Birte Peters

Birte Peters is a Researcher at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) in Leipzig, Germany. She contributes to interdisciplinary projects at the intersection of biodiversity science, citizen engagement, and environmental policy.

• Key projects: VielFalterGarten (urban butterfly conservation), FLOW (citizen science stream monitoring), InsektenMobil (insect population dynamics via car-net surveys), and s-Mon (analyzing German biodiversity trends).
• Research focus: Integrating heterogeneous biodiversity datasets, developing citizen science methodologies, and assessing climate change impacts on species distributions and ecosystem services.
• Collaborations: Works with UFZ (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung), NFDI4Biodiversity (National Research Data Infrastructure), and international institutions like the Natural History Museum of Denmark and North Carolina State University.
• Expertise: Statistical modeling for biodiversity trends, data harmonization, and promoting open science initiatives.