Prof. Dr. Vicky Temperton
Projekte
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Mechanismen von Prioritätseffekten (POEM II): Interaktive Auswirkungen der Assembly-Geschichte und der Wetterbedingungen auf die Entstehung und das Fortbestehen von Prioritätseffekten in Trockenrasen
Vicky Temperton (Wissenschaftliche Projektleiter*in)
→Projekt: Forschung
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FOR5501: Ein sozial-ökologischer Systemansatz zur Wiederherstellung von Ökosystemen in ländlichen Regionen Afrikas. Teilprojekt SP1: Auswirkungen der Wiederherstellung von Ökosystemen auf Biodiversität auf lokaler Ebene im westlichen Ruanda
Vicky Temperton (Wissenschaftliche Projektleiter*in)
→Projekt: Forschung
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FOR5501: Ein sozial-ökologischer Systemansatz zur Wiederherstellung von Ökosystemen in ländlichen Regionen Afrikas. Teilprojekt SP7: Ein Living Lab für die sozial-ökologische Wiederherstellung von Ökosystemen im westlichen Ruanda
Vicky Temperton (Wissenschaftliche Projektleiter*in)
→Projekt: Forschung
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GrünlandVielfalt: Ökologische und gesellschaftliche Grünland-Transformation in der Ise-Niederung"
(Wissenschaftliche Projektleiter*in) , Vicky Temperton (Partner*in) , (Projektmitarbeiter*in)
Projekt: Forschung
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BiodiWert II: Konzepte zur Wiederherstellung von artenreichem Grünland in Deutschland (Grassworks-2) - Koordination, Sozialökologie und Modellregion Nord
Vicky Temperton (Wissenschaftliche Projektleiter*in) , Lukas Kuhn (Projektmitarbeiter*in) , Miguel A. Cebrián-Piqueras (Projektmitarbeiter*in) , Alina Twerski (Projektmitarbeiter*in) , Ioana Alexandra Patru-Duse (Projektmitarbeiter*in)
→Projekt: Forschung
Publikationen
Bücher und Anthologien
- Plant-plant interactions, biodiversity & assembly in grasslands and their relevance to restoration
Vicky Temperton (Autor*in) , 2013 Jülich , 420 S.Publikation: Bücher und Anthologien › Monografien › Forschung › begutachtet
Beiträge in Zeitschriften
- Multifaceted landscapes for grassland restoration: exploring individual perceptions on grasslands through photovoice
Konrad Gray (Autor*in) , Anita Kirmer (Autor*in) , Miguel A. Cebrián-Piqueras (Autor*in) , Vicky Temperton (Autor*in) , Joern Fischer (Autor*in) , Jacqueline Loos (Autor*in) , 31.12.2026 , in: Ecosystems and People, 22, 1Publikation: Beiträge in Zeitschriften › Zeitschriftenaufsätze › Forschung › begutachtet
- A new Restoration Intensity Index: Understanding how restoration methods and follow-up management control grassland recovery
Annika Schmidt (Autor*in) , Felix May (Autor*in) , Regina Neudert (Autor*in) , Anita Kirmer (Autor*in) , Johannes Kollmann (Autor*in) , Vicky Temperton (Autor*in) , Christin Juno Laschke (Autor*in) , Line Sturm (Autor*in) , Miriam Wiesmeier (Autor*in) , Alina Twerski (Autor*in) , 01.06.2026 , in: Ecological Indicators, 187 , 13 S.Publikation: Beiträge in Zeitschriften › Zeitschriftenaufsätze › Forschung › begutachtet
- Woody vegetation diversity remains low after extensive forest landscape restoration efforts in a western Rwandan landscape
Verene Nyiramvuyekure (Autor*in) , Joern Fischer (Autor*in) , Beth A. Kaplin (Autor*in) , Athanase Mukuralinda (Autor*in) , Vicky Temperton (Autor*in) , 01.05.2026 , in: Biological Conservation, 317 , 10 S.Publikation: Beiträge in Zeitschriften › Zeitschriftenaufsätze › Forschung › begutachtet
- Integrated assessment of grassland restoration methods across Germany: Direct harvesting and regional seed mixtures are most successful for vegetation outcomes
