Media releases from 2016

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Dr Marten Winter. Photo: Stefan Bernhardt
01.12.2016 | Media Release, sDiv, TOP NEWS

Statement by Marten Winter  › more

The data used in the study come from the project "Biodiversity Exploratories". The picture shows one of the study sites in Brandenburg (Schorfheide-Chorin; photo: Beatrix Schnabel).
30.11.2016 | TOP NEWS, Media Release

Intensive use of grasslands by humans not only reduces species diversity. It also makes the landscape more monotonous, so that the same species end up everywhere, a new study in "Nature" shows.  › more

Tomatoes are tasty and a common crop in human agriculture (photo: pixabay).
14.11.2016 | TOP NEWS, Media Release, Molecular Interaction Ecology

A fungus living inside the roots of tomato plants helps its host to defend itself against parasites. The knowledge about this mechanism cold inspire new solutions for a sustainable agriculture.  › more

Brown bear in the Tatra Mountains, Polish Carpathians (photo: Adam Wajrak).
14.09.2016 | TOP NEWS, Media Release, Biodiversity Conservation

Number of bears negligible  › more

Simulated browsing: After a young maple tree has been cut, roe deer saliva is applied with a pipette to the cut surface (photo: Bettina Ohse/UL/iDiv).
12.09.2016 | TOP NEWS, Media Release, yDiv

Trees are able to distinguish whether one of their buds or shoots has been randomly torn off by a storm gust or fallen victim to a ravenous roe deer. In the case of roe deer browsing, they activate…  › more

Photo: André Künzelmann, UFZ
09.09.2016 | Media Release, sDiv, TOP NEWS

International research team issues recommendations to improve the predictive capacity of ecological models  › more

06.09.2016 | Media Release, TOP NEWS

Researchers seek explanations for the mystery that is monodominance  › more

European earthworms of the species Lumbricus terrestris (photo: Simone Cesarz).
05.09.2016 | Media Release, Experimental Interaction Ecology, TOP NEWS

Burrowing invaders conquest North American forests  › more

Prof. Henrique M. Pereira, head of “Biodiversity Conservation” Photo: Silvio Bürger
05.09.2016 | Media Release, Biodiversity Conservation

Statements by Henrique M. Pereira  › more

Photo: Raul Ochoa Hueso
25.08.2016 | Media Release, Physiological Diversity, TOP NEWS

new NATURE paper by Harpole et al.  › more

29.07.2016 | TOP NEWS, Media Release

This text is only available in German.  › more

iDiv scientists working in the field. Photo: Stefan Bernhardt, iDiv
06.07.2016 | iDiv, Media Release, TOP NEWS

Financial commitment over the next four years  › more

04.07.2016 | Media Release, Biodiversity Conservation, TOP NEWS

Leipzig. At the beginning of July in Leipzig, several hundred international experts in monitoring biological diversity will advise how the enormous gaps in knowledge about global biodiversity can be…  › more

Bumblebees are common pollinators in cities, a new study found (photo: UFZ).
22.06.2016 | TOP NEWS, Media Release, Research

Bees pollinate plants more frequently in the city than in the country even though they are more often infected with parasites, a factor which can shorten their lifespans. These were the findings of a…  › more

14.06.2016 | Media Release, Molecular Interaction Ecology, Biodiversity Conservation, Experimental Interaction Ecology

This text is only available in German.  › more

04.06.2016 | TOP NEWS, Media Release, Theory in Biodiversity Science

Small animals that decompose fallen leaves in the forest form complex food webs and are essential to a functioning ecosystem. A study comprising over 80 forests in Germany and on Sumatra (Indonesia)…  › more

Dr Sabine Matthiä (photo: private)
31.05.2016 | TOP NEWS, Media Release, iDiv

Dr Sabine Matthiä has taken up the position as Chief Operating Officer at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig.  › more

17.05.2016 | Experimental Interaction Ecology, Media Release, TOP NEWS

new international study published in Science Advances  › more

12.05.2016 | Media Release, Biodiversity and People, TOP NEWS

First International ECSA and GEWISS Conference from 19 to 21 May 2016  › more

24.03.2016 | Media Release

Forest homogenisation results in a lower ecosystem performance.   › more

Sumatran orangutans, one of the two existing species of orangutans, live exclusively in the North of the Indonesian island Sumatra. © Perry van Duijnhoven
04.03.2016 | Media Release, TOP NEWS

More Sumatran orangutans live in the wild than previously thought, yet continuing deforestation is likely to substantially reduce their number  › more

For their study the researchers analyzed soil organisms and bio¬geo-che¬mical cycles in a natural source of carbon dioxide (mofette) and in a comparative soil. Photo: Felix Beulig, FSU
23.02.2016 | TOP NEWS, Media Release

Carbon dioxide changes community of soil organisms  › more

Gärtnerin Katja Kunze an einem  Spezialzelt auf den "Biodiversitätswiesen" beim Bienen zählen. (Foto: Anne Günther/FSU)
16.02.2016 | Media Release

Eines der größten und ältesten Biodiversitätsexperimente Europas wird fortgesetzt  › more

28.01.2016 | Experimental Interaction Ecology, Media Release

The grant for Nico Eisenhauer is awarded to study the effects of European earthworms in North America.   › more

Photo: Ramesh Laungani, Doane College
14.01.2016 | Media Release

Communities rich in species are substantially healthier and more productive than those depleted of species. An international group of scientists has solved this long-standing ecological riddle using…  › more

13.01.2016 | Media Release

MLU study with iDiv member: Global honey trade plays greater role than previously thought  › more

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