Crises such as wars, inflation, pandemics, climate change and migration leave only minor and peripheral attention to biodiversity loss, despite its existential threat to humanity and all other living beings. PrioDiv, a new iDiv Flexpool project, aims to examine to what extent biodiversity is prioritised in decision-making processes during times of multiple crises in fine terms and how this...
This hands-on workshop is meant to give you practical help to improve your next scientific presentation (i.e. talk based on slides, maybe even your iDiv conference talk). It’s very little about design principles, colors, style or your content itself. It is about how to present figures, stories, and just individual slides in a way, the audience can easily follow and will understand and maybe...
Metabarcoding is a versatile, powerful and widely used tool for the identification of taxonomic entities, uncovering hidden diversity, assessment of community composition in space and time, elucidating species interactions and food webs, and biodiversity changes. Last year, the Support Unit iBarc was established which provides direct access to metabarcoding services, starting from project...
