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Our team recently spent four days on a retreat in the Austrian Alps to reflect on ongoing work, explore new ideas, and strengthen collaborations.

Our PhD student Christian Zehner, together with Jean-Léonard Stör from the Chair of Zoology 3, attended the 2025 German Environmental Award ceremony of the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU) in Chemnitz!

Dr. Mariana Prokopuk studies invasive aquatic plant species and their adaptation to new habitats. She is currently at the University of Würzburg on a Coimbra Group scholarship.

This year’s conference of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ), which took place in Würzburg, was a great success!

In a new paper led by Esme Ashe-Jepson, they describe an unusually large recent donation to the Museum of Zoology at the University of Cambridge in the UK.

Investigation of above- and belowground fauna along an elevational gradient in Berchtesgaden forests within the framework of two Bachelor theses.

DFG-Funded Project Examines the Impact of Climate Change on Grassland Ecosystems: Sample collection completed

Caribbean plants display few traits typically associated with hummingbird pollination, yet they are visited by morphologically more distinct hummingbirds than their mainland counterparts.

Biologist Christian Hof warns in an interview about a dramatic loss of biodiversity. The climate crisis significantly exacerbates global species extinction.

Students from the “Global Change Biology” course visited Bundorf Solar Park to explore how sustainable energy production can support biodiversity.

Team MultiCrossBEF, Malte Jochum, Ayushi, and Rasmus Dam Jensen (left to right) at the 22nd Biodiversity Exploratories Assembly in Wernigerode.

What does climate change have to do with biodiversity? The “Green Teens” Climate Working group at David-Schuster-Realschule Würzburg recently explored this question during a visit from Prof. Christian Hof at one of their working group meetings.

The project "Translating Soil Biodiversity" teaches children and young people about the importance of biodiversity – in 26 languages. It has now been honored twice in a short period of time.

he "Translating Soil Biodiversity" project, a cooperation between Malte Jochum and colleagues from iDiv/Leipzig University and the Universities of Montpellier and Helsinki, just received Leipzig University's Transfer Prize endowed with 7500 EUR.

A new study by JKI researchers shows that perennial flower strips not only support aboveground biodiversity, but also facilitate belowground biodiversity in the form of earthworm communities.