"Findings of ammonoid soft tissues are extremely rare compared to the rich fossil record of ammonoid conchs ranging from the Late Devonian to the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary. Here, we apply the computed-tomography approach to detect ammonoid soft tissue remains in well-preserved fossils from the ...
"Anthropogenic climate change is increasingly threatening biodiversity on a global scale. Rich spots of biodiversity, regions with exceptionally high endemism and/or number of species, are a top priority for nature conservation. Terrestrial studies have hypothesized that rich spots occur in places ...
Long announced - finally the time has come. The call for applications opened on December 23, 2021, and will close February 28, 2022. Admission decisions will be made in March 2022.
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We would like to thank everyone who has contributed to our project this year for their support. A year full of challenges lies behind us, we say goodbye to 2021 and look ahead with hope.
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"Climbing activities affect cliff site species. With cliff sites harbouring unique species communities, the rise in popularity of outdoor climbing activities is a major threat. In this study, we assessed a previously unclimbed boulder before, during and after 500 climbing ascents. We observed an ov...
"The second-order Pliensbachian–Toarcian crisis affected major groups of marine organisms. While its impact has been intensively studied for ammonites, the response of belemnites is only currently emerging through quantitative studies. Novel overall and regional diversity analyses suggest that bele...
The recordings are available to the public now. We have created an own YouTube channel that includes recordings of the presentations of all our speakers. You can find the videos directly on YouTube or by clicking here.
We are happy to finally present details about our "Summer Science School"!
On the one hand, we prepared a downloadable flyer for you but you can also find all details on our homepage - or you use both :)
The key information:
The course will take place from August 22nd to Septemb...
"Conodonts were the first vertebrates to develop mineralized dental tools, known as elements. Recent research suggests that conodonts were macrophagous predators and/or scavengers but we do not know how this feeding habit emerged in the earliest coniform conodonts, since most studies focus on the d...
"Habitat richness, that is, the diversity of ecosystem types, is a complex, spatially explicit aspect of biodiversity, which is affected by bioclimatic, geographic, and anthropogenic variables. The distribution of habitat types is a key component for understanding broad-scale biodiversity and for d...
