Tasks

Coordination and scientific processing of the project “Model and demonstration projects of measures to strengthen the functional diversity with a focus on sustainable production in fruit growing” (FUBIOO)

• integrated pest management, mechanisms and functions
• herbivore-parasitoid interactions and population dynamics
• changing dynamics of pest insects in the long term and causal analyses
• effects from small spatial to landscape scale affecting the functional diversity
• analyzing environmental and climatic long term changes with effects on plant-insect interactions
• functional diversity and the resistance or resilience of ecosystems
• risk analyses regarding changes in species composition and losses in diversity