Veränderung durch Austausch – dieses Motto kennzeichnet nicht nur die aktuelle Diskussionsreihe KlimaDiskurse des Bayerischen Netzwerks für Klimaforschung bayklif. Auch ihr erster Protagonist Bernd Ulrich, stellvertretender Chefredakteur der Zeit, legte immer wieder den Finger in die Wunde des Hinterfragens gegebener Zustände oder gängiger Auffassungen. Unter dem Titel „An die Wurzeln! – Warum wird nicht entschieden, was nötig…
We are a quite international team and not everybody’s at the same place at the same time. Thus we know Zoom conferences very well. And it works for us. This is probably why the ever ongoing pandemic does not cause us to be drawn apart, although our chances to meet happen to be shrunk to…
THE VARIOUS ANGLES OF OUR CHANGING CLIMATE The upcoming online event series is mostly exciting for German-spoken readers, but: If one attaches any value to funded science communication and interdisciplinary exchange – all of which we are fans of – this is good news in general. The research groups of the Bayklif network will meet…
Our principal investigator Christian is part of the jury of the Postcode Lottery Green Challenge! Without practical and innovative ideas, small and large scale changes of our complex world towards a sustainable future are nearly unimaginable. The Postcode Lottery Green Challenge aims to support the development of new ideas and made a challenge out of…
Here we went! In late September 2021 the second annual Bayklif retreat took place directly at lake Starnberg in Tutzing. ‘What’s Bayklif?’, you may ask. The Bavarian Network for Climate Research is one of our funders, who actually makes our MintBio research project possible, which is one of several cooperative research projects which are to…
As many other conferences, the GFOE conference (for any non-ecologists: GFOE = The Ecology Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland) takes place online this year. Which luckily does not scare the scientific community away, and this is why the program is packed. Three days of plena, round tables, talks and poster lounges were ahead of…
Who does not wish research outputs to be efficient? Especially when dealing with climate change, the clock is not with us and we have to be very efficient. That is why Dr. Christian Hof warns to keep research findings apart which actually belong together, because they are interdependent. When it comes to the prediction of…
Mit dabei, auf dem Bildschirm rechts unten: Dr. Christian Hof
In the ecology world, ‘the island rule’ is a well known term. It suggests that, over time, on islands large species become smaller and vice versa. But is that the case with any species, any taxonomic pattern? No. Some don’t follow the rule, and research wouldn’t see the underlying causes for decades. Our postdoctoral researcher…
Just recently, our principal investigator Dr. Christian Hof gave an interview to the well known German newspaper ‘Süddeutsche Zeitung’. The interview discusses the importance to make ecological science visible to high school students. Although going to school for quite a while, most of us neither learn how science really works, nor do we learn how…
