• 04.05. - 10.05.2014: Sino-German-Swiss Symposium: Biodiversity researcher from China, Germany and Switzerland met in Halle and Tübingen to exchange their experience in Biodiversity-Ecosystem Functioning (BEF)-experiments, which have been conducted in China or Germany. Read more.

  • 01.2014: BEF-China article: “Designing forest biodiversity experiments: general considerations illustrated by a new large experiment in subtropical China” became Editor´s pick in Methods in Ecology and Evolution.

  • 27.04.2012: The University Alliance Halle-Jena-Leipzig was awarded a joint national research centre for biodiversity research to be located in Leipzig. The German Research Foundation (DFG) will fund the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) with seven million Euros annually for up to twelve years.