HIRING! We are looking for a new PhD student to work on insects in deadwood, effects of microclimate and land use. This is part of the Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social and will use a new experiment using rain-out shelters in different regions of Germany. EU driver´s licence required.

End-of-year thrill! TU Dresden's Tharandt campus now has 5 state-of-the-art climate chambers to power our BIOCOMP module 3 experiment. Huge thanks to the EU & Freistaat Sachsen via EFRE InfraProNet for funding "KlimaWald - Aufbau klimastabiler Waldökosysteme"!

Heavy lifting! Preparing field sites for the new long-term deadwood experiment BEClimWood of the Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social in Schorfheide, NE Germany. Thanks to the local management team, Andre Junggebauer, Daniel Rieker, and all other supporters!

After several years of hard work two important papers from Berchtesgaden NP are finally out: 1) effects of microclimate on biodiversity change with macroclimate along elevation, but taxon specific - led by @lisageres.bsky.social doi: 10.1002/ecog.07984 with @rupertseidl.bsky.social and many more

Thank you, Akira Mori @akkym.bsky.social, for visiting us with part of you team! It was a pleasure to discuss our ongoing joint work and plan for more.

Several small reserves hold more beetle, spider and bird species than a single large reserve of the same size in Central Europe, with habitat heterogeneity being an important driver. First PhD paper by Anne Huber (not on Bsky), w/ @sebseibold.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

Great chance to visit the BIOCOMP field site in Swedish boreal forest. Thanks to Joakim Hjälten, Jörgen Sjögren, Anne-Maarit Hekkala and the Restoration Ecology Group at SLU in Umea for the trip and the excellent scientific discussions! @biocomp-erc.bsky.social

Great chance to visit another BIOCOMP plot pair contrasting dry sclerophyll eucalypt forest and pine plantation after attending the ICCB conference in Brisbane. Thank you @ Natalie Jones for having us!

🌳🌲🐾 #SafeNet is officially launched! We are working to #safeguard #biodiversity and #carbon-rich #forest #networks across Europe. Meet the project, explore the science, and see how we are collaborating for resilient forests: 🔗 safenet-project.eu 🔗 bit.ly/SafeNet-Launch @luke.fi #BiodiversityWeek

Does the effect of forest development on biodiversity vary with elevation? New insights across bacteria, fungi, plants, arthropods, and vertebrates from #BerchtesgadenNationalPark www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Bluesky account of the BIOCOMP project launched! We study diversity patterns of arthropods and microbes related to deadwood and soil as well as wood decomposition rates in managed and natural forests across the globe. Involving a large group of awesome collaborators! @biocomp-erc.bsky.social

Starting with new work led by Lisa Geres analyzing multitrophic resurvey data from elevation gradients at Bavarian Forest National Park: negative correlation between shifts in elevation and canopy distribution peaks indicate that buffered forest microclimate may partly compensate upslope shifts

New to bsky. Let´s see who is around