Projects

A plant hydraulic architecture module for the LPJ-GUESS dynamic global vegetation model, representing xylem water transport, embolism and drought-induced mortality to better capture the response of forest ecosystems to water stress.

RISKANT simulates the impact of toxins on ant communities by modelling spatially non-explicit ant colonies and their development, including caste behavior, reproduction and mortality, to assess ecological risk from pesticide exposure.

A model developed with the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation and the University of Landau to simulate the impact of genetically modified organisms on non-target insect species, originally designed to study maize pollen deposition on butterfly larvae.