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PhD candidate Nussaibah Raja-Schoob and Wolfgang Kiessling, with colleagues, published a study on the extinction risk of corals using artificial intelligence. An article is published in 'Global Ecology and Biogeography' and the university has published an interview with N. Raja-Schoob and W. Kiessl...

"Islands are among the last regions on Earth settled and transformed by human activities, and they provide replicated model systems for analysis of how people affect ecological functions. By analyzing 27 representative fossil pollen sequences encompassing the past 5000 years from islands globally, ...

"Many ecological and evolutionary hypotheses have been proposed to explain the latitudinal diversity gradient, i.e. the increase in species richness from the poles to the tropics. Among the evolutionary hypotheses, the ‘out of the tropics’ (OTT) hypothesis has received considerable attention. The O...

"Prof. Wolfgang Kiessling, Chair of Paleobiology, and Tasnuva Ming Khan, also from the field of Paleobiology, together with scientists from South Africa, England, Brazil, Norway, Trinidad and India, have succeeded in finding that a third of all endemic species living in rural areas are threatened t...

Why are more and more species becoming extinct? What can we learn from the species extinctions of the geological past? And how can we use the findings from paleontology and biology to slow down, or better still reverse, the species decline? These questions are addressed by a small online symposium ...

After reviewing the submission for the Open Research Challenge, Nussaibah Raja-Schoob and Wolfgang Kiessling have decided on the winner of the challenge. We are happy to announce Joseph Flannery Sutherland, PhD candidate at the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol in the UK. Con...

"Climate change affects life at global scales and across systems but is of special concern in areas that are disproportionately rich in biological diversity and uniqueness. Using a meta-analytical approach, we analysed >8000 risk projections of the projected impact of climate change on 273 areas...

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The deadline for FAU's  Open Research Challenge is over and we would like to thank everyone who participated and supported. Now it is time to review and rank the submitted solutions. This will be done by Nussaibah Raja-Schoob and Wolfgang Kiessling and as soon as we have our results we will in...

In Earth’s history, there have been several catastrophes in which a large part of life on Earth has been wiped out. In Campus Talks on ARD-alpha, Wolfgang Kießling shows parallels to the current climate situation on Earth. He gives an outlook to what extent a mass extinction of species is to be exp...