Christin Juno Laschke (Autor*in) , Alina Twerski (Autor*in) , Markus Bauer (Autor*in) , Werner Härdtle (Autor*in) , Anita Kirmer (Autor*in) , Johannes Kollmann (Autor*in) , Jacqueline Loos (Autor*in) , Annika Schmidt (Autor*in) , Line Sturm (Autor*in) , Sabine Tischew (Autor*in) , Miriam Wiesmeier (Autor*in) , Vicky Temperton (Autor*in) , 01.05.2026 , in: Journal of Applied Ecology, 63, 5 , 14 S.Publikation: Beiträge in Zeitschriften › Zeitschriftenaufsätze › Forschung › begutachtet
- Five Frontiers for Science and Practice of Ecosystem Restoration in East African Forest Landscapes
Dula Wakassa Duguma (Autor*in) , Katharina Löhr (Autor*in) , Vicky Temperton (Autor*in) , William Apollinaire (Autor*in) , Matthias Baumann (Autor*in) , Beth A. Kaplin (Autor*in) , Verene Nyiramvuyekure (Autor*in) , Susanne Vögele (Autor*in) , Laura Kmoch (Autor*in) , Tobias Plieninger (Autor*in) , Jacqueline Loos (Autor*in) , Tsinda Aime (Autor*in) , Nzamukosha Beatrice (Autor*in) , Sophia Bohn (Autor*in) , Uwayezu Ernest (Autor*in) , Marina Frietsch (Autor*in) , Callixte Gatali (Autor*in) , Ndahiriwe Innocent (Autor*in) , Angelique Kangondo (Autor*in) , Bulonvu Franklin (Autor*in) , Leonidas Maniraho (Autor*in) , Berta Martín-López (Autor*in) , Drocelle Mukaneza (Autor*in) , Valery Ndagijimana (Autor*in) , Gaelle Ndayizeye (Autor*in) , Martin Nizeyimana (Autor*in) , Elias Nyandwi (Autor*in) , Venant Nzibaza (Autor*in) , Stefan Sieber (Autor*in) , Ping Sun (Autor*in) , Jeffrey L. Ullman (Autor*in) , Gloriose Umuziranenge (Autor*in) , Meike Wollni (Autor*in) , Joern Fischer (Autor*in) , 01.12.2025 , in: Integrative Conservation, 4, 4 , S. 534-545 , 12 S.Publikation: Beiträge in Zeitschriften › Zeitschriftenaufsätze › Forschung › begutachtet
Beiträge in Sammelwerken
- Bedeutung des Grünlandes für das Klima: Hohe Albedo, Resilienz und Langzeitkohlenstoffspeicherung
Vicky Temperton (Autor*in) , 15.04.2023 Hamburg , S. 155-161 , 7 S.Publikation: Beiträge in Sammelwerken › Kapitel › Forschung › begutachtet
- Transferring biodiversity-ecosystem function research to the management of ‘real-world’ ecosystems
P. Manning (Autor*in) , Jacqueline Loos (Autor*in) , Andrew D. Barnes (Autor*in) , Péter Batáry (Autor*in) , Felix J.J.A. Bianchi (Autor*in) , Nina Buchmann (Autor*in) , Gerlinde B. De Deyn (Autor*in) , Anne Ebeling (Autor*in) , Nico Eisenhauer (Autor*in) , Markus Fischer (Autor*in) , Jochen Fründ (Autor*in) , Ingo Grass (Autor*in) , Johannes Isselstein (Autor*in) , M. Jochum (Autor*in) , Alexandra M. Klein (Autor*in) , Esther O.F. Klingenberg (Autor*in) , Douglas A. Landis (Autor*in) , Jan Lepš (Autor*in) , Regina Lindborg (Autor*in) , Sebastian T. Meyer (Autor*in) , Vicky Temperton (Autor*in) , Catrin Westphal (Autor*in) , Teja Tscharntke (Autor*in) , 01.01.2019 London , S. 323-356 , 34 S.Publikation: Beiträge in Sammelwerken › Kapitel › Forschung › begutachtet
- Measuring plant root traits under controlled and field conditions: Step-by-step procedures
Benjamin Delory (Autor*in) , Emanuela W. A. Weidlich (Autor*in) , Richard van Duijnen (Autor*in) , Loïc Pagès (Autor*in) , Vicky Temperton (Autor*in) , 01.01.2018 New York , S. 3-22 , 20 S.Publikation: Beiträge in Sammelwerken › Aufsätze in Sammelwerken › Forschung › begutachtet
- Die Wissenschaftsinitiative Nachhaltigkeit
Vicky Temperton (Autor*in) , 01.01.2018 1.. Aufl. Berlin , S. 94-101 , 8 S.Publikation: Beiträge in Sammelwerken › Aufsätze in Sammelwerken › Transfer
- Energizing marginal soils: A perennial cropping system for Sida hermaphrodita
Moritz Nabel (Autor*in) , Hendrik Poorter (Autor*in) , Vicky Temperton (Autor*in) , Sylvia Schrey (Autor*in) , Robert Koller (Autor*in) , Ulrich Schurr (Autor*in) , Nicolai Jablonowski (Autor*in) , 01.01.2017 , 1 S.Publikation: Beiträge in Sammelwerken › Abstracts in Konferenzbänden › Forschung
Aktivitäten
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Mitglied im Fachkollegium Pflanzenwissenschaften der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) im Fach Ökologie und Biodiversität der Pflanzen und Ökosysteme
