iDiv Biodiversity Research

🚨Applications are now being accepted for iDiv’s Summer School 2026: Passion for Collecting – Collection-Based Research in Plant Ecology! Meet the lecturers: 🔬Solveig F. Bucher – Herbaria & digital Collectomics @Senckenberg Institute for Plant Form and Function 🌿Sebastian Gebauer – Collection-based biodiversity research @Senckenberg Institute for Plant Form and Function 🌼Robert Rauschkolb – @PhenObs & phenological research using living collections 📅24–28 Aug 2026 📍Leipzig, Germany 🗓️Apply by 31 Mar 2026 🔗idiv.de/events/summers…

🔥This #InsideBiodiversity episode is essential listening for anyone working at the science–policy interface. 🌡️Dotson explains how climate change was framed as a knowledge problem — as if “more facts” would automatically lead to political action. He warns that biodiversity debates risk repeating this mistake unless we focus on solutions, not just data. 🎧Listen now: insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

📚 Heute auf der Leipziger Buchmesse: Wie kann Wirtschaft von Biodiversität profitieren? Darüber diskutiert iDivs wissenschaftlicher Geschäftsführer Martin Quaas bei der Podiumsdiskussion „In Zusammenarbeit mit der Natur“ mit Katrin Böhning-Gaese, Jens Kersten & Helmuth Trischler. 📅 Fr, 20. März | 16:00 📍Forum Unibund 👉 uni-leipzig.de/buchmesse #LeipzigerBuchmesse #Biodiversität #iDiv

In a nutshell: Conservation, conflict, and compromise.

📣 Plant communities are responding differently to climate change, with strong contrasts across ecosystems. Cold‑adapted mountain species🏔️are declining fastest, while forests🌲and grasslands change more slowly. Across all ecosystems, plant communities lag behind the pace of warming.📈 #iDivResearch idiv.de/europes-ecosys… @Nature @idiv @UniJena @Senckenberg

🌱 The latest episode of #InsideBiodiversity tackles one of the most important divides in conservation and is a must‑listen for anyone working with multiple stakeholders. 👥🌾 Together with iDiv's Volker Hahn, Dr. Taylor Dotson (@dots_t) of New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology explores the tension between people who live and work on the land and those who primarily observe or protect it from afar. He suggests that many conservation conflicts arise not from scientific disagreement, but from competing visions of what nature is for. This tension shapes debates over wolves, beavers, invasive species, nitrogen rules, and rewilding. Understanding it is essential for building trust and cooperation. 🎧 Don’t miss it: insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

🎙️ Don’t miss this #InsideBiodiversity episode. 🌿Dr. Taylor Dotson (@dots_t) challenges the idea that people who disagree with conservation policies are simply “suffering a personal cognitive failure”. He shows how identity, lived experience, and emotional ties to land shape environmental views — and why dismissing these perspectives only deepens polarisation. 🎧 insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

🌿 Wirtschaft und Biodiversität – wie passt das zusammen? Bei der Leipziger @buchmesse diskutiert iDivs wissenschaftlicher Geschäftsführer Martin Quaas gemeinsam mit Katrin Böhning-Gaese, Jens Kersten & Helmuth Trischler über Chancen und Herausforderungen einer biodiversen Gesellschaft für die Wirtschaft. #lbm26 📅 20. März | 16:00 📍Forum Unibund Mehr Infos: uni-leipzig.de/buchmesse

Can science be done better – and if yes, how? At the #ScienceTBD Symposium, researchers from 30+ institutions came together for 2 days of open discussions on research culture, #openscience, incentives, misconduct, and #sciencecommunication. Thank you to everyone who shared ideas and engaged in thoughtful debate – and to our supporters at #iDiv and partners. #ScienceIntegrity #ResearchCulture

🌱 A must‑listen #InsideBiodiversity episode for anyone working in conservation. 🌍 Dr. Taylor Dotson (@dots_t) breaks down a core tension shaping today’s environmental conflicts: the divide between people who live and work on the land and those who want to protect it from afar. He explains how these competing visions of nature fuel disputes over wolves, beavers, invasive species, nitrogen rules, and rewilding. 🎧 insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

