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Fossil bivalves, snails, brachiopods, and sponges
The extensive collection of fossil bivalves, snails, brachiopods and sponges comprises over 340,000 specimens
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Fossil arthropods and the amber collection
More than 90,000 specimens make up the systematic collection of fossil arthropods and the adjoined amber collection of the Museum für Naturkunde
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Deep time evolution and development of the tetrapod body bauplan
The Integration of paleontological and developmental approaches allows for a study of the interplay of ontogeny and macroevolutionary processes over geologic times scales and tehreby offers new insights and perspectives.
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Animals as Objects
“Animals as Objects. Zoological Gardens and Natural History Museum Berlin, 1810 to 2020” is a cooperative research project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research between the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, the Humboldt-University of Berlin and the Berlin Zoo plc.
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Climbing, Digging, and Swimming Limbs: A Story of Evolving Bone and Muscle
My research uses the mustelids - badgers, martens, otters, and weasels – to under the evolution of adaptations for different locomotor habits.
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Deep Impact - Assessing the societal impact of the MfN
Knowledge transfer has always been a core competence of museums. Current research at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin explores ways to make it even more effective.
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The role of muscles in the evolutionary transformation of limbs and body axis: a case study on Australian lizards
Different reduction types of the lizard genus Lerista are analysed using soft tissue staining (dice-CT) and µ-CT scans. Investigations are focussed on the muscles of the pectoral- and pelvic region.
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Hearing in Penguins
In a co-operative project with the Deutsches Meeresmuseum Stralsund, we study the hearing of penguins. The MfN is responsible for establishing a database containing audiograms, managing the data, as well as providing environmental education and multimedia material to support the project.
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Reference library for bat calls
Bats are usually detected via their echolocation sounds. In our project, we establish a freely accessible library of calls of European bats to support acoustic species identification and the development of pattern recognition algorithms.
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Developing the animal sound archive as a digital research collection
The animal sound archive at the MfN is a unique resource of acoustic records that is now digitally converted to become an effective tool for biodiversity research.
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Automated acoustic detection und acoustic pattern recognition
Bioacoustic methods are well suited to record the occurrence, distribution and behavioural patterns in individual animals or populations, thus making a synchronised and continuous record of aspects of biodiversity dynamics over long periods of time, using standardised methods.
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Improving use of morphological data to infer phylogenies for fossils
To make the family tree of modern taxa we can use DNA, but for fossils we must use morphology. This is often inaccurate due to convergence and methodology – this project plans to change this.
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ECOPOTENTIAL: improving future ecosystem benefits through earth observations
ECOPOTENTIAL focuses on a targeted set of internationally recognised Protected Areas, blending Earth Observations from remote sensing and field measurements, data analysis and modelling of current and future ecosystem conditions and services
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Oceans in temperature-related stress
Temperature-related stresses can degrade marine ecosystems and drive species to extinction. Researchers at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin are testing if there are early responses before extinctions occur.
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Avoiding negative effects of Mining in a biodiversity hotspot
The main goal of these projects is to give the scientific basis for a potent management plan, to protect a biodiversity hotspot, focussing on the highest known amphibian diversity in West Africa.
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Comparative anatomy of newborn mammals
Comparison of reproductive strategies of mammals: The focus of this study is on the developmental degree of hatchling/neonates of Monotremata, Marsupialia and Plazentalia with regard to ecological adaptability and evolution.
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The nightingale project – a citizen science project on the natural and cultural history of nightingales
For the ‚nightingale project‘, citizen scientists we will be recording nightingale songs with the Naturblick-App, and scientists and citizens will analyze these in regard to dialects and habitat preferences.
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Mercator Projekt - Open Science
Exploring Citizen Science for the development of Open Science in Europe Under the slogan "open innovation, open science, open to the world", the European Commission promotes innovation in Europe and aims at changing the science system fundamentally. The stakeholder-driven European Open Science Policy Platform (OSPP) advises the European Commission on this issue. Citizen science and participatory approaches are seen as a core element of Open Science, helping to bring science effectively into society.
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Micropaleontology Collections
Two unique collections supporting research are managed by the MfN: the Ehrenberg Collection, and the modern Radiolarian Collections, which are part of the Micropaleontologic Reference Center collection network.
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Radiolarian taxonomy
New species descriptions and cooperatively building online international community taxonomic catalogs are essential foundations for our other research
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