Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, University of Gothenburg

The Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre aims to link science and society around biodiversity and enhance and accelerate biodiversity research.

The GGBC has a global outlook, extending well beyond the borders of our home base in Western Sweden. We are a collaborative effort among fourteen partner institutions and hosted at the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences at the University of Gothenburg in Gothenburg, Sweden.

News – 3 December 2020

Flightless bird species at risk of extinction

Bird species that have lost the ability to fly through evolution have become extinct more often than birds that have…

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Research

GGBC researchers all work with biodiversity in some way. Research at the GGBC looks at both terrestrial and marine habitats,…

Projects

Within the GGBC there are many ongoing projects led by our members. The GGBC does not have projects on its own but by acting…

GGBC member meeting 2020

Check out the two winners for the photo competition during the GGBCmembermeeting 2020

Winners of the GGBC 2020 photocompetition

In connection to the GGBC member meeting 2020 a photocompetition was announced with a focus on "biodiversity in action". Two photos from two very different environments where chosen as the winners as they both depicted people working, hands on, with biodiversity.

Melilia Meshba from the Dept. of Biology and Environmental sciences, GU contributed with a beautiful picture of botanists in the Algerian desert looking for a rare species of Acacia.

Erik Lindström from Universeum sent in a colourful and active picture of GGBC member Klas Malmberg as he shifts sand in the tanks at Universeum to provide new environments and stimulation to its swimming inhabitants.