hisssss.... 🐍 Geographically and taxonomically unexpected: A 🆕(?) pitviper from the lowland rainforest in the Ecuadorian Chocó 🌴🇪🇨 discovered by @roedellab.bsky.social Published in Herpetology Notes www.reassembly.de/news/unexpec...

Two new papers on tropical bees: 1) Nocturnal (!) 🌘Megalopta bees 🐝 in recovering tropical forest www.reassembly.de/news/dietary... 2) Proboscis length 😜 estimation in tropical bees www.reassembly.de/news/models-... www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Final #Newsletter 📰 from our first phase of #Reassembly Research Unit 🇪🇨🌴🌱🦜🐸🐜. Spanish version will follow soon. Enjoy! www.reassembly.de/posts/newsle...

Reassembly und 🌴Regenwald-Regeneration im Kontext der Klimakrise. Sehenswerte Vorlesungsreihe an der Uni Mainz @zukunftjgu.bsky.social Kurzbericht: www.reassembly.de/news/reassem... www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIzT...

Burying millions of tons of wood, which would require disturbing many thousands of acres of land, sounds like such a great idea. Just like carbon offsets were a good idea. Let's do anything else but deal with the actual problem.

“We already know what works to stop forest loss, but countries, companies, and investors are only scratching the surface. And even those initial efforts are facing strong pushback from the standard bearers of an economic system built on forest destruction.” 🌍 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Banks make $26bn in decade of financing deforesting companies ->Global Witness | More from Lil' Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

Ein Beweis gefällig, dass zuviel FLEISCH 🥩 dumm macht? Konservative WURSTesser können offenbar nicht lesen & "Veggiburger" 🍔 wegen begrifflicher Verwechslungsgefahr nicht tolerieren. Winner of the Day: Massentierhaltung & Klimawandel, Prost! (mit alkfreiem "Bier"? 🍻) www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/e...

Excited to share that the second paper of my PhD is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🍈🦜🍒🐒🍊🐿️ We show that the functional diversity of seed-dispersal interactions in tropical forests takes circa 20 years to recover after deforestation. You can read it here: www.cell.com/current-biol...

#Jane #Goodall She was an incredibly inspiring person for #nature #conservation, appreciation of #wildlife ... and to never give up in the fight for justice! RIP. May her legacy survive: “giving #young #people #hope and … a sense of #empowerment.” edition.cnn.com/2025/10/01/e...

Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃 www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...

👉 Interested in joining our #Bexplo Synthesis Team? Apply now – the deadline is October 25! 🔗 www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...

Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃 www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...

Forest bird communities 🦜recover -- and their choires captured by sound recorders 🎤🎶-- but biodiversity recovery is hampered in agricultural landscapes where tropical forests disappeared! New study led by @cofeuniwue.bsky.social published in Conservation Letters www.reassembly.de/news/impover...

Pristimantis latidiscus #frogs bury their eggs! Froglets 🐸 from experimentally disturbed egg clutches hatched earlier - potentially to reduce predation risk. New paper by Niklas Fuchs and M.-O. Rödel @roedellab.bsky.social from the Ecuadorian rainforest. www.reassembly.de/news/scienti...

What do Blue-bellied Whiptail 🦎lizards eat? And how? Natural history notes on Holcosus bridgesii in 🇪🇨Ecuadorian #rainforest 🌴published in #Herpetological_Review by @roedellab.bsky.social They feed on earthworms (see picture) and four other diets that are nastier www.reassembly.de/news/what-wh...

Poison frogs 🐸 with fly 🪰 parasite? First record of myiasis in a frog in Ecuador by Michelle Vélez, Mónica Guerra @roedellab.bsky.social and others published in the Intern. J. for Parasitology: www.reassembly.de/news/poison-...

Playing death: Thin-toed Frogs 🐸🐸 To avoid being eaten by a predator 🐍- or to be stepped on by a researcher 🥾- Leptodactylus rhodomerus displays death-feigning ☠️. ‪Discovered by roedellab.bsky.social‬ www.reassembly.de/news/playing...g/

Mit der @fr-zeitung.bsky.social hatte ich die Freude, über unser Forschungsthema #Biodiversität im #Klimawandel zu sprechen. Danke! www.fr.de/politik/fors...

Whow! Riesenholzwespen sind beeindruckend - aber einer ihrer Parasiten noch mehr! Gestern entdeckt: Die riesige Ichneumonide MEGARHYSSA PERLATA auf Totholz - drängelnde Männchen, eierlegende Weibchen. youtu.be/QKAIGg5F4wM www.inaturalist.org/observations/2

In our new paper in @science.org, we show that tropical forests are changing over time, but too slowly to track climate change. Our article, led by @jeaggu.bsky.social just out: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @naturerecovery.bsky.social @forestplots.bsky.social

Good news! 🌴 Reassembly at the #ECTE2025 conference in Amsterdam... and featured in MONGABAY in the same week: www.reassembly.de/news/reassem... news.mongabay.com/2025/02/an-e...

Sample coverage matters: succession of #bird communities along a #chronosequence of a recovering tropical #rainforest. 🦜🕊️🦉🌱🌴 www.reassembly.de/news/sample-...

Good news! 🌴 Reassembly at the #ECTE2025 conference in Amsterdam... and featured in MONGABAY in the same week: www.reassembly.de/news/reassem... news.mongabay.com/2025/02/an-e...

