Declines in insect numbers are largely driven by losses of more abundant species  › more

Final vote of the EU Parliament in 2024  › more

New study on the link between biodiversity and climate  › more

Report of an Expert Working Group outlines policy recommendations to develop broader transformative policies for human, animal, and ecosystem health  › more

Study reveals natural solution to mitigate effects of climate change  › more

Halle, Jena and Leipzig are three of the top six German universities in the field of ecology  › more

Eight iDiv members named Highly Cited Researchers  › more

How authors’ personal circumstances influence the depiction of nature in their works  › more

Doctoral researchers will investigate sustainable concepts for the use of natural common goods  › more

A new approach to co-designing biodiversity indicators  › more

Surprisingly far-reaching impacts of light pollution  › more

Data published on social media platforms can improve knowledge about species distribution and inform conservation planning  › more

DFG to fund Research Unit  › more

New study published in Science Advances  › more

Immediate protection measures are required to safeguard invertebrate communities and critical ecosystem services.  › more

iDiv's researchers1 are concerned about the already precarious working conditions in German academia and are alarmed that the proposed changes to the WissZeitVG will exacerbate this.The WissZeitVG is…  › more

The body sizes of organisms around the world are becoming smaller over time, especially among fish, with important implications for food webs and humans.  › more

Species observations have unveiled a potentially universal pattern  › more

Report by Léonard El-Hokayem, doctoral student at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle. Decreasing rainfall and…  › more

A new interconnected system to monitor biodiversity around the world is urgently needed to direct and focus conservation action.  › more

New study reveals that over 1000 vascular plants in Nigeria may be undescribed.  › more

Retention of dead biomass by plants likely to serve function in carbon and nutrient cycling  › more

Researchers record large-scale shift in photosynthesis activity for the first time  › more

International research team compares form and function of island and mainland plants  › more

Novel framework allows for a more effective management of soils as carbon sinks  › more

Habitat diversity can mitigate effects of climate change on insects  › more

Over 300 guests from politics, science and civil society  › more

New study suggests fragmentation and climate warming could disadvantage large animals due to their limited traveling speeds  › more

Research project "MetaChange" will be funded with almost 2.5 million euros over the next five years  › more

On 15 March 2023 sDiv - the synthesis centre of iDiv welcomed its 2500th participant at an sDiv working group meeting. The lucky one was Dr. Steven Bachman who travelled from the Royal Botanic…  › more

More widely distributed species benefit from anthropogenic changes  › more

Under long-term fisheries management, evolutionary change, that has resulted in smaller maturation sizes, can be reversed profitably.  › more

The effects of climate change on the Earth’s vegetation depend to a large degree on local conditions  › more

Higher extinction rates of insular mammals after arrival of modern human  › more

New study reveals that living roots are as important as dead leaves in sustaining tropical soil biodiversity  › more

NaturaConnect Stakeholder Event in Brussels brings over 70 leading EU policy and governmental decision-makers  › more

Study finds that current monitoring data may be far too incomplete and deficient to provide a precise global picture of local biodiversity richness trends  › more

Specialised foraging skills could have made the essential difference  › more

Even many years after being abandoned, plant diversity of former agricultural sites is still incomplete compared to undisturbed sites  › more

Researchers propose to consider insects in the expansion and new designation of protected areas  › more

iDiv invited to a parliamentary evening in Berlin to discuss possible action  › more

Biodiversity–stability relationships strengthen over time in a long-term grassland experiment  › more

The complex relationships between plants and their pollinators have changed dramatically across the last century.  › more

European project started to assess ecological restoration through rewilding  › more