Even the life cycle of the plants leads to permanent vegetation dynamics. For this reason vegetation is a famous, easy to handle and almost all over the world available indicator for environmental changes.
Vegetation is the basis for animal life.
In Erlangen we concentrate on analysing and modelling the spatiotemporal vegetation processes and their distribution on local to global scale. A number of thesis about fire ecology, dendrochronology, urban vegetation, phytodiversity, disturbance ecology, landscape ecology and other.