Tasks

• Head of the working group “Functional Biodiversity”
• Investigation of the relationships between functional biodiversity (above- and belowground) and resilience in forests
• Investigation of the community composition of soil fauna and microorganisms
• Determination of energy fluxes in food webs of soil animals to quantify ecosystem processes and functions
• Methods:
  • Compound-specific isotope analysis of carbon and nitrogen in amino acids to determine the basal resource and trophic position of animals in the food web
  • Phospholipid analyses to characterize the microbial community in the soil 

Publons: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/J-9336-2019

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=1D-l31kAAAAJ&hl=de