Plant Ecology, Forest Ecology & High-Mountain Ecology

Prof. Dr. Lars Opgenoorth

DFG TransTibet | Open PhD position to be filled

DFG TransTibet | Open PhD position to be filled

Phylogenomics of ground beetles in High Asia

FORGENIUS | Research for the European Gene Conservation Units

FORGENIUS | Research for the European Gene Cons...

Final field work season under way

H2020 GENTREE | Truly collaborative work

H2020 GENTREE | Truly collaborative work

Our three data papers are witnesses of a true European collaboration - with more than 100 co-authors each.

Nature40 | TreeTalker running

Nature40 | TreeTalker running

We have started to run 60 TreeTalker on Beech and Oak in the Marburg Open Forest and the Kellerwald Nationalpark....

DFG RU BaleExile | aeDNA sampling successful

DFG RU BaleExile | aeDNA sampling successful

The field work season in the Bale and Arsi mountains is over. We collected new sediment cores, ground beetles, glacial...

H2020 FORGENIUS | New EU funding

H2020 FORGENIUS | New EU funding

Project on forest genetic resources will help manage to adapt forests to the challenges of global climate change.

BEECHGENOME | break through in genome quality

BEECHGENOME | break through in genome quality

The last weeks brought enormous progress for a high quality beech genome.

DFG RU BaleExile | Publication in Science

DFG RU BaleExile | Publication in Science

Our first major study from the DFG Research Unit 2358 BaleExile has just been published in Science. Here we show...

DFG LocalAdapt | Merging dendroecology & genomics

DFG LocalAdapt | Merging dendroecology & genomics

The dendrochronological measurements of all 500 *Nothofagus pumilio* samples has just been completed.

LOEWE Nature4.0 | Sensing Biodiversity

LOEWE Nature4.0 | Sensing Biodiversity

The six *SensingTreeStations* are about to successfully complete their first season. 65 additional dendrometers will be set up in the...

H2020 GENTREE | Genomic analyses taking up speed

H2020 GENTREE | Genomic analyses taking up speed

Since the summer all data from all seven core species have been completed and the collaborative analyses have started since....

H2020 EpiDiverse | Poplar as epigenetics tree model

H2020 EpiDiverse | Poplar as epigenetics tree m...

In our European Training Network EpiDiverse the last black poplar bud has closed for the year in our common garden...