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

Villages: underestimated habitats with potential - 06.03.2026
Climate change pushes tropical insects to their heat limit - 04.03.2026
How forest conversion can harm dung beetles - 16.02.2026
New ecology master with double degree - 03.02.2026
Severely Ill Ants Sound the Alarm and Are Killed - 02.12.2025
Nutrition of Honey Bees: Study With Surprising Results - 28.10.2025

More News

Contact

Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology
(Zoology III)

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

Go to Team

New Publications

Biegerl C, Holzschuh A, Boetzl FA, Krauss J, Zhang J, Steffan-Dewenter I (2026) Landscape-level oilseed rape cover shapes seasonal patterns of wild bee abundance in conservation areas. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 400: 110234.
Liiskmann E, Sponsler DB, Mänd M, Holzschuh A, Krauss J, Steffan-Dewenter I, Schweiger O, Karise R (2026) Responses of wild pollinators to honey bee colony presence and habitat restoration in calcareous grasslands. Global Ecology and Conservation 66: e04114.
Katzke J, Hita Garcia F, Lösel PD, Azuma F, Faragó T, Aibekova L, Casadei-Ferreira A, Gautam S, Richter A, Toulkeridou E, Bremer S, Hamann E, Hein J, Odar J, Sarkar C, et al. (2026) High-throughput phenomics of global ant biodiversity. Nature Methods.
Holzmann KL, Schmitzer T, Abels A, vC}}orkalo M, Mitesser O, Kortmann M, Alonso-Alonso P, Correa-Carmona Y, Pinos A, Yon F, Alvarado M, Forsyth A, Lopera-Toro A, Brehm G, Keller A, et al. (2026) Limited thermal tolerance in tropical insects and its genomic signature. Nature.