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Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology
The Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology offers an up-to-date and varied course of study that illuminates forests with their properties and their importance for biodiversity and climate protection, but also explicitly deals with the possibilities of human use, thereby addressing economic questions as well as social ones, and the dimension of forests and its use. The course also provides knowledge about the properties and possible uses of wood and wood products. Our faculty maintains numerous cooperations with other universities, research institutions and interdisciplinary centers all over the world and is active in many interdisciplinary research associations.
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Latest news
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Timetables
The timetables for the summer semester 2025 are online. There may still be changes in the coming days, updates to the schedules will then be uploaded accordingly.
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Application Master's
"Forest and Ecosystem Sciences" (FES)The application period for a study start in winter semester 2025/26 for Non-EU-citizens runs until 15.3.2025. EU-citizens may apply after May 1, 2025.
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News from the faculty
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Graduation ceremony 2024
The pictures of the 2024 graduation ceremony can be viewed here. The Faculty wishes its graduates all the best for the future.
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Confidante
Our confidante, Katrin Meyer, would like to introduce herself to you. She will be happy to serve as your first point of contact for problems or conflicts of any kind, offering advice and, if necessary, referring you to the responsible offices and committees, such as the ombuds office.
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Measuring trees and finding orchids
Together with a professional team from the IPB in Bogor and the University of Tadulako in Palu, Mary Mulligan, PhD student in the Forest Inventory Department, conducted field research in Lore Lindu National Park (Indonesia) and shares her unforgettable impressions in an impressive film documentary.
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Press releases
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Global patterns in seed plant distribution over millions of years
Why do some plants thrive in specific regions but not in others? A study led by researchers at the University of Göttingen explores the factors shaping plant distributions and how these patterns have changed over millions of years.
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New approaches to palm oil cultivation: tree islands for more biodiversity
In a long-term experiment on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, an international research team led by the University of Göttingen has shown how tree islands promote biodiversity in oil palm plantations. The results show that the creation of tree islands in large oil palm monocultures allows native tree diversity to recover naturally. The results of the study were published in the journal Science.
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More press releases
Here you can find more press releases about the faculty and an archive.
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Faculty of Forest Sciences
and Forest Ecology
Büsgenweg 5
37077 Göttingen