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

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

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

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