Spatial vegetation ecology: Understanding the ecosystem processes that influence plant diversity patterns at different spatial scales

Habilitationsschrift

by Heike Culmsee
Habilitation
Date of Examination:2015-02-17
Date of issue:2019-09-10
Advisor:Prof. Dr. Christoph Leuschner
Referee:Prof. Dr. Christoph Leuschner
Referee:Prof. Dr. Uwe Mattler
Persistent Address: http://dx.doi.org/10.53846/goediss-7630

 

 

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Abstract

English

The present thesis is based on a set of 16 peer-reviewed publications originating from ecological research work aimed at understanding how ecosystem processes may influence plant diversity patterns at different spatial scales. The first chapter of the text provides an overall introduction to the topic. Each of the following four chapters sets the framework for the relevant publications by linking their contents and summarising methodological approaches. In each of the Chapters 2–5, the focus is exemplarily set on specific spatial scales in order to shed light on different aspects of plant diversity and on the scale-related types of underlying ecological and/or biogeographical processes. Research was carried out in diverse types of ecosystems. Chapters 2 and 3 focus on tropical mountain rain forests of Sulawesi (Indonesia), and continental and cross-continental comparisons are made with other tropical rain forest ecosystems. Chapter 4 focuses on temperate forests of northwest Germany and Chapter 5 on agricultural ecosystems (grasslands and arable fields) of north and central Germany. The German translation of the abstracts is given in Chapter 6.
Keywords: botany; vegetation ecology; conservation biology; spatial analysis; tropical tree diversity; land use change; Sulawesi; Central European grasslands
 
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