At the 2026 annual meeting of the German Working Group on Remote Sensing (AK Fernerkundung), hosted by the Thünen Institute in Braunschweig, Daniel Gruschwitz from the Earth Observation Research Cluster (EORC) at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg presented ongoing research on mapping grassland plant diversity across Bavaria. Species-rich grasslands provide important habitats for flowering plants, insects, and birds, […]

Spatiotemporal transcriptomics across conifer reproductive and vegetative shoots reveals candidate developmental regulators and evolutionarily conserved tissue patterning genes in seed plants.

Mapping mountain pine remains a challenge, particularly in steep Alpine terrain where Pinus mugo forms dense krummholz thickets that are difficult to separate from surrounding vegetation and hard to survey on the ground. In our new study led by Basil Tufail, we explore the potential of Sentinel-2 time series to map mountain pine across the […]

Aim Human land-use has dramatically altered the amount, quality and connectivity of habitat for species worldwide. Understanding how these changes affect individual species is essential for predicti...

Substantial intraspecific variation, together with species turnover, drives coordinated shifts in drought resistance such as increased embolism resistance and wider stomatal safety margins in drier fo...

AbstractBackground. Epiphyllous bryophytes are a group of plants with complex adaptations to colonize the leaves of vascular plants and are considered one

Biodiversity is changing at an unprecedented pace, underscoring the need for effective and scalable ecological monitoring. Yet selecting which species to monitor remains a major challenge. Indicator ...

Background: The majority of vegetation plots has been and still is being recorded on ordinal scales, meaning that the values have to be back-transformed to percent for many typical analyses. Little is...

A new TUM method reveals how plant roots and mycorrhizal fungi interact in soil, offering insights for climate-resilient and drought-tolerant crops.

Human impacts substantially affect our ability to detect and understand natural biodiversity patterns.

AbstractBackground and Aims. The historical biogeography of the Northern Hemisphere has long been of interest to botanists and biogeographers. Numerous stu