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DE-FINM Passport Research

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Anthropology / Physical anthropology (46.20.00)

Senckenberg’s research aims at understanding the role of biodiversity in the past, present and future dynamics of the Earth’s system. Correspondingly, Senckenberg pursues integrative geobiodiversity research by using an earth system approach and combining bio- and geosciences, as well as reductionist and holistic research concepts that are largely organismic, field- and collection-oriented. With this research strategy we contribute to the protection and sustainable use of nature resources and to the development of an earth system management.

On an operational level, our research program comprises four basic and intensively cross-linked research fields (RF), each containing between two and four research activities:

  • RF I: Biodiversity and Systematics (including Taxonomy and Systematics , Evolution and Biogeography, Morphology and Function)
  • RF II: Biodiversity and Ecosystems Health (including Medical Biodiversity, Long-term Ecosystem Dynamics and Biodiversity Conservation)
  • RF III: Biodiversity and Climate (including Geobiodiversity and Climate, Genomic Evolution and Climate, Ecosystem Services and Climate)
  • RF IV: Biodiversity and Earth System Dynamics (Evolving Earth and Paleoenvironment, Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment

The four research fields with their various research activities are interlinked as a research network, with RF Biodiversity and Systematics at its core. This kind of reticulated research is characteristic of our integrative research strategy. Moreover, we follow a clear strategy to integrate our research results. This strategy is supported by our Science and Society program which focuses on the fields “Museums”, “Scientific Services” and “Knowledge Transfer”.

Biodiversity and Systematics

Biodiversity and Systematics represents Senckenberg’s traditional core competence and reflects the organismic, field- and collection-oriented approach. Ecological functions and ecosystem services, so intensively studied today, are provided by organisms; therefore, their full understanding, quantification, monitoring, and management requires knowledge about the underlying systematics.

Similarly, fighting pests and pathogen vectors, as well as analyzing the impact of climate change and other stressors on biodiversity requires the correct identification of species. Numerous opportunities in systematics arise from molecular studies, in particular concerning phylogenetic and biogeographic relationships and identification of cryptic species. Hence, this methodology is an integral part of the RF, including the development of a DNA and tissue collection.

The three RFs Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health, Biodiversity and Climate and Biodiversity and Earth system dynamics are settled around our core competences in Biodiversity and Systematics.

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health

The RF Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health focuses on understanding and managing the World´s species and ecosystems under global change. The research activity (RA) Medical Biodiversity contributes to the global One Health initiative by investigating vector-borne diseases and parasitology. The RA Long-term Ecosystem Dynamics represents a “traditional” research activity with typical long-term monitoring aspects and a key competence in long-term data analyses.

For decades, we have run monitoring projects in marine, freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems and are strongly embedded in international networks like LTER and GEOBON. The RA Biodiversity Conservation focuses on developing new methods, assessments tools and management recommendations. It is combining our nature conservation projects in marine, terrestrial and limnic environments.

Biodiversity and Climate

The three research activities of RF Biodiversity and Climate, i.e. Evolution and Climate, Biodiversity Dynamics and Climate, and Adaptation and Climate represent the different time scales over which we analyse how biodiversity interacts with its environment from Earth’s geologic history to the impact of our industrialized global society. These research activities complement the RA Ecosystem services and climate, which, in cooperation with the Institut für sozial-ökologischeForschung (ISOE), studies the social-ecological dimensions of biodiversity and climate change.

 

Biodiversity and Earth System Dynamics

RF Biodiversity and Earth System Dynamics analyzes key periods of Earth’s history to derive “lessons from the past“, particularly with respect to the mutual impact of biodiversity on evolution – biotic and abiotic – of the “Earth system”. Further, it studies the impact of environmental change and increased anthropogenic sea use on sedimentary environments of coastal and shelf seas as well as on non-tropical shallow- and deep-water biosedimentary systems and carbon cycling. A third focus on Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment complements these longer time scales as it addresses the evolution of humans in the light of the multifaceted interactions with their paleoenvironment.

 

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Title(s): Archiv für Molluskenkunde
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Description: Edt. R. Janssen, since 1868
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Title(s): Entomology
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Description: Edt. H.H. Dathe, since 1951 Peckiana – Edt. W. Xylander, since 2001
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Title(s): Studia Dipteroligica
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Description: Edts. F. Menzel, J. Kramer, A. Stark, since 1994
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 Quarterly Journals/Series

Title(s): Marine Biodiversity
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Description: Edt. P. Martinez, relaunch 2009
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Title(s): Paleobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments
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Description: Edt. P. Königshof, relaunch 2009
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Title(s): Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny
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Description: Edt. K. Klass, relaunch 2007
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Title(s): Soil Organisms
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Description: Edt. W. Xylander, relaunch 2008 Vertebrate Zoology – Edt. A. Zarske
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Title(s): Abhandlungen der SGN
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Description: Edts. V. Mosbrugger, P. Königshof, since 1852, 2 issues per year
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Title(s): ACARI-bibliographica Acarologica
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Description: Edt. A. Christian, since 2001, 3 issues per year
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Title(s): Fauna of Arabia
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Description: Edt. F. Krupp, one issue Geologica Saxonica – Edt. J.-M. Lange, since 1876, 1-2 issues per year
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Title(s): Nova Supplementa Entomologica
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Description: Edts. H.H. Dathe, E. Groll, since 1985, 1 issue per year
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Title(s): Synopses on Palaeoarctic Collembola
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Description: Edts. W. Xylander, W. Dunger, since 1994, irregular interval
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Title(s): Natur Forschung Museum
Type: Popular Journals and Publications
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Description: Edt. T. Wenzel, since 1869, every 2 months
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Title(s): Kleine Senckenberg Reihe
Type: Popular Journals and Publications
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Description: Edts V. Mosbrugger, P. Königshof, since 1971, up to 3 per year
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Title(s): Senckenberg Bücher
Type: Popular Journals and Publications
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Description: Edt. V. Mosbrugger, since 1926, irregular interval Museumspädagogische Materialien – Edt. V. Mosbrugger, since 2007, irregular interval
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