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With more than 70 options for taking action, IPBES presents its most comprehensive assessment of the interlinkages between biodiversity, water, food, and health to date for advising decision-makers. Experts from the Thünen Institute of Biodiversity contributed their knowledge.

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Using artificial intelligence to make agriculture more productive and sustainable: this is the goal of the seven project partners in the new AI Real-World Laboratory for Agriculture. Also the Thünen Institute is involved. Today is the official launch.

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From 20 June to 3 July 2025, citizens can once again observe, identify and report bumblebees using an app - an important contribution to the protection of biodiversity. Particularly in demand: observations in agricultural landscapes.

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Bird populations benefit significantly from agricultural fallows, especially in landscapes with medium structural complexity

Forensic Scientists of the criminal police at the Institute for Biodiversity

Practical training at the lab of the Thünen-Institut of Biodiversity

"Editor's Choice" a a special recognition of the international peer-reviewed journal FEMS Microbiology Ecology for studies which provide a significant advance in the field.

A major 5-year European project ˗ DiverIMPACTS ˗ was recently launched. The project will explore the full potential of diversifying arable cropping systems with the aim to provide improved agricultural productivity, resource efficiency and sustainable value chains.

We developed the concept of Aggregatomics to study soil aggregates as functional biological entities. These entities, which are dynamic in space and time, control the flow of energy and substrates in soils.