Naturschutz auch für Mikroorganismen! Eine Begründung findet Ihr in einem kurzen Editorial von @ninafarwig.bsky.social und mir in @claudialudy.bsky.social: rdcu.be/fcyBT

Luftbilder von 1968 zeigen in BW einen gravierenden Verlust an Offenlandbiotopen durch Aufforstung & Sukzession. Heute sind Wälder zudem geschlossener – ohne die früher zahlreichen Lichtungen, Schläge oder offenen Felsbereiche, die für viele Nachtfalter (& andere Tiere) wichtige Lebensräume waren.

New online! Digitally native species are a necessary shift in taxonomic practice

ICYMI @uni-goettingen.de has an opening for a junior group leader position in Ecological Novelty (6 years, no tenure - due to the specific funding it's restricted to female applicants) 🧪👩‍🔬 www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht... Deadline April 19th 📅

We are hiring! Interested in doing a PhD and excited about forest management, ecosystem services, simulation modeling and beta diversity? Come work with us @edfm-tum.bsky.social at @tum.de, full job ad here: cloud.edfm.ls.tum.de/index.php/s/...

6/ I think saying ‘our gardens are bigger than all our national nature reserves’ is misleading because it individualises the problem. Nature-friendly gardening is great, but political action is more important, & we really need the Government to create more nature reserves! [End]

This paper provides a phytochemical framework for understanding above- versus belowground herbivore interactions. From @jpschnitzler.net, @robinheinennl.bsky.social, @terrecolgroup.bsky.social et al. Read #OpenAccess in our societies journal #PlantBiology #PlantSci DOI: doi.org/10.1111/plb....

🎉 ggauto is now on CRAN 🎉 An #RStats package that selects better chart types, and provides more accessible styling for #ggplot2 plots 📊 Blog post explaining why I made it and how it works: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu... #DataViz

Studierende der Uni Hohenheim & Forschende von Senckenberg Gesellschaft und Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart entdecken invasive Ameisenart. EU stuft Asiatische Nadelameise (Brachyponera chinensis) als besonders problematisch ein. Studie in „Zootaxa“: t1p.de/5kkoh @sgn.one @smnstuttgart.bsky.social

The thermophilisation rate of plant communities in response to global warming is 5 times faster on alpine summits than in forests or grasslands across 🇪🇺 This finding corroborates former findings on the greater likelihood for upslope than poleward range shifts of plants 🌳🌲☘️🌾🪻🌼 shorturl.at/gc0TJ

📢 PhD position in Vegetation Ecology (@ Leibniz University Hannover) Join our team to study long-term coastal vegetation dynamics under sea-level rise, climate & land-use change. Fieldwork, traits, spatial analyses & drones included. Deadline: April 15, 2026

Nice to find a new record of Scopelophila cataractae (Tounge-leaf Copper-moss) a rare Metallophyte species that grows on old mine sites high in Copper,Lead and Zinc,here growing on fine hard compacted mine waste at Penryhnmawer on the Llyn Peninsula on Sunday @bbsbryology.bsky.social

A Global Conservation Blind Spot: Neglect of Bryophytes Undermines Biodiversity Targets onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

BAdW-Gletscherforscher Christoph Mayer über den Gletscherschwund auf der Zugspitze (ab Minute 12:37): www.zdfheute.de/video/heute-... #Gletscher #Zugspitze

Eaten alive: how plants cope with sequential herbivory 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 👆 A #Commentary by @robinheinennl.bsky.social on this article by Delamore et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

A handbook for standardised measurements of plant reproductive traits: from pollen grain to seedling url: connectsci.au/bt/article/7... This handbook discussed protocols for 58 reproductive traits of flowers (10 traits), fruits (6 traits), seeds (36 traits), and seedlings (6 traits).

New #Sci #Job ! Together with six other PI’s we are looking for two PhD students and a Postdoc for our LEAP project, which is part of @greenrobust.de backend.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/documents...

Contact me for thesis opportunities 🦇 @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social

Mosses are great up close. This sporophyte would open and close as I breathed on it. Sadly I could not get a good video of it. #oakland #moss #bryophytes

The University of Tübingen seeks applications for a W3-Professorship in Experimental Biodiversity Research starting Oct 1, 2027. Apply by April 26, 2026. More info: https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/213700. #job

We are looking for a postdoc (up to five years) interested in climate-driven plant extinctions! Working with @manuelsteinbauer.bsky.social and me and a large team on various aspects of Earth system sciences. More information here: fau-earth-system-science.github.io

We search for a postdoc focusing on the molecular ecology of #bryophytes 🌱🧬🔬. Join our work @sgn.one Institute for Plant Form and Function and @uni-jena.de 🗓️Deadline: March 29, 2026 👉 More Infos and Apply here: www.senckenberg.de/de/stellenan...

