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Diversity in forest management promotes biodiversity
Uniform and intensive forest management approaches threaten European forest biodiversity. There are many different ways to manage forests, but the effects of different combinations of approaches are not well understood. An international investigated how the Triad forest management framework can support biodiversity conservation in European beech forests. The researchers collected data from these three management categories and developed “virtual forest landscapes” for analysis.
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Wolves return: How to keep livestock safe?
Wolves had long been extinct in parts of Central Europe. Thanks to strict regulations to protect species, in recent decades they have become more widespread again. This brings new challenges: in many areas, protecting farm livestock is essential to prevent animals such as sheep, goats and cattle from being killed by hungry wolves. Researchers investigated to find out how farmers feel about measures such as wolf-repelling electric fences or guard dogs, and whether subsidies can influence this.
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Biodiversity needs more than just flower strips
Strips of land planted with flowers between fields are the most popular environmental measure in agriculture. They attract pollinators such as butterflies and wild bees, look beautiful and can be achieved quickly. But this is not enough! Researchers have described how agricultural landscapes need to be designed to accommodate many species and to ensure other social and ecological functions such as providing nature for human recreation and climate protection.
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Funding for training and research in biological complexity
Complex biological systems are more than the sum of their parts – their properties emerge from the dynamic interaction of their components, such as molecules or cells. PhD researchers now have the opportunity to develop their own theoretical perspective on these systems as part of an international Doctoral Network. A European consortium initiated by researchers from Göttingen and Edinburgh has been awarded €4.5M by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions to coordinate the network.
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Ancient rocks reveal critical metal origin and continent-breaking forces
Rare rocks buried deep beneath central Australia have revealed the origins of one of the world’s most promising new deposits of niobium – a metal vital for producing high-strength steel and clean energy technologies. Researchers found that newly discovered niobium-rich carbonatites were formed more than 800 million years ago, rising from deep within the Earth through fractures of the crust during a tectonic rifting event that ultimately tore apart the supercontinent known as Rodinia.
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Gauss Professorship for US biometeorologist
Professor Dennis Baldocchi from the University of California in Berkeley has been awarded a Gauss Professorship by the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Over the next two months, he will be conducting research at the Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology at the University of Göttingen, where he will be working with Professor Alexander Knohl and his team in the Bioclimatology Group.
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