Subproject S01
Remote sensing and GIS based survey of spatial and temporal biodiversity dynamics and analysis
of biodiversity and geodiversity interrelationships

Subproject S02
Edaphical diversity and biodiversity in mutual dependence

Subproject S03a
Mycocoenoses of the soil, their species diversity and functions

Subproject S03b
Biodiversity of rust fungi in south-western Africa: Species monitoring, database and data analysis

Subproject S04
Development of a storage and retrieval system for lichenological biodiversity data

Subproject S05
Biological Soil Crusts (BSCs): Biodiversity, functional diversity, their environmental determinants and role in the ecosystem

Subproject S06
Towards sustainable use of phyto-diversity: Analysis of the mechanisms which control the changes caused by human land use and climate change

Subproject S08
Effects of anthropogenic changes on the diversity of Namibian Odonata: Modelling on different geographical scales

Subproject S09
vegetation structure, landuse, ecological modelling, economical modelling, functional types

Subproject S10
Arthropods as ecosystem engineers: the impact of ants, termites and tenebrionids on soil properties and vegetation

Subproject S11
Socio-economics of Biodiversity Management: Policy, Institutions and Land Use Concepts

Subproject S12
Zoological Diversity in transformed landscapes of the Western Cape, South Africa