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How best to restore nature: researchers call to rethink rewilding -
Pressemitteilung, 26.04.2019
Regardless of whether the landscape is made up of individual floodplains or entire national parks, the success of rewilding projects does not just depend on whether individual plant or animal …
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"EU trade with Brazil promotes climate change and violates human rights" -
Pressemitteilung, 25.04.2019
More than 600 scientists, from every country in the EU, and 300 Brazilian indigenous groups have joined forces to highlight the destruction of the environment and human rights violations promo…
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Plant diversity increases insect diversity -
Pressemitteilung, 09.04.2019
The more plant species live in grasslands and forests, the more insect species find a habitat there. However, the presence of more plant species does not only increase insect species richness,…
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New Plant Breeding Technologies for Food Security -
Pressemitteilung, 29.03.2019
An international team, including researchers from the University of Göttingen, argues in a perspective article recently published in “Science” that new plant breeding technologies can contribu…
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What "Big Data" reveals about the diversity of species -
Pressemitteilung, 28.03.2019
"Big data" and large-scale analyses are critical for biodiversity research to find out how animal and plant species are distributed worldwide and how ecosystems function. The necessary data ma…
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Race at the edge of the Sun: ions are faster than atoms -
Pressemitteilung, 22.03.2019
Ions move faster than atoms in the gas streams of a solar prominence. Scientists at the University of Göttingen, the Institut d'Astrophysique in Paris and the Istituto Ricerche Solari Locarno …
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How the “good feeling” can influence the purchase of sustainable chocolate -
Pressemitteilung, 21.03.2019
More and more products carry ethical labels such as fair-trade or organic, which consumers usually view positively. A team of scientists from the University of Göttingen has investigated to wh…
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Tasty sausage without painful castration procedure for male piglets -
Pressemitteilung, 13.03.2019
Processing meat of male pigs that haven’t been castrated is challenging, as the animals‘ fat tissue can develop specific odours. In a joint research project, scientists from the University of …
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How one small village in Germany reinvented itself to ensure its survival -
Pressemitteilung, 04.03.2019
How can communities living together in rural areas be developed to ensure that they continue to exist and thrive? Much emphasis has been placed on innovation within urban areas. However, new r…
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How fungi influence global plant colonisation -
Pressemitteilung, 25.02.2019
The symbiosis of plants and fungi has a great influence on the worldwide spread of plant species. In some cases, it even acts like a filter. This has been discovered by an international team o…
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Researchers get to the bottom of fairy circles -
Pressemitteilung, 19.02.2019
Fairy circles are round gaps in arid grassland that are distributed very uniformly over the landscape and only occur along the Namib Desert in southern Africa and in parts of Australia. Variou…
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Happy as a pig in muck? -
Pressemitteilung, 15.02.2019
Photos play an important role when it comes to how agricultural products are seen by consumers. A team of scientists from the Universities of Bozen-Bolzano and Göttingen investigated how peopl…
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Is our personality affected by the way we look? (Or the way we think we look?) -
Pressemitteilung, 11.02.2019
To what extent is our personality an adaptation to our appearance or even our physique? A team of scientists at the University of Göttingen has investigated this question. Their results: it de…
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Researchers track down new biocatalysts -
Pressemitteilung, 05.02.2019
Phosphate is a key element in many processes in the body and essential for global food production. Re-searchers at the University of Göttingen have now developed a method to detect new enzymes…
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Where do the best strawberries grow? -
Pressemitteilung, 04.02.2019
Agricultural production benefits enormously from flower-visiting bees and other flower-visiting insects. Because of their supply of flowering plants and opportunities for nesting, hedgerows an…
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