Vicky Temperton (Berater*in)
→Aktivität: Beratende Tätigkeit ›
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Food security and livelihoods in restoration landscapes in western Rwanda: An overview and some reflections on the path to the Rwanda Restore DFG Research Unit on social-ecological restoration in western Rwanda.
Vicky Temperton (Sprecher*in)
Aktivität: Vorträge in anderen Veranstaltungen › Forschung
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Mitglied des Wissenschaftlichen Beirates der Bundesregierung für Natürlichen Klimaschutz (WBNK)
Vicky Temperton (Berater*in)
Aktivität: Beratende Tätigkeit ›
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A story about grasslands that needs to be told: their importance, assembly dynamics and ecological restoration in a changing world
Vicky Temperton (Dozent*in)
Aktivität: Gastvorträge und -vorlesungen › Forschung
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Ecological restoration as a tool out of multiple crisis - examples from grassland restoration
Vicky Temperton (Gastredner*in)
Aktivität: Gastvorträge und -vorlesungen › Forschung
Auszeichnungen
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Herausragende Leistungen in der Forschung
Vicky Temperton (Empfänger/-in) Joern Fischer (Empfänger/-in) Jacqueline Loos (Empfänger/-in) Berta Martín-López (Empfänger/-in) ,Auszeichnung: Leuphana interne Preise, Stipendien, Auszeichnungen, Ernennungen › Forschung
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Lehrpreis in der Kategorie Studierendenvorschläge
Vicky Temperton (Empfänger/-in) Berta Martín-López (Empfänger/-in) ,Auszeichnung: Leuphana interne Preise, Stipendien, Auszeichnungen, Ernennungen › Lehre
Lehrveranstaltungen
IMPORTANT: our first introductory session is on the 10th April, Friday, at 9.30.
Please make sure you attend this introductory meeting as all other tasks will depend on information you gain in this meeting and we will talk about the pecha kucha examination format.
Students are now in four different groups:
1) Butterflies
2) Pollinators
3) Outreach and connection to nature
4) Camera traps
In this semester you will develop your plans you started for the posters in the winter and sample the orchard with your goals in mind.
We are currently losing pollinators, the bees and the flies and the butterflies, in our intensively managed landscapes and we need theses organisms not least to feed ourselves. What can we do? Come and help us to restore, study and manage cultural landscapes that can provide us with both food and the diversity of life!
One of the most important challenges of our time is how to combine biodiversity and food security, as our human population and our influence on the biophysical basis of our existence on earth increases. Many people are no longer connected to nature, and feel alienated from natural processes and places. Our activities are causing major biodiversity decline that in turn affects how our ecosystems that we depend on function and the services they provide for us humans. Although our influence is often negative, there are many ways in which we can have positive effects on biodiversity as well as ensuring food security is possible.
What can we do?
This course combines key aspects of biodiversity conservation and
ecological restoration of degraded ecosystems with the extensive management of cultural landscapes. The latter provide us with food and resources whilst at the same time fostering biodiversity. It is also highly relevant for the topic of sustainable consumption, as it instills in participants the value of extensively managed landscapes that cannot provide us with huge bumper harvests but are more resilient in face of climate change and provide much more habitat for many species to co-exist with us.
