayCEER:
- Vegetation ecology
- Patterns and drivers of biodiversity in Palaearctic grasslands
- Diversity-heterogeneity relationship
- Methods for extrapolation of species richness
- Improvement of Ecological Indicator Value systems
- Broad-scale consistent classification of vegetation
- Vegetation of Northern Bavaria (including bryophytes and lichens)
- Macroecology
- Global patterns of species richness, endemic richness and endemism rate
- Altitudinal and latitudinal diversity gradients
- Ecological niches along biogeographic and ecological gradients
- Species-area relationships and other scaling laws in ecology
- Diversity hotspots at different spatial scales
- Ecoinformatics
- Bavarian vegetation-plot database BayVegBase
- European Vegetation Archive (EVA)
- Global vegetation-plot database sPlot
- Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD)
- Functional diversity patterns across the world’s biomes
- Tools for proper matching of plant names from multiple sources
- Conservation biology and restoration ecology
- Red List methodology for plant community types and habitat types
- Effect of invasive species on biodiversity
- Evaluation of management measures in conservation
- Effects of grazing on ecosystems in Europe, Asia and Africa
- Experimental plant ecology
- SIGNAL: effects of climate change, invasive species and land use in grasslands
- Hydrological niches of grassland species and how they shape biodiversity
Professor and head of the Vegtation Ecology Group at the Zürich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) Wädenswil, Switzerland: Homepage at ZHAW
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Editor-in-Charge of Phytocoenologia, Associate Editor of Applied Vegetation Science and Editorial Board of Tuexenia
Executive Commitee of the Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG), Steering Commitee of the IAVS Vegetation Classification Working Group and Council Member of the International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS)
Grasslands more diverse than rain forests – in small areas…
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