🍁 Trees in Europe are increasingly dying prematurely. A new WSL study on French #forests now shows that it is not only extremely dry summers but #climate anomalies in general that are driving tree mortality – particularly warm and wet springs: www.wsl.ch/en/news/why-... @lsce-ipsl.bsky.social 🌍

The position(s) are now open until early August. tinyurl.com/IIASABEC26 Open to all nationalities. Workplace in Laxenburg, Austria. #biodiversity #ecology #conservation #postdoc 🧪

Our new paper on intraspecific trait variation and herbivory is now published in @journalofecology.bsky.social! This is the first paper of Nicolas Zurbuchen's PhD and the first student-led paper from my lab at @osubpp.bsky.social! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#Postdoc #position (3 years) in spatial #genomics of aquatic #invertebrates opening up in my group. 🧬 🦐 🥼 🧑‍💻 ❗ More info: apply.refline.ch/673277/1363/... The project aims to establish & analyse #genomic #diversity of aquatic invertebrates (EPT & Amphipods) in a spatially explicit approach. 🌍 🌐 📈

Nature research paper: Food web complexity underlies biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning go.nature.com/4gQIyfm

My Inuit calendar offers this artwork for July by Kenojuak Ashevak - “Between Friends.”

Unified analysis of #global 🌐 🌍 #riverine #eDNA 🧬 reveals common associations of #fish #biodiversity 🐟 🐠 with drainage characteristics. Out now @natecoevo.nature.com : www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵1/6

📣 We're recruiting for an Associate Editor with data integrity expertise! 📊 join us in improving the clarity, transparency, & accessibility of ecological research. 🌿 more information on the role and how to apply can be found here 👉️ buff.ly/R8z4TLe

"The pursuit of transformative change requires embracing diverse and inclusive visions for the future – visions that reflect the interdependence of people and nature and are guided by ethics of care and respect for all forms of life."

If biodiversity matters for prosperity, why are all the rich countries poor in biodiversity while those with great biodiversity are economically poor? In People and Nature we resolve this paradox and call for a reframing of the conservation agenda besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/IBRPPA...

Since it's writing season at university, sharing a few nice resources (that I know) about academic writing: 1/ How to write a scientific paper in fifteen steps @jdrakephd.bsky.social @bahanbug.bsky.social doi.org/10.1371/jour...

@plosbiology.org - The integration of biogeography and ecology has been limited. The emergence of new methods and high-quality ecological network data at biogeographical scales promote deeper integration of biogeography and ecology. @mncn-csic.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Three weeks left to apply to our postdoc position on alpine plant resilience! Us: Three years of funding, an awesome collaborative team, a gorgeous study system, blueberry pie, unionized postdocs. You: A PhD and experience in ancient DNA, paleoecology, and/or plant genetics and genomics.

Just a few days until our symposium "Trait-based Ecology, Climate Change Research and Conservation: an Environmental Space Perspective". 📌 9 June 2026 / 9:30 - 12:30 CEST / WSL Birmensdorf & online Registration is still open: biodiversitycenter.wsl.ch/en/events/de...

📢 Die Anmeldung für den #Landschaftskongress 2026 ist weiterhin geöffnet! Alle Interessierten sind herzlich eingeladen, sich am von @wslresearch.bsky.social und #FoLAP gemeinsam organisierten Dialog über #Landschaft zu beteiligen. Jetzt anmelden 👉 landschaftskongress.ch/anmeldung/

#Insects #pollinate #plants. But how well can they do that in densely built-up cities such as Zurich? A #study from WSL has investigated this question: www.wsl.ch/en/news/inse... #UrbanPlanning #BumbleBee #SolitaryBees #Beetles #Hoverflies #Biodiversity djfrey.bsky.social merinrejichacko.bsky.social

Stop scrolling and click this link! royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3... I'm so excited to share this open-access theme issue on Wild Plant Pathosystems in #PhilTransB Co-edited with Rachel Penczykowski @rachelpenczy.bsky.social Remco Stam @rstam.bsky.social & Emme Bruns @ebruns.bsky.social

New paper alert!! Excited to announce our latest feral cattle paper ‘Sex and spatial proximity affect ungulate behavioral synchrony’ is out today open-access in PeerJ @peerj.bsky.social by myself, Kate Flay, @tania-perroux.bsky.social and @amcell.bsky.social (1/6) peerj.com/articles/213... #zoology

An exciting day today. Our work, co-led by @mhanusch.bsky.social and @thomasdussarrat.bsky.social was published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. In this review, we explore the concept of chemodiversity and what role it could play for ecological functions at landscape-level. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

We are hiring! We are hiring a doctoral student to work on the economics and policy of climate change mitigation in Swiss agriculture. jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP... A background in agricultural economics and proficiency in German or French is required. Deadline for applications is June 26

🌱🐝 New paper out!! Can flower-rich gardens buffer #pollination services in densifying cities like #Zurich? We find the answer is #trait dependent: no one-size-fits-all. #Urban green spaces need local floral richness and landscape-scale measures to support #pollinators doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Mixtures of several forage-plant species systematically increase yields with lower fertiliser input. Higher temperatures enhance the benefits of these mixtures, making them a key component of #ClimateChange adaptation. 👇

Open #PhD #position on “Projecting the #human #impact on #biodiversity” (fully funded 4 years position) in my group @University Zurich & @eawag.bsky.social 🌐 🌍 📈 🦀 🐟 🌳 All #details & application instructions 🎯: apply.refline.ch/673277/1356/... ❗Thx for spreading the word / apply now!

