Dr. Marion Mehring
Head of the Research Unit Biodiversity and People
+49 69 7076919-39
+49 69 7076919-11
mehring@isoe.de
Marion Mehring has been a research scientist at ISOE since 2011. She is head of the research unit Biodiversity and People. She studied geoecology at the University of Bayreuth with the major subjects soil science and eco-toxicology. She wrote her doctoral thesis at the University of Greifswald. In her thesis she focused on buffer zone effectiveness in forest biosphere reserve management.
Focus of research
- Biodiversity conservation and sustainable use
- Inter- and transdisciplinary research process
- Social-ecological systems
Memberships
- German Biodiversity Assessment (Faktencheck Artenvielfalt)
- Innovationsnetzwerk Ökosystemleistungen (ESP-DE)
- Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), Thematic Assessment on Sustainable Use of Wild Species
- Steering Committee Biodiversity Exploratories
Projects
- Biodiversity and Climate: Socio-ecological Biodiversity Research
- Business for Biodiversity: T-Labs for social-ecological change
- ENABLElocal – Enabling use of biodiversity monitoring data in local conservation management
- MORE STEP – Mobility at Risk: Sustaining the Mongolian Steppe Ecosystem (Phase II)
- SLInBio – Urban lifestyles and the valorization of biodiversity: dragonflies, grasshoppers, bumblebees and Co
- SoCoDES – Social-ecological dynamics of ecosystem services
- SoCuLa – Socio-cultural Drivers of Biodiversity Change in Germany
- AJAP II – Environmentally friendly and sustainable control of the Asian bush mosquito
- BIOZ – Environmentally friendly control of West Nile virus transmitting mosquitoes
- DINA – Diversity of Insects in Nature protected Areas
- EKLIPSE – Knowledge and Learning Mechanism on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
- IMAGINE – Integrated Management of Green Infrastructure
- Cognitive integration and innovation
- MediPlanB – Effects of indigenous medicinal plants on health and biodiversity
- MORE STEP – Mobility at Risk: Sustaining the Mongolian Steppe Ecosystem (Phase I)
- MORE STEP – Mobility at risk: Sustaining the Mongolian Steppe Ecosystem
- tdPrax2 – transdisciplinary concepts and methods for research and higher education
- Vision for Biodiversity