New visiting student: David Umhauer
We welcome David, who will be doing a two-month internship in our Division. He will be collaborating with Adrián Garcia-Rodriguez to develop a database of...
News
New publication – Predicted decline in invasion risk for alien cultivated flora in Southern Africa
The latest research paper of Ali Omer and colleagues, "Invasion risk of the currently cultivated alien flora in Southern Africa is predicted to decline under...
Online article (SWR) on lag effects in biological invasions [in german]
There are often decades between the introduction of new species and their massive spread. This makes it difficult to assess the risk and protect native...
Apply now! 3-years PhD position – Analysing historic vegetation changes in Europe
The Division of BioInvasions, Global Change & Macroecology at the University Vienna(http://bioinvasions.univie.ac.at) is offering a PHD-position on...
Visiting Researcher: Gabriel Petuel
We welcome Gabriel Petuel as a visiting researcher at our division. Gabriel is a PhD candidate at the Czech Academy of Sciences and the University of...
New publication – Lag phases in plant invasions
Philipp Robeck and colleagues from GloNAF - among them Franz Essl - recently published an exciting study in Nature Ecology & Evolution. Successful...
Italian Knowledge Leaders Legacy award won by Lisa Tedeschi
We congratulate our colleague Lisa Tedeschi, who, along with other 7 junior academics won the the prestigious "Italian Knowledge Leaders Legacy" award, "by...
Michael Glaser successfully defended his PhD thesis!
Today Michael Glaser defended his thesis "Past, present and future weeds.", supervised by Franz Essl and Stefan Dullinger (Uni Vienna). Michael had...
Interview with Franz Essl in “Matt spricht mit..”
In the W24 talk format "Matt spricht mit ..." (in German only), presenter Gerald Matt invites people to talk to him and meets local and international...
New publication – The biogeography of alien fungal pathogens
In our latest publication in Journal of Biogeography led by Anna Schertler, we examine the global biogeography of 100 alien fungi and fungus-like oomycetes...
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...
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...
New publication from AgriWeedClim
Happy to share our latest publication led by Michael Glaser in the journal Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. We applied occupancy modelling to a...
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 &...
