Der Hotspot 23 „Hunte-Leda-Moorniederung, Delmenhorster Geest und Hümmling“ zeichnet sich durch eine vielfältig strukturierte Landschaft aus, hier finden sich auch extreme Standorte, die von Nässe, Trockenheit oder Nährstoffarmut geprägt sind. Für heimische Wildtiere und -pflanzen stellen diese Gebiete existentielle Refugien dar, die vielfach gefährdet sind. Im Projekt „Vielfalt in Geest und Moor“ sollen diese wertvollen Biotope erhalten und der Verlust der biologischen Vielfalt verhindert werden.
LIFE ist das einzige EU-Förderprogramm, das ausschließlich Projekte zu den Themen Umwelt und Klima fördert. Das Programm wird in der neuen Förderperiode 2021-2027 weitergeführt und finanziell weiter aufgestockt. Die Mittelausstattung beträgt 5,432 Mrd. € zu jeweiligen Preisen. Das allgemeine Ziel des LIFE-Programms besteht darin, „einen Beitrag zum Übergang zu einer nachhaltigen, kreislauforientierten, energieeffizienten, auf erneuerbare Energie gestützten, klimaneutralen und klimaresistenten Wirtschaft zu leisten, die Qualität der Umwelt, einschließlich Luft, Wasser und Boden, zu schützen, wiederherzustellen und zu verbessern sowie den Verlust der biologischen Vielfalt einzudämmen und umzukehren und der Degradation von Ökosystemen zu begegnen – auch durch Unterstützung der Einrichtung und Verwaltung des Natura-2000-Netzes – und damit zu einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung beizutragen.“ Das LIFE-Programm hat zwei Hauptbereiche mit jeweils zwei Unterprogrammen: Bereich „Umwelt“ mit den Teilprogrammen Naturschutz und Biodiversität Kreislaufwirtschaft und Lebensqualität Bereich „Klimapolitik“ mit den Teilprogrammen Klimaschutz und Klimaanpassung Energiewende Nähere Informationen zur LIFE-Beratungsstelle
Climate change is a major threat to ecosystems and livelihoods, requiring urgent cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. Food systems, including crop and livestock production, contribute significantly to global emissions. Monocultures and intense farming worsen biodiversity loss, pollution, and water stress. Transitioning to plant-based diets and adopting better farming practices is essential to meet the Paris Agreement goals. This report shares findings from the project “Ambitious GHG Reduction in Agriculture: Analysis of Sustainable Potentials in Selected Priority Countries" (FKZ 3720 41 504 0) which identifies key options for reducing emissions in agriculture, implementation barriers, and solutions. It emphasizes the importance of tailored approaches and the role of agriculture in climate targets, sustainable development, and food security. Veröffentlicht in Climate Change | 38/2025.
Policy coherence is key to effectively address the interdependent crises of biodiversity loss and climate change. This paper presents tangible case studies of coherent policy action for biodiversity and climate. It showcases entry points and lessons learned for enhancing coherence across different levels of governance, as well as success factors for cross-sector collaboration, coordinated finance, institutional alignment and meaningful stakeholder engagement.
Fragmentation of the natural environment has contributed to major biodiversity loss in South East Asia. Reptiles represent a significant biomass and occupy important functions in our ecosystem. However, these organisms are highly sensitive to relatively minor changes in temperature and habitat alteration. In this study we will investigate the effects of habitat fragmentation and potentially climate change on agamids at several sites in Southeast Asia. We will identify the species richness of agamids, their habitat use, and their diet. By using morphometrics, we aim to correlate morphology and habitat use and diet to explore the ecological niches these lizards occupy. We will also test for microhabitat preferences and optima to understand the ecological impacts on these species caused by forest fragmentation. We hope to use this approach to lay the foundations for macro-ecological modelling proving insights into future distributions and the impact of habitat connectivity.
In today's biodiversity crisis, there is an urgent need to monitor terrestrial and aquatic species in their natural habitats, especially those that may be endangered, invasive or elusive. Traditional species observation methods, based on acoustic or observational surveys are inefficient, costly and time consuming. On the other hand, DNA is continuously deposited in the environment from natural processes and this environmental DNA (eDNA) allows us to detect species and reconstruct their communities with a high level of sensitivity. These data can be used to obtain occurrence records and to collect more population information in field. Crucially, these data are necessary to inform management agencies about the current state of our biodiversity, and are especially urgent for species that are currently data deficient. The aims of this study are to firstly identify occurrence records from diverse sources (databases, literature) and generate a database of distributional data for species of crustacean and mollusks that are data deficient in Sweden. Secondly, we aim to detect threatened species in Swedish marine, freshwater and terrestrial habitats using novel genomic methods (DNA metabarcoding, ddPCR). Finally, based on the new data, we will run species distribution and population models, to improve information on geographic range and population status for threatened invertebrates. The results will be integrated into current monitoring programmes (e.g. red-listing) and action plans.
Wetland vegetation support a high biodiversity and plays an important ecological and hydrological roles in the environment. Hangzhou city with highly significant wetland vegetation biodiversity, lies in Zhejiang province, is very famous in China. The wetland areas are 28.9x104 ha, about 17.4Prozent of total area of Hangzhou city. The types of wetland vegetation are multiplicity and the vegetation biodiversity is abundant. But with the rapid urbanization process in Hangzhou city, the decrease of wetland areas in peri-urban region constitutes a severe problem, which will eventually lead to the loss of wetland vegetation biodiversity and its functions. So it is very important to carry out a project on the research of wetland vegetation biodiversity conservation and sustainable use in Hangzhou city. Its very significant for wetland vegetation biodiversity conservation and sustainable development, improvement of peri-urban ecosystem services and life quality.The project long term goal is to secure the conservation of globally significant wetland vegetation biodiversity in China and establish wetland vegetation biodiversity conservation and sustainable use as a routine consideration in national, provincial and local government decision making and action. The objective is providing science reference for Hangzhou government supporting policy of the urban wetland vegetation biodiversity conservation and sustainable use.
Anthropogenic global warming is regarded as a major threat to species and ecosystems worldwide. Predicting the biological impacts of future warming is thus of critical importance. The geological record provides several examples of mass extinctions and global ecosystem pertubations in which temperature-related stresses are thought to have played a substantial role. These catastrophic natural events are potential analogues for the consequences of anthropogenic warming but the Earth system processes during these times are still unexplored, especially in terms of their ultimate trigger and the extinction mechanisms. The Research Unit TERSANE aims at assessing the relative importance of warming-related stresses in ancient mass extinctions and at evaluating how these stresses emerged under non-anthropogenic conditions. An interdisciplinary set of projects will combine high-resolution geological field studies with meta-analyses and sophisticated analysis of fossil occurrence data on ancient (suspect) hyperthermal events to reveal the rate and magnitude of warming, their potential causes, their impact on marine life, and the mechanisms which led to ecologic change and extinction. Geochemistry, analytical paleobiology and physiology comprise our main toolkit, supplemented by biostratigraphy, sedimentology, and modelling.
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