Doctorate successfully defended

On Thursday, May 22, 2025, Ms. Tama Ray successfully completed her doctorate on the following topic:

"The role of stand structural complexity and canopy space occupation for shaping
biodiversity-productivity relationships: insights from tree diversity experiments"

We warmly congratulate Ms. Ray!

Previously published research results:

Ray, T., Fichtner, A., Kunz, M., Proß, T., Bradler, P. M., Bruelheide, H., Georgi, K. L., Haider, S., Hildebrand, M., Potvin, C., Schnabel, F., Trogisch, S. & von Oheimb, G., 2024. Diversity-enhanced canopy space occupation and leaf functional diversity jointly promote overyielding in tropical tree communities. In: Science of the Total Environment. 951 (2024), 12 S., 175438. 

Ray, T., Delory, B. M., Beugnon, R., Bruelheide, H., Cesarz, S., Eisenhauer, N., Ferlian, O., Quosh, J., von Oheimb, G. & Fichtner, A., 2023. Tree diversity increases productivity through enhancing structural complexity across mycorrhizal types. Science advances. 9, 40, eadi2362.