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B1 – field work completed

During this year’s late summer, B01 undertook the fourth field trip to the Atacama Desert, which at the same time completed the overall field campaign of phase 1. During these field trips Tim Böhnert, Agathe Kozok, Federico Luebert, Felix Merklinger, Dietmar Quandt and Alexandra Stoll finalized the sampling of eight transects along the coastal and Andean ranges of the northern Atacama Desert. These transects were located in the central and northern CRC core areas to assess floristic composition and vegetation turnovers at the dry limit. In order to understand the origin, the colonization and the diversification of the Atacama Desert flora, the genera Atriplex (Amaranthaceae), Cristaria (Malvaceae) and Cryptantha (Boraginaceae) were extensively sampled for downstream phylogenetic studies. Furthermore, to reconstruct the biogeography and to quantify gene flow and its directionality within broadly distributed species/species complexes, 2,195 individuals of four plant groups (Tillandsia landbeckii (Bromeliaceae), Huidobria fruticosa (Loasaceae), Ophryosporus spp. (Asteraceae), Eulychnia spp. (Cactaceae)), originating from 136 populations, were collected. In total, nearly 1,000 plant specimens were vouchered for identification and further floristic, phylogenetic and population genetic analyses.

 

 

IMG 7334 1 350pxPhoto: Dietmar Quandt

 

Pressen Eulychnia TBoehnert TB011954 1 350pxPhoto: Tim Böhnert


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  Speaker:
Prof. Dr. Tibor J. Dunai
Institute of Geology and Mineralogy | University of Cologne
Zülpicher Str. 49b | 50674 Cologne
+49 (0)221 470-3229 | tdunai@uni-koeln.de
   
  Managing Director:
Christian Tiede
Institute of Geology and Mineralogy | University of Cologne

Zülpicher Str. 49b | 50674 Cologne
+49 (0)221 470-89833 | christian.tiede@uni-koeln.de

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  Co-Speaker:
Prof. Dr. Martin Melles
Institute of Geology and Mineralogy | University of Cologne

Zülpicher Str. 49a | 50674 Cologne
+49 (0)221 470-2262 | mmelles@uni-koeln.de
   
  Scientific Coordinator:
Dr. Benedikt Ritter
Institute of Geology and Mineralogy | University of Cologne

Zülpicher Str. 49b | 50674 Cologne
+49 (0)221 470-89868 | benedikt.ritter@uni-koeln.de

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  Co-Speaker:
Prof. Dr. Dietmar Quandt
Nees Institute for Biodiversity of Plants | University of Bonn

Meckenheimer Allee 170 | 53115 Bonn
+49 (0)228 73-3315 | quandt@uni-bonn.de
   
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Institute of Geography | University of Cologne

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