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Patterns of biodiversity unveiled - Pressemitteilung, 24.07.2023
Understanding the origins and preservation of biodiversity is crucial as human impact continues to threaten our planet’s rich variety of life. Often overlooked, narrow-ranged and evolutionary …
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Mixed cropping enhances beneficial bugs and reduces pests - Pressemitteilung, 20.07.2023
Agricultural land use is a major contributor to the global decline in biodiversity – especially farming single crops on a massive scale. Mixing crops can counteract this: in fields where diffe…
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Rainforest protection also with economic value - Pressemitteilung, 19.07.2023
Rainforest destruction means not only loss of biodiversity, but also high social costs from greenhouse gas emissions. An international team of researchers has quantified changes in forest loss…
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Multiple uses of tropical mosaic landscapes - Pressemitteilung, 13.07.2023
Many landscapes in the tropics consist of a mosaic of different types of land use. How people make use of these different ecosystems, with their particular plant communities, was unclear until…
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Remote plant worlds - Pressemitteilung, 12.07.2023
Oceanic islands provide useful models for ecology, biogeography and evolutionary research. Many ground-breaking findings – including Darwin's theory of evolution – have emerged from the study …
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Renewal for university network Enlight - Pressemitteilung, 03.07.2023
The European university network Enlight has been renewed: the EU has funded the Enlight Network consisting of the University of Göttingen with nine other research-oriented universities for fou…
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Shape-shifting cells at the flick of a switch - Pressemitteilung, 27.06.2023
Researchers from the Universities of Göttingen and Münster have described for the first time how living cells can be changed reversibly in the lab by targeting the cell membrane with light. Pr…
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Third term on Executive Committee for scholar of German studies - Pressemitteilung, 23.06.2023
Professor Hiltraud Casper-Hehne, University of Göttingen, has been elected to the Executive Committee of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for the third time. The DAAD General Assemb…
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Forests of Europe: the science-based data - Pressemitteilung, 22.06.2023
Researchers at Göttingen University are involved in the project "PathFinder", which addresses the European Commission's requirement for standardised, scientifically robust, regularly updated d…
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Research prize for chemist at Göttingen University - Pressemitteilung, 20.06.2023
Professor Lutz Ackermann, Göttingen University, has been awarded a prize in the "Project of the Century" competition of the Werner Siemens Foundation (WSS). Ackermann's team and five others re…
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Birds, bats and nearby forest increase cacao yield - Pressemitteilung, 08.06.2023
Peru is the third largest producer of organic cacao worldwide and is also a leader in the cultivation of native cacao varieties – producing chocolate that is internationally recognized for its…
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Māori and Moriori ancestors return home - Pressemitteilung, 01.06.2023
The University of Göttingen has returned koiwi tangata (Māori skeletal remains) and koimi t'chakat (Moriori skeletal remains) from its collections to a delegation from Aotearoa (New Zealand) a…
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Abandoning land transforms nature - Pressemitteilung, 31.05.2023
More and more people are moving from the countryside into towns, leading to a rise in the number of abandoned fields, pastures, mines, factories, and even entire villages. Yet the impact of th…
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Stories of people who fled from Ukraine - Pressemitteilung, 30.05.2023
What does it mean to flee? What do you take with you when you suddenly have to leave your home behind? Three artists, who themselves fled Ukraine due to the war and currently live in Kassel, f…
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