Our data scientist Matthias Biber and our group leader Christian Hof have, together with their colleague Alke Voskamp from the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre in Frankfurt, made the effort of tackling a (big) data challenge on reptiles to learn how the distribution and diversity of reptiles worldwide will likely develop under a changing…

Unser Datenwissenschaftler Matthias Biber und unser Gruppenleiter Christian Hof haben sich gemeinsam mit ihrer Kollegin Alke Voskamp vom Senckenberg Biodiversitäts- und Klimaforschungszentrum in Frankfurt der (großen) Herausforderung einer globalen Analyse von Reptiliendaten bemüht, um zu erfahren, wie sich deren Verbreitung und Vielfalt in einem sich wandelnden Klima entwickeln wird. Der Zeitraum der Analysen und Projektionen erstreckt sich über 85 Jahre und modelliert die Verbreitung und das Artenreichtum von Reptilien in den Jahren 1995, 2050 und 2080. Vor…

Der Leiter unserer Forschungsgruppe, Christian Hof ist wieder einmal auf Mission, um mit der Öffentlichkeit über die momentanen töne und zukünftige Entwicklung der Artenvielfalt in Bayern und anderswo zu diskutieren. Dafür referiert er im Rahmen eines Online-Vortrages des Tierparks Hellabrunn am 17.01.2023 von 19:00 bis 21:00 via Zoom über den Druck, unter dem Lebensräume diverser…

Although easily overlooked by the public, the conservation of insect diversity is crucial for our ecosystems. But this diversity is under threat from ongoing climate change, as a large group of experts stress in an article that was recently published in the renowned journal Ecological Monographs.  The paper written by 70 scientists from 19 countries, among them Christian Hof, principal investigator of the BioChange Lab, as…

Wann und wie Artenschutz und Klimaschutz in Konkurrenz stehen, ist von Fall zu Fall eine neu zu klärende, komplexe Frage. Schliessen sie sich gegenseitig aus? Jein. Können wir auf eines von beiden verzichten? Nein. Diesen und expliziteren Fragen geht unser Forschungsleiter Dr. Christian Hof in einem Artikel für das Netzwerk-Forum für Biodiversitätsforschung Deutschland (nefo) nach.…

Leider sind wir aufgrund technischer Probleme schon spät dran mit unseren aktuellen Posts. Also wollen wir erst recht erzählen, was es für Neuigkeiten gibt. Die Forschung an Insel-Vögeln geht in die zweite Phase Um das Verständnis des Aufbaus und der Erhaltung der biologischen Vielfalt weiterzu vertiefen, wurde 2019 das DynaCom Projekt ins Leben gerufen. Nun…

Due to technical difficulties we are way behind with our posts. Thus, more than ever, we want to keep you informed. Research on island birds enters the second phase To further deepen the understanding of biodiversity construction and conservation,the DynaCom project was started in 2019. Now the project is entering its secondphase.On 27 and 28…

Wie kürzlich erwähnt, hat die Biochange group, hier vorne dran Dr. Eva Katharina Engelhardt, Daten über die Entwicklung von verschiedenen Insekten Im Klimawandel über die letzten 40 Jahre zusammentragen und auswerten können. Das blieb zum Glück nicht unbemerkt und auch andere interessieren sich für die Ergebnisse, die sie am allerbesten selbst erklären kann. Das tut…

Montioring occupation trends in animal and plant species over long periods of time is a challenge. The case of a complete set of abundance data over decades of one – or even more than one – species is rarely found. In order to deviate the impact of climate change on occupancy and migration on species…

Prof. Dr. Ralf Ludwig (Lehrstuhl für Geographie und Fernerkundung der LMU) will mehr erfahren: Mehr darüber, wie die Zukunft des Erdklimas aussehen könnte, und mehr darüber, wie genau zukünftige Vorhersagen von Extrem-Wetterereignissen sein werden können. Dass die globale Erwärmung zu einer Zunahme von Überschwemmungen, Stürmen, Buschbränden und anderen extremen Wetterbedingungen führt, die potenziell das Leben…

New paper is out: How climate change affects avian functional diversity on a global scale Species richness strongly depends on the prevailing climate environing an ecosystem, whilstfunctional diversity – the variety of species functional characteristics – is determined by bothof the latter. In a new paper, which was lead by Peter S. Stewart from Durham…

Good news: Our principal investigator Dr. Christian Hof will lecture online on species decline and climate change. Both their context and how global warming and a decline of biodiversity interact have never been urgent questions since the rampant increase of land use and industrialisation during the 20th century. Bad news: The talk will be in…

‘Are they all the same?’, our data scientist Matthias Biber wondered when thinking of all protected landscapes of the world – whilst already guessing the answer: No! Protected landscape can be quite different due to variable climatic and geographic occurrences which accommodate life on Earth. Still, the variety of protected areas is not great enough.…

We frequently look out for junior scientists who like to join our team. This time our collaboration in the DynaCom project (Spatial community ecology in highly dynamic landscapes: from island biogeography to metaecosystemsa) opens up a 3-year PhD position, which is to advance our research on functional macroecology of island birds, starting in April ’22. Application…

  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…

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…

A joint commentary on the sustainability of climate change mitigation strategies was just published: The MCC (Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change) along with our principal investigator Christian Hof and several other colleagues authored an article on the risk of establishing climate plantations as an inherent part to combat global warming. Climate…

From October 5th to October 7th some of us had the chance to attend the BLIZ conference, which was hosted by our network bayklif and the Bavarian State Ministry for Science and Art. It ran that theme ‘How to predict future land use and biodiversity change under climatic change at the regional level‘. Due to…

For a 2-year postdoc position funded by @bayklif, our lab @TerrEcolGroup@TU_Muenchen@TUMPostdoc seeks a highly motivated scientist for conducting cool research on #biodiversity change in Bavaria and beyond. #ScienceJobs#Greenjobshttps://toek.wzw.tum.de/stellenausschreibung/postdoc-position-in-integrative-global-change-ecology/