Come see me talk about how we are using desert cacti and mesquite trees to try and understand coinfection dynamics

Our new review article “Calibration, Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis of Complex Ecological Models—A Review” now online and freely available in #EcologyLetters dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.... #Ecology #EcologicalModelling #SensitivityAnalysis #UncertaintyQuantification 🌐

2/8 We conducted an integrated reanalysis of #global riverine #fish eDNA datasets, showing both #robustness and #congruence of biodiversity conclusions, just published in #MolecularEcology. see paper ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

7/8 🔀 Overall, the suitability and potential of eDNA for global biodiversity monitoring is corroborating overall robust biodiversity estimates, irrespective of the bioinformatic approaches.

4/8 🔹 We found that #species #richness estimates and metrics of community structure derived under a common bioinformatic workflow were overall #consistent with those of original analyses, despite the relatively high variability in bioinformatic analyses in the respective original studies. 📊 📈

Effective #biodiversity 🐟 🐠 🤝 policy making depends on #comparable and #generalisable data. We demonstrate how #eDNA 🧬 is empowering 💪 🌍 🌐 global biodiversity analyses. 1/8

Out now in Methods in Ecology and Evolution: Accounting for spatial interactions in the upscaling of ecosystem services. Led by Lari Boesing. A how to guide to upscaling ES, particularly those driven by the movement of matter and mobile organisms besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In the recent ETH news, our PI, Prof.Loïc Pellissier wrote a perspective on how can we encourage companies to do a better job of protecting biodiversity. Check it out here:

We’re currently running our first online ABM and IBM with @netlogo.bsky.social course after two in-person editions in Berlin & Łódź! Huge thanks to Volker Grimm, Steve Railsback & Jacob Kelter for their expert guidance Thank you to everyone who joined us on this journey!

Preprint alert! The epidemiology of wild–crop interfaces: Integrating ecology, evolution, and management through modeling - www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/abs/10.3...

Conservation postdoc in Brisbane, Australia 🧪

Come join me at Oregon State! We’re hiring a new assistant professor in population and disease dynamics of cereal pathogens. Our department is dynamic and fun, our building is newly renovated, and Oregon is wonderful! jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/171...

🚨 First PhD chapter is out! My work thus far, with @andy2dobson.bsky.social We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average. 📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🏵️ Preprint alert! 🐝 In an #urban garden experiment along independent #densification🏙️ × local garden floral richness🌷 gradients, floral richness maintains #pollination success under densification, but only for plants with higher floral specificity. 🔎 doi.org/10.22541/au.... #Traits #Pollinators

JOIN US!!! @garlab.bsky.social is looking for a PhD and MS student to join our team studying ecology & conservation of gars, bowfin, and other non-game native fishes beginning Spring 2026! Posting & more info coming soon. Please DM or email [email protected] with CV if interested!

Spotted this swallowtail caterpillar munching on wild carrot by the Limmat River in #Zürich. A quiet reminder that urban #biodiversity is not to be underestimated!🌿🐛 #UrbanEcology #PlantInsectInteractions #TrophicInteractions

New Masters launching! 🤩 A 2 year program in Germany and Norway, all courses held in English. Amazing opportunity to learn about some of the most critical challenges the natural world is facing from leading scientists working in this field 🌍🌱

☘️🐛🐦‍⬛ When common species disappear, food webs can become unstable. This has far-reaching consequences, especially when wetland species are affected: www.wsl.ch/en/news/if-s... #speciesextinction #foodwebs #wetlands #biodiversity @merinrejichacko.bsky.social @loicpellissier.bsky.social

☘️🐛🐦‍⬛Sterben häufige Arten aus, können Nahrungsnetze instabil werden. Insbesondere wenn Feuchtgebietsarten betroffen sind, hat dies weitreichende Folgen: www.wsl.ch/de/news/vers... #Artensterben #Nahrungsnetze #Feuchtgebiete #Biodiversität @merinrejichacko.bsky.social @loicpellissier.bsky.social

5 papers all computational biologists should read 🧵 1. A Quick Guide to Organizing Computational Biology Projects journals.plos.org/ploscompbio...

About 1500 of the approx. 2300 people that will have lost their lives across 12 European cities last week would still live, if it wasn't for our burning of oil, coal and gas. If we care about the right to life, we need to stop burning fossil fuels. www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

🌍 New in Science: Consistent energy–diversity relationships in terrestrial vertebrates Co-authored by @elbohdalkova.bsky.social & David Storch from @cts.cuni.cz 📌 Temperature drives richness in ectotherms (metabolic theory) and has indirect effects in endotherms 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Very excited to announce that our latest feral cattle paper “Strategic third-party interventions in feral ungulate affiliation” is out today in @royalsociety.org Proceedings of the Royal Society B royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... by myself, Kate Flay, Tania Perroux & @amcell.bsky.social

Thrilled to announce the publication of the trophiCH database: a multi-trophic, species-level #metaweb for #Switzerland🇨🇭 Out now in #ScientificData 📃 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Want to explore the dataset? 🔍 webapps.wsl.ch/trophiCH/ #OpenData #Ecology #FoodWebs 🌐 1/6

After almost 4 years of intermittent work, our perspective on biodiversity modelling in urban ecosystems is finally out in @natcities.nature.com 👉🏻 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

🌐 Global Ecology Digest #26, June 30-July 08, 42 posts! ✨For the lazy (yes we are!) & friends who don't like social media but might benefit from this feed, here’s a DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share 👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g... DM if you want to receive the link weekly 🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

🚨 Hot off the press! We show that species loss from key habitats (like wetlands) accelerates secondary extinction in regional multi-habitat food webs. Also, we show the importance of common species to regional food web robustness. doi.org/10.1038/s420... #Ecology #FoodWebs #Biodiversity #Metaweb