Department of Animal Ecology & Tropical Biology (Zoology III) - Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology

Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology (Zoology III)

Our department is part of the Biocenter at the University of Würzburg and comprises two 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. We are closely connected to the research groups
Theoretical Evolutionary Ecology, Global Change Ecology and Applied Biodiversity Science, as well as the Ecological Field Station Fabrikschleichach (Research Group Forest Ecology).

News

Through the winter with a balanced diet - 15.05.2025
Planting a Mosaic of Shrub Fringes - 14.05.2025
Heat and land use: Bees suffer in particular - 09.05.2025
Higher Pollinator Diversity in Calcareous Grasslands - 07.02.2025
Cold Waves in the Rainforest: What They Mean for Wild Animals - 30.01.2025
Honeybees: Combinations of Pesticides Can be Dangerous - 09.09.2024

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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

Aycart-Lazo P, Ivañez-Ballesteros B, Ocampo-Ariza C, Wessely J, Dullinger S, Steffan-Dewenter I, Thomas E, Tscharntke T, Maas B (2025) Landscape context influences local management effects on birds and bats in Amazonian cacao agroforestry systems. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 385: 109545.
Ronchetti F, Schmitt T, Keller A, García‐Reina A, De la Rua P, Steffan‐Dewenter I, Polidori C (2025) The Significance of Genetic Relatedness and Nest Sharing on the Worker‐Worker Similarity of Gut Bacterial Microbiome and Cuticular Hydrocarbon Profile in a Sweat Bee. Ecology and Evolution 15: e71519.
Vizueta J, Xiong Z, Ding G, Larsen RS, Ran H, Gao Q, Stiller J, Dai W, Jiang W, Zhao J, Guo C, Zhang X, Zuo D, Zhong W, Schiøtt M, et al. (2025) Adaptive radiation and social evolution of the ants. Cell.
Ganuza C, Redlich S, Rojas-Botero S, Tobisch C, Zhang J, Benjamin C, Englmeier J, Ewald J, Fricke U, Haensel M, Kollmann J, Riebl R, Schiele S, Uhler J, Uphus L, et al. (2025) Warmer temperatures reinforce negative land-use impacts on bees, but not on higher insect trophic levels. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 292: 20243053.