Asja Bernd started her MSc on ” A Global Analysis of Grassland Fragmentation” supervised by Neil Burgess (UNEP) and Martin Wegmann. She will use globally available land cover data sets and compute a variety of spatial metrics to derive the fragmentation pattern of grasslands. Methods available in R and GRASS will be applied to allow a semi-automatic global analysis. Asja is a student in the Global Change Ecology MSc program and well trained in journalism as well as natural sciences.
University Press reports on Stefan Dech receiving the Bavarian State Medal
The University of Würzburg’s online magazine einBLICK has covered the award ceremony at which Prof. Stefan Dech received the Bavarian State Medal for Outstanding Services to the Environment on 21 October 2026. The award recognizes his long-standing contributions to...







