Research
Our research aims at detecting, understanding and modelling spatial and temporal patterns in plant assemblages and in the geographical distribution of species:
- Mapping the vegetation continuum
- Mapping of plant indicator values
- Algorithms for the classification of plant species assemblages
- Species shifts under climate change
- Methods in macroecology
- Regional distributions of plant functional types
Practical implications of this research are investigated in applied projects:
- Monitoring techniques in nature conservation
- Remote sensing of forage quality
- Monitoring techniques for the protection of navigable waters
- Climate change and adapted land use; unscrambling human-vegetation interactions for sustainable land use
