Transfer

We engage with society and stakeholders to find solutions for mounting problems related to safeguarding biodiversity, data acquisition and data management as well as land- and forest management. To support these aims, we summarized our scientific findings in the floodplain forest to support decision making in the city council of Leipzig. [1]. We also organized a working group of experts from differing NGOs including local and regional governmental institutions (like the ministry of environment of Saxony) to publish a white paper for floodplain revitalization [2]. We invest in a multitude of projects aiming to provide biodiversity data to nature conservationists, state agencies and companies throughout the globe such as the plant trait database TRY [3] and the Leipzig catalogue of vascular plants (LCVP) [4]. We advise regional and national state agencies, like the federal agency of nature conservation, in biodiversity conservation on a regular basis. We support the scientific advisory board of the national park Hainich, Thuringia. Moreover, we lead the Botanical Garden of the University of Leipzig which has a new group dedicated completely to transfer [5].