Prof. Dr. Andreas Fichtner
Vita
- 2025: Appointment as a Supernumerary Professor
- 2021: Habilitation, Venia legend in Ecology, Leuphana University Lüneburg
- since 2015: Research Associate, Institute of Ecology, Leuphana University Lüneburg
- 2014-2015: Employee at the Environment Division, Municipality Ratekau
- 2009-2014: Research Associate, Institute of Natural Resource Conservation, University of Kiel
- 2009: Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) in Ecology, University of Kiel
- 2006-2009: Research Associate, Institute for Ecosystem Research, University of Kiel
- 2004-2006: Freelance worker Silva Verde GmbH, Consulting for Forest Ecology and Management
- 1998-2003: Studies in Agriculture Science, Subject Landscape Development, University of Kiel
- 1994-1996: Completed vocational training as a gardener (specialisation in organic fruit farming)
Teaching
- Vegetation ecology
- Botany
- Conservation biology
- Physics
Research Interests
- Biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships in forest ecosystems
- Forest ecology and ecosystem-based forest management
- Response of plants and plant communities to multiple global change drivers (e.g. land-use change, climate change, nitrogen deposition)
- Plant conservation biology
Projects
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Climate future lab DIVERSA - Forest disturbances under climate change in Lower Saxony: Understanding drivers and impacts to enhance forest adaptability
Sylvia Haider (Project manager, academic) , Andreas Fichtner (Project manager, academic)
→Project: Research
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DFG Reserach Unit 5375: Enhancing the structural diversity between patches for improving multidiversity and multifunctionality in production forests - Sub Project 8: Understorey plant assemblages and primary production
Andreas Fichtner (Project manager, academic)
→Project: Research
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DFG Reserach Training Group 2324: TreeDì – Tree Diversity Interactions: The role of tree-tree interactions in local neighbourhoods in Chinese subtropical forests; P1: Spatial above- and belowground complementarity
Goddert von Oheimb (Project manager, academic) , Andreas Fichtner (Project manager, academic) , Xiaojuan Liu (Project manager, academic) , Keping Ma (Project manager, academic) , Wensheng Bu (Project manager, academic)
→Project: Research
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Understorey plant assemblages and primary production
Goddert von Oheimb (Project manager, academic) , Andreas Fichtner (Project manager, academic)
→Project: Research
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TreeDiversity Interactions (TreeDi): The role of tree-tree interactions in local neighbourhoods in Chinese subtropical forests - International Research Training Group funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Werner Härdtle (Project manager, academic) , Goddert von Oheimb (Project manager, academic) , Andreas Fichtner (Project manager, academic) , María Dolores Perles-García (Project staff) , Helge Bruelheide (Project manager, academic) , Yanfen Wang (Project manager, academic)
→Project: Research
Publications
Books and anthologies
- Einfluss der Bewirtschaftungsintensität auf die Wachstumsdynamik von Waldmeister-Buchenwäldern (Galio odorat-Fagetum)
Andreas Fichtner (Author) , 2009 Kiel , 150 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research
Journal contributions
- Enhanced forest structural heterogeneity increases functional β-diversity but reduces α- and γ-diversity in soil nematodes
Rike Schwarz (Author) , Pia M. Bradler (Author) , Anne Chao (Author) , Po-Yen Chuang (Author) , Marcel Ciobanu (Author) , Orsi Decker (Author) , Benjamin M. Delory (Author) , Peter Dietrich (Author) , Sebastian Dittrich (Author) , Andreas Fichtner (Author) , Ludwig Lettenmaier (Author) , Michael Junginger (Author) , Oliver Mitesser (Author) , Akira Mori (Author) , Jörg Müller (Author) , Goddert von Oheimb (Author) , Kerstin Pierick (Author) , Nico Eisenhauer (Author) , Simone Cesarz (Author) , 01.03.2026 , in: Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 214 , 14 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- Inconsistent short-term effects of enhanced structural complexity on soil microbial properties across German forests
