OneSTOP project annual meeting
From 19-22 January, Lisa Tedeschi attended the annual meeting of the EU Horizon project OneSTOP in Almería, Spain.
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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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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....
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...
Warum wir Biodiversität erhalten & fördern müssen: Franz Essl in the Krone
Recently, Franz Essl along with other colleagues have highlighted the importance of Biodiversity in Austria's largest free daily tabloid newspaper.
New publication – The global distribution patterns of alien vertebrate richness in mountains
A new study led by Adrián García-Rodríguez and involving several BioInvasions team members was recently published in Nature Communications. The research...
“Warum Biodiversität jetzt wichtig ist”: Franz Essl on “Die Furche”
Franz Essl has recently written an invited commentary on the importance of biodiversity policy in the well-known Austrian weekly magazine "Die Furche". You...
