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FOR 402: Functionality in a Tropical Mountain Rainforest: Diversity, Dynamic Processes and Utilization Potentials under Ecosystem Perspectives
Collaborative Project
Coordinating institution:
Institute of Plant Physiology
The German research unit joins biologists, geoscientists, researchers in forestry and social anthropology in a multidisciplinary and comprehensive ecosystem study of a mountain rainforest in South Ecuador that extends from about 1200 to 3000 m a.s.l. In this area the pristine forest can be compared with several stages of its degradation originating from large- and small-scale human impact. In that respect the study objects are secondary forests, agricultural land and wide areas of former agricultural use which have been abandoned because of an ultimate takeover by extremely aggressive weeds. In addition to the analysis of the various ecosystems, a major aim of the research is to develop and implement methods of reforestation of the abandoned areas with indigenous trees. The findings will also allow conclusions for a sustainable use of the indigenous forest.
Collaborative Projects
A: Interactive organic Diversity
Leading institution:
Special Botany and Mycology
B: Material Change and Material Flows
Leading institution:
Institute for Soil Science and Site Ecology
C:
Leading institution:
Institute of Silviculture
