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Prof. Dr. Sylvia Haider

21335 Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, C13.103a
Fon +49.4131.677-2891, sylvia.haider@leuphana.de

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Projects

  1. 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

  2. DFG Reserach Training Group 2324: TreeDì – Tree Diversity Interactions: The role of tree-tree interactions in local neighbourhoods in Chinese subtropical forests; P2: Complementarity through trait variation
    Sylvia Haider (Project manager, academic) , William Stanley Harpole (Project manager, academic) , Zeqing Ma (Project manager, academic) , Bo Yang (Project manager, academic)

    Project: Research

  3. TRACE – TRAit-environment interactions driving elevational range expansions under ClimatE change
    Sylvia Haider (Project manager, academic) , Amanda Ratier Backes (Project manager, academic)

    Project: Research

  4. Mechanisms underlying the success and impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning of range-expanding species under climate change
    Sylvia Haider (Project manager, academic) , Meike Buhaly (Project staff) , Jake M. Alexander (Coordination) , Vincent Ralph Clark (Partner) , Toke Thomas Høye (Partner) , Paul Kardol (Partner) , Vigdis Vandvik (Partner)

    Project: Research

  5. Analysing plant invasions in their environmental context
    Sylvia Haider (Project manager, academic) , Marija Milanović (Project staff) , Ingolf Kühn (Project manager, academic)

    Project: Research

Publications

Journal contributions

  1. Asynchrony and functional diversity couple herbivore community dynamics to host plant diversity
    Ming Qiang Wang (Author) , Georg Albert (Author) , Carlo L. Seifert (Author) , Douglas Chesters (Author) , Helge Bruelheide (Author) , Yi Li (Author) , Jing Ting Chen (Author) , Andréa Davrinche (Author) , Sylvia Haider (Author) , Shan Li (Author) , Goddert von Oheimb (Author) , Tobias Proß (Author) , Keping Ma (Author) , Xiaojuan Liu (Author) , Arong Luo (Author) , Andreas Schuldt (Author) , Chao Dong Zhu (Author) , 01.12.2026 , in: Nature Communications, 17, 1 , 11 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  2. Colonization and extinction lags drive non-linear responses to warming in mountain plant communities across the Northern Hemisphere
    Billur Bektaş (Author) , Chelsea Chisholm (Author) , Dagmar Egelkraut (Author) , Joshua Lynn (Author) , Sebastián Block (Author) , Thomas Deola (Author) , Fanny Dommanget (Author) , Brian J. Enquist (Author) , Deborah E. Goldberg (Author) , Sylvia Haider (Author) , Aud H. Halbritter (Author) , Yongtao He (Author) , Renaud Jaunatre (Author) , Anke Jentsch (Author) , Kari Klanderud (Author) , Paul Kardol (Author) , Susanne Lachmuth (Author) , Gregory Loucougaray (Author) , Tamara Münkemüller (Author) , Georg Niedrist (Author) , Hanna Nomoto (Author) , Lorah Seltzer (Author) , Joachim Paul Töpper (Author) , Lisa J. Rew (Author) , Tim Seipel (Author) , Manzoor A. Shah (Author) , Richard James Telford (Author) , Tom W.N. Walker (Author) , Shiping Wang (Author) , David A. Wardle (Author) , Peter Wolff (Author) , Yan Yang (Author) , Vigdis Vandvik (Author) , Jake M. Alexander (Author) , 01.08.2026 , in: Ecography, 2026, 8 , 15 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Climate variability reduces biomass stability in species-rich grasslands, depending on management
    Yva Herion (Author) , Martin Andrzejak (Author) , Harald Auge (Author) , Walter Durka (Author) , Sylvia Haider (Author) , Johannes Höfner (Author) , Lotte Korell (Author) , Anna Maria Madaj (Author) , Stefan Michalski (Author) , Erik Welk (Author) , Anke Hildebrandt (Author) , W. Stanley Harpole (Author) , Christiane Roscher (Author) , 01.08.2026 , in: Oecologia, 208, 8 , 14 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Tree species diversity drives above-ground carbon sequestration through light-related trait shifts
    Joel Jensen (Author) , Haben Blondeel (Author) , Chloe MacLaren (Author) , Iftekhar U. Ahmed (Author) , Laurent Augusto (Author) , Lander Baeten (Author) , Mark R. Bakker (Author) , Jürgen Bauhus (Author) , Christel Baum (Author) , Friderike Beyer (Author) , Pedro Brancalion (Author) , Elisabeth Bönisch (Author) , Pablo Castro Sánchez-Bermejo (Author) , Peter Dietrich (Author) , Nico Eisenhauer (Author) , Nicolas Fanin (Author) , Adam Felton (Author) , Olga Ferlian (Author) , Petra Fransson (Author) , Emmely Fritsch (Author) , Carolyn Glynn (Author) , Douglas L. Godbold (Author) , Joannès Guillemot (Author) , Sylvia Haider (Author) , Peter Hajek (Author) , Hervé Jactel (Author) , Simone Mereu (Author) , Celine Meredieu (Author) , Bart Muys (Author) , Nils Erik Nordh (Author) , Quentin Ponette (Author) , Boris Rewald (Author) , Agnès Robin (Author) , Dai Saito (Author) , Hans Sandén (Author) , Michael Scherer-Lorenzen (Author) , Hernán Serrano-León (Author) , Matthias Steinparzer (Author) , Kris Verheyen (Author) , Ramona Werner (Author) , Huimin Yi (Author) , Martin Weih (Author) , 01.06.2026 , in: Functional Ecology, 40, 6 , p. 1656-1675 , 20 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. Collaborating across mountains: contributions of the Mountain Invasion Research Network (MIREN) to ecology and conservation
    Aníbal Pauchard (Author) , Eduardo Fuentes-Lillo (Author) , Jake Alexander (Author) , Manzoor A. Shah (Author) , Agustina Barros (Author) , Lohengrin Cavieres (Author) , Sylvia Haider (Author) , Jonas J. Lembrechts (Author) , Keith McDougall (Author) , John W. Morgan (Author) , Vincent Ralph Clark (Author) , Irfan Rashid (Author) , Lisa J. Rew (Author) , Tim Seipel (Author) , 01.06.2026 , in: Biological Invasions, 28, 6

