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The natural environment is undergoing rapid change due to changes in land use, excess nutrients, invasive alien species and climate change. The associated negative effects on biodiversity and ecosystem functions require new forms of nature conservation and renaturation. This is the central task of the Chair of Restoration Ecology.
In addition to analyzing vegetation-ecological processes under the influence of different site and usage conditions, our research focuses on the importance of vegetation for the function of ecosystems. Our research projects focus on the vegetation dynamics of semi-natural and agricultural systems, invasive alien species, plant material for restoration projects and the effects of wetland restoration on the production of climate-relevant trace gases. We combine population-ecological, synecological and ecosystem approaches.
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The dissertation of Dr. Marion Lang (s. photo) was awarded the Wolfgang Erz Sponsorship Prize at the German Nature Conservation Day (11.08.2022) in Hanover. The prize is awarded every four years by the Federal Association for Professional Nature Conservation (BBN) in memory of the conservationist Wolfgang Erz, who died in 1998. It honors outstanding application and implementation-oriented work for nature conservation throughout Germany. Marion Lang received the prize for her dissertation on the reintroduction of endangered arable wild plants, which she completed in 2021 at the Chair of Renaturation Ecology (supervisors: PD Dr. Harald Albrecht and Prof. Johannes Kollmann). The Wolfgang Erz Prize was awarded in a festive ceremony at the opening event of the 36th German Nature Conservation Day with a laudatory speech by Dr. Alfred Herberg (BBN Executive Board).
Presentation of Professor Johannes Kollmann at TUM@Freising on 26.07.2022 (Announcement, Report, German)
Golf meets science. Interview with Professor Johannes Kollmann (26.03.2020)
Pfadenhauer JS & Klötzli FA (2020) Global Vegetation. Fundamentals, Ecology and Distribution. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49860-3
Kollmann J, Kirmer A, Tischew S, Hölzel N & Kiehl K (2018) Renaturierungsökologie. Springer Spektrum. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-54913-1