Projects in Central and South America New: Comparative Legacies of Human Land Use in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest Recent: Dynamics of the Malvinas Current (MC) and Brazil-Malvinas Confluence (BMC) in the southwestern South Atlantic since the late Quaternary Recently concluded: Pleistocene and Holocene environmental changes in neotropical ecosystems with a focus on Amazon rainforest (PhD-student B. Wang since 2019) Impacts of Climate, Sea Level Changes and Humans on Coastal Vegetation in Northeastern Brazil during the Late Quaternary (PhD-student Alves de Moraes since 2018) Holocene vegetation dynamics and disturbance regimes in north Patagonia, Argentina (40 degrees South) (PhD-student Alvarez Barra until 2020) Holocene vegetation and disturbance dynamics in Araucaria araucana forests of southern South America: towards a scientific basis for conservation (PhD-student R. Moreno until 2019) Older Projects: Amazon rainforests and savannahs (Cerrado) Comparative Legacies of Human Land Use in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest Environmental change and ecological response inferred from marine sediment cores (Gu > 2018) Changes in vegetation and climate in western Amazonia (Rodríguez-Zorro > 2017) Investigating environmental change of eastern Amazonia during Pleistocene and Holocene (Alizadeh > 2017) Pleistocene and holocene environmental changes in a brazilian area of Amazonia (Hermanowski > 2012) Integration of biological and geological data as key for the biodiversity analysis (> 2007) Palaeoenvironmental recontructions in Amazonia (> 2006) Araucaria forests and grasslands (Campos) Studies on vegetation, fire and climate dynamic “Mata Atlantica” in southern Brazil (Jeske-Pieruschka > 2011) From Landscape to Ecosystem: Across-scales Functioning in Changing Environments Vegetationsdynamik, multivariate Analyse ökologischer und paläoökologischer Daten aus Südbrasilien. Mountain rainforests Late Quaternary vegetation, climate and fire dynamics in Podocarpus National Park, south-eastern Ecuador Reconstruction and modelling of late Quaternary and modern landscape dynamics (vegetation, biodiversity, climate, fire, land use) in the Podocarpus National Park Analysis and synthesis of palaeoecological data revealing patterns of mountain vegetation and plant diversity dynamics and its response to climate, fire, land use changes in biodiversity hotspots Mangroves Mangrove eco-physiological responses to Holocene environmental changes: A multiproxy approach Paläoökologische Studien an tropischen Küstenökosystemen in Nordost Pará und angrenzender Gebiete im Rahmen des MADAM III-Projektes ("Mangrove Dynamics and Management")