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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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…
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‘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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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 – 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 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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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…
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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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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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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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