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Visiting the Species On The Move Conference 2023

Lucky me: I got to visit the Species On The Move Conference in May 2023, and this without being an ecologist at all. My work in science communication focused on ecosystems for a whole while, and Christian, the PI of the BioChangeLab at TUM, strongly supported my approach to learn more about the communication dynamics in…

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Neues Paper veröffentlicht: Verbreitung und Vielfalt von Reptilien weltweit bedroht

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…

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Online-Vortrag: Wie sich Artenvielfalt in Bayern und anderswo unter dem Einfluss der Klimaerwärmung zu entwickeln droht

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…

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The relevance of insect decline in the face of global warming: A warning by 70 scientists

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…

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Artenschutz vs Klimaschutz: Wie neu denken?

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.…

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Und dann war da noch das DynaCom Retreat

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…

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And then there was the DynaCom Retreat

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…

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Libellen on air: Dr. Katharina Engelhardt stellt ihre Ergebnisse vor

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…

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Projections of extreme weather events – How well do we know our future?

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…

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Birds of the future

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…

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Biodiversity needs protected landscape

‘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.…

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OPEN PhD POSITION

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…

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Veränderung durch Austausch

  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…

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We were treated to a retreat

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…

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For a greener future: The Postcode Lottery Green Challenge

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…

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Bayklif Retreat 2021

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…

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BioChangeLab group at the GFOE conference

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…

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BioChange @school: Talking to the future

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…

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Participating in the BLIZ Conference

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…

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We are hiring!

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/

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Frank LaSorte visits the BioChange Lab

4 October Frank LaSorte visits the BioChange Lab 19-23 September Christian and Kathi at the meeting of the German Ornithologist’s Society in Heidelberg 13 September Kathi receives the M.Sc. Award of the GfÖ in Vienna 10-13 September Christian & Kathi at the GfÖ in Vienna 27 Aug – 27 Sep Kathi at the PhD course…

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News from the lab: 2018

Lab news from 2018 4 October Frank LaSorte visits the BioChange Lab 19-23 September Christian and Kathi at the meeting of the German Ornithologist’s Society in Heidelberg 13 September Kathi receives the M.Sc. Award of the GfÖ in Vienna 10-13 September Christian & Kathi at the GfÖ in Vienna 27 Aug – 27 Sep Kathi…

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The Hof lab is online

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