This reserach cluster focuses on topics around the distribution and diversity of organisms in geographical space under past, present and future changes of the environment including climate change, land use change and biological invasions.

Team:

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Stefan Dullinger

Speaker

Research Areas: Global Change, Biogeography and Biodiversity

PhD Students:

  • Pablo Aycart Lazo
  • Florian Danzinger
  • Andreas Gattringer
  • Michael Glaser
  • Johannes Hausharter
  • Norbert Helm
  • Elias Nikolas Kapitany
  • Chytrý Kryštof
  • Sonia Rashid
  • Parvin Safiyan Böldaji
  • Tom Vorstenbosch
  • Rym Nouioua

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Franz Essl

Speaker

Research Areas: Bioinvasions, Global Change and Macroecology

PhD Students:

  • Gilles Colling
  • Ekin Kaplan
  • Ana Isabel Martinez Richart
  • Clemens Pachschwöll
  • Anna Schertler
  • Lisa Tedeschi
  • Tobias Schernhammer
  • Jennifer Hennenfeind

Karl Hülber

Research Areas: Plant Marcoecology

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Leyla J. Seyfullah

Research areas: Plant evolution, palaeobotany

Thomas Wrbka

Research Areas: Ecosystem Research; Nature Conservation; Geoecology; Biodiversity Research; Agroecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation; Botany, Vegetation Science, Plant Ecology; Geoinformatics

PhD Student:

  • Florian Danzinger
  • Elias Nikolas Kapitany

Martin Zuschin

Research Areas: Conservation Paleobiology and Historical Ecology

PhD Students:

  • Michaela Berensmeier
  • Alexandra Haselmair
  • Angelina Ivkic
  • Petra Lukeneder
  • Isabella Leonhard