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2025-05-15: A short opinion piece on Nocturnal pandas - Conservation umbrellas protecting nocturnal biodiversity led by myself has just been accepted in Trends in Ecology and Evolution. It should be out in June or July 2025. Watch this space! +++ 2025-03-31: Together with Robin Heinen, Jacqueline Degen and Franz Hölker I'm guest editing a special issue on Artificial Light at Night from a local to global scale: biological impacts and conservation challenges for the Journal Biological Conservation. Submission deadline is 27th June 2025. +++ 2025-01-07: A new paper about sightings of locusts, crickets and grasshoppers documented via the plattform observation.org in Germany in 2024 is now published. The work has been led by Axel Hochkirch and I contributed to this paper as a citizen scientist by documenting the first sighting of a Verge Cricket (Eumodicogryllus bordigalensis) in Berlin. Verge Crickets are among the numerous range-expanding insect species in Europe who are rapidly moving northwards accelerated by anthropogenic climate change. The paper is published in the German language journal Articulata, the pdf can be downloaded here. +++ 2024-08-05: Master student Isabell Leppin just finished her thesis project Molecular Assessment of Orb-Web Spider Diets Under the Influence of Artificial Light at Night which we co-supervised together with the lab of Michael Monaghan. Isabell submitted her thesis at Freie Universität Berlin last week. Congrats Isabell! +++ 2024-07-26: Our study Reducing the fatal attraction of nocturnal insects using tailored and shielded road lights led by Manuel Dietenberger has just been published in Communications Biology. For this study we evaluated how a novel street lighting technology developed in the project "Tatort Streetlight" can reduce the amount of flying insects that are attracted towards street lights. I have written a summary blog which you can access here. +++ For earlier publications check the respective subpage


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