Tag: biodiversity
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Open GIScience PostDoc positions on understanding the relationships between “Urban nature experience, biodiversity and mental health”
We call for applications to postdoctoral positions within the Heidelberg Mannheim Health and Life Science Alliance “Innovation Campus” for Inter-institutional project. The Central Institute of Mental Health (ZI), Prof. A. Meyer-Lindenberg, the GIScience Research Group at Heidelberg University (Prof. A. Zipf), the 3DGeo Group (Prof. B. Höfle); and the Department of Biodiversity and Plant Systematics…
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Klimawandel und Biodiversitätsverlust – das unglückliche Zusammenspiel von Zeit und Raum, HGG Vortrag von M. Koch am 08.12.2020
Klimawandel und Biodiversitätsverlust – das unglückliche Zusammenspiel von Zeit und Raum lautet der Titel des nächsten Vortrags in der Vortragsreihe „Klimawandel – Herausforderungen für die Menschheit“ der Heidelberger Gesellschaft für Geographie e.V. (HGG). Prof. Dr. Marcus Koch (Universität Heidelberg) trägt hierzu am Dienstag 08.12.2020 um 19 Uhr vor: Der Prozess des Verlustes der biologischen Vielfalt…
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Successfull PhD Defence by Clemens Jacobs on Plausibility Estimation of Citizen Science Observations for Biodiversity
Last week Dr. Clemens Jacobs successfully defended his PhD about methods for assessing the data quality of citizen science observations of organisms. Congratulations, well done!!! We wish all the very best for the future! The research aimed at using geographic context as an information source for estimating the plausibility of an observation, e.g., of a bird,…
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Completeness of Citizen Science Biodiversity Data from a Volunteered Geographic Information Perspective
Observations of living organisms by citizen scientists that are reported to online portals are a valuable source of information. They are also a special kind of volunteered geographic information (VGI). VGI data have issues of completeness, which arise from biases caused by the opportunistic nature of the data collection process. We examined the completeness of…
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Citizen Science for Biodiversity and Nature Conservation
On the 5th and 6th of March, members of our working group Clemens Jacobs and René Westerholt visited the kickoff meeting of the WIPs-DE project, a Germany-wide effort to improve protection of certain plant species, sponsored by Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN, Bundesamt of Naturschutz) in the federal biodiversity programme. Among other goals, the…