🎧 A new episode of #InsideBiodiversity is out now — and it is a must‑listen for anyone working in conservation, policy, or environmental science. 🌍 iDiv's Volker Hahn speaks with Dr. Taylor Dotson (@dots_t, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology) about his new book "Conservation by the People" and rising polarisation around #biodiversity. In this episode, Dotson argues that conservation conflicts are not simply scientific disputes — they are deeply political, cultural, and emotional. And unless we recognise that, we risk repeating the mistakes made in the climate debate. Topics explored include: • Why biodiversity conflicts may surpass climate polarisation • How climate change became a “knowledge problem” — and why that approach failed • The dangers of politicising science • Why people can see the same landscape and the same science yet reach different conclusions • What “biodiversity democracy” could look like in practice A sharp, timely, and thought‑provoking conversation. Don’t miss it. 🔥 🔗 insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

🌍 Eight synthesis centres from around the world will examine biodiversity and climate change through different scientific lenses thanks to an sDiv-led call. 💡14 funded projects + postdocs 💡1.7 million euros 💡214 researchers idiv.de/global-call-un…

Research also plays a role in advancing equity in academia. In this article, researchers from the iDiv Female Scientists initiative share insights on how workplace environments influence progress toward gender equity – and what individuals, institutions and policymakers can do. 🔗 doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

Today is #InternationalWomensDay 🌿 At iDiv, women contribute across biodiversity research – from fieldwork and experiments to modelling, synthesis and science-policy. Their work helps us better understand and protect life on Earth. Thank you to all the women advancing biodiversity science. #WomenInScience #Biodiversity

🌱 The theme of this year's iDiv Summer School is "Passion for Collecting: Collection-based research in plant ecology", and MSc students and doctoral researchers are invited to apply. Expert lecturers - Solveig Franziska Bucher, Sebastian Gebauer, and Robert Rauschkolb - will guide participants through hands-on data collection, trait measurements, phenology assessments, and ecological analyses. 📅 Dates: 24–28 August 2026 📍 Location: iDiv, Leipzig, Germany 🗓️ Application deadline: 31 March 2026 🔗 Learn more and apply: idiv.de/events/summers… @geobiodiversity @PhenObs

iDiv and Friedrich Schiller University Jena are recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) in Trait-Based Community Ecology and Modelling. This role is an exciting opportunity to advance ecological research within an international, interdisciplinary environment. Position highlights: 🔺Full-time (100%, 40 h/week) with the option to reduce to 80% 🔺Fixed-term for 2 years 🔺Salary up to E13 TV‑L 📆 Apply by: 29 March 2026 #60-2026" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">idiv.de/career/job-ope…

Heute ist #WorldWildlifeDay 🐦 In Deutschland sterben jährlich 18–115 Mio. Vögel durch Kollisionen mit Glas – weit mehr als an Windkraftanlagen. Im Projekt EcoGlassBird untersuchen wir, wie sich Vogelschlag (kosteneffizient) vermeiden lässt – gemeinsam mit der @WildvogelhilfeL. 👉 Jede Meldung hilft: vogelschlag.wildvogelhilfe-leipzig.de

🎧 A new #InsideBiodiversity episode is out today — don’t miss this one! 🌿Author Dr. Taylor Dotson (@dots_t) joins iDiv's Volker Hahn for a powerful conversation about why biodiversity conflicts are intensifying, how climate change became a “knowledge problem”, and why science alone cannot resolve deeply political disputes. He also introduces his idea of biodiversity democracy, a more inclusive way of navigating conservation in a divided world. 🎙️Take a listen: insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

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🪱 Our latest publication on #soil #mesofauna and persistent soil #organic #matter is now featured in the "Plant Life Belowground" blog, including background information and nice pictures 🙂 Have a read here: plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2026/02/25/bey… @idiv @BiologyCentre et al.