Fabio Weiß defended his doctoral thesis “Long-term trends in carabid communities of old lowland beech forests in the context of severe drought” at the Leuphana University Lüneburg. The research was developed in the scope of the the BRI Graduate Programme and supervised by Prof. Dr. Andreas Linde (HNEE) and Prof. Dr. Henrik von Wehrden (Leuphana University). Fabio identifies the diversity of tasks he conducted as one of the main highlights of his PhD. Congratulations!