Sphagnum moss. #Newfoundland, Canada. #moss #bryophyte #plants Photo covers about 6cm, left to right.

As the snow melts, the first flowers appear on the sun-warmed rocks. Spring has arrived to the mountains 🏔️🌼

🌱 Do plants compete even in Antarctica? Huisman et al. found the dominant moss Sanionia uncinata grows faster when paired with other mosses, while neighbouring species decline. Even harsh Antarctic environments include strong plant interactions.

Next position advertised by our cluster: We are searching for a Lab Manager running the single cell-sequencing lab at Heidelberg University. adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...

Kick-off meeting of our GreenRobust cluster of excellence last week. Exciting times ahead for plant sciences by bringing together an extraordinary bunch of enthusiastic scientists and human beings!

10/10 would recommend

#PhDPosition in Ecological #DataScience in our group. For details, see www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet... #MachineLearning #AI #DeepLearning #Statistics #Ecology #AcademicJobs

New paper online today. In it, we advocate for biodiversity in the increasingly modernized agricultural world. Smart farming could be a wonderful tool to alleviate pressure from agro-ecosystems, but, as we argue here, this will only happen if biodiversity becomes an explicit target. rdcu.be/e6zB7

Reboulia hemispherica (Hemisphaeric Liverwort) on the Keuper red sandstone outcrops in-between Bromsberrow and Chasend hill yesterday, I found this exceedingly strong Colony of this lovely thallus Liverwort a few years back whilst searching for Tortula Vahiliana @bbsbryology.bsky.social

www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html... Hidden insect diversity in grass shoots threatened by mowing

And today we have a link: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Crystalwort (Riccia sp.). Waiākea, Hilo, Hawaiʻi.

Promotionsstelle (75% für drei Jahre) im Bereich Stadtökologie Die Gruppe Stadtökologie und Biodiversität sucht neue Mitarbeiter*innen im Bereich Konnektivität urbaner Lebensräume, urbane Biodiversität und Mensch-Umwelt-Beziehungen. Weitere Informationen: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/d...

Oenothera deltoides, the Birdcage Evening Primrose, blooming now in Anza-Borrego #nativeplants

Rhodobryum huillense (Welw. & Duby) Touw Venezuela, Andes, Merida, surrounding Laguna Coromoto, Upper cloud forest, on rotten stump, 2550 m, leg M. Lüth 3313 Looks a bit like R. grandifolium, but plants and leaves are much smaller.

As promised - here is more information on our Assistent/Associtate Professor position in Plant Biochemistry @lbvpam.bsky.social - please share. lbvpam.univ-st-etienne.fr/en/join-us/c...

Where will novel fire regimes threaten birds? Our paper in @natcomms.nature.com shows that most bird diversity hotspots facing future high-sev fire occur in places that historically burned at low severity - a critical mismatch. These are the spots to focus restoration. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Postdoctoral position in Forest Genetics at @uni-freiburg.de with a focus on local adaptation and/or stress reaction of trees. The position combines research and teaching (4 SWS), and offers the opportunity to develop an independent research profile (4+ years).

That must be this „bubble“ thing we are all part of

Forests are reorganizing in their composition and structure in response to climate change - will they be able to maintain their carbon? Turns out: yes - they even sequestered more carbon than resilient forests! New paper out in Global Biogeochemical Cycles 🔄💎 @agu.org dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Very emo Sphagnum on site today. Must have heard the rumours of a new my chemical romance album this year and (as I’ve been considering) dyed its hair black like it’s 2008 again. Caused by deposition of organic C and humic acids when peaty water evaporates as far as I know #MireChemicalRomance

Did you know? Insects eat plants as medicine. #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Less than one month left to apply for this WIFORCE #PhDposition on soil food webs in Swedish forests. We welcome applicants from all walks of life 🌈 and from all corners of the world🌏 Deadline: 10 February 2026!

In our last ecology colloquium for this semester, today 4:15 pm @mhanusch.bsky.social provides "Insights into community assembly and biotic interactions". Feel free to join this presentation via Zoom: uni-hohenheim.zoom-x.de/j/6193370953...

📣 PhD position at Leuphana University (Germany) 🌳🍃🪴 Join the DIVERSA project on climate change effects on forest ecosystems. Fieldwork, laser scanning, experiments & data analysis in an international ecology team. Apply by 20 Feb 2026 👉https://tinyurl.com/3ac4fewx #Ecology #Biodiversity #Traits

Grimmia austrofunalis Müll. Hal. Andes, Merida, sourrounding of Laguna Coromoto, Subparamos, on open rock, gneis, 3000 m, leg 2001 M. Lüth 3302 Stem without central strand, costal cells mostly uniform, hydroids lacking, big and somewhat glossy plants