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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The Research Training Group SystemLink at University of Koblenz-Landau, funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), currently offers several master theses.
Continue readingOur Institute for Environmental Sciences at the Campus Landau/Pfalz is hiring a scientist to analyse the distribution of pesticides in terrestrial ecosystems.
Read moreThe Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) is hiring two PhD researchers for projects in spatial freshwater biodiversity and conservation planning.
Continue readingThe Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) near Berlin is hiring a PostDoc researcher for modelling of crop pest dynamics.
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In this post, Carsten Brühl provides some background on a new program for insect conservation by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), where he chaired a workshop on pesticide reduction.