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Das deutschlandweite Bürgerwissenschaftsprojekt GartenDiv wird erstmals die pflanzliche Vielfalt in Deutschlands Gärten erforschen. Ein einjähriges Pilotvorhaben soll einen Überblick darüber liefern, welche Pflanzen in den Gärten der Republik gedeihen.
Eine Studie der Universität Leipzig, des Deutschen Zentrums für integrative Biodiversitätsforschung Halle-Jena-Leipzig (iDiv) und des MPI für Biogeochemie zeigt, dass Lücken im Kronendach eines Auenmischwalds einen direkten Einfluss auf die Temperatur und Feuchtigkeit im Waldboden haben, jedoch nur geringe Auswirkungen auf die Bodenaktivität.
A new study shows that, in addition to species richness, plant evolutionary history plays a critical role in regulating year-to-year variation of biomass production in grasslands. In the face of climate change, understanding the causes of variability in key ecosystem services such as biomass production is essential.
On the menu for slugs are not only mosses, lichens and garden vegetables, but also miniscule oribatid mites, which they unavoidably take in with their food. Astonishingly, most of these tiny arachnids survive the voyage through the slug's digestive system without harm and are excreted, alive, elsewhere in the ecosystem. Scientists led by Dr Manfred…
How serious is the loss of species globally? Are material cycles in an ecosystem with few species changed? In order to find this out, the "Jena Experiment" was established in 2002, one of the largest biodiversity experiments worldwide. Professor Wolfgang Weisser from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) reports on two unexpected findings of the…
Forests fulfil numerous important functions, and do so particularly well if they are rich in different species of trees. This is the result of a new study. In addition, forest managers do not have to decide on the provision of solely one service – such as wood production or nature conservation – as a second study demonstrates: several services…
Gerd Gleixner, research group leader at Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, receives the Thuringian Research Award in the field of fundamental research. In his project “Biodiversity protects the climate”, the scientist showed the importance of soil microorganisms in connection with climate protection: when species richness is abundant, the soil is increasingly able to store carbon and nitrogen. Ecosystems with high biodiversity are much more resistant against perturbations such as drought and pests.
The Science & Technology Department at the French Embassy in Berlin, the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena and INRA in Paris organize a bilateral symposium on climate change, agriculture and forestry.
Clear structure, appealing design and lots of up-to-date information on biodiversity research: as of now the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) presents its science on it's newly launched webpage.
The joint biodiversity proposal by the three universities of Leipzig, Jena and Halle-Wittenberg and their local research partners, including MPI-BGC, has recently been granted. The iDiv project will initially be funded with 33 mio Euro for four years.
A recent US-study compared plant diversities of urban communities to a nearby Nature reserve. Trait analyses based on the MPI-BGC coordinated TRY database showed that urban plant communities have traits that make it harder for them to adapt to change than their countryside counterparts. As yard plants spread into natural habitats, the ability of those ecosystems to respond to environmental change could be reduced as well.