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Welcome to the homepage of the Ecological Field Station Fabrikschleichach

Welcome to the homepage of the Ecological Field Station Fabrikschleichach. We are part of the Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology (Zoology III) in the Biocenter of the University of Würzburg. The station was established 1983, ca. 60 km away from Würzburg in the heart of the Steigerwald, a richly forested hillside. We host various facilities, including laboratories, course rooms, library and insect collections. Research focus areas of our team include forest ecology, conservation biology and applied biodiversity research. We work in very close collaboration with the Bavarian Forest National Park. The former team of the Evolutionary Ecology group has moved and is now located in Würzburg.

Many thanks for your interest and enjoy reading!

Address

University of Wuerzburg 
Field Station Fabrikschleichach
Glashüttenstraße 5
96181 Rauhenebrach
Germany

Office Support

Hermine Wohlpart
Phone.: +49931 31 82065
Fax: +49931 31 83089
Email: oekologische-station@uni-wuerzburg.de

Office Hours:
Mon - Thu, 9:00 - 13:00

Head of Field Station: Prof. Dr. Jörg Müller

Prof. Dr. Jörg Müller is the new head of the Field Station Fabrikschleichach since May 2016. He will establish a new research focus on the biodiversity of temperate forest ecosystems in close collaboration with the Bavarian Forest National Park.

NEWS

Congratulations Jana!

Our PhD candidate Jana Englmeier successfully defended her PhD thesis "Consequences of climate change and lande-use intensification on decomposer communities and decomposition processes". Read more about Jana's great work in the LandKlif project!

Steigerwaldsymposium

Last week our PhD candidates Ruth Pickert and Stefanie Pietsch attended the Steigerwaldsymposium. Ruth gave insights in management practices within the LifeSPAN project and Stefanie presented exciting results of her tree regeneration study as part of the Windthrow project.

Great Workshop in the Bavarian Forest Nationalpark

Thanks to all BETA-FOR members for stimulating discussions and sharing first results!

GfÖ Conference in Metz

Lucky Snapshot

A snapshot of the wildlife camera from the University forest Sailershausen shows (most likely) a wildcat.

BETA-FOR Workshop

New Publications

2023[ to top ]

Factors influencing carrion communities are only partially consistent with those of deadwood necromass von Hoermann, Christian; Benbow, M. Eric; Rottler-Hoermann, Ann-Marie; Lackner, Tom{\’{a}}{\v{s}}; Sommer, David; Receveur, Joseph P.; Bässler, Claus; Heurich, Marco; Müller, Jörg in Oecologia (2023).
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2022[ to top ]

Forest gaps accelerate the degradation of cellulose and lignin in decaying logs in a subalpine forest Wang, Zhuang; Tan, Bo; Yang, Wanqin; Wang, Qin; Chang, Chenhui; Wang, Lifeng; Li, Han; You, Chengming; Cao, Rui; Jiang, Yurui; Müller, Jörg in European Journal of Forest Research (2022).
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Depicting environmental gradients from Malaise trap samples: Is ethanol-based DNA metabarcoding enough? Chimeno, Caroline; Hübner, Jeremy; Seifert, Linda; Morinièrere, Jérôme; Bozicevic, Vedran; Hausmann, Axel; Schmidt, Stefan; Müller, Jörg in Insect Conservation and Diversity (2022).
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Sanderring

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