In Focus
TropEcS Symposium – Coupling Tropical Coastal Ecosystems to Earth System Models, Bremen | 22.09.2025 – 25.09.2025
The TropEcS Symposium brings together international experts in Earth System Modelling (ESM) to address a growing scientific challenge: how to better represent tropical coastal ecosystems in comprehensive climate and Earth system frameworks....
Protecting the beauty of the world’s reef fish communities
An international research team led by the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) and with the participation of the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) in Bremen has taken a close look at reefs worldwide to find out where the...
New IUCN Task Force on Fisheries and Conserved Areas with ZMT participation
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are vital area-based conservation measures for marine biodiversity. While some MPAs are fully protected, others allow certain sustainable uses, such as fishing, provided these have low ecological impact, are...
ZMT study: Opinions within inner circles influence perception of social division
Are opinions on controversial political issues as divided as many people perceive them to be? Researchers from the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) in Bremen, the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) in Vienna and the University of...