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PostDoc position in Terrestrial or Freshwater Ecology at Senckenberg

The Department of River Ecology and Conservation at Senckenberg and the University of Duisburg-Essen jointly offer a PostDoc position to investigate trends in ecological communities over time and space, and to identify drivers of ecological variation.

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MSc thesis opportunity on Food Quality and Ecosystem Functioning at Uni Koblenz-Landau

We are offering a thesis to investigate which food quality descriptor is the best to explain changes in ecosystem functioning under stress. The thesis will be supervised jointly by our working groups Functional Aquatic Ecotoxicology and Ecosystem Resilience.

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Documentary on insect decline in German agricultural landscapes and the role of agriculture

The German television shot a documentary on the observation of declining insects in Germany, and the science behind it. The film features researchers involved in a recent study entitled “More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas”.

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