Professor Dr. Helge Bruelheide

Address Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Institut für Biologie
Lehrstuhl für Geobotanik
Am Kirchtor 1
06108 Halle

Projects

As Applicant
- Current projects
  - Synergies and processing of data for an understanding of biodiversity and functioning across trophic levels and networks (Research Units)
- Completed projects
  - Klimatischer Toleranzbereich von submediterran verbreiteten Therophyten und seine genetische Grundlage als Ursache von Arealgrenzen (Research Grants)
  - Ökologische und genetische Ursachen der Invasivität von Rhododendron ponticum-Populationen verschiedener Herkunft (Research Grants)
  - The relationship between floristic diversity at the field layer and the habitat heterogeneity after windthrow in a natural beech forest (Research Grants)
  - Etablierungsbedingungen und Entwicklung der Phreatophyten-Vegetation im Vorland der Flussoasen am Südrand der Taklamakan, Provinz Xinjiang, China (Research Grants)
  - The role of gap dynamics for the regeneration of the natural spruce forests in the Harz Mountains (Research Grants)
  - Using biogeographical niche models to predict plant species responses to climate change in interaction with land use (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Global change effects on forest understorey: how do interactions between drought and land-use intensity affect water, carbon and nitrogen cycling? (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Project management and coordination for the European subprojects in the forest biodiversity ecosystem experiment BEF-China (Research Units)
  - Plant functional traits and functional diversity as predictors of ecosystem functioning (Research Units)
  - The role of herb layer characteristics and productivity for forest ecosystem functioning (Research Units)
  - Analysis of root traits to test for environmental filtering and niche complementarity in grassland communities (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Diversity of forests affecting human health (Research Grants)
  - Feedbacks between Biodiversity and Climate (Research Grants)
As Spokesperson
- Current projects
  - GRK 2324: TreeDì - Tree Diversity Interactions: The role of tree-tree interactions in local neighbourhoods in Chinese subtropical forests (International Research Training Groups)
- Completed projects
  - FOR 891: The Role of Tree and Shrub Diversity for Production, Erosion Control, Element Cycling and Species Conservation in Chinese Subtropical Forest Ecosystems (Research Units)
As Project Head
- Current projects
  - Central Management (DFG Research Centres)
- Completed projects
  - Biodiversity Conservation - safeguarding ecosystem functions and services (DFG Research Centres)
  - Biodiversity Functions (DFG Research Centres)
As Co-Investigator
- Current projects
  - Monitoring Of Terrestrial habitats by Integrating Vegetation Archive Time series in Europe (Research Grants)