Ecology, The Environment and Conservation

This complex theme deals primarily with interactions between organisms and the environmental factors that impact them, but to a greater extent between individual inanimate environmental factors.

innovations-report offers informative reports and articles on topics such as climate protection, landscape conservation, ecological systems, wildlife and nature parks and ecosystem efficiency and balance.

Trawl of Red Sea surface waters finds little plastic

Samples of floating plastic rubbish were collected by the team from 120 sites along 1500km of shoreline on the eastern margin of the Red Sea during voyages in…

Listening in: Acoustic monitoring devices detect illegal hunting and logging

Ecologists from the University of Southampton (UK) and Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Mexico) have been studying the presence and distribution of the…

Using drones to estimate crop damage by wild boars

Anneleen Rutten, PhD student at the University of Antwerp and the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO, Brussels) will present the method at the…

How fires are changing the tundra’s face

Two young ecologists from the University of Münster are studying the serious consequences fires can have for vegetation, soils and some endangered bird…

Minimized water consumption in CSP plants – EU project MinWaterCSP is making good progress

In Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plants, collectors are bundling the sunlight on an absorber in order to generate electricity. CSP plants are often installed…

Jena Experiment: Loss of species destroys ecosystems

An ecosystem provides humans with natural “services”, such as the fertility of the soil, the quality of the groundwater, the production of food, and…

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