Deer browsing limits forest diversity – even in the light. New study in @jappliedecology.bsky.social by Würzburg ecologists and others: Even sunny canopy gaps cannot offset the impact of roe deer on forest regeneration. 🦌🌳☀️ ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...

Great to see the results of our massive biodiversity assessment at Berchtesgaden Natl. Park pour in! Cool insights on patterns & drivers of multidiversity! #1 Macro- and microclimate interactively shape species diversity of multiple taxa in mountain landscapes by L. Geres. doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

Very interesting career perspective from Charlotte Helfrich-Förster. A lot of very good advices for young scientists rdcu.be/ekQat

Looking for a PhD / researcher position on #arthropods in #urban green spaces? Our colleague @nadja-simons.bsky.social @cofeuniwue.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de has a 3 year position advertised here: www.uni-wuerzburg.de/karriere/sin...

Welcome to the 8th European Congress for Conservation Biology in Leiden (NL)! Here we will explore how biodiversity can be safeguarded effectively in the long term. First call is open now! Check eccb26Leiden.eu for more info. We are looking forward to your contributions!

Amazing week of #birdbanding with @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social! 🪶 For a long-term monitoring programme we captured, aged & ringed 21 #bird species 🐦‍⬛🦜, including 3 woodpeckes and a goldcrest from Northern Sweden 🇸🇪 ringed this autumn. Learned so much, thanks for having me! 💚

🌿👏 Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Heike Feldhaar, BayCEER, and University of Bayreuth, on receiving the Bavarian State Medal for outstanding services to the environment! ubtaktuell.uni-bayreuth.de/umweltmedail... #BayCEER #UniBayreuth #Ecology #Insects #Sustainability

International Spring School: #Bioacoustics & Species Recognition using AI 🐝🐦🦗 Join us March 23–27, 2026! Infos & registration: www.biointakt.de/en/springsch... @feda.bio @uni-goettingen.de @agrarunigoe.bsky.social @thuenen.de

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...

Loved that I could add a little creative twist to our Necrodes littoralis paper led by Annika Busse and @cofeuniwue.bsky.social by drawing some cute little painted 🎨🪲 beetles. Also impressive how far they can fly! #CarrionClub #silphidae

Are you interested in passive acoustic monitoring? Do you want to learn more about Broadleafification? Why not apply at SLU in Umeå, Sweden for a PhD position where you will study vocalizing species like birds, bats and beetles. Deadline: 22.09.2025 URL: www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

Our #BETAFOR PhDs had an amazing time presenting their research at last week’s #gfoe2025 at @uni-wuerzburg.de! 🌟 Full of fresh ideas and inspiring discussions, it’s back to daily life. 💻✨ @claudiki.bsky.social @piambr.bsky.social @johannaasch.bsky.social @juliarothacher.bsky.social

What a perfect last day of #gfoe2025 on our excursion to the @uni-wuerzburg.de forest! Inspiring discussions and impressive insights into how to beautifully disturb for biodiversity 🌳🪾🐞 @cofeuniwue.bsky.social

Anne Chao and @piambr.bsky.social, the 100% perfect dialogue duo at #gfoe2025! ✨ Thank you for sharing statistical insights on sample coverage and it's standardization in the first @gfoesoc.bsky.social keynote session using #BETAFOR data.🌳🌱 @uni-wuerzburg.de @cofeuniwue.bsky.social

Truly fascinating combination: the wonderful shots by @jan-haft.bsky.social beautifully accompanied by live music of "Orchester des Wandels" 🎶 - what a highlight at the #gfoe2025 Ice Breaker tonight! 🧊🥂 @gfoesoc.bsky.social

Keynote Speakers for #Gfoe2025! We're thrilled to announce our seven exceptional keynote speakers who will be sharing their groundbreaking research and insights at this year's conference. Get ready to be inspired by experts who are shaping the future of #Ecology and environmental science.

