environments in the future. Prof. Dr. Ulrike Herzschuh (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Dr. Kathleen Stoof-Leichsenring (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Temporary Head Dr. Kathleen Stoof-Leichsenring (Prof

Vegetation Change [Translate to English:] Drone-based acquisitions for forest structure (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Climate in the high latitudes is strongly changing, influencing vegetation growth and

of the global circulation from Rick Lumpkin and Kevin Speer, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 2007. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The Southern Ocean forms a continuous ring of water around Antarctica, which connects

And how does altered biodiversity actually affect interactions between plants? Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute have tackled these questions and, in two recent studies, presented the answers they

research group , all group members benefit from affiliation with both the LMU Munich and the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) . Our individual projects are detailed below.

1980 The distribution of data for the period 1980-2015 (approximately 290.000 profiles) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Since the early 20th century hydrographic measurements have been carried out in the

Bremen. (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Vera Fofonova together with supervisor Sergey Danilov after her successful disputation in June 2014 at Jacobs University, Bremen. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Research

are available in the official ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) database of the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research. ePIC is an open-access repository of

Jung | Nikolay Koldunov | Kacper Nowak More information about this project HClimRep - 1 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) nextGEMS – Next Generation Earth Modelling System nextGEMS is a collaborative European

change is altering the circulation patterns of the AMOC. In a recent study, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute found that this change has led to asynchronous poleward shifts of the Atlantic subtropical