Projects

This page provides information on current and previous projects carried out as part of the working group's research activities.

Current projects

  • WiMoDämm - WIR! - Plant3 (2024-2025)
    Production of insulation material from dominant stands of rewetted peatlands
    Funding: BMBF
  • MoorOS (2024-2025)
    The operating system for scaling up peatland restoration. Funding for DUENE e.v.
    Funding: BMEL
  • MOOSstart (2023-2025)
    Increasing yields and scaling up the production and output of seeds as a starting point for the cultivation of renewable peat moss biomass in paludiculture
    Funding: BMEL
  • SoMoMed (2023-2025)
    Sundew and cloudberry as medicinal plants in paludiculture
    Funding: BMEL
  • Praxisanbau von Rohrkolben (Typha) (2022-2025) - AP 5, 6
    Demonstration area “Teichweide” near Neukalen
    Funding: BMEL
  • TyphaSubstrat (2021-2025)
    Harvesting and use of cattail biomass as an alternative substrate raw material in growing media for vegetable cultivation
    Funding: BMEL
  • MoKKa (2022-2024)
    Peatland climate protection through capacity development
    Funding: BMWE
    Contact: Christina Lechtape
  • Vorpommern Connect (VoCo) (2018-2023)
    Evaluating and designing sustainable urban-rural value chains
    Funding: BMBF
  • PeatRus (2017-2023)
    Peatland restoration in Russia
    Funding: BMU, KfW
  • REMEMBER (2020-2022)
    The role of emergent macrophytes in reducing biogenic pollution in aquatic ecosystems
    Funding: BMBF
    Contact: Wendelin Wichtmann
  • BOnaMoor (2018-2021) - AP 1, 2
    Optimization of biomass production on wet peatland sites and its thermal utilization
    Funding: BMEL
    Contact: Wendelin Wichtmann
  • MOOSzucht (2017-2021)
    Cultivation and mass replication of peat mosses for the industrial production of a renewable substrate raw material for horticulture
    Funding: BMEL
    Contact: Anja Prager, Matthias Krebs
  • WETSCAPES (2017-2021)
    Turnover processes at peatland sites as a basis for land use, climate impact, and water protection
    Funding: EU
    Contact: Hans Joosten, John Couwenberg, Dierk Michaelis, Almut Mrotzek, Franziska Tanneberger
  • REPEAT (2017-2020)
    Restoration and prognosis of peat formation in fens linking diversity in plant functional traits to soil biological and biogeochemical processes
    Finanzierung: ERA-Net/DFG
  • Assessment of the potential for reducing CO2 emissions from peatlands in the Nile Basin (2019)
    Funding: GIZ
  • MOOSWEIT (2016-2019)
    Peat moss cultivation for climate-friendly bog development: cultivation and harvesting of cultivated peat mosses
    Finanzierung: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Umwelt, Energie und Klima­schutz, EFRE, BMEL
  • Test cultivation of cattails (2016-2019)
    Funding: Ostseestiftung
  • Feasibility study for World Heritage nomination “Colchian Forests and Peatlands” (2016-2018)
  • CINDERELLA (2015-2018)
    Comparative analysis, integration and exemplary implementation of climate smart land use practices on organic soils: progressing paludicultures after centuries of peatland destruction and neglect
    Funding: FACCE ERA NET + (BMBF)
    Contact: Wendelin Wichtmann
  • Conservation and restoration of habitats for the aquatic warbler in the Lower Oder Valley National Park (2012-2016)
    Funding: Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN)
    Bearbeitung: Franziska Tanneberger
  • Rewetting of Peatlands in Russia (2011-2016)
    Fire prevention and climate change mitigation
    Funding: BMU, IKI
    Contact: Andreas Haberl
  • POLYGON (2010-2016)
    Polygons in tundra wetlands: state and dynamics under climate variability in Polar regions
    Funding: DFG
    Contact: Annette Teltewskoi
  • Project High Carbon Stock Study: Gabun case study (2015)
    Funding: Sime Darby
