Vita

  • 1995: Habilitation in "Geobotany and Landscape Ecology", Universities of Kiel and Lüneburg, Germany
  • 1990: Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.), Institute of Botany, University of Kiel, Germany
  • 1985-1990: Study of Soil Science, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Kiel, minor subject during PhD study
  • 1984: Diploma in Biology, Universities of Göttingen and Kiel, Germany
    1976: Abitur, Fichte-Gymnasium, Krefeld, Germany
  • Academic positions
  • Since 1997: Professor of Ecology (Landscape Ecology and Nature Conservation), Faculty of Environmental Sciences, University of Lüneburg, Germany
  • 1994-1997: Assistant Professor of Botany, Faculty of Cultural Studies, University of Lüneburg, Germany
  • 1992-1994: Assistant Lecturer, Department of Ecology, University of Osnabrück, Germany
  • 1986-1992: Research Associate, Department of Vegetation Ecology, University of Kiel, Germany

Teaching

Ecology, Vegetation ecology, Botany

Research Interests

  • Forest ecology and dynamics                                                                                    
  • Nutrient balance and dynamics of ecoystems (of heathlands and forests)
  • Relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
  • Forms of land use and their influences on vegetation 

Projects

  1. 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

  2. Minderung der Barrierewirkung von Agrarflächen mittels halboffener Verbundkorridore
    Werner Härdtle (Project manager, academic) , Thorsten Aßmann (Project manager, academic) , Claudia Drees (Partner) , Simon Robert Wolfgang Hein (Project staff) , Swantje Grabener (Project staff)

    Project: Research

  3. Securing the Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity of Extensively Managed Cultural Landscapes (Ökokult): - Subproject 1: Ecosystem Functioning and Services of Cultural Landscapes
    Victoria Martine Temperton (Project manager, academic) , Werner Härdtle (Project manager, academic) , Thorsten Aßmann (Project manager, academic) , David Walmsley (Coordination) , Andreas Schuldt (Project staff)

    Project: Research

  4. Effects of woody species diversity and composition on individual plant growth and demography
    Werner Härdtle (Project manager, academic) , Andreas Fichtner (Project manager, academic)

    Project: Research

  5. TR_Experiment Stickstoffeintrag
    Werner Härdtle (Project manager, academic)

    Project: Transfer (R&D project)

Publications

Books and anthologies

  1. Biodiversität, Ökosystemfunktionen und Naturschutz
    Werner Härdtle (Author) , 2024 Berlin, Heidelberg , 911 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesBookResearch

  2. Halboffene Verbundkorridore: Ökologische Funktion, Leitbilder und Praxis-Leitfaden
    Thorsten Aßmann (Author) , Estève Boutaud (Author) , Werner Härdtle (Author) , Dorothea Irmgard Ilse Nolte (Author) , Peter Finck (Author) , Diethart Matthies (Author) , Goddert von Oheimb (Author) , Uwe Riecken (Author) , Eliane Travers (Author) , Karin Ullrich (Author) , 2016 Münster , 296 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  3. Die Waldgesellschaften Luxemburgs: Vegetation, Standort, Vorkommen und Gefährdung
    Thomas Niemeyer (Author) , Werner Härdtle (Author) , Christian Ries (Author) , 2010 Luxembourg , 122 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

  4. Flora und Vegetation im nordöstlichen Niedersachsen: Sonderheft aus Anlass der 56. Jahrestagung der Floristisch-Soziologischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft vom 09. bis 12. Juni 2006 in Lüneburg
    Werner Härdtle (Editor) , Kurt Horst (Editor) , Johannes Prüter (Editor) , 2006 Lüneburg , 173 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesConference proceedingsResearch

  5. Halboffene Weidelandschaft Höltigbaum: Perspektiven für den Erhalt und die naturverträgliche Nutzung von Offenlandlebensräumen ; Ergebnisse und Erfahrungen aus dem gleichnamigen Erprobungs- und Entwicklungsvorhaben (E+E) des Bundesamtes für Naturschutz
    Goddert Oheimb (Author) , Werner Härdtle (Author) , S. Baumung (Author) , Inge Eischeid (Author) , Peter Finck (Author) , Heiko Grell (Author) , Ulrich Mierwald (Author) , U. Ricken (Author) , Jutta Sandkühler (Author) , 2006 Bonn , 280 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

