Joana Bergmann

Dr. Joana Bergmann is a Researcher at the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) in Müncheberg, Germany, affiliated with the Sustainable Grassland Systems working group under Research Area 2 "Land Use and Governance". Her work addresses critical agricultural landscape challenges through empirical studies on grassland ecosystems.

Her research focuses on:

• Plant functional biodiversity characterization in grasslands
• Land use intensity impacts on ecological communities
• Root trait analysis and plant economic strategies
• Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi integration in plant-soil systems

Dr. Bergmann's methodology combines field characterization of plant communities with physiological and symbiotic interaction studies to advance sustainable grassland management under climate change pressures. Her work directly supports ZALF's research pillars on agricultural biodiversity conservation and climate adaptation strategies.

She operates within ZALF's Sustainable Grassland Systems team, which investigates the nexus between agricultural practices and ecological functionality in European grassland ecosystems through integrated experimental and modeling approaches.