Nette Zusamfassung (auch Audio) unserer aktuellen Forschung zum Insektensterben 🪲 vom MDR: www.mdr.de/wissen/umwel...

Much has been speculated on the impact of industrial deep-sea mining on marine ecosystems. This study led by @evastewart.bsky.social provides some direct empirical evidence. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interested in the world under our feet and desperate to find cool and engaging reading material? Check out our Soil Biodiversity articles for kids, available in more than 30 languages: 🪱🌐 idiv-biodiversity.de/en/young-min... HAPPY WORLD SOIL DAY @uni-wuerzburg.de @idiv-research.bsky.social

University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...

Hi, for international researchers (broad topic of landscape resilience), you can get funded for organising a workshop at Uni Göttingen. Here is the link (see categroy C): #forestecol www.uni-goettingen.de/de/innovatio...

What are the mechanisms behind terrestrial arthropod declines? @bmwildermuth.bsky.social and colleagues have some answers www.nature.com/articles/s41... @bexplo.bsky.social @idiv-research.bsky.social @jena-experiment.bsky.social

What is the effect of increasing disturbances in C European forests on insect diversity, and how does salvage logging modulate it? We found an overall positive response for both cleared and uncleared sites, with a stronger signal for taxonomic vs phylogenetic diversity doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

News from the tree nutrition front: despite all the nutrient input/output drama of the past decades, trees in Northern Europe seem to be doing fine, except they might still be missing some nitrogen. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @globalchangebio.bsky.social

Interested in considering the adaptive dynamics of ecological communities and their implications for facilitating, accepting, or resisting ecological change? We're looking for a postdoc to work with our partner Mark Vellend at @usherbrooke.bsky.social ➡️Find out more: csee-scee.ca/job/postdoc-...

New study on arthropod declines @natecoevo.nature.com 🪲 In two time series @jena-experiment.bsky.social & @bexplo.bsky.social we show how community (dis)assembly underpins local biomass declines. It mostly boils down to species loss, with identity losing relevance. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Distribution- (occupancy-) trend tells a different story than the population trend. The distribution of the Gatekeeper (P tithonus, oranje zandoogje) in NL is stable, where the populationsize has declined with 70% between 1992 and 2010.

📢 Join our #EcologySeminar this week! Prof. Dr. Teja Tscharntke will share new insights on biodiversity-friendly farming without yield loss. 📅 Wed 3. Dec. at 10:15 AM 📩 DM for webinar link @agrarunigoe.bsky.social @teja-tscharntke.bsky.social

#Postdoc position in #landscape #ecology with me. Last day to apply #plants #traits #landscapechange #modelling 🌍🧪

Systematic Continental Scale Monitoring by Weather Surveillance Radar Shows Fewer Insects Above Warming Landscapes in the United States 🔗 buff.ly/KnY2LCi

Registration for the #BE20Conference is now open. We’re celebrating 20 years of the Biodiversity Exploratories with our first international conference. ✨ We appreciate when the news circulates in the community. www.biodiversity-exploratories.de/de/be20/ See you there. 🙂 @dfg.de @sgn.one

🕷️ Evaluation of BugBox, a software platform for AI-assisted bioinventories of arthropods 📖 Read the full paper here➡️ buff.ly/3GMV0Is

Many ecological studies assume that space-for-time substitutions can be proxies for missing time series. Here the authors show congruence between the two in the direction but not the magnitude of plant and arthropod community responses to land-use intensification 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#PostDoc Alert! PhD in #Biology or #EnvironmentalSciences? Strong background in #ForestEcology, DNA-based biodiversity assessments, #Bioinformatics, and experimental planning? Our #ForestEntomology Group offers a 2-year #PostDoc position 🌳🧬💻: apply.refline.ch/273855/1798/... #ScienceJobs #eDNA

Divergent Trends in Insect Disturbance Across Europe's Temperate and Boreal Forests 🔗 buff.ly/APK3ybC

Our research group has an open PhD position! Please share widely! Possible topics include: Determinants of range limits Assembly of ecological networks (eg, plant-pollinator) The role of soil arthropods (eg, ants) in carbon storage Details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A new #Opinion piece in #RESSystematicEnt discusses how declining rates of species description call for improved taxonomic strategies, using insights from a megadiverse #insect order doi.org/10.1111/syen.70019 #Taxonomy #SpeciesDescription #Diptera @gkergoat.bsky.social @wileyeco.bsky.social

Explore how soil food webs withstand droughts and heatwaves, and what this means for tree regeneration in Swedish forests! 🌲🪱🌳🍄Become a PhD student in the WIFORCE Research School and work with us at SLU-Uppsala @mycopat.bsky.social #climate #forest #microbes #nematodes www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

The joint meeting of NSO and GFÖ, September 2026, Odense, Denmark (for which I'm leading the science programming group) is now open for workshop and thematic session proposals! Please share. Details here: nordicsocietyoikos.glueup.com/event/nordic...

👩‍🔬 New job opportunity! We're offering a 3-year position within a project focused on rewilding and ecological restoration in Doñana National Park. The selected candidate will support the implementation and monitoring of environmental remote sensors systems. Info: www.ebd.csic.es/sites/defaul...

Can high biodiversity and agricultural productivity be reconciled? A community model of the bird–arthropod food web in African cocoa agroforestry indicates that low-intensity farming practices favour certain bird species and enhance the abundance of potential pollinators. doi.org/10.1002/eap....

Spatial Insurance of Distinct Ecological Functions Communities can act as functional sources and sustain rare ecological roles across space. We reveal patterns of functional vulnerability for plants and birds Check out our Perspective in Ecol Lett 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🌐🌍🦤🪴🍁🧪

“Energy is pyramidal. Species richness is not.” www.maraujolab.eu/2025/11/26/e...

