Research for the Environment

Biodiversity

The diversity of plants and animals around us is often taken very much for granted and yet biodiversity is threatened; the changing climate is affecting flora and fauna just as much as the invasion of alien plants and animals in new habitats. Exactly what is happening, the effects that it is having and the instruments that can be used to counteract it, is being investigated at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research.

Contents of this edition:

• Preamble of the Scientific Managing Director of the UFZ
• Biodiversity assures 'joie de vivre' and quality of life
• Nature - Should it be nature?
• Point of view: The German strategy to biodiversity
• Take a look - but look closely!
• Biological Invasions: A curse or blessing?
• ALARM for biodiversity
• Climate change makes plants get a move on
• We require international standards for biomass products
• Look out ..., tree falling! - The impacts of forest use
• Everything is flowing
• "We need to do our homework"
• Point of view: Land consumption must be stopped!
• Integrating conservation into intergovernmental fiscal transfers
• Sly as a fox with virtual experiments
• Experiments to understand processes
• Microbiology - the overlooked majority
• Nature conservation always has an ethical component
• Research for the Environment - An introduction to the UFZ

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April 2008 (4.7 MB)