Working group
More than 50 scientists are working in the project; including many Brazilian students writing their master or doctoral thesis about topics interesting for the project. Most of them are on scholarship funded by the Brazilian project management organization (CNPq).
Senior-Scientists
On the German side
(SMNK - State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe; ECT - Ecotoxikology GmbH Flörsheim; DAE – Department of Animal Ecology, Philipps-Universität Marburg; EBC – Environmental Biology and Chemodynamics, RWTH Aachen)
- Dr. Hubert Höfer (SMNK - Projektleiter, Datenadministration)
- M. Sc. Rainer Fabry (SMNK - Vor-Ort-Koordinator, Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Networking)
- Dr. Petra Schmidt (SMNK- Streuabbau, Agroforstsysteme, Kohlpalme)
- Dr. Manfred Verhaagh (SMNK - Projektmanagement, Bodenökologie, Ameisen)
- Dr. Jörg Römbke (ECT - Projektleiter Teilprojekt, Bodenökologie, Regenwürmer, Enchytraeen)
- Dr. Bernhard Förster (ECT - Mikrobiologie)
- Dr. Rüdiger Schmelz (ECT - Oligochaeten, Taxonomie)
- Dr. Martina Roß-Nickoll (UBCEN - Projektleiterin Teilprojekt, Bodenökologie, Datenanalyse)
- Dr. Richard Ottermanns (UBCEN - Datenadministration, multivariate Analysen)
- Prof. Dr. Roland Brandl (TÖ - Projektleiter Teilprojekt)
- Dr. Jochen Bihn (TÖ - Ameisen)
- Dr. Martin Brändle (TÖ - Statistik)
On the Brazilian side
(UFPR - Universidade Federal do Paraná; SPVS - Sociedade de Pesquisa em Vida Selvagem e Educação Ambiental)
- Dr. Renato Marques (UFPR - Projektleiter, Biogeochemie)
- Dr. Márcia C. Mendes Marques (UFPR - Botanik)
- Dr. Carlos Bruno Reissmann (UFPR - Bodenkunde, Forstwissenschaften)
- Dr. Celina Wisniewski (UFPR - Bodenkunde, Nährstoffkreisläufe)
- M. Sc. Clóvis S. Borges (SPVS - Direktor)
- Dr. Ricardo Miranda de Britez (SPVS - Botanik, Ressourcenmanagement)
Further Scientists of the project (Germany and Brazil)
- Adriana Souza dos Santos (UFPR - Mikrobiologie)
- André August Remi de Meijer (SPVS - Makromyceten)
- Dr. Celsa Z. Protil (UFPR - Nährstoffdynamik)
- Daniel Resende Corrêa (UFPR - Nährstoffdynamik, Humus)
- Fernanda Cardoso (UFPR - Botanik)
- Florian Raub (SMNK - Spinnen)
- Gustavo Pacheco dos Santos (UFPR - Botanik)
- Juliano Francisco Guerra (UFPR - Forstwissenschaften)
- Kauana Melissa Cunha Dickow (UFPR - Bodenkunde)
- Kelly Gerronazzo (UFPR - Botanik)
- Dr. Ligia Carla de Souza (UFPR - Bodenkunde, Euterpe edulis )
- Ludger Scheuermann (SMNK - Spinnen)
- Peggy Heine (ECT - Mikrobiologie)
- Philipp Hopp (UBCEN - Käfer)
- Rafaelo Balbinot (UFPR - N15-Bestimmung)
- Stefan Meyer (UBCEN - Botanik)
- Dr. Steffen Woas (SMNK - Oribatiden)
- Stephan Jänsch (ECT - Labor und Statistik)
- Thomas Moser (ECT - Nematoden)
- Urs Gießelmann (TÖ - Streuabbau)
- Victor Perreira Zwiener (UFPR - Botanik)
- Fabian Voss (SMNK - Praktikant)
- Jan Heinrich (ECT - Praktikant)
- Maike Guschal (UBCEN - Praktikantin)
- Nadine Rumpler (ECT - Praktikantin)
- Silja Frankenbach (ECT - Praktikantin)