Yet another fascinating episode is coming up for the BiodiversityXL Live short livestream series: the Sound of Biodiversity! More and more different approaches and techniques are used, in the hope to gain more knowledge about biodiversity. They help us to look very detailed at individuals, species and ecosystems. But let's not forget about our ears. Sound can tell a lot about the presence of species, but also about their behaviour. Sounds we can hear, like bird songs, but also sounds we can not hear. How do we monitor biodiversity via sound?

Melanie Lindner will defend her PhD thesis titled "Avian seasonal reproduction in times of global warming: Insights from evolution, ecology and (epi-)genomics"

What role do oceans, algae, forests and forest fires play?

Azkia Nurfikari will defend her PhD thesis "Prospects of residual streams from insect cultivation for sustainable crop management".

Eline Ampt-Blom will defend her PhD thesis "Deciphering belowground plant-fungal interactions to understand the effects of biodiversity on disease risk"

Chiel Boom (Animal Ecology) will defend his PhD thesis on Friday 14 October 2022 at the University of Amsterdam, Agnietenkapel, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231, Amsterdam

Thesis title: "Rewarding round-trips or tiresome travels? Comparing migratory and non-migratory lifestyles in barnacle geese"

PhD supervisor: Prof. dr. B.A. Nolet

PhD co-supervisors: Dr. H.P. van der Jeugd, Dr. G. Eichhorn

On 28 October, Bernice Sepers (Animal Ecology) will defend her thesis on 'Behavioural epigenetics: insights into the role of heritable and induced DNA methylation variation in avian personality' at Wageningen UR.