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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...
30.11.2023
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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...
21.11.2023
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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...
17.11.2023
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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...
15.11.2023
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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 &...
07.11.2023
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IPBES-IAS Assessment: Chapters now available

Following the release of the Summary for Policy-Makers of the IPBES Assessment on Invasive Alien Species and their Control, the individual chapters of the...
07.11.2023
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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...
07.11.2023
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Alien plants migrate northwards

In Europe and America, many of the alien plant species originate from their own continent. They usually originate in warmer regions closer to the equator - a...
05.10.2023
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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...
29.09.2023
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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...
21.09.2023
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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...
12.09.2023
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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,...
04.09.2023
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New publication – 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...
31.08.2023
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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...
24.08.2023
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Der asiatische Marienkäfer (links) wird den heimischen bald ausgelöscht haben. Mit dem Tigermoskito (rechts) kommen neue Krankheiten. (Bild: Ess, Krone KREATIV)

“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...
15.08.2023
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Division of BioInvasions,
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New publication – The latitudinal variation in amphibian speciation rates revisited
New publication – World-wide impacts of climate change and nitrogen deposition on vegetation structure, composition, and functioning of shrublands
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New publication – The global distribution patterns of alien vertebrate richness in mountains
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Latest Publications

  • Synthesizing knowledge about tree diversity, density, and distribution in the savanna woodlands of Sudan
  • Droughts and windstorms due to climate change increase variability in species and trait composition of a subtropical monsoon evergreen broadleaf forest in China
  • World-wide impacts of climate change and nitrogen deposition on vegetation structure, composition, and functioning of shrublands
  • The latitudinal variation in amphibian speciation rates revisited
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