When you arrive at your favorite field site, unexpectedly meet with your co-author, John Mensah. Life is entire of surpises. zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Time for Tropical Ecology #ECTE2025 #GTOE2025 post meeting information now online, remind yourself of all the great talks and posters by downloading the abstract booklet ecologyofthepast.info/2025/03/14/t... #ecology #tropical #biogeography #palaeoecology @soctropecol.bsky.social

Just returned from Amsterdam, where I presented my poster at #ECTE2025! 🌿🏝️ It showcases part of my PhD research: 10 years of monitoring cavity-nesting #Hymenoptera in SE China and their multitrophic interactions. Great to share and discuss science! @multitroph.bsky.social

Today, I am starting as full professor at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social to build a new research group on Wildlife Ecology & Nature Restoration. I feel honored and welcome. Very much looking forward to the challenge of doing science to support effective wildlife #conservation and nature restoration.

Beautiful summary of our #ECTE photo competition by Pia Parolin youtube.com/shorts/FLO54...

🚨 Job announcement : Head of the Ecuadorian-German Integrative Biodiversity Research Center in Quito More info at : www.dzg-ev.de/wp-content/u...

Agencies across the US government have been ordered to initiate another punishing round of layoffs at the same time Congress is moving forward with a plan to slash their budgets — a potential blow to science. https://go.nature.com/3QCaFAP

Just presented during #ECTE2025 @soctropecol.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...

Last keynote speaker #ECTE2025 : Joeri Zwerts. He will talk about solutions to protect tropical forests 🌴🐘

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...

This was #ECTE2025 !!! Thanks to all participants for making this an amazing experience 😌 Thanks to Jelle Kraak for taking the photos (@kraakkiekjes)

Three decades of friendship and collaboration with Mr. Agouti.eu meeting during #ECTE2025 @patrickjansen.bsky.social

Ending ECTE2025 and looking forward to ECTE2026 - see you in Passau 🤩 #ECTE2025

Closing ceremony #ECTE2025 - Maria Sibylla Merian. Changing the Nature of Art and Science, Bert van de Roemer Florence Pieters Hans Mulder Kay Etheridge Marieke van Delft www.lannoopublishers.com/en/maria-sib...

Congratulations to the 1st winner of the Poster competition: Kaare Christopheren 🙌🎉 #ECTE2025

Full support to all my Federal colleagues in the USA. Signed by Past-President ATBC 2008 and Former President (2018-24) of the Society For Tropical Ecology. Professor Tropical Ecology @mnhn.fr

Last day at #ECTE2025

Last day at #ECTE2025 The keynote speaker Gonzalo Rivas-Torres will talk about advanced technologies for mapping tropical ecosystems 🌿

Watching the habitat dynamics from above on the Galapagos islands and on the mainland in Equator with Gonzalo Rivas Torres during #ECTE2025 @soctropecol.bsky.social

Best talk and Merian award winner: Malika Gottstein 🤩 #ECTE2025

And the last keynote speaker is a rising star in the sky of #ECTE2025 Joeri Zwerts from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @soctropecol.bsky.social

So let's meet next year in Passau, Germany! (Hopefully I'll have a new position somewhere by this time🤞) Thanks for a great conference here in Amsterdam! 🙌🙌 I liked the pinapple 🍍 handover, that was funny 🤣 #ECTE2025

Winners of the photo Competition 📸! Congratulations 🎉

Humans in Africa’s wet tropical forests 150 thousand years ago. The onset of human occupations at Bété I found to be ~150 ka, linking them with Homo sapiens. Plant wax biomarker, stable isotope, phytolith and pollen analyses all point to a wet forest environment. rdcu.be/ebrSR

And, of course, no pollinators, no fruit, no seeds for frugivores.”Pas de bras, pas de chocolat” or in other words: “No bees, butterflies, moths, or flies, no cocoa fruit in the canopy! #ECTE2025 @soctropecol.bsky.social

Oh my, second day of #ECTE2025 is off!! With biogeography, palaeoecology, climate change, hedgehog poop and karate metaphors, what else do you need!!!???

So far, #ECTE2025 @soctropecol.bsky.social has been very good after two days of intense oral and poster sessions. These two young fellows (Shuiqing He and Alessandro Mainardi) are the future of tropical ecology (with camtraps in the canopy).

Yesterday I talked about leaf-cutter ants and their role on Peruvian cacao agroforests at #ECTE2025 @soctropecol.bsky.social

Nothing better for kicking off our last day of #ECTE2025 (and recover from the great gala dinner) than start the day listening to the energetic @lourens.poorter.bsky.social talking about succession

We need large fruits, large seeds, and large animals to disperse them away to restore forests and stock carbon, as well as many recruits as Master and PhD 🧑‍🎓 to replace the aging academic community. #ECTE2025 @soctropecol.bsky.social

#ECTE2025 is awaking with the skyrocket-styled launch of the session “Succession and restoration of tropical forests” by Lourens Poorter. Then, we are cruising in orbit with PNG scientist Francesca Florence Dem. I love @soctropecol.bsky.social

Thank you to everyone who joined the conference dinner last night! Karaoke and delicious delicacies were on the menu 💃🎤

I had a great time presenting my research at #ECTE2025, with plenty of great feedback received! 🐝

We are in Amsterdam for the #ECTE2025 Chairing the "Anthropic Tropics" session

Demodrivers post doc Kate Dudgeon presenting pre-Columbian landscape transformation in the Llanos de Mozos at #ecte2025

#ecte2025 #GTOE2025 climate change impacts on tropical forests, and how they function as carbon sink vs source being discussed

Get your calendars out and mark the dates and places of the next #ECTEs 🤩

#GTOE2025 #ecte2025 #Biogeography and #palaeoecology session wrapping up with palm manuscripts as an archive of past environmental change!

We need a late-career scientist group @soctropecol.bsky.social to make the ancient ones more visible to the early-career scientists! If interested, let’s catch up during #ECTE2025. Mid-career scientists can join the group to link and network with all generations.

Tropical #biogeography and #palaeoecology session now underway at #GTOE2025

It’s so great to see « rising stars » in the sky of @soctropecol.bsky.social @panema.bsky.social - Emma Sayer started to talk #ECTE2025

Carina Hoorn talking about Miocene mangroves in the Amazon basin 🤩#ECTE2025 SESSION1

Next keynote speaker: Nokubonga Mgqatsa talking about ecological interactions in Africa 🐘

#ECTE2025 board meeting

Mark Bush at the #ecte2025 the Upano civilization didn't collapse because a volcanic event

The european conference of tropical ecology #ECTE2025 is a go! Very excited to connect with lots of amazing scientists and share our latest work at @multitroph.bsky.social. 📍Amsterdam, Netherlands

So happy to be in Amsterdam for the #ECTE2025 !! I will give a talk tomorrow in Session 1 about the palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the coast of French Guiana during the Late Pleistocene 🌴🌿🌎🌊 be prepared to hear about charcoal, pollen and phytoliths!

The 3 finalists of the gtoe 2025 photo contest theme “The beauty of biodiversity” #gtoe2025

@soctropecol.bsky.social Delighted to be hosting the meeting here in Amsterdam. This is my first post on Blue Sky

First poster session was a success ✅ let's meet again tomorrow to see more amazing posters ✨