Department of Animal Ecology & Tropical Biology (Zoology III)

Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology (Zoology III)

Our department is part of the Biocenter at the University of Würzburg and comprises three professorships and about 60 staff members. The involved working groups cover major areas of animal ecology in research and teaching. The main emphasis is on biodiversity research, ecosystem functioning, global change, tropical ecology and evolutionary ecology. Part of the research groups are located at the Campus "Hubland Nord" (Theoretical Evolutionary Ecology, Global Change Ecology and Applied Biodiversity Science) and at the Ecological Field Station Fabrikschleichach (Research Group Forest Ecology).

News

Optimized cacao pollination for higher yields - 13.09.2023
Award for outstanding young researcher - 28.07.2023
Just follow your nose! - 05.07.2023
Beetles and Their Biodiversity in Dead Wood - 09.05.2023
Monitoring Forests More Closely - 08.05.2023
How bee-friendly is the forest? - 23.04.2023

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Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology
(Zoology III)

zoo3@biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de
Tel.: +49 931 31-84350

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New Publications

Li Z, Bhat B, Frank ET, Oliveira-Honorato T, Azuma F, Bachmann V, Parker DJ, Schmitt T, Economo EP, Ulrich Y (2023) Behavioural individuality determines infection risk in clonal ant colonies. Nature Communications 14.
Kohl PL, D’Alvise P, Rutschmann B, Roth S, Remter F, Steffan-Dewenter I, Hasselmann M (2023) Reduced parasite burden in feral honeybee colonies. Ecological Solutions and Evidence 4.
Vogel C, Mayer V, Mkandawire M, Küstner G, Kerr RB, Krauss J, Steffan-Dewenter I (2023) Local and landscape scale woodland cover and diversification of agroecological practices shape butterfly communities in tropical smallholder landscapes. Journal of Applied Ecology 60: 1659-1672.
Vansynghel J, Thomas E, Ocampo-Ariza C, Maas B, Ulloque-Samatelo C, Zhang D, Tscharntke T, Steffan-Dewenter I (2023) Cross-pollination with native genotypes improves fruit set and yield quality of Peruvian cacao. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 357: 108671.