A research team at the University of Bayreuth has used burying beetles to investigate the extent to which social interactions among family members can buffer the effects of environmental stress.

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Our findings highlight the benefits of enhancing structural heterogeneity for understorey plant diversity in managed forest landscapes. Specifically, management strategies that create a spatial mosai...

Fungal necromass represents a major source of soil organic carbon (C), partly stabilized as mineral-associated organic matter (MAOM). Mycorrhizal fung…

Young E. Oh, Meghan G. Midgley, M. Luke McCormack, Katilyn V. Beidler, Marshall McCall, Savannah Henderson, Renato K. Braghiere, Richard P. Phillips This is a plain language summary of a Functional…

Abstract. Modern crop varieties may exert reduced influence on their microbiome compared to their progenitors, as plant-microbe interactions were not targe

At our locations in Müncheberg and Paulinenaue we are looking for a PhD researcher within the project “BExudation - Integrating exudation into the root economics space to better understand carbon and ...

Racism shapes key areas of society – from housing and work to health and education. Nevertheless, scientific engagement with this topic has so far been insufficiently anchored in German institutions. This is shown in a new report by the Knowledge Network for Racism Research (WinRa), with the participation of Prof. Dr. Stefan Ouma from the University of Bayreuth.

The cup plant (Silphium perfoliatum) offers an ecologically advantageous alternative to silage maize for bioenergy production. This is the conclusion of a multi-year comparative study conducted by res...

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