Austrian Biodiversity Council meets President Van der Bellen
Experts from the Austrian Biodiversity Council used the opportunity of their visit to President Alexander Van der Bellen to draw attention to the increasing...
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Franz Essl is one of eleven ‘highly cited scientists’ of the University Vienna
This year's list of the world's most cited researchers in 2023 includes eleven scientists from the University of Vienna. They conduct research at the Centre...
Newsfeature – Early career scientists from our group
Recently three of our group members have been mentioned in the science magazine Heureka of the Austrian news outlet Falter. Great to see their exciting...
New Birdlife Podcast Episode with Franz Essl [in German]
In the latest episode of the Birdlife Podcast 'Gezwitscher', Gábor Wichmann (director of BirdLife Austria and Lisa Lugerbauer) talk with Franz Essl about the...
“Alien species take over Vienna – economic costs are enormous”
Recently, Franz Essl was interviewed by the Krone Newspaper about the impacts of biological invasions in Austria and globally. The article gives some...
New Commentary on impacts of invasive chytrid fungi on amphibians
In a recent contribution our colleague Adrián García, in collaboration with Héctor Zumbado from the University of California at Riverside, has published a...
AlienScenarios received the prestigious Biodiversa Prize for Excellence and Impact
Our work on future scenarios of biological invasions was recently recognized with this important award. As part of the prize, a nice video animation was...
Franz Essl is Austrian Scientist of the Year 2022!
Franz Essl was voted 'Scientist of the Year 2022' by the Austrian Club of Education and Science Journalists - honoring his commitment to communicating science...
