Scientific staff

Wolf-Henning Kusber
  • Contact
  • Functions
  • Memberships in scientific societies
  • Research interests
  • Research projects
  • Selected publications
  • AlgaTerra
  • Central-European Diatomists / Deutschsprachige Diatomologen

Contact:
Wolf-Henning KUSBER
Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Str. 6-8, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
Phone: (+4930) 838-50177, Fax: (+4930) 838-50186, E-mail: w.h.kusber [at] bgbm.org.


Functions:

  • GBIF-D: Plants, Algae and Protists (in collaboration with Sabine von Mering)
    [Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) grant 01 LI 1001 A: GBIF-D: Kompetenzzentren innovativer Datenmobilisierung] AlgaTerra information system 

 

Memberships in scientific societies:

  • Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik
  • International Society for Diatom Research
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Limnologie
  • Botanischer Verein Berlin-Brandenburg
  • Central-European Diatomists / Deutschsprachige Diatomologen


Research interests:

  • Biodiversity informatics, particularly data processing and data evaluation
  • Extend the amount and increase the quality and availability of networked data resources
  • Intercalibration of taxonomic concepts in micro algae
  • Nomenclature of algae
  • Taxonomy of algae especially phytoflagellates, desmids and diatoms
  • Red Lists of  freshwater algae
  • Algal flora of Berlin (Germany)
  • Charophytes of Berlin-Brandenburg (Germany)
  • Changes in the biodiversity of freshwater micro algae
 

Research projects:

  • Typification of  Ehrenberg's taxa (Project AlgaTerra)
  • Data evaluation (Project AlgaTerra, SYNTHESYS)
  • German Red List of  Desmids (in cooperation with Antje Gutowski & Dieter Mollenhauer)
  • Types of African Surirellaceae (Andrew-Mellon-Foundation)
  • Red List of Algae in Berlin (in cooperation with Regine Jahn and Ursula Geissler)
  • Medium-term changes in the biodiversity of micro algae in Berlin waters: a comparison of old and new data (in cooperation with Regine Jahn and Ursula Geissler).


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