In this planning seminar, we will plan projects in detail. Our baseline project is a wonderful cultural landscape site near the village of Wendisch-Evern, where together with the a traditional orchard club (Streuobstwiesenverein) in November 2016 we restored an apple (and cherry and pear) orchard to a degraded horse paddock with low biodiversity and high nutrients in the soils (not good for biodiversity).
Since the restoration action we have been doing two main things with different student cohorts:
1) tracking how the plants and animals change at the site over time; we expect that the biodiversity of plants and insects and birds will increase over time, as we remove nutrients by mowing or grazing the site and this is good for promoting more plant and hence also animal species.
2) We are testing whether we can attract even more insects to the site but planting different grassland plants under each of the 15 apple trees; more tasty clover and co species (Klee) or forbs species that attract pollinators but are not quite as tasty as the clover and co species.
This is the first time that anybody has studied this option scientifically in a traditional orchard, and if it works, it may be a nice option for attracting more pollinators to many other orchard sites.
We are embedded in a cultural landscape including returning wolves and a shephard who does not want to have her sheep at our site - there are plenty of socio-ecological topics within the overall topic of the magic orchard and its transformation over time.
GENERAL INFO:
This course is one several different courses in the sustainability minor (sustainable consumption, sustainable governance, life cycles)- you need to choose one of the main courses and then you stick to this course over two years. This course in the summer semester, Module 3 and 4, takes place in the third semester of your minor.
Building on the preceding modules introducing you to transdisciplinary research and projects, and to the key concepts and methods in ecological restoration, this semester you take part in this seminar that moves into the more active sphere.
Please make sure you attend this introductory meeting as all other tasks will depend on information you gain in this meeting and we will talk about the pecha kucha examination format.
Students are now in four different groups:
1) Butterflies
2) Pollinators
3) Outreach and connection to nature
4) Camera traps
In this semester you will develop your plans you started for the posters in the winter and sample the orchard with your goals in mind.
We are currently losing pollinators, the bees and the flies and the butterflies, in our intensively managed landscapes and we need theses organisms not least to feed ourselves. What can we do? Come and help us to restore, study and manage cultural landscapes that can provide us with both food and the diversity of life!
One of the most important challenges of our time is how to combine biodiversity and food security, as our human population and our influence on the biophysical basis of our existence on earth increases. Many people are no longer connected to nature, and feel alienated from natural processes and places. Our activities are causing major biodiversity decline that in turn affects how our ecosystems that we depend on function and the services they provide for us humans. Although our influence is often negative, there are many ways in which we can have positive effects on biodiversity as well as ensuring food security is possible.
What can we do?
This course combines key aspects of biodiversity conservation and
ecological restoration of degraded ecosystems with the extensive management of cultural landscapes. The latter provide us with food and resources whilst at the same time fostering biodiversity. It is also highly relevant for the topic of sustainable consumption, as it instills in participants the value of extensively managed landscapes that cannot provide us with huge bumper harvests but are more resilient in face of climate change and provide much more habitat for many species to co-exist with us.
In this planning seminar, we will plan projects in detail. Our baseline project is a wonderful cultural landscape site near the village of Wendisch-Evern, where together with the a traditional orchard club (Streuobstwiesenverein) in November 2016 we restored an apple (and cherry and pear) orchard to a degraded horse paddock with low biodiversity and high nutrients in the soils (not good for biodiversity).
Since the restoration action we have been doing two main things with different student cohorts:
1) tracking how the plants and animals change at the site over time; we expect that the biodiversity of plants and insects and birds will increase over time, as we remove nutrients by mowing or grazing the site and this is good for promoting more plant and hence also animal species.
2) We are testing whether we can attract even more insects to the site but planting different grassland plants under each of the 15 apple trees; more tasty clover and co species (Klee) or forbs species that attract pollinators but are not quite as tasty as the clover and co species.
This is the first time that anybody has studied this option scientifically in a traditional orchard, and if it works, it may be a nice option for attracting more pollinators to many other orchard sites.
We are embedded in a cultural landscape including returning wolves and a shephard who does not want to have her sheep at our site - there are plenty of socio-ecological topics within the overall topic of the magic orchard and its transformation over time.
GENERAL INFO:
This course is one several different courses in the sustainability minor (sustainable consumption, sustainable governance, life cycles)- you need to choose one of the main courses and then you stick to this course over two years. This course in the summer semester, Module 3 and 4, takes place in the third semester of your minor.
