Create insights to enable change.

Projects and Collaborations

Sustainable Forest Management and Pest Control

New technology for bark beetle control.

Landklif


Project to record the consequences of climate change on biodiversity and ecosystem services in Bavaria.

ECOSoil 4.0


Investigation of biodiversity patterns in the top soil layers of different land use types.

DNA Metabarcoding in Food Analysis

Analysis of plant and animal products using our DNA Metabarcoding Service.

Insect Diversity in Agriculture

Comparison of insect diversity in conventional and organic agriculture.

AIM Insect Monitoring


Monitoring project in Munich and Leipzig to record the diversity of locally represented insects.

Smart Monitoring of Pollinators and Regulators

Detection of various pollinators and regulators in agriculture using DNA metabarcoding.

Insect Diversity in Viticulture

Analysis of the influence of management practices and environmental factors on insect diversity.

More Applications

Research

The diet of tropical caterpillars

The discovery of a new species of weaver

Integrative taxonomy as a tool for identifying species of the minor orders of arachnids

The importance of the tinder sponge for biodiversity

Ocean Artup

Industry

Quality assurance of industrial yeast starter cultures

Pests in the warehouse

Media Coverage

Who are the
Biodiversity Actors?

Biodiversity - New Techniques in Insect Research

“98 % of all known animal species can be reliably distinguished"

Insect and Human:
The Hereditary Fishers

Founder-Interview with AIM

„Decoding Biodiversity in Environmental Samples“

“Insect Mortality: Not a Problem of Farmers Alone”

“The Treacherous Gene of Animals”

Podcast with AIM- Founder Jérôme Morinière

“The Blowfly Betrays the Killer”

Interview: Identifying birds and their food

“On our doorstep live thousands of unknown species”

Technology of the Future - Determining Pests Based on Genes

„A Beetle Leg for the Library“

Publications of our Team

A compilation of all relevant publications can be found here.

Highlights

“A novel approach for reliable qualitative and quantitative prey spectra identification of carnivorous plants combining DNA metabarcoding and macro photography”

“Metabarcoding of canopy arthropods reveals negative impacts of forestry insecticides on community structure across multiple taxa”

“Relationship of insect biomass and richness with land use along a climate gradient”

Customers and Project Partners