The German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research - iDiv, is a hub for international biodiversity science with its central mission Detection:
to promote theory-driven data-driven synthesis and theory as well the scientific foundation for management of the earth’s biodiversity.
The Synthesis Centre for Biodiversity Sciences - sDiv is the main instrument of iDiv to foster theoretical and synthetic thinking in biodiversity sciences by bringing together researchers from different projects and disciplines and creating conditions that will promote a creative process.
The research training group of young biodiversity researchers - yDiv, has been designed to educate a new generation of scientists in transdisciplinary biodiversity research.
Winter, M., Devictor, V. & Schweiger, O. (2013): Phylogenetic diversity and nature conservation: where are we? Trends in Ecology & Evolution. Article online
Purschke, O., Schmid, B.C., Sykes, M.T., Poschlod, P., Michalski, S., Durka, W., Kühn, I., Winter, M. & Prentice, H.C. (2013): Contrasting changes in taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity during a long-term succession: insights into assembly processes. Journal of Ecology (in press).
Winter, M., Devictor, V. & Schweiger, O. (2013): Conquering current obstacles for avoiding the misuse of evolutionary diversity in nature conservation: a reply to Rosauer and Mooers. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. online early. Article online
Dawson, W., Keser, L., Winter, M., Pyšek, P., Kartesz, J., Nishino, M., Fuentes, N., Chytrý, M., Celesti-Grapow, L., and van Kleunen, M., (2013): Correlations between global and regional measures of invasiveness vary with region size. NeoBiota, 16(0), 59-80. Article online
