Our research and education focus on the synergies among human society, soil, water, vegetation and climate. Sustainable handling of our environment is inconceivable without an understanding of these interactions.
Welcome to the Institute of Geography and Geoecology
Studying at IfGG
Geography (State examination, B.Ed. and M.Ed.)
Geoecology (B.Sc. and M.Sc.)
Research at IfGG
Vegetation
Vegetation science and Biogeography
Soil
Geomorphology and Soil science
Society
Human geography
Rivers
River and floodplain ecology
Cooperations
Associated working groups (climate and environment center)
NEWS
Biodiversität der Flussauen Deutschlands
Auf Grundlage der Ergebnisse eines F&E Vorhabens des BfN wurde unter der Leitung des IfGGs (Aue) der Kenntnisstand zur Biodiversität der Flussauen erstmals für Deutschland in einem Buch veröffentlicht.
Ecosystem multifunctionality increases with biodiversity
In the frame of the Jena-Experiment consortium, the soil science group publishes in Nature Ecology & Evolution.
J. Eichel wins Nature Geoscience competition
... with the best "Geostory". She describes connections between vegetation and landscape development.
S. Schmidtlein receives the Von Haast fellowship Award of the Royal Society of New Zealand
The award includes funding for a collaboration with Landcare Research Lincoln
Honorable mention of S. Stenzel and J. Eichel
Jana Eichel and Stefanie Stenzel (PhD students in the Vegetation Group) have been awarded by the International Association of Vegetation Science
Drones in disaster relief
Scientists of the KIT-IfGG provided data and aerial photographs after tropical cyclone. pdf (German)
Bildungsgeographie (Geography of Education)
New textbook (in German) by Tim Freytag, Holger Jahnke and Caroline Kramer.
