For a long time, little attention was paid to soil temperatures. In contrast to air temperatures near the surface, hardly any reliable data was available because of the considerably more complex measurement. A research team leaded by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) with…
The Research Unit “Biotic Interactions, Community Assembly, and Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics as Drivers of Long-Term Biodiversity–Ecosystem Functioning Relationships” will receive a second funding period. This was announced by the German Research Foundation (DFG) today (22 September 2023). The…
Biologist Professor Christian Wirth from Leipzig University, spokesperson of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), has been appointed by Federal Minister of Education Bettina Stark-Watzinger to the newly founded “Forum #Zukunftsstrategie”, a panel that will advise the…
Every year on 21 September, the United Nations celebrates the International Day of Peace, which aims to observe and strengthen the idea of peace within and between countries and peoples. Ever since Russia’s war of aggression began, Professor Stefan Rohdewald has been thinking about how peace could…
Adult sleep is tied to specific times of the day. In contrast, sleep in early life lacks this clear daily (circadian) pattern. It is not yet known what controls this developmental change. Professor Andreas Thum, head of the Department of Genetics at the Institute of Biology at Leipzig University,…
Extreme temperatures could also be a threat to Europe, according to new calculations by an international team of researchers. Sebastian Sippel, Junior Professor for Climate Attribution at the Institute for Meteorology at Leipzig University, was part of the team. In this interview, the expert…
