von Thomas Fester | Feb 21, 2017 | Climate Change, News
The last interglaciation was accompanied by considerably higher sea levels than today Global temperatures have increased by one degree in comparison to pre-industrial times and the international community has agreed to limit a further increase to 2 degrees by maximum....
von Thomas Fester | Feb 21, 2017 | Climate Change, Ecology, News
Biological invasions from non-native garden plants in Europe Non-native garden plants constitute a considerable pool for biological invasions and many current invasive plants have started in gardens. How will the risk of such invasions in Europe be affected by climate...
von Thomas Fester | Feb 21, 2017 | Climate Change, News
Why do we need a food climate tax? Food production is an important source of greenhouse gases with meat and dairy products as the most important areas. This impact of agriculture will even increase in the coming decades given rising consumption of agricultural...
von Thomas Fester | Feb 20, 2017 | Climate Change, Ecology, News
Climate change and life in the High Arctic Climate change has resulted in particularly strongly rising temperatures in the High Arctic. How is this affecting ecosystems in this area? To find answers, Descamps et al., have summarized data from 33 publications covering...
von Thomas Fester | Feb 7, 2017 | Extraterrestrial life, Fiction
Characteristics of Mechanococcus ciliaphorus Mechanococcus ciliaphorus is a unicellular organism isolated from subsurface oceans of Dagon 3 (figure 1A). It is of sperical shape with diameters between 20 and 50 µm. The genetic and biochemical basis of M. ciliaphorus is...
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