Andreas Fichtner (Author) , Rike Schwarz (Author) , Nico Eisenhauer (Author) , Christian Ammer (Author) , Pia M. Bradler (Author) , Orsi Decker (Author) , Benjamin M. Delory (Author) , Peter Dietrich (Author) , Yuanyuan Huang (Author) , Ludwig Lettenmaier (Author) , Michael Junginger (Author) , Oliver Mitesser (Author) , Jörg Müller (Author) , Goddert von Oheimb (Author) , Kerstin Pierick (Author) , Michael Scherer-Lorenzen (Author) , Simone Cesarz (Author) , 01.10.2025 , in: Applied Soil Ecology, 214 , 13 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- Ecological assessment of forest management approaches to develop resilient forests in the face of global change in Central Europe
Andreas Fichtner (Author) , Franka Huth (Author) , Alexander Tischer (Author) , Petia Nikolova (Author) , Heike Feldhaar (Author) , Alexandra Wehnert (Author) , Lisa Hülsmann (Author) , Jürgen Bauhus (Author) , Katrin Heer (Author) , Juliane Vogt (Author) , Christian Ammer (Author) , Uta Berger (Author) , Markus Bernhardt-Römermann (Author) , Manuela Böhme (Author) , Harald Bugmann (Author) , Laura Demant (Author) , Jörn Buse (Author) , Inken Dörfler (Author) , Jörg Ewald (Author) , Eike Feldmann (Author) , Martin M. Gossner (Author) , Thorsten E.E. Grams (Author) , Karl-Heinz Häberle (Author) , Jonas Hagge (Author) , Henrik Hartmann (Author) , Sven Herzog (Author) , Ansgar Kahmen (Author) , Ulrich Kohnle (Author) , Doris Krabel (Author) , Klara Krämer-Klement (Author) , Jürgen Kreyling (Author) , Michael Manthey (Author) , Karl Mellert (Author) , Peter Meyer (Author) , Andreas Mölder (Author) , Lena Muffler-Weigel (Author) , Bettina Ohse (Author) , Lars Opgenoorth (Author) , Boris Rewald (Author) , Andreas Rothe (Author) , Nadine Ruehr (Author) , Tobias Scharnweber (Author) , Michael Scherer-Lorenzen (Author) , Jonas Schmeddes (Author) , Joachim Schmerbeck (Author) , Markus Schmidt (Author) , Dominik Seidel (Author) , Frank M. Thomas (Author) , Malin Tiebel (Author) , Goddert von Oheimb (Author) , Sven Wagner (Author) , Robert Weigel (Author) , Martin Wilmking (Author) , Christian Zang (Author) , Bernhard Schuldt (Author) , 01.08.2025 , in: Basic and Applied Ecology, 86 , p. 66-100 , 35 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Scientific review articles › Research
- Untersuchungen zur Mortalität von Empetrum nigrum (L.) und Calluna vulgaris (L.) Hull in Küstenheiden auf der Insel Sylt
Ramona Isabel Ressel (Author) , Rainer Borcherding (Author) , Werner Härdtle (Author) , Andreas Fichtner (Author) , 23.06.2025 , in: Kieler Notizen zur Pflanzenkunde, 2024/2025, 48 , p. 39-66 , 28 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- Interactive effects of nitrogen deposition and climate change on a globally rare forest geophyte
Werner Härdtle (Author) , Andreas Fichtner (Author) , Bettina Ohse (Author) , Doris Jansen (Author) , 01.03.2025 , in: Plant Biology, 27, 2 , p. 297-309 , 13 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
- Nachbarschafts-Artenvielfalt kann trockenheitsbedingte Zuwachseinbußen bei Bäumen mindern
Werner Härdtle (Author) , Andreas Fichtner (Author) , 23.08.2024 München , p. 119-131 , 13 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
- Forest Ecosystems: A functional and biodiversity perspective
Andreas Fichtner (Author) , Werner Härdtle (Author) , 01.01.2021 Cham , p. 383-405 , 23 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
- Land use change and the future of biodiversity
Andreas Fichtner (Author) , Werner Härdtle (Author) , Carsten Hobohm (Author) , Carl Beierkuhnlein (Author) , Christine Börtitz (Author) , V. Ralph Clark (Author) , Nadja El Balti (Author) , Scott Franklin (Author) , Thomas Gaens (Author) , Andreas Skriver Hansen (Author) , Monika Janišová (Author) , Jan Jansen (Author) , Martin Lindner (Author) , Michaela Moro-Richter (Author) , Volker Müller-Benedict (Author) , Konrad Ott (Author) , Karl Christoph Reinmuth (Author) , Nils M. van Rooijen (Author) , Matthias Sandberg (Author) , Joop H.J. Schaminée (Author) , Cindy Q. Tang (Author) , Hans-Christoph Vahle (Author) , Sula E. Vanderplank (Author) , 01.01.2021 Cham , p. 451-483 , 33 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
- Integrativer Klimaschutz im Wald: Herausforderungen und Handlungsoptionen
Andreas Fichtner (Author) , Knut Sturm (Author) , Martin Schmid (Author) , Saskia von Steen (Author) , 01.01.2014 Bonn , p. 57-63 , 7 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
- Gamma GAMM applied on tree growth data
Andreas Fichtner (Author) , Alain F. Zuur (Author) , Elena N. Ieno (Author) , Anatoly A. Saveliev (Author) , 01.01.2014 1 ed. Newburgh , p. 217-239 , 23 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review