Climate change poses a threat to yields and food security worldwide, with plant diseases as one of the main risks. An international team of researchers surrounding Prof. Senthold Asseng from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now shown that further spread of the fungal disease wheat blast could reduce global wheat production by 13% until 2050. The result is dramatic for global food security.
In view of the pressing challenges posed by global environmental crises, skills shortages, rising energy prices and financial pressure in the healthcare sector, the University of Bayreuth and several partners are initiating the joint project 'Planetary Health - Curriculum for Sustainable Healthcare Facilities'. The project aims to enable the integration of climate resilience and sustainability in all areas of healthcare.
The influence of humans is causing originally diverse ecosystems around the world to to become increasingly similar. Scientists in an international research collaboration have uncovered this phenomenon, with their findings recently published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution.
An international research team including a Bayreuth scientist and her research group has investigated the links between extreme drought, biodiversity and production losses on a global scale. With the help of a worldwide experiment at 100 locations on six continents, they have identified Biodiversity in grassland is an effective protection against crop failure during droughts. The study has now been published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
A team headed by computer scientist Professor Herrmann de Meer will be participating in the EU Horizon project "META BUILD": Using buildings on the University of Passau campus, computer scientists will be testing ways to reduce the carbon emissions of academic institutions.
The special requirements placed on trucks and agricultural machinery often make it difficult for engineers to bring them into the electric age. At the Agritechnica agricultural machinery fair researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are now showing what a modular development kit for electric tractors can look like. Their platform features modules for various uses and a power bank which can be used as a replacement battery when necessary.
On land, in the air – and now also by water: Geographers of Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU) are broadening the scope of their research. Their equipment now includes a research boat with a high-precision depth sounder. It allows researchers to survey the bottom of lakes, rivers, and the sea. This technology has now been used for the first time in a research project in Kaunertal, Austria, where KU scientists have been studying the effects of climate change for several years.
Professor Hannah Schmid-Petri, who holds the Chair of Science Communication at the University of Passau, has been put in charge of a new project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) that takes climate research as a case in point to study how researchers handle online input from society.
Prof. Dr Elisabeth Naurath, a protestant religious education teacher and project leader of a research fellowship at the Jakob-Fugger-Zentrum of the University of Augsburg, has been awarded an Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership. Together with international partners, it aims to develop models for integrating learnings from interreligious studies and environmental ethics into the education of religious education teachers from various religions.
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded one of its most prestigious research awards, an ERC Synergy Grant, to Professor Dr. Christine Ziegler, biophysicist at the University of Regensburg, and biologists Professor Dr. Malcolm Bennet (University of Nottingham), Professor Dr. Eilon Shani (Tel Aviv University), and Professor Dr. Thorsten Hamann (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) for their research on plant water stress perception. The ERC is providing €10 million for their six-year HYDROSENSING project.
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