More than half of the Reassembly team participates at the great #ECTE2025 conference... and warms up for their talks tomorrow at a hot pot restaurant. #tropical #ecology

#Reassembly of a tropical #rainforest: A new #chronosequence in the #Chocó tested with the #recovery of #ree attributes Our basic article is now online, with all the information on our study design and exciting results for trees. www.reassembly.de/posts/basic-...

Tightly snuggling up 🐍❤️🐍 #snake #courtship behaviour of the Chocó endemic Northern Eyelash Boa #Tropidophis boulengeri described for the first time! @roedellab.bsky.social www.reassembly.de/news/snuggli...

Nuestro tercer boletín está listo. ¡Gracias a todos los estudiantes de doctorado e investigadores postdoctorales que contribuyeron con sus historias! 🇪🇨🌴🪲🐗 www.reassembly.de/posts/tercer...

Dear friends in the #US 🇺🇸, Most Europeans 🌍 and South Americans 🌎envy you for many things, your great #science, #arts, #technology, national parks... What we don't envy you for is the poor state of your #democracy, loss of social #justice and ignorance for our shared #environment...

The first chapter of my PhD🎉 Super thrilled about this! 🐆

Caught on 📷camera: Natural comeback of #wild forest animals Natural forest regeneration benefits #jaguar #tayra #peccary #armadillo #agouti #tinamou etc. New study published by @ninagrella.bsky.social et al in @biotropica.bsky.social www.reassembly.de/news/caught-...

📢Call for proposals: Biodiversity Exploratories (2026-2029)! Exciting news! The @dfgpublic.bsky.social has announced the call for proposals for the next phase of the BE! 📝Details & Application Info: www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles... www.biodiversity-exploratories.de/en/participa... Please share the news!

[new paper] You probably suspected that loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants, but here we quantify it: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

➡️ Open for new research applications on #land-use effects on #biodiversity! 🐏🐜🦉🦡☘️🌱 In #Grassland & #Forest

Can we use tree-related microhabitats (TreMs)🌳 as indicators of #tropical #biodiversity? Our new study led by Giovanni Bianco shows that TreM diversity actually increases with temperature and decreases with human impact on Kilimanjaro 🇹🇿 Now published in Ecological Indicators: doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

Application deadline in 10 days!! #PostDoc position in our lively lab. 2 yrs or --> longer! #Community #Ecology #Biodiversity #Animals #Plants #Interactions #Fieldwork #Forest #Grassland #Statistics #Lecturer #Researcher etc.

Enjoy the #scientific and #adventurous journey through many facets of a #recovering #tropical #rainforest 🌴 🇪🇨 with us: Our 3️⃣rd NEWSLETTER 📰 is out!!! #Ecuador #tropical #forest #biodiversity #conservation #networks #animals #plants #recovery www.reassembly.de/posts/third-...

Enjoy the #scientific and #adventurous journey through many facets of a #recovering #tropical #rainforest 🌴 🇪🇨 with us: Our 3️⃣rd NEWSLETTER 📰 is out!!! #Ecuador #tropical #forest #biodiversity #conservation #networks #animals #plants #recovery www.reassembly.de/posts/third-...

PostDocs take note! 👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️Great researcher/lecturer position available in our lab for 2 years (and potentially longer). You study #biodiversity of #animal or #plant communities? You are experienced in multivariate statistics etc.? Welcome to apply here: www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/HPv3.Jobs/TU...

Tropical ecologists on Bluesky - where are you? Let's network. go.bsky.app/5B14mCT There's one by Emilio on plants too: go.bsky.app/FSQE1vP

Reply here if you want to be added to the Tropical Plant Ecology Starter pack go.bsky.app/FSQE1vP

Recent study estimates large global potential for natural regeneration in deforested tropical regions & substantial associated #climatechange #mitigation effects www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌳🌿🌴🍃 #reforestation #naturalprocesses #trees #tropics #forests

In case you’re wondering what mass bleaching and mortality of corals looks like from the air……

PostDocs take note! 👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️Great researcher/lecturer position available in our lab for 2 years (and potentially longer). You study #biodiversity of #animal or #plant communities? You are experienced in multivariate statistics etc.? Welcome to apply here: www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/HPv3.Jobs/TU...

The sounds of #forest loss: how the #cicada communities’ song patterns change when forests are converted and isolated. New open access paper 🇪🇨 🌴 reassembly.de/news/sounds-di

2 new species of #Caecilians discovered! ➡️Large worm🪱-like subterranean amphibians🐸. 🇪🇨#Chocó rainforest reassembly.de/news/two-new-w

Tree-related microhabitats (TreMs) 🌴🌳are important for #biodiversity, and particularly diverse in the #tropics. A useful new catalogue defined and applied by Ronja Nußer at @eco_FSF & coauthors published in Ecol Indicators, see reassembly.de/news/trees-hos

➡️Our new🪳🦟🐛🌱🍃SPECIES INTERACTION NETWORK critique & analysis tips! Let's debate & let us know if you disagree! Ask for PDF via [email protected] A Critical Evaluation of #Network Approaches for Studying Species #Interactions | Annual Reviews - go.shr.lc/4fph7q0

Now we are beginning to 'tweet' our posts in bluesky. Let's see if this becomes our new home. REASSEMBLY is a research unit studying natural forest recovery from agriculture 🐂 🌱to forest 🌴: resistance, resilience and species interaction networks!