Journal contributions

  1. Proposing a social-ecological framework for successful grassland restoration in Germany—an overview and insights from the Grassworks project
    Victoria Martine Temperton (Author) , Alina Twerski (Author) , Miguel Ángel Cebrián-Piqueras (Author) , Manuel Pacheco Romero (Author) , Joern Fischer (Author) , Werner Härdtle (Author) , Lukas Christopher Kuhn (Author) , Jacqueline Loos (Author) , Lotte Marie Lutz (Author) , Felix May (Author) , Berta Martín-López (Author) , Ioana A. Pătru-Dușe (Author) , Philipp Laeseke (Author) , Regina Neudert (Author) , Markus Bauer (Author) , Volker Beckmann (Author) , Konrad Gray (Author) , Johannes Kollmann (Author) , Christin Juno Laschke (Author) , Michaela Meyer (Author) , Maraja Riechers (Author) , Moritz Ptacek (Author) , Desirée Seifert (Author) , Annika Schmidt (Author) , Line Sturm (Author) , Jan Thiele (Author) , Sabine Tischew (Author) , Liselotte Unseld (Author) , Terese Venus (Author) , Miriam Wiesmeier (Author) , Anita Kirmer (Author) , 01.09.2025 , in: Restoration Ecology, 33, 7 , 15 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  2. 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 contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. How to promote spider diversity of heathlands: impact of management intensity
    Dragan Matevski (Author) , Victoria Martine Temperton (Author) , David Walmsley (Author) , Werner Härdtle (Author) , Estève Boutaud (Author) , Jelena Daniels (Author) , 01.04.2025 , in: Biodiversity and Conservation, 34 , p. 1057-1070 , 14 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. 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 contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. Tree diversity increases forest temperature buffering via enhancing canopy density and structural diversity
    Andreas Fichtner (Author) , Werner Härdtle (Author) , Florian Schnabel (Author) , Rémy Beugnon (Author) , Bo Yang (Author) , Ronnie Richter (Author) , Nico Eisenhauer (Author) , Yuanyuan Huang (Author) , Xiaojuan Liu (Author) , Christian Wirth (Author) , Simone Cesarz (Author) , María Dolores Perles-García (Author) , Georg Hähn (Author) , Matthias Kunz (Author) , Nadia Castro-Izaguirre (Author) , Pascal A. Niklaus (Author) , Goddert von Oheimb (Author) , Bernhard Schmid (Author) , Stefan Trogisch (Author) , Manfred Wendisch (Author) , Keping Ma (Author) , Helge Bruelheide (Author) , 01.03.2025 , in: Ecology Letters, 28, 3 , p. 1-11 , 11 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsComments / Debate / ReportsResearch

Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

  1. 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/anthologiesArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  2. 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/anthologiesContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  3. 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/anthologiesContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  4. Fragmentierung und lineare Lebensraumstrukturen - eine entomologische Perspektive
    Thorsten Aßmann (Author) , Estève Boutaud (Author) , Jörn Buse (Author) , Swantje Grabener (Author) , Werner Härdtle (Author) , Claudia Drees (Author) , Peter Finck (Author) , Uwe Riecken (Author) , Karin Ullrich (Author) , 01.01.2020 Bonn , p. 49-66 , 18 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologiesContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  5. Introduction to the Assessment - Characteristics of the Region
    Werner Härdtle (Author) , Markus Quante (Author) , Franciscus Colijn (Author) , Jan P. Bakker (Author) , Hartmut Heinrich (Author) , Christiana Lefebvre (Author) , Ingeborg Nöhren (Author) , Jørgen E. Olesen (Author) , Thomas Pohlmann (Author) , Horst Sterr (Author) , Jürgen Sündermann (Author) , Merja Helena Tölle (Author) , 01.09.2016 1. ed. Cham , p. 1-52 , 52 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologiesContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

Press / Media

  1. Fitnessprogramm für die Heide
    1 time cited

    Press/Media: Press/Media

Prizes

  1. Most Cited Researcher of the Year 2010 der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (2. Platz)
    Werner Härdtle (Recipient) ,

    Prize: Leuphana internal Prize, Scholaships, distinctions, appointmentsResearch

  2. Most Cited Researcher of the Year 2009 der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (3. Platz)
    Werner Härdtle (Recipient) ,

    Prize: Leuphana internal Prize, Scholaships, distinctions, appointmentsResearch

  3. Most Cited Researcher of the Year 2008 der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (3. Platz)
    Werner Härdtle (Recipient) ,

    Prize: Leuphana internal Prize, Scholaships, distinctions, appointmentsResearch

Teaching