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OneSTOP project annual meeting

From 19-22 January, Lisa Tedeschi attended the annual meeting of the EU Horizon project OneSTOP in Almería, Spain.

30.01.2026

E-STEEM Call Open now! 20 Female Post Doc Positions @Uni Vienna

With E-STEEM – empowering women in STEM and Economics, the University of Vienna awards at least 20 four-year and full-time (40h/week) postdoctoral...

30.01.2026

News

Tom Vorstenbosch successfully defended his PhD Thesis!

On the 18th of December, Tom Vorstenbosch defended his thesis “Modelling biological invasions in the sub-Antarctic under climate change”, supervised by...

18.12.2025

Publication

New Study Reveals Global Surge in Invasive Mosquito Species

An international research team led by the University of Lisbon and involving the University of Vienna reports a rapid worldwide increase in...

06.11.2025

Media

Franz Essl in conversation on Austrian radio on alien insects and their impacts

On Wednesday 29/10, Franz Essl was a guest in “Punkt 1” on the Austrian Radio Ö1. The broadcast focused on rapidly spreading alien insects in Austria,...

05.11.2025

Publication

New publication – 2nd edition of the Austrian Neophyte Checklist & Michael Glaser on Science ORF

The second edition of the Checklist of Austrian Neophytes, led by Michael Glaser, has just been published in Preslia. This comprehensive update documents...

01.10.2025

People

Anna Schertler successfully defended her PhD thesis!

Last Wednesday, 30st July, Anna Schertler defended her thesis “Macroecological perspectives in invasion biology – examining drivers of fungal and plant...

04.08.2025

Publication

New book – Kärntens Heuschrecken

Franz Essl contributed to a beautiful newly published book on Austrian (particularly Carinthian) grasshoppers, available now on the webshop of the...

04.08.2025

Publication

New publication – Patterns and drivers of range filling of alien mammals in Europe

A new study led by Lisa Tedeschi, in collaboration with colleagues from Czech Republic, Portugal, and Italy, was recently published in Oikos. In this paper,...

02.07.2025

Press Conference and Open Letter on closing the EU Biodiversity Funding Gap

On Thursday, 26 June 2025, an online press conference organized by Scientists For Future Austria, with the participation of Franz Essl and colleagues from...

30.06.2025

Publication

New publication – The latitudinal variation in amphibian speciation rates revisited

A study led by Adrián García-Rodríguez and involving colleagues from Mexico, Colombia, Austria and Brazil was recently published in Communications Biology....

23.06.2025

Publication

New publication – World-wide impacts of climate change and nitrogen deposition on vegetation structure, composition, and functioning of shrublands

Recent research led by Daijun Liu, published in New Phytologist, has reported how structure and functional changes of global shrubland ecosystems in response...

10.06.2025

Latest Publications

Pan X., Hautier Y., Leps J., Wang S., Barry K. E., Bazzichetto M., et al. (2026). Reconciling links between diversity and population stability across global plant communities. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70921

Ulrich W., Matthews T. J., Biurrun I., Aleksanyan A., Borovyk D., Burrascano S., et al. (2026). The proper middle class: assessing the importance of subordinate species on plant community assembly and functional diversity. Oikos, 2026(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/oik.11572

Gioria M., Fernandez-pascual E., Rosbakh S., Cruz Tejada D. M., Dawson W., Essl F., et al. (2026). Seed germination traits reveal naturalization potential: Global insights from temperate European herbaceous species. Journal Of Ecology, 114(1). https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70223

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