In Focus
Blue Carbon: Creating Forest Inventories with Drones and Artificial Intelligence
Using drone imagery and artificial intelligence (AI), scientists from the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) in Bremen have developed a method that delineates each tree in a forest, along with an estimate of its height and diameter....
Reassessing research together: ZMT co-heads first CoARA working group
Science is facing a multitude of complex societal challenges and problems. Climate change, pandemics, resource scarcity or the rapidly developing artificial intelligence are just some of the current demands on the scientific community. In addition, questions...
Calculations by researchers show: Nearly two-thirds of all coral reefs are overfished
An international team of researchers has used an extensive dataset of more than 2,000 coral reef sites to determine how fish populations and diversity of fish species are faring on the world's ocean reefs. One finding of the study, recently...
Research in short: Colour patterns in hamlets
In her project, Floriane Coulmance from the Fish Ecology and Evolution Unit is investigating the formation and evolutionary significance of colour patterns in the coral reef fish genus Hypoplectrus, the hamlets. As part of a study, she has...