We study the functioning of plants, microbes and ecosystems, the mechanisms underlying their spatial and temporal patterns, and especially their reciprocal relations with several global changes. Our key research foci are:
- impacts of climate change and nature-based solutions for adaptation and mitigation,
- biogeochemistry and nutrient imbalances,
- productivity and phenology
- biodiversity loss and the functioning of complex systems
PLECO has built world-leading infrastructures to perform long-term observations and to conduct manipulative experiments. Our analytical approaches further include modelling and statistical meta-analysis of our own as well as external databases.