IGB researcher Sonja Jähnig is a Falling Walls finalist in the category of life sciences. In her five-minute video she explains which wall her research is taking down: the wall of the silent freshwater biodiversity crisis.
Global warming is increasing the temperatures of lakes worldwide. Benjamin Kraemer teamed up with colleagues to quantify the long-term temperature changes in 139 lakes worldwide.
Biodiversity is the variety and variability of life on our Planet. It serves multiple functions in regulating chemistry of the atmosphere, water supply, production of biomass and recycling essential nutrients.
Artificial light is proving to be an ever-growing threat to biodiversity. It's harmful to pollinating insects, bats and a host of other creatures, including zooplankton, a crucial part of the aquatic food chain.
Why are ponds important? What threats do they face? And how can PONDERFUL help? Ponds have been largely overlooked but they are vital for biodiversity - and could even help us adapt to climate change.
This animated movie presents the results of the AlienScenarios project (“Developing and applying scenarios of biological invasions for the 21st century”), that aims at predicting what will be the future alien invasive species and which regions they will invade.
Teiche wurden bisher weitgehend vernachlässigt, obwohl sie für die biologische Vielfalt von großer Bedeutung sind - und uns sogar bei der Anpassung an den Klimawandel helfen können. Erfahren Sie mehr über diese vielfältigen und faszinierenden Lebensräume und wie sie zum Schutz der Tierwelt beitragen.
