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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…

Lotterie für einen guten Zweck oder: Umwelt und Gesellschaft gehören zusammen, findet Dr. Christian Hof

Mit dabei, auf dem Bildschirm rechts unten: Dr. Christian Hof

Species evolution on islands – some changed, some didn’t: A possible explanation

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…

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…

New paper out on climate plantations: It is more complex than we’d prefer

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…

Talk at the University of Greifswald: Our colleague Eva. K. Engelhardt discusses Biodiversity under changing conditions and how past, present and future conditions can be assessed via digital models. The talk will start at 6 pm MEZ.

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…

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/