• press release An insect census: 20 years of butterfly monitoring in Germany
Since 2005, dedicated volunteers throughout Germany have been recording the occurrence of these popular insects. Since then, the monitoring has not only provided valuable information on butterflies, but also on how land use and climate change are changing nature as a whole. »
To ensure the coexistence of tree species, tropical and temperate forests successfully rely on opposing strategies. They are based on the clustering of trees and the frequency of tree species, write researchers led by the UFZ in the scientific journal Nature.»
The directors of eight of the largest environmental research institutes in Europe, including the UFZ, which cooperate in the PEER network (Partnership for European Environmental Research), are calling for a discussion on the EU's upcoming research framework programme (FP10). »
A research team coordinated by the UFZ has succeeded in detecting the extent to which the glaciers in the Alps are polluted by nanoplastics at an altitude of more than 3,000 metres. The researchers relied on the help of mountaineers to collect the data. »
2024 was the first year above 1.5°C of global warming, but the implication for the Paris Agreement's goal – measured via 20-year averages – is unclear. In Nature Climate Change, UFZ scientists show that the 20-year period has most probably begun.»
I am a computational ecologist trying to understand how farming practices and biodiversity influence each other. Specifically, I look at how different measures in the EU's Common Agricultural Policy affect biodiversity and ecosystem services at a landscape scale. I use individual-based modelling to explore different scenarios, and work together with farmers, economists, and policy-makers to make sure my work is relevant to the people it most concerns.
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Entwicklungen in der regionalen Energie- und Wärmeversorgung
