Formind Team Formind Team

	Prof. Dr. Andreas Huth Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ Department of Ecological Modelling Permoserstraße 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany Phone: +49 341 235 1719, Email: andreas.huth@ufz.de –> Homepage
	Dr. Rico Fischer Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ Department of Ecological Modelling Permoserstraße 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany Phone: +49 341 235 1896, Email: rico.fischer@ufz.de Projects: Kilimanjaro, Tansania: Plant functional traits translated into vegetation dynamics Betampona, Madagaskar: Simulating the impacts of reduced rainfall on carbon stocks and net ecosystem exchange in a tropical forest Innovative methods to calculate biomass of tropical forests from TanDEM-X data –> Homepage
	Dr. Franziska Taubert Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ Department of Ecological Modelling Permoserstraße 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany Phone: +49 341 235 1896, Email: franziska.taubert@ufz.de Projects: The benefit of biodiversity for biomass production in temperate grasslands> –> Homepage
	Dr. Friedrich Bohn Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ Department of Ecological Modelling Permoserstraße 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany Phone: +49 341 235 1718, Email: friedrich.bohn@ufz.de Projects: Germany: Linking forest structure, biodiversity and productivity –> Homepage
	Nikolai Knapp Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ Department of Ecological Modelling Permoserstraße 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany Phone: +49 341 235 4764, Email: nikolai.knapp@ufz.de Projects: Innovative methods to calculate biomass of tropical forests from TanDEM-X data –> Homepage
	Ulrike Hiltner Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ Department of Ecological Modelling Permoserstraße 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany Phone: +49 341 235 1723, Email: ulrike.hiltner@ufz.de Projects: Assess the effects of forest management strategies on the variability of forest growth in the tropics in context of climate change –> Homepage
	Jessica Hetzer Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ Department of Ecological Modelling Permoserstraße 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany Phone: +49 341 235 1710, Email: jessica.hetzer@ufz.de Projects: The role of species traits, soil and climate on grassland dynamics and function –> Homepage
	Julia Schmid Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ Department of Ecological Modelling Permoserstraße 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany Phone: +49 341 235 4764, Email: Julia.Schmid@ufz.de Projects: Analysis of the influence of different management regimes to nitrogen leaching and proportion of herbs under distinct climate conditions and soil types –> Homepage
	Anne Holtmann Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ Department of Ecological Modelling Permoserstraße 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany Phone: +49 341 235 1723, Email: anne.piechulla@ufz.de Projects: Analyzing the impacts of extreme climatic events such as heat or drought on ecosystem functioning especially on the coupled carbon and water cycle of a forest as part of the Project MOMENT –> Homepage

Alumni

	Sebastian Paulick Guest Scientist Email: sebastian.paulick@ufz.de Projects: Simulating tropical montane forests in Ecuador
	Dr. Edna Rödig Email: edna.roedig@ufz.de Projects: Linking Eddy-Covariance Data and FORMIND for a monocultural forest at Wetzstein, Germany Estimating the carbon balance of the Amazonian Rainforest: regionalization of the forest model FORMIND
	Dr. Mateus Dantas De Paula Email: mateus.dantas@ufz.de Projects: Long-Term effects of forest fragmentation on ecological processes, community structure and ecosystem services –> Homepage
	Dr. Sebastian Lehmann Email: sebastian.lehmann@ufz.de Projects: Fast calibration of forest models
	Dr. Jürgen Groeneveld Email: juergen.groeneveld@tu-dresden.de Projects: Long-term effects of forest fragmentation on ecological processes, community structure and ecosystem services –> Homepage