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Supported projects and grant winners
Travel Grant Awardees
Ceske Budejovice 2023
The following students were selected for a travel grant (200 Euro) to Ceske Budejovice: Edmund Basham (University of Texas, USA), Demirel Maza-esso Bawa (University of Belgrade, Serbia), Marina Maximiano (National Institute of Amazonian Research, Manaus, Brazil), Caka Karlsson (Lund University, Sweden), Iago Ferreiro Arias (University of Seville, Spain), Aymeric Oliveira-Xavier (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada), Noreen Mutoro (Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria), Xingyan Cao (Ghent University, Belgium), Nadia Sabchuk (State University of Maringá, Brazil), Gladys Kungu (University of Salzburg, Austria), Marlon Wichmann (University of Vechta, Germany), David Keck (University of Hamburg, Germany), Franklin Marin (Ghent University, Belgium).
Edinburgh 2019
The following students were selected for a travel grant (200 Euro) to Edinburgh: Amelia Hood (University of Cambridge, UK), Ana Beatriz Navarro (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Andrew Riesen Tilker (Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Germany), Dominik Schwab (University of Göttingen, Germany), Elena Quintero (Estación Biológica de Doñana, Spain), Frederik Kiene (University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Germany), Malcom Ramsay (University of Veterinary Medicine Hanover, Germany), Olga Natalie Tserej Vazquez (University of Miami, USA), Paulina Zigelski (University of Hamburg, Germany), Saskia Dröge(University of Hildesheim, Germany), Kerstin Pierick (University of Göttingen, Germany), Badru Mugerwa (Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany).
Student Research Grant Awardees
Grant Projects 2023
Saskia Dröge, Environmental outcomes of voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) in the cocoa sector in Luwu, Luwu Utara and Luwu Timur in Sulawesi, Indonesia
Andressa Cabral, The spatio-temporal co-diversification of frugivory-related traits
Tyler James Cuddy, Mesocarnivore Ecology and the Impacts of Heavy Metals in the Environment
Jessica Valeria Mereci Guaman, The importance of rare tree species for forest ecosystem functioning in South Ecuadorian tropical montane forests
Rhuthuparna S B, Reflecting on enantiostyly: Investigating pollen transfer dynamics, morph ratio and outcrossing rate in mirror image flowers
Grant Projects 2019
Dominik Schüßler, Comparative ecologic modeling to understand the role of phenotypic plasticity in explaining distributional patterns and the adaptability towards anthropogenic habitat degradation of lemurs in eastern Madagascar
Dounia Dhaou, Role of allelopathy in the functioning of mangroves in Vietnam
Gino Brignoli, Bird diversity across a human mediated disturbance gradient
Katherine Mullin, Assessing the effects of habitat fragmentation on amphibian populations in Madagascar’s high montane forests
Mukhlish Jamal Musa Holle, Contribution of millipedes to ecosystem functioning in tropical forest: an Experimental study
Nina White, Population recovery of the mountain chicken frog following a chytridiomycosis epidemic
Olga Tserej Vazquez, Can plants use leaf thermoregulatory traits to buffer themselves against global warming? An examination of intraspecific variation in traits and temperatures of avocado (Persea americana)
Sara Fernández Garzón, Vertical stratification of ant’s gut bacteria diversity using MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry for first time.
