Welcome to D6!
We are scientists of the Department of Ecological Dynamics at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin, Germany. Our research is focused on understanding ecological dynamics in space and time, at different levels of organisation, from individuals to communities, and across gradients of human altered environments.
We investigate how fitness consequences of processes acting at the individual level, such as social behaviour or movements, competition, predator-prey or host-pathogen interactions, shape population and community dynamics, also at evolutionary scales. To ensure transparency and reproducibility, we follow the FAIR principles and provide code and data of published papers in our GitHub repositories.
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Our Vision
Our ultimate goal is to predict the future viability of wildlife populations, species, and communities faced with accelerating environmental change in the anthropocene and to improve landscape scale planning for conservation. -
Our Mission
We advance theory and concepts in ecology and evolution as well as the use of computational toolkits by developing and using a wide range of modern field and lab techniques and dynamic and simulation modeling. -
Our Teams
We are organized in three teams spanning all levels from individuals to populations to communities. Check out the three team pages for an overview of our current projects, group activities, and our latest publications!
Contact
Department Lead: Prof. Dr. S. Kramer-Schadt
Deputy Lead: Dr. Andreas Wilting
Coordination: Dr. Conny Landgraf
assist6[at]izw-berlin.de
Address
Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Department of Ecological Dynamics
Alfred-Kowalke-Str. 17
D-10315 Berlin, Germany