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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…