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University of Würzburg
Institution
Section overview
Description
The Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg has a long tradition of 600 years and is today one of the mid-sized universities in Germany. 400 professors are here in ten faculties around 20,000 students.
Activities
- Research
Subordinate institutions
- Biocenter of the University of Würzburg
- Institute of Geography
- Biocenter Beegroup
- Ecophysiology and ecology of vegetation
- Theodor-Boveri-Institute
- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology (Zoology III)
- Institute of Pharmacy and Food Chemistry
- Bienenforschung Würzburg e.V.
- Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Legal Theory, Information Law and Legal Informatics
- Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology
- Department of Mathematics
- Department of Remote Sensing
- Center for Computational and Theoretical Biology
- Universitätsforstamt Sailershausen
- Field Station Fabrikschleichach
- Department of Zoology III (Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology) University of Würzburg
Coordinated projects
- BonaRes (Modul A, Phase 2): SUSALPSII - Sustainable use of alpine and pre-alpine grassland soils in a changing climate - subproject F
- Collaborative project: Multifunctional RFID (radio-frequency identification) transponders for monitoring the farm animal bee. Subproject 2
- Effects of innovative beekeeping with reduced varroa mite treatment on the performance and vitality of honeybees in near-natural beekeeping
- Effects of silvicultural interventions on biodiversity - New methods allow new insights
- Identification, visualization and analysis of internally administrative structures promoting public procurement of products manufactured of renewable ressources
- Microclimatic conditions in six different tree shelters
- Understanding and anticipating mechanisms of honeybee colony mortality with connected beehives
Coordinated projects of subordinate institutions
- Accessing the genomic and functional diversity of maize to improve quantitative traits
- Adaptation of alpine pollinators in times of global change
- BayKlimaFit: Strategies for the adaptation of crop plants to the climate change. Subproject 7: Climate dependent control of water loss in leaves
- BonaRes (Module A, Phase 3): SUSALPSIII - Sustainable use of alpine and pre-alpine grassland soils under changing climate, subproject F
- Collaborate project: Use of remote sensing technologies for digitization in crop production. Subproject 4
- Development and application of methods for collecting Pyrrolizidinalkaloides in honey and pollen
- DUKAT: diagnosis and control of Aethina tumida, the small hive beetle
- Ecological intensification and multifunctionality of genetically diverse cacao agroforestry systems in Peruvian landscapes
- Ecological mechanisms underpinning species diversity changes along land-use intensity in temperate forests - from trees to landscapes
- Functional complementarity between nocturnal and diurnal pollinators along a land use gradient in biodiversity hotspots of the Taita Hills in Kenya
- Functional genome analysis for disease resistance in honey bees
- Funding of multifunctional and climate-stable forests through sustainable use of windthrow areas
- How quinoa stalk cells enable a salt tolerance based on bubble cells
- Impact of tree species and micro climate on multi-throphic diversity in deadwood
- Importance of resource diversity to stingless bees in Australia
- Light or shadow - Improving conservation strategies for saproxylic beetles
- On the relationship between drought stress-induced tree mortality of copper beech with after-effects and small-scale variability in soil properties and neighbourhood conditions
- Pesticides, Plants and Anthropods - Using a Land Use and Climate Gradient Approach to Investigate the Potential Impact of Agrochemicals
- Response of insects on gaps in forrests - off society to cellular processes
- ROENOBIO - Robust energy optimization in fermentation processes in the production of biogas and wine, Subproject 2
- Soil water system of forestry locations with different lithologies in northern Bavaria
- SP6: Plant-animal interactions - pollination, parasitism and seed dispersal
- Stable isotope analysis: detection and measurement of isotope effects in the production of flavouring agents
- Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) - Improvement for winter hardiness through elevated sugar accumulation in taproots - subproject B
- Timing in plant-pollinator interactions
- Toxicity of Epichloë endophytes in agricultural grasses at pastures
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 2.1 Remote sensing based analysis of Land Cover and Land Use Change pathways and drivers
Subordinate institutions as work package leader of collaborative projects
Involved in research projects
- Assessment of forestry and ecology costs and recommendations for action concerning mass propagations of gypsy moth in Bavaria
- BayKlimaFit: Strategies for the adaptation of crop plants to the climate change. Subproject 10: Disease-resistance of climate-adapted barley plants
- BayKlimaFit: Strategies for the adaptation of crop plants to the climate change. Subproject 5: Heat and drought tolerance of barley
- Development of conservation agriculture technologies for adoption by smallholders in Central Asia
- Effects of silvicultural interventions on biodiversity - New methods allow new insights
- Growth potential of oak in managed and unmanaged forest dependent on stock structure and site conditions
- Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) - Improvement for winter hardiness through elevated sugar accumulation in taproots - subproject B
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 1.1 Development of a Regional Climate Model System for West Africa
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 1.3 Interaction between Land Surface and Regional Climate
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 2.6 Status of biodiversity as Indicator for Ecosystem Resilience in West Africa
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 6.1 Development of a spatially explicit framework for land use impact modeling based on trade-off- and multi criteria analysis
Contact
University of Würzburg
Sanderring 2
97070 Würzburg
Bavaria
Germany
Phone: +49 931/31-0
Fax: +49 931/31-2600
Email: presse(@)zv.uni-wuerzburg.de