Biodiversity Exploratories

The Biodiversity Exploratories (BE) are a German Science Foundation funded research project (DFG Priority Programme 1374). It has three research Exploratories (areas) which serve as open research platform for biodiversity and ecosystem research groups of Germany. The study objective of the BE include the understanding of the relationship between biodiversity of different taxa and levels, the role of land use and management for biodiversity, and the role of biodiversity for ecosystem processes. As such, many of the researchers collect biodiversity-related datasets from three main areas in Germany, and these data often contain species occurrence information.