Continental-scale evidence that emergent aquatic insects sustain riparian birds, thus freshwater conservation offers considerable co-benefits to terrestrial ecosystems! A fun collaboration w/ postdoc @cschuerings.bsky.social @uwsafs.bsky.social @uwenvironment.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415...

New publication in Nature Ecology & Evolution Rivers with higher insect diversity support more insect-eating birds across the US. Using >140k insect surveys + millions of citzen science bird records, we show strong cross-ecosystem linkages. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The procedure is that national committees nominate three candidates for an international competition that selects national and international “champions”. The nominated study analyses +/- of European legislation in halting biodiversity loss (annexes are worth reading). @merlin-project.bsky.social

Pleased that our Policy Forum in Science (www.science.org/stoken/autho...) has been nominated for the Frontiers Planet Prize. As the national nomination is mainly a national issue, there is only a press release in German: www.bbaw.de/presse/press....

New paper out on how stressor numbers influence biodiversity - ecosystem function relationships in freshwater ecosystems. We considered four measures of ecosystem function and found that the positive BEF relationship becomes stronger as the number of stressors increases. OA @ doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Our study on the Drivers of Recovery and Degradation of Riverine Benthic Invertebrate Communities is now published! Water quality plays a key role in both recovery and degradation, while biotic interactions become more important during recovery phases. Read more here: rdcu.be/edCOr

⚫-🔴würde gerne weiter alles unter sich ausmachen. Die Zeiten sind vorbei.Je besser die Umfragen für🟢, desto schlechter lässt sich das ignorieren. ARD/ZDF sollten nicht nur die Herren Merz&Scholz zum Duell einladen. Sagen Sie's weiter. Lassen Sie sich keine Option nehmen! youtube.com/shorts/XMfyP...

The last PhD defense of the year! 2024 was an all-time high with 8 defenses in the wider group. Svenja Gillmann with a great dissertation on the recolonisation of urban streams that were formerly open sewers (@crc-resist.bsky.social).

one year ago, we published this #Science paper on the European Nature Restoration Law, an important milestone to recover degraded terrestrial, aquatic and marine #habitats #MarineEcology #Restoration #Protection #Conservation #Research www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Starting to re-post the open access papers of the last 12 months I contributed to (one per day). #1: The joint paper of five EU-funded projects on the EU Nature Restoration Law (which fortunately was finally adopted). science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk1658

#2 of 2024 papers: Typology of European agriculture concerning the pressure imposed to rivers. Led by Christian Schürings. doi.org/10.1016/j.wa...

#3 of our 2024 papers (yes, it is in STOTEN as a few others): in a nationwide study, we show that pesticide-intensive crops have strong effects on riverine benthic invertebrates, and nutrient-intensive crops mainly on diatoms. doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...