Nature Conservation Must Not Stop at the Forest Edge: Grasslands are Vanishing Around the World
Along with forests, grasslands and wetlands are also being converted to cropland and pasture at an increasing rate aroun…
Senckenberg – Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research // Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung
From Brown to Green: Ground Personnel on Permanent Duty
Soil food webs conduct most of the energy in terrestrial ecosystems. Temperate and tropical forests are home to differen…
More Species across Thousands of Kilometers: The Secret Life on the Deep-Sea Floor
Although the deep-sea floor represents around 70 percent of the Earth’s habitats, it is still poorly explored. Therefore…
Type Genomics: DNA Treasure in the Collections
In a joint appeal, an international research team, including Senckenberg scientist Prof. Dr. Steffen Pauls, advocates th…
Tropical Time Machine: With a Teaspoon of Mud Back into the Past
For a long time, researchers believed that the warm and humid climate of the tropics and subtropics destroyed all traces…
Tiny Archives: Metabolic Molecules Store the Prehistoric World
An international research team, including Senckenberg scientists, has developed a new method to investigate what the hab…
Rivers: too little protection in the protected area
Protected areas are meant to preserve endangered species and stabilize ecosystems. But for many European rivers, this pr…
Bears: Changing the Menu in a Warming Climate
Bears are true omnivores. This flexibility has enabled them to successfully survive in a wide variety of habitats. An in…
Hidden gems of the abyss: New Deep-Sea Coral Found Living on Nodules Targeted for Mining
An international research team led by Senckenberg scientist Dr. Nadia Santodomingo and Dr. Guadalupe Bribiesca-Contreras…
Ants Worldwide: Diversity Estimated Up To Three Times Higher
Around 14,260 living and 810 fossil ant species are currently known – but this probably constitutes only a fraction of t…
