Nico Eisenhauer

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Nico Eisenhauer (born February 22, 1980 in Lindenfels , Hessen ) is a German biologist , soil ecologist and professor of experimental interaction ecology at the University of Leipzig .

Scientific career

Nico Eisenhauer studied from 2000 to 2005 at the Technical University of Darmstadt , where he obtained his diploma in animal ecology with distinction. He then also did his doctorate at the Technical University of Darmstadt on the subject of "Earthworms in a plant diversity gradient: Direct and indirect effects on plant competition and establishment" and received his doctorate in 2008 (summa cum laude). From 2008 to 2010 he was a research associate in the Jena Experiment at the TU Darmstadt and the Georg-August University in Göttingen . From 2010 to 2012 he was a research fellow at the University of Minnesota . In 2012 he became a research assistant at the Technical University of Munich , Emmy Noether Junior Research Group Leader at the Technical University of Munich and completed his habilitation at the Georg-August University of Göttingen ( Venia Legendi in Ecology and Zoology). Between 2012 and 2014 he was W2 Professor for Terrestrial Ecology at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena .

Nico Eisenhauer has been Professor of Experimental Interaction Ecology at the University of Leipzig and working group leader at the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) since 2014 .

Since 2015 he has been the spokesman for the research group "Jena Experiment" funded by the German Research Foundation. He is also head of the iDiv Ecotron and the MyDiv experiment, as well as a founding member of the Soil BON consortium.

His main research interests are the causes and ecosystem consequences of changes in biodiversity.

honors and awards

Editorial board

Selected publications

  • Guy Pe'er , Aletta Bonn , Helge Bruelheide, Petra Dieker, Nico Eisenhauer, Peter H. Feindt, Gregor Hagedorn , Bernd Hansjürgens , Irina Herzon, Ângela Lomba, Elisabeth Marquard, Francisco Moreira, Heike Nitsch, Rainer Oppermann, Andrea Perino, Norbert Röder, Christian Schleyer, Stefan Schindler, Christine Wolf, Yves Zinngrebe, Sebastian Lakner: Action needed for the EU Common Agricultural Policy to address sustainability challenges. Volume 2 . 2020, p. 305-316 .
  • C. Scherber, N. Eisenhauer, T. Tscharnke, 37 co-authors: Bottom-up effects of plant diversity on biotic interactions in a biodiversity experiment. In: Nature . Volume 468, 2010, pp. 553-556.
  • PB Reich, D. Tilman, F. Isbell, K. Mueller, SE Hobbie, DFB Flynn, N. Eisenhauer: Impacts of biodiversity loss escalate through time as redundancy fades. In: Science . Volume 336, 2012, pp. 589-592.
  • N. Eisenhauer, T. Dobies, S. Cesarz, SE Hobbie, RJ Meyer, K. Worm, PB Reich: Plant diversity effects on soil food webs are stronger than those of elevated CO2 and N deposition in a long-term grassland experiment. In: PNAS . Volume 110, 2013, pp. 6889-6894.
  • F. Isbell, D. Craven, N. Eisenhauer, 34 co-authors: Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes. Nature. Volume 626, 2015, pp. 574-577.
  • B. Schwarz, AD Barnes *, MP Thakur, U. Brose, M. Ciobanu, PB Reich, RL Rich, B. Rosenbaum, A. Stefanski, N. Eisenhauer *: Warming alters energetic structure and function but not resilience of soil food webs. In: Nature Climate Change . Volume 7, 2017, pp. 895-900. * shared senior authorship.
  • MP Thakur, PB Reich, SE Hobbie, A. Stefanski, R. Rich, KE Rice, WC Eddy, N. Eisenhauer: Reduced feeding activity of soil detritivores under warmer and drier conditions. In: Nature Climate Change. Volume 8, 2018, pp. 75-78.
  • N. Eisenhauer *, J. Hines *, F. Isbell, F. van der Plas, SE Hobbie, CE Kazanski, A. Lehmann, M. Liu, A. Lochner, MC Rillig, A. Vogel, K. Worm, PB Reich: Plant diversity maintains multiple soil functions in future environments. In: eLife. Volume 7, 2018, e41228. * shared first authorship
  • N. Eisenhauer, A. Bonn, CA Guerra: Recognizing the quiet extinction of invertebrates. In: Nature Communications . Volume 10, 2019, Article number 50.
  • N. Eisenhauer, CA Guerra: Global maps of soil nematode worms. In: Nature. Volume 572, 2019, pp. 187-188.
  • HRP Phillips, CA Guerra, EK Cameron *, N. Eisenhauer *, 137 co-authors: Global distribution of earthworm diversity. In: Science. 2019, accepted. * shared senior authorship.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.idiv.de/groups_and_people/core_groups/experimental_interaction_ecology.html
  2. ↑ http://www.the-jena-experiment.de/
  3. ↑ https://www.idiv.de/research/platforms_and_networks/idiv_ecotron.html
  4. ↑ https://www.idiv.de/research/platforms_and_networks/mydiv.html
  5. ↑ https://geobon.org/bons/thematic-bon/soil-bon/
  6. ↑ https://www.idiv.de/groups_and_people/employees/details/eshow/eisenhauer_nico.html
personal data
SURNAME Eisenhauer, Nico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist, soil ecologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Lindenfels , Hesse