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Göttingen

[ gœt-ing-uhn ]

noun

  1. a city in central Germany.


Göttingen

/ ˈɡœtɪŋən /

noun

  1. a city in central Germany, in Lower Saxony: important member of the Hanseatic League (14th century); university, founded in 1734 by George II of England. Pop: 122 883 (2003 est)
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A long-running experiment led by Göttingen University, Germany, and including the IPB University, Bogor and Jambi University in Indonesia, has investigated how ecological restoration promotes biodiversity recovery in oil palm plantations in Sumatra.

Dr Gustavo Paterno, postdoctoral researcher at Göttingen University and lead author of the study, says: "An important finding to inform plantation management is that larger islands of trees, particularly those over 400 m², are essential for endemic and forest tree species that struggle to find suitable habitats within conventional oil palm plantations."

"The more tree species you begin with, the more functionally diverse the restored ecosystem will become over time," explains Professor Holger Kreft, Head of Göttingen University's Biodiversity, Macroecology and Biogeography research group.

This study is part of an ongoing project to do that work and was co-authored with Jan-Walter De Neve of the University of Heidelberg, Omar Karlsson of Lund University in Sweden, Rajesh Kumar Rai of Harvard University and Sebastian Vollmer of the University of Göttingen.

“It is important to take care of these critters in particular because we know so little about them,” said Ina Schaefer, a soil invertebrate ecology researcher at the University of Göttingen in Germany.

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