• press release ERC Advanced Grant for UFZ ecologist Thorsten Wiegand
Dr Thorsten Wiegand has received around 2.5 million euros from the European Research Council (ERC). Over the next five years, he and his colleague Prof Andreas Huth will develop theory to understand the spatial dynamics and stability of species-rich forests.»
Using methods of explainable machine learning, researchers at the UFZ have shown that floods are more extreme when several factors are involved in their development. The research was published in Science Advances.»
A research team from the UFZ and AWI has detected large quantities of plastic waste and microplastics in a remote marine protected area in the North Pacific Ocean. The researchers highlight that plastics are distributed much more widely than expected. »
UFZ researchers have analysed samples from 22 European rivers and found more than 500 chemicals, some of which were in high concentrations. In order to assess their additive effects on aquatic organisms, they applied the concept of the chemical footprint.»
On 27 February, the EU Parliament voted in favour of what is probably the most important law to stop the loss of biodiversity. But it still has to clear one hurdle - the European Council in April. In his point of view, UFZ ecologist Guy Pe'er explains why this is so important. »
Virtual Aquifer - Numerical Groundwater Flow Model
Ausbaufortschritte und Naturschutzaspekte der Energiewende
“The Influence of Selenium on Arsenic Transport by Human Hepatocytes”
