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Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften und Mikrobiologie
Ökologische Modellierung
Ohnhorststraße 18
22609 Hamburg
Room: 2.029, Otto-Warburg-Haus
Telephone: +49 40 23952 1478
Key aspects of activity
- Non-vascular vegetation
- Global biogeochemical cycles
- Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
- Palaeoclimate dynamics
Research associates
Postdoctoral researcher
Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften und Mikrobiologie
Ökologische Modellierung
Ohnhorststr. 18
22609 Hamburg
Room: 2.060, Otto-Warburg-Haus
Key aspects of activity
- Process based modelling of microbes, animals and plants
- Microbial, animal and plant functional diversity and ecosystem functions
- Animal and microbial functional groups
- Urban ecology
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Postdoctoral Researcher
Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften und Mikrobiologie
Ökologische Modellierung
Ohnhorststr. 18
22609 Hamburg
Room: 2.027, Otto-Warburg-Haus
Telephone: +49 40 42816- 549
Key aspects of activity
- Land use change in the Miombo region
- Biodiversity monitoring (Morocco, Angola)
- Vegetation mapping
- Frost and fire in the Angolan highlands
- Ecology and evolution of weird life forms
Doctoral Researcher
Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften und Mikrobiologie
Ohnhorststraße 18
22609 Hamburg
Telephone: +49 40 42816-579
Key aspects of activity
- Climate science
- Evolution of land plants
- Lycophytes in the Earth System
- Weathering and climate
Doctoral Researcher
Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften und Mikrobiologie
Ohnhorststr. 18
22609 Hamburg
Room: 2.060, Otto-Warburg-Haus
Key aspects of activity
- Modelling of coupled soil-vegetation dynamics
- Ecosystem functioning and the carbon cycle
- Weathering processes and global climate
Postdoctoral researcher
Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften und Mikrobiologie
Ökologische Modellierung
Ohnhorststr. 18
22609 Hamburg
Room: 2.060, Otto-Warburg-Haus
Key aspects of activity
- Ecophysiology of non-vascular organisms
- Thresholds and limits of acclimation under environmental stress
- CO2 effects on carbon assimilation and photophysiology
- Biodiversity responses of cryptogams to changing climate and microhabitat conditions
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Doctoral Researcher
Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften und Mikrobiologie
Ohnhorststr. 18
22609 Hamburg
Room: 2.060, Otto-Warburg-Haus
Key aspects of activity
- Carbon sequestration in rewetted peatlands
- Ecophysiology of stressed plants
- Process based modelling of vegetation systems
Doctoral Researcher
Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften und Mikrobiologie
Ohnhorststr. 18
22609 Hamburg
Room: 2.060, Otto-Warburg-Haus
Key aspects of activity
- Process-based modelling of soil microbes
- Microbial functional diversity and ecosystem functions
- Carbon cycling in estuarine marshes
Postdoctoral Researcher
Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften und Mikrobiologie
Ohnhorststraße 18
22609 Hamburg
Room: 2.027, Otto-Warburg-Haus
Key aspects of activity
- Dynamic global vegetation modeling
- Climate change impacts on Arctic tundra biodiversity
- Permafrost-vegetation feedback processes
Postdoctoral researcher
Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften und Mikrobiologie
Ökologische Modellierung
Ohnhorststr. 18
22609 Hamburg
Room: 2.060, Otto-Warburg-Haus
Email: yu.zhu"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Key aspects of activity
- Process-based modelling under palaeo- and present climate
- Biogeochemistry cycles in permafrost regions
- Ecological impacts of vascular and non-vascular plants