Maximiliane Herberich

Dr. Maximiliane Herberich is a researcher at the Institute of Botany, Department of Agrarwissenschaften, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU). She specializes in plant ecology, focusing on drought stress, biodiversity monitoring, and ecological modeling in grassland and forest ecosystems.

• Research Interests: Drought resilience, invasive species dynamics, niche partitioning, and plant-soil interactions.
• Projects: Leading WildCon (2025-2027) to model connectivity for natural spaces, capacity-building in Mongolian biodiversity (2024-2026), and invasive species monitoring in wetlands (2024-2025).
• Scientific Contributions: Her work explores how environmental stress shapes plant community productivity, functional trait plasticity, and biomass-density relationships through experimental and computational approaches.