Modern DNA technology now allows simple monitoring of the distribution of different fish species in remote Arctic areas. This is shown in a new research study just published in the journal “Diversity and Distribution”. The results open up major new perspectives for relatively easy tracking of climate change-induced changes in the Arctic sea.

On Thursday 7 March, there will be an AU Workplace in Focus seminar in English that is open to all international staff at AU, hosted by the International Staff Office.

Professor Jens-Christian Svenning has received the Ernest Haeckel Prize for his exceptional contribution to research within notably ecology, but also evolutionary biology, geography, and anthropology.

The ostrich is an obvious model for investigating how large animals are affected by the large fluctuations in temperatures we will experience in the future. This is what postdoc Mads Fristrup Schou thinks. He has received an ERC Starting Grant of €1.5 million, and next year he will set up a new research group at the Department of Biology at Aarhus University.

Assistant professor Eva Egelyng Sigsgaard receives DKK 2,879,406 within the Inge Lehmann program from Independent Research Fund Denmark. The grant will support a project that can streamline environmental monitoring by means of previously unidentified DNA sequences.

Global warming can have alarming consequences for ectotherms (commonly known as cold-blooded animals) across the globe, both on land and in water. Future heatwaves and extreme temperatures will become even hotter, and a new study shows that the rate at which heat injury in ectothermic animals doubles for each degree the temperature rises.