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

  1. Africa’s mountainous islands: archipelagos of fire, water, and problem species
    V. Ralph Clark (Author) , Claudine Ah-Peng (Author) , José R. Arévalo (Author) , Amanda R. Backes (Author) , Mathieu Rouget (Author) , Grant Martin (Author) , Sylvia Haider (Author) , 01.01.2024 , p. 129-149 , 21 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologiesChapterResearchpeer-review

  2. Plant invasions into mountain protected areas: Assessment, prevention and control at multiple spatial scales
    Christoph Kueffer (Author) , Keith McDougall (Author) , Jake Alexander (Author) , Curt Daehler (Author) , Peter Edwards (Author) , Sylvia Haider (Author) , Ann Milbau (Author) , Catherine Parks (Author) , Aníbal Pauchard (Author) , Zafar A. Reshi (Author) , Lisa J. Rew (Author) , Mellesa Schroder (Author) , Tim Seipel (Author) , 01.01.2013 , p. 89-113 , 25 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologiesChapterResearchpeer-review

  3. 1. Einleitung
    Sylvia Haider (Author) , Tina Heger (Author) , Thomas Kirchhoff (Author) , Ursula Schuster (Author) , Vera Vicenzotti (Author) , Annette Voigt (Author) , 31.12.2011 , p. 4-6 , 3 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologiesChapterResearchpeer-review

  4. Pflanzeninvasionen in Gebirgen – (noch) keine Gefahr?
    Sylvia Haider (Author) , Christoph Küffer (Author) , 01.01.2011 1 ed. , p. 105-110 , 6 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologiesChapterResearchpeer-review

  5. Alien plants in the Alps. Status and future invasion risks
    Christoph Küffer (Author) , Sylvia Haider (Contributor) , Hansjörg Dietz (Contributor) , Jake M. Alexander (Contributor) , Keith McDougall (Contributor) , Andreas Gigon (Contributor) , Tim Seipel (Contributor) , 01.01.2010 Copenhagen , p. 153-154 , 2 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologiesContributions to scientific reportsResearch

Prizes

  1. "Student’s European Ecology Prize" of the European Ecological Federation (EEF)
    (Recipient) ,

    Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointmentsResearch

Courses

Luzie Emilia Glock, Sylvia Haider
Biodiversity is a core element of sustainable ecosystems. To protect biodiversity, it is crucial to understand the drivers of biodiversity and the consequences of its loss. We will address the scientific basis of biodiversity research, including the topics: how to measure and quantify biodiversity at different scales; how biodiversity affects ecosystem processes and ecosystem stability; which factors favor biodiversity and which factors are threats to biodiversity; native vs non-native biodiversity; local and global patterns of biodiversity. These topics will be introduced in the lecture and deepened with presentations and discussions about selected scientific publications and case studies.
Next appointment:
Monday, 2026-10-12 at 12:15
Sylvia Haider, Berta Martín-López
Next appointment:
Tuesday, 2026-10-13 at 14:15