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Wild Bee Monitoring in Agricultural Landscapes – First Results from the Bumblebee Monitoring 2025

- The Thünen Institute's bumblebee monitoring program saw a further increase in the number of transects started in 2025. Bumblebees from 15 species groups were found, including three Red List species: the shrill carder bumblebee,…

MonViA contributions at the 64th German Plant Protection Conference in Braunschweig

- Under the motto "Thinking about plant protection as a system", the annual meeting of the German Plant Protection Conference was held this year from October 7th to 10th, 2025 in the Technical University of Braunschweig.

MonViA at the National Biodiversity Monitoring Centre

- On November 6–7, 2025, the National Monitoring Centre for Biodiversity hosted the 4th Forum “Application and Research in Dialogue” in Leipzig.

Wild Bee Monitoring Forum: Citizen Science Meets Research

- On October 17 and 18 the Wild Bee Team at the Thünen Institute hosted the Wild Bee Monitoring Forum, bringing together volunteers from across Germany, providing a unique opportunity for knowledge exchange and collaboration

MonViA contributions at the annual conference of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland in Würzburg

- The annual conference organized by the Ecological Society (GfÖ), with participating scientists from Europe and beyond, is considered one of the most comprehensive conferences focusing on ecology in German-speaking countries.

Thünen Institute of Biodiversity optimizes wild bee monitoring with new pipetting robot

- The Thünen Institute of Biodiversity has welcomed a new "colleague" in wild bee monitoring: a pipetting robot.

Native Livestock Breeds in Germany and the 2025 Red List of Endangered Livestock Breeds

- The 2025 Red List is now available for download. Printed copies can be pre-ordered

News from the bee monitoring in agricultural landscapes

- The Institute for Bee Protection at the Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) has completed the second year piloting a long-term monitoring of bees in agricultural landscapes

MonViA soil microorganism monitoring news

- The Soil Microbiology Working Group of the Thünen Institute of Biodiversity conducted the first close monitoring of soil microorganisms and has optimized methods therefore in the past two years

MonViA at the 14th Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences

- A delegation from the module Biodiversity of Small Waterbody participated in the 14th meeting of more than 200 European freshwater researchers in Turkey from July 20th to 25th