Join us at the Nordic OIKOS–GfÖ Conference 2026! 📅 14–17 Sept 2026 | 📍 Odense, Denmark Open call for workshops & thematic sessions! Deadlines: Thematic sessions: 16 Jan 2026 Workshops: 17 Apr 2026 👉 Details & submission: vist.ly/4fvnx #Ecology #NSO202 #gfoe2026 #Science @gfoesoc.bsky.social

NEW: We cannot continue to pump CO2 into the Atmosphere without re-arranging the Biosphere. Ellen Welti and I analyze datasets from the US Long Term Ecological Research site at Konza Prairie and reveal wholesale reorganization of plant biomass and biogeochemistry, with implications for its food web.

🌾 Overall, cover crop choice matters: diverse cover crop maximize ecosystem benefits, while herbicide-based management reduces them. 🏞️ Surrounding semi-natural habitats (grasslands, woodlots) amplify positive effects of local mgmt especially for natural pest control (Photo: S. Richart-Cervera)

New #OpenAccess work in #RESInsectConsDiv Effect of #LandUseChange on #Melolonthidae (Coleoptera: #Scarabaeoidea) beetle communities in the #deforestation arc of the Brazilian Amazon doi.org/10.1111/icad.70039 @manusaunders.bsky.social @wileyeco.bsky.social Photo credit: Kleyton Rezende Ferreira

New study out in Ecology Letters 🌱🐑! Using long-term Åland monitoring data, we found that herbivory increases plant diversity across scales and flips the diversity–area relationship: a positive relationship is found in grazed sites while a negative one in ungrazed sites. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Google Scholar is trying AI, and it's not too bad: scholar.google.com/scholar_labs... I like that it mainly ranks papers by relevance (and gives a quick assessment), and let you read the actual titles, etc...

#hiring again! We are looking for the Technical Assistant to make our field experiment of the #Diversitorium running. Located at #IhingerHof at the @unihohenheim.bsky.social you can take the chance to join #TeamTERRA!

iDiv and @unihalle.bsky.social are hiring!📣 New job offer for a technical assistant (full time) at the lab of @jon-chase03.bsky.social - check it out and apply by 27 Nov! www.idiv.de/career/job-o...

Out now: A synthesis on open canopy conditions from forest management on biodiversity by Larsen-Gray and colleagues. 🌲🪵 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/fore...

There are 3 exciting postdoctoral openings to work on biodiversity research, monitoring and conservation with us at UBC - check them out! 2 positions: biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and... 1 position: science-bcbiodiversitynetwork-2025.sites.olt.ubc.ca/opportunities/

📣Job vacancy!📣 Research Fellow in Global Conservation at Leeds, working with Dave Williams (and me, a bit) to assess the impact of conservation initiatives on biodiversity, carbon, and people: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... #ConservationScience 🌍

Don't miss our upcoming mini-conference! 🌍🌱 Join us for "Linking biodiversity, functions, and climate: Insights from global ecosystems" on 1st December from 11am – 4pm at F01, Busenweg 1, North Campus. Registration: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/581694.html #EnriCo #miniconference

"The facts that individual genes have usually only small effects on adaptive traits, the same trait can be achieved by different combinations of alleles,"..."that non-genic traits can cause speciation, indicate that traits rather than individual genes are the most relevant units of speciation." 😮

📢We are hiring! If you are experienced in financial matters and want to support iDiv's financing department as a parental leave cover, apply by 26 Nov! www.idiv.de/career/job-o...

I'm giving a talk on "Insect Declines, Pesticides and Pet Parasiticides", online, FREE to join, 7pm-8pm Wed 26th November Organised by Western Sussex Rivers Trust. Book your free ticket! lnkd.in/e4y8v5Fn

Excited to have a ground beetle project @carabidaeuk.bsky.social open for applications in @crocus-dla.bsky.social. Nice mix of analysing long-term data, fieldwork and time at @forestresearchuk.bsky.social, assessing trends in woodland carabids. Please share! blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/c...

🐝 PhD Opportunity @tum.de Explore how soil health & structure shape habitats for ground-nesting pollinators in the Horizon Europe project ProPollSoil. Join our interdisciplinary team in Soil Biophysics & Environmental Systems 🌿 🔗 Details: www.lss.ls.tum.de/sbe/offered-...

The next confirmed keynote speaker for the BE20 Conference is Prof. Dr. Rachael Winfree from the USA ! 🌿🐝 She researches wild bees and their vital role in healthy ecosystems, offering key insights for pollinator conservation. 💡 FMI: www.biodiversity-exploratories.de/de/be20/ #BE20conference

There is a PhD position available at @w-u-r.bsky.social on seed dispersal and succession! You will be based at Wageningen University in the Netherlands and conduct fieldwork in tropical forests in Mexico on plant-animal interactions. Deadline to apply: 3rd of December shorturl.at/sLVOU

📢 Upcoming online seminar: Next week (26th November) at 11am CET, Alice Penanhoat @alice4science.bsky.social from Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences will talk about her interdisciplinary research on forest structure 🌲🌳🔍 Register here to join the zoom seminar: lnkd.in/gcgh5qFE

🍃Invasive species removal boosts phylogenetic & functional biodiversity, but how? This 3-year field experiment shows that abundance shifts drive recovery more than species colonization & extinction👇 🔍 Article: buff.ly/7rMkwrL 📰 Blog: buff.ly/vKJDO3M

🏆🏆🏆 We are still accepting applications for the BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD! 🏆🏆🏆 Apply now: gfoe.org/en/gfoe-awar... @elsevierps.bsky.social