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“Faktencheck Artenvielfalt” – and then?
In October 2024 the first Germany wide biodiversity assessment “Faktencheck Artenvielfalt” was published. The HIFMB led the writing process of the chapter on status and changes of coastal and marine biodiversity, their drivers and consequences, as well as options and needs for action to improve its status. The assessment compiled information and data from numerous …
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Unicellular plankton covers a size range that is comparable to the size difference between a small fish and a city like Oldenburg.
The Impacts of Oil: Ocean Governance in the Face of Disaster
This text is written by Fentje Maake who joined the Marine Governance Group at HIFMB for two weeks in October as part of a school internship to understand the work of university researchers in the social sciences, and in the study of oceanic management for biodiversity.
Maths, Ecology and the Virus
Over the past months life has been severely impacted by Covid. The pandemic has wiped the previous problems, the Australian wildfires and the rise of disinformation, off the news and off people’s minds. However, to the network scientist an important parallel exists: All of these phenomena can be understood as spreading processes on networks.
Ice Melting Into Music
Close your eyes for a moment and listen to the space you are in. Maybe you hear colleagues talking in the hall, the purr of a hard disc spinning, rain hitting the window, or when in the field the humming of a research vessel’s engine, with the hint of breaking waves against your cabin window. The world around us is full of sound and we are often only partly aware of the important role it plays in the perception of our environment and the information we implicitly derive from it.
The Long and Winding Road Toward Protection of a Pristine Antarctic Ecosystem
The Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 14 provide for the designation of at least 10% of coastal and offshore marine areas as Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) worldwide by 2020.
Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
The IPBES 2019 Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services is the new global synthesis of the state of nature, ecosystems and nature’s contributions to people since the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment published in 2005, and the first that is inter-governmental.