Building on the preceding modules introducing you to transdisciplinary research and projects, and to the key concepts and methods in ecological restoration, this semester you take part in this seminar that moves into the more active sphere.
Please note that the field exercises not only differ in dates, but also in their topics and the study locations. For some exercises you will have to stay overnight, and for some exercises you need a bicycle.
FOR THIS FIELD EXERCISE WE WILL BE IN THE "MAGERE FLACHLANDMÄHWIESEN" (Nutrient poor lowland meadows, LRT/FFH Habitat Nr 6510) of the Elbe Biosphere Reserve that have some characteristics of the "Brenndoldenwiesen" (LRT/FFH Habitat Nr 6440).
YOU NEED A BIKE AND A TENT (or share a tent with someone), as we CAMP at the ELBELING CAMPSITE near Radegast for one night, work in the meadow on the Saturday and are on campus on Sunday:
This is a hands-on field exercise where you get to experience and get to know a species-rich meadow in the Elbe river area and learn how to identify plant species, as well as measure how species increase with the area you sample in a meadow. Thus, it is very much about learning by doing, and testing a key ecological theory in the field.
For this exercise you need to bring your own bicycle. We cannot make exceptions for this, and please check your bike tires are well pumped up before setting out to the Elbe. Many thanks. We are also staying one night (Friday night) in the campsite near Radegast, and so you need to organise with your co-students to bring a tent, mat and sleeping bag. One cannot borrow a tent on the campsite, so please make sure you have this equipment with you. If there is some bigger equipment that you cannot manage to transport on your bikes, we can transport this in the institute van.
FOR THIS FIELD EXERCISE WE WILL BE IN THE "MAGERE FLACHLANDMÄHWIESEN" (Nutrient poor lowland meadows, LRT/FFH Habitat Nr 6510) of the Elbe Biosphere Reserve that have some characteristics of the "Brenndoldenwiesen" (LRT/FFH Habitat Nr 6440).
YOU NEED A BIKE AND A TENT (or share a tent with someone), as we CAMP at the ELBELING CAMPSITE near Radegast for one night, work in the meadow on the Saturday and are on campus on Sunday:
This is a hands-on field exercise where you get to experience and get to know a species-rich meadow in the Elbe river area and learn how to identify plant species, as well as measure how species increase with the area you sample in a meadow. Thus, it is very much about learning by doing, and testing a key ecological theory in the field.
For this exercise you need to bring your own bicycle. We cannot make exceptions for this, and please check your bike tires are well pumped up before setting out to the Elbe. Many thanks. We are also staying one night (Friday night) in the campsite near Radegast, and so you need to organise with your co-students to bring a tent, mat and sleeping bag. One cannot borrow a tent on the campsite, so please make sure you have this equipment with you. If there is some bigger equipment that you cannot manage to transport on your bikes, we can transport this in the institute van.
The course provide lectures on a wide variety of sustainability topics that connect with the focus of each of the seminars, including biodiversity conservation and food security, sustainable consumption and governance for sustainability. Thus the course covers theory, approaches and tools relating to sustainability, including the ecological, social and governance realms. By the end of the course you will understand the basics for sustainability and will get basic knowledge of the projects conducted in the three seminars of this minor.
This is the Master Forum for SEBS students. It consists of sessions in class, with alternating presence of the two lecturers. During these two sessions we will be discussing the exposes that have been uploaded to MyStudy.
The first session will be on Wed 29th April 2026 from14.15 to 17.45in 11 320 with Vicky Temperton, and the second on on Wed 10th June 2026, also from 12.15 until 17.45, with Dave Abson in C7 019.
Between these dates students are expected to make appointments with their direct supervisors to discuss their thesis ideas and plans.
The first session will be on Wed 29th April 2026 from14.15 to 17.45in 11 320 with Vicky Temperton, and the second on on Wed 10th June 2026, also from 12.15 until 17.45, with Dave Abson in C7 019.
Between these dates students are expected to make appointments with their direct supervisors to discuss their thesis ideas and plans.
This is the PhD Colloquium of the Institute of Ecology, where PhD students present their methods, approaches and results and then discuss the results and implications with their supervisors and with other researchers in the institute. The colloquium takes place once per month, on the 4th Wednesday of every month at 16.15 h, in HS5.