All set! ✨ Würzburg is ready to welcome you to #Gfoe2025 next week! 🎉 Thanks to our amazing helper team for all their work in preparing the venue 💚🌍 @gfoesoc.bsky.social @cofeuniwue.bsky.social @globalchangeeco.bsky.social @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social

Ein kürzlich erschienener Fernsehbeitrag gibt Rückblicke auf das Anlegen unserer Experimentierflächen im Uniwald 🌳🍁 @uni-wuerzburg.de, Einblicke in die spannende Methodenvielfalt, die in unserem Projekt zum Einsatz kommt 🎤🎵📸🔬 und beleuchtet erste Ergebnisse. 🦉🐞🐝🦌 #BETAFOR #biodiversity

We’re excited to launch our Double Degree Master’s in Global Change Ecology – a unique collaboration between the University of Würzburg (Germany) and the University of Bergen (Norway)! Passionate about biodiversity🐛, ecosystems🗻, and today’s urgent environmental challenges🌍? This program is for you!

Still stunned to have been able to see the rare and endangered Urwaldrelikt #beetle Tragosoma depsarium in the Bavarian Forest last night! 😍🐞 ...and the sunset wasn't bad either!

Come work with us! We are looking to fill a PhD (mountain forest management) and PostDoc position (forest adaptive capacity, w/ @juditlecinadiaz.bsky.social). We'd be happy to have you as part of our dynamic team! PhD: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0... PostDoc: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...

Congratulations to our colleague @sabinenooten.bsky.social from the Chemical Ecology group at @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social on receiving the Marcella Boveri Prize of the @uni-wuerzburg.de Biocenter, and on her great presentation of her work on insect #ecology and #biogeography

#Bird #surveys: Do we need to rewrite our methodological standards? #PassiveAcousticMonitoring suggests that expert-based recommendations might lead to under-recording, due to diurnal and seasonal mismatches. New paper led by David Singer; with 25,000 h audio data: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Happy to have this chapter of my PhD out!🥳 🐝🪲🍁🌳

Canopy disturbances affect insect diversity via increased light availability and deadwood, but the effects of these two drivers on taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity differ. New insights from a replicated experiment, led by @juliarothacher.bsky.social @betafor.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Fresh #beetle delivery from the Bavarian Forest! 🍁🪲 In the next days we will start a lab #experiment to find out if and how #temperature alters their stress levels🌡😬 Taken together with field data this might help us understand effects of microclimate on #forestbiodiversity @betafor.bsky.social

A team of researchers from Würzburg has developed a new method to measure #insect diversity. They found out that #agriculture's impact on insect diversity is more severe than previously thought. #biodiversity ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/aktuelles/pr...

👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 Be a scientist for a day! We invite you to the #BioBlitz 2025 in farmland! 📅 May 9–10, 2025 📍 Hubland, Würzburg Grab a sweep net & binoculars and help document local biodiversity! 🐝🌼🐦🦊 👉 Register: go.uniwue.de/gxwtm #CitizenScience #Biodiversity #UniWuerzburg #JoinIn @uni-wuerzburg.de

New #soundscape study out: We investigated the effect of experimental forest manipulation @betafor.bsky.social on four #acousic indices. 🌳🍁 Manipulation diversified the soundscapes with distinct differences between open and closed #canopy patches. Deadwood however only played a minor role 🧪🌍🐛🐦‍⬛

Fellow Ecologists, The #gfoe2025 @gfoesoc.bsky.social call for papers has just been published. Please submit your abstracts for exciting talks and engaging posters to present in Würzburg in September! gfoe-conference.de/index.php?ca... @uni-wuerzburg.de @globalchangeeco.bsky.social

A short cut to sample coverage standardization in meta-barcoding data provides new insights into land use effects on insect diversity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.27.635018v1

Always nice to return to the #BavarianForestNationalpark, where I first got to know what forest ecology research looks like. 🌲🌳🌲 Spent a wonderful week with our @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social ecology master students exploring wildlife!

CALL FOR WORKSHOPS: #GfÖ Annual Meeting 2025 September 01 to 05, 2025 in #Würzburg, Germany For first announcement and procedures sessions and call for workshops: gfoe.org/sites/defaul...

🍁 Forest Ecology feed ! The feed is open to any research related to forest ecology around the world, including landscape, conservation, social, policy, zoology, etc. 🌳 You can DM me to be added as contributor. Use the 🍁 or #forestecol in your posts to appear in the feed. bsky.app/profile/jere...

🌿 Save the Date! 🌿 Mark your calendars: The 2025 Annual Conference of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (#GFÖ2025) will take place 1–5 September 2025 at the University of Würzburg. 📅 Stay tuned for more details! #Ecology #ScienceConference #Würzburg