Excursions

On this 12-day excursion we visit various ecosystems in East Africa, including coastal forests, mangroves, coral reefs, the Eastern Arc mountains and the African savannah. The excursion provides insights into the biodiversity and ecology of tropical ecosystems and their vulnerability due to human land use and climate change.

The east Europe excursion take places either at Bulgaria or Romania. It takes about 7 days. 

Field excursions and laboratory exercises provided an insight into the diversity of organisms in a marine ecosystem as well as into the living environment of the littoral on the North Sea island of Helgoland. In addition to taxonomic work, bird watching and learning about different habitats, ecological and developmental biology experiments are conducted with important marine model organisms. The excursion lasts 10-12 days.

Field excursions into 5 different tropical ecosystems (mangroves, lowland rainforest, mountain rainforest, dry forest and paramo) allow for a one of a kind overview into tropical biology. While half of the excursion will be spend visiting these different ecosystems, the other half will be at the Tropical Research Station La Gamba in a lowland rainforest where we will conduct small 5-day experiments on various different organisms (birds, fish, stingless bees, dragonflies, wasps and ants) to give you an insight into what it is like to conduct field experiments in the tropics. There is also a possibility to extend your stay at the end of the excursion to conduct your Bachelor Thesis at the research station. The excursion lasts 19 days.