Claudia Guimarães-Steinicke

Dr. Claudia Guimarães-Steinicke is postdoctoral fellow at the Remote Sensing Center for Earth Research, University of Leipzig. In her PhD, she investigated the temporal dynamics of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships (such as biomass production and thermal regulation) using terrestrial laser scanning in grasslands communities. Confronting the climate change, she is currently working on how biodiversity interacts with the climate and how these interactions can be affected by extreme events such as drought in temperate forests. This project is developed within the Breathing Nature initiative. The aim of her research is to better understand the key role of biodiversity on attenuating climate change effects on terrestrial ecosystems and by applying remote sensing techniques provide tools to better predict and contribute to mitigations actions.