UN Ozean Decade
Senckenberg supports the UN Ocean Decade!
Senckenberg has a century-long tradition in marine research. In this video some of our marine researchers explain how Senckenberg is working on giving a future to our oceans.
Mihály Köles on Unsplash, https://unsplash.com/photos/gR_AgAcP7jI
Asteroid impact 66 million years ago caused brief bloom of algae and substantial ocean species’ extinction
Mathis Messager
Dry Rivers
60 percent of all streams around the world dry out intermittently – with an upward trend
An international team of researchers, including Senckenberg’s Director General Klement Tockner, for the first time recorded and quantified all rivers worldwide that temporarily dry up. The scientists show that 60 percent of the world’s streams dry up for at least one day a year – across all continents and climate zones.
Tingting Yu
Fossilized: 99-Million-Year-Old Birth
Live birth of a land snail preserved in amber
Together with an international team, Adrienne Jochum of the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt and the Natural History Museum Bern has made an extraordinary discovery: The researchers found a fossilized female land snail enclosed in a 99-million-year-old piece of amber together with her five young.
Antoine Fouquet
“Zombie Frog” Discovered
Three new species described from the narrow-mouthed frog family
Together with an international team, Senckenberg scientists have described three new frog species from the northern Amazon region.
Robert Kalinagil/ Unsplash
Climate change might even drive widespread mammal species to extinction
Wide-spread land mammal species are not off the hook when it comes to negative effects of climate change, a new study by researchers from the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre shows.
J.V. Lacerda
On the Brink: Brazil’s Coastal Rainforest
Amphibian and bird diversity threatened by deforestation and eucalyptus monocultures
Together with Brazilian colleagues, Senckenberg scientist Raffael Ernst investigated the impact of current land use on the bird and amphibian fauna of the Atlantic rainforest in southeastern Brazil.
Asteroid impact 66 million years ago caused brief bloom of algae and substantial ocean species’ extinction
Dry Rivers
60 percent of all streams around the world dry out intermittently – with an upward trend
Fossilized: 99-Million-Year-Old Birth
Live birth of a land snail preserved in amber
“Zombie Frog” Discovered
Three new species described from the narrow-mouthed frog family
Climate change might even drive widespread mammal species to extinction
On the Brink: Brazil’s Coastal Rainforest
Amphibian and bird diversity threatened by deforestation and eucalyptus monocultures
Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
Windows into Human Diversity
Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald goes online!
The annual G.H.R. von Koenigswald Lecture will be replaced by a series of 6 videos. Watch the sixth episode here!
The future of the of the GHR v Koenigswald Collection in Frankfurt: Exploring human biocultural diversity
Senckenberg – Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research
Senckenberg – Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research
Our Natural Capital Is Disappearing
In this video, our former Director General Prof. Dr. Mosbrugger tells us more about sustainability in regard to nature and the world on which we live, and recommends a way in which we can work toward a long term goal.
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Volker Mosbrugger
Director General of the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung
Katharina Methner
