The previous institutes – Soil Science, Geobotany, Geology, Mineralogy as well as Physical Geography and Landscape Ecology – are merging and will form the sections of the new institute. In any further correspondence, we will be known as a section of the Institute of Earth System Sciences.
The new common website will be launched soon.
The Institute of Geobotany studies the ecology and biodiversity of natural and human-modified systems at local and landscape scales. Our research focuses on evaluating the effects and interactions of abiotic and biotic drivers of biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and the long-term provisioning of ecosystem services across spatial and temporal scales.
We sadly announce the passing of Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Küster.
![](https://www.geobotanik.uni-hannover.de/fileadmin/_processed_/8/0/csm_GEOBOTANIK_Kuester_Hans-Joerg_ba62fb3693.jpg)
![](https://www.geobotanik.uni-hannover.de/fileadmin/_processed_/8/0/csm_GEOBOTANIK_Kuester_Hans-Joerg_5a1d0a478b.jpg)
![](https://www.geobotanik.uni-hannover.de/fileadmin/geobotanik/Institut/Personenfotos/GEOBOTANIK_Kuester_Hans-Joerg.jpg)
He was from 1998 to 2022 Professor of Plant Ecology at the Institute of Geobotany and from 2020 to 2022 its managing director.