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...
Call for Abstracts open – EGU 2024 – Session on Biological Invasions!
The annual general assembly of the European Geosciences Union EGU is taking place in Vienna (Austria Center Vienna) between 14.-19. April 2024...
Apply now! University assistant predoctoral – open position
A 3 years (30 h) PhD position on studying the accumulation of alien species across scales is available at the Division of BioInvasions, Macroecology &...
Division group retreat in Weissenkirchen in Wachau
From the 28. - 29.10.2023 we had out annual division retreat. This time we met in the picturesque village of Weissenkirchen in the midst of the UNESCO World...
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...
Introducing PhD student Jennifer Hennenfeind
Jennifer recently joined our group and she will study how biodiversity and climate change influences human conflicts across the globe.
My research focuses...
IPBES Invasive Alien Species Report released
On 4 September 2023 a comprehensive assessment by the world biodiversity council (IPBES) on the state of biological invasions, their distribution, trends,...
New publication on evolutionary imbalance explaining global plant invasions
This new publication in Nature Ecology & Evolution, led by Trevor Fristoe and involving the GloNAF team, explores how the evolutionary imbalance...
Young Investigator Award for Daijun Liu
We are happy and proud to announce that Daijun Liu received the Young Investigator Award 2023 from the Faculty of Life Sciences at University of Vienna. This...
“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...
New publication in Global Change Biology – Climatic dynamics during invasions of island-endemics
In this paper led by Adrián García and involving other team members and colleagues from other international institutions, we studied climatic niche dynamics...
Janine Oettel successfully defended her PhD thesis
Janine Oettel defended her thesis "Modelling drivers of deadwood amount, decomposition and residence time taking into account the occurrence of...
