Great start to the BioIntAkt Spring School! 🐝🐦🐟 Day 1 kicked off with an inspiring poster session covering passive acoustic monitoring across forests, agroecosystems, aquatic systems, and computational challenges. Thanks to everyone for the relaxed, inspiring atmosphere and great exchange 💚

📢 Die Zukunft der EU-Agrarpolitik beeinflusst die Artenvielfalt in Agrarlandschaften. Bei „Akademie im Gespräch“ der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen diskutieren Catrin Westphal, Sebastian Lakner und Claus Hartmann. Publikumsbeteiligung willkommen! Weitere Infos: buff.ly/0OrNphW

📢 New publication in Ecology Letters! 🐝🌼 🐝 Viral prevalence in multispecies bee communities is driven by multiple key hosts, not single dominant species. Whole-community network structure is crucial when managing pollinator health. See: doi.org/10.1111/ele.... @unihalle.bsky.social

This week in our #Hymenoptera identification course, students observed live how #Parasitoid wasps of the genus Lysiphlebus parasitize aphids — directly in their own petridish. 🐝👀 For us, this is what university #Teaching is about: Connecting theory, observation, and real-world application 📚🔬🌍

🔔Just a quick reminder! The open postdoctoral researcher position is still waiting for the right candidate. 🧪 🕒 Apply by: 01.03.2026 Feel free to share with your network or reach out if you have questions! see www.uni-goettingen.de/en/vacancy+f... @uni-goettingen.de @agrarunigoe.bsky.social

💚 Thank you all for your participation and genuine interest in our #EcologySeminar during the Winter Semester 2025/26! We are especially grateful to our wonderful speakers for sharing their expertise, insights, and passion with us😊 📣 Stay tuned for more inspiring sessions in April! 🐝 🌱

Forschung für wirksame Agrarumweltprogramme: Im Projekt METAGROLAND untersuchen Elena Velado-Alonso & Team Wechselwirkungen zw. Pflanzen und ihren Bestäubern und prüfen, ob Maßnahmen wie Blühflächen Insekten-Populationen im Agrarland fördern. Viel Erfolg! Mehr: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html...

🌱🔬 On #11F, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we celebrate the women shaping agroecology through research, teaching, and action. At @funcagroeco.bsky.social we stand for inclusive, diverse, and equitable science — because sustainable food systems need all voices. #WomenInScience

📢 Join our team: Are you interested in the synthesis of ecological data? We are offering a postdoctoral researcher position on the effects of collaborative agri-environment measures on multiple taxa and ecosystem services. See #job advert www.uni-goettingen.de/en/vacancy+f...

📢 Join our last #EcologySeminar of the semester! Marleen Krämer will share first insights in #ProjectHEAVEN - just started last year! Focus is on Carabids in agrucultural landscapes🪲 📅 Wed 11.Feb at 10:15 AM 📩 DM for webinar link @mar-krae.bsky.social @agrarunigoe.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de

New article led by Evan T. Sloan🐝 Pollen metabarcoding shows strong preference for Cichorioideae in the specialist bee Osmia leaiana. Foraging patterns are driven by local flower abundance and nearby semi-natural grasslands. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @basicapplecol.bsky.social

#presse 🌱 EU-Förderung für Agrarforschung: Dr. Elena Velado-Alonso (@uni-goettingen.de; @funcagroeco.bsky.social groeco.bsky.social ) erhält ein Marie-Skłodowska-Curie-Stipendium für METAGROLAND. 🔗Zur Pressemitteilung: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html...

📢 Upcoming #EcologySeminar! Dr. Alina Twerski will give a talk about grasslands’ multifunctionality and it's restoration 🌾 📅 Wed 4. Feb at 10:15 AM 📩 DM for webinar link @hsanhalt.bsky.social @agrarunigoe.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de

Reminder 📣 submit your abstract for a talk or poster by February 15th and register to secure early bird price by April 30th for the 8th European Congress of Conservation Biology! See you in Leiden, the Netherlands 6 - 10 July 2026! More at eccb26leiden.eu/parallel-ses...

📢 Join our #EcologySeminar! Lucia Hoffmann shares fresh insights from #ProjectKOOPERATIV on how farmers view transaction costs in cooperative agri-environment-climate measures 🌾🤝 📅 Wed 28.Jan at 10:15 AM 📩 DM for webinar link @agrarunigoe.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de

📢 Join our #EcologySeminar! Dr. Giacomo Assandri will answer the question "Why eating Parmesan can support biodiversity". Curious? 📅 Wed 21.Jan. at 10:15 AM 📩 DM for webinar link @agrarunigoe.bsky.social

📢 Join our #EcologySeminar! Dr. Federico Riva will give a talk about why appreciating biodiversity change across scales is essential for optimizing conservation and environmental decisions 📅 Wed 14. Jan at 10:15 AM 📩 DM for webinar link @agrarunigoe.bsky.social

📢 Upcoming #EcologySeminar! Lisa Prudnikow will explore how landscape diversity, orchard management & pollen diets shape the health of Osmia bees in apple orchards🍎🐝 📅 Wed 7. Jan at 10:15 AM 📩 DM for webinar link @hsmw.bsky.social

Great talk by Lisa Prudnikow at #BES Annual Meeting Reproductive success of mason bees is higher at orchard edges, while management and landscape factors seem to have little effect so far 🍎 Next up: cascading effects of pollen diet and gut microbiome! www.uni-goettingen.de/en/685181.html @dfg.de

Calcareous grassland #restoration 🐦👩‍🌾🐝 Presenting InterRest results at #BES Annual Meeting Impressive to see what we’ve achieved: linking habitat quality, agricultural landscapes, pollinators, birds, predation functions and people in grassland restoration. Thanks to the great InterRest team 💚

📢 Join our #EcologySeminar! Dr. Gabriella Bishop will focus on pollinator conservation across space and time 📅 Wed 17.Dec at 10:15 AