Stephanie Roilo

New PhD position on “Cumulative effects of the expansion of renewable energies on biodiversity”!

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Renewable energies are crucial for a green future. But what are their biological impacts with widespread adoption? Come and study with us the cumulative effects of renewable energies on biodiversity and ecosystem services  in the transdisciplinary doctoral scholarship programme of the Boysen-TU Dresden Research Training Group. Find all infos here: https://www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/download.asp?file=11-2022%5CMartius_Stipendium%204.GRK_TP_F3_AC_eng.pdf Deadline for applications: November …

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BESTMAP update: what happened over the summer?

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It has been a busy and fruitful summer for the BESTMAP consortium, and here is a summary of our latest achievements.Four BESTMAP-related publications were published over the summer months, with contributions from our team members at the Chair of Computational Landscape Ecology:– Gosal et al. (2022) investigated the accuracy of modelled changes in freshwater provision …

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TURMFEST in Dresden: we will be there to answer your geeky questions

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The 25. Turmfest will take place at the Technische Sammlungen Dresden this Sunday, 11.09.2022, and five researchers from the Technische Universität Dresden, among which our group leader Prof. Dr. Anna Cord, will be there to answer all of your burning scientific questions. The science Q&A, moderated by “Checker Julian”, will start at 14:00 and is …

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Our Computational Landscape Ecology group was at the ECCB 2022 in Prague!

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Our research groups was well represented at the European Congress for Conservation Biology (ECCB 2022) which took place last week in Prague, Czech Republic! Our lab members Lisanne, Gaby and Stephanie joined the conference to present some of their current research, encompassing diverse topics: from plant diversity in fallow fields, to prairie dog disturbances in …

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What effect do prairie dogs have on plants in the semi-arid grasslands of Northeast Mexico?

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For our new paper published in Ecology and Evolution we studied the effect caused by the disturbance of the endemic prairie dog Cynomys mexicanus (in the picture) on plant functional and taxonomical diversity. The species in endangered and is considered to be a grassland ecosystem engineer due to their grazing and burrowing activities (you can …

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BESTMAP Summer School on Modelling policy impacts on ecosystem services and biodiversity – call for participants

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The BESTMAP Summer School on modelling policy impacts on ecosystem services and biodiversity will take place in Olomouc, Czech Republic on September 12–16, 2022 and is organised jointly by Palacky University Olomouc, University of Leeds, UFZ–Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, TU Dresden and other project partners. The full agenda of the Summer School can be …

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Successful ECO²SCAPE project meeting in Berlin

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On May 31st and June 1st, all ECO²SCAPE project partners, together with members of the Advisory Board, met in Berlin to report on the project progress, discuss research activities and ongoing publications, and brainstorm new ideas. The 2-day meeting was intense and sparked many fruitful discussions which the group is eager to further develop; for …

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