    Contact: Hans Joosten
  • Paludi-Pellets-Projekt (2013-2015)
    Sustainable solid fuels from paludiculture
    Funding: EU
    Contact: Tobias Dahms
  • MOOSGRÜN (2010-2014)
    Peat moss cultivation on raised bog grassland
    Funding: BMELV
    Contact: Greta Gaudig
  • Ecosystem functions of high-mountain bogs in Kyrgyzstan (2012-2013)
  • PROSUGA (2010-2013)
    Industrial production of peat moss for the manufacture of innovative growing media for commercial horticulture
    Funding: BMWi
    Contact: Anja Prager
  • VIP (2010-2013)
    Vorpommern Initiative Paludikultur
    Funding: BMBF
    Contact: Christian Schröder
  • Interdisciplinary studies on sociocultural change during the High Medieval ‘eastward expansion’ in rural areas, using the example of the Penkun region, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (2005-2013) 
    Funding: DFG
    Contact: Manuela Schult
  • Impacts and compensation on the peatlands in the planned Jänschwalde North opencast mine
    Funding: Vattenfall
    Contact: Annie Wojatschke
  • RE-FOCUS
    Reconstruction of fine-scale Holocene vegetation patterns in northeastern Germany
    Funding: DFG
    Contact: Martin Theuerkauf
  • Key factors and development potential of habitats of the aquatic warbler (Acrocephalus paludicola) in the Lower Oder Valley and recommendations for the permanent restoration of intact breeding areas 
    Funding: DBU
    Contact: Franziska Tanneberger
  • Tip-up pools in tropical peatland forests (2011)
  • Habitat and threat analysis as a basis for recommendations for the protection of the aquatic warbler (Acrocephalus paludicola) in the  wintering area Djoudj (Senegal) (2008-2011)
    Funding: DBU, MAVA, DO-G
    Contact: Cosima Tegetmeyer
  • Rain-fed bogs in the Colchis lowlands (Georgia): a landscape ecological analysis
    Funding: Land Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
    Contact: Andreas Kaffke
  • Perspectives for peat moss cultivation in the Kolkheti lowlands (Georgia)
    Funding: DBU
    Contact: Matthias Krebs
  • TORFMOOS (2004-2007)
    Peat moss as a renewable raw material
    Funding: BMELV
    Contact: Greta Gaudig
  • Moor ecology baseline study and monitoring in Colchis (2004-2006)
  • A pollen surface sample transect through a tundra vegetation and a polygon mire near Chokurdakh (NE Siberia)
    Bearbeitung: Pim de Klerk, Norman Donner, Hans Joosten, Merten Minke, Nina Seifert
  • Ecosystem functions of high-mountain peatlands in Kyrgyzstan (2003-2006)
  • SINCOS (2002-2005)
    Sinking Coasts - Geosphere, ecosphere, and anthroposphere of the southern Baltic Sea coast during the Holocene
    Funding: DFG
    Contact: Dierk Michaelis
  • ALNUS(2002-2005)
    Alder reforestation in fens
    Funding: DBU
    Contact: Achim Schäfer
  • BLOSSOM (2001-2005)
    Biodiversity Levels Of Simulated Self-Organisation in Mires
    Funding: DFG
    Contact: John Couwenberg
  • The change in peat-forming vegetation during the transition from fen to raised bog in southern and central Sweden against the backdrop of climate change
    Funding: Leopodina
    Contact: Dierk Michaelis
  • Geochemistry and peat characterization of Rano Aroi (Easter Island)
  • Specification of the earliest vegetation development on the site Reinberg (time slice I)
    Funding: DFG
    Contact: Pim de Klerk
  • Macrobotanical investigations of the Reichwalde excavation
    Funding: Land Sachsen
    Contact: Alexandra Barthelmes
  • Confusing concepts in the stratigraphy and geochronology of the Late Glacial period
    Funding: DFG
    Contact: Pim de Klerk
  • Paleoecological investigations of the “Reinberg” hollow, with particular emphasis on local vegetation development during the transition from the Weichselian glaciation to the Late Glacial period
    Funding: DFG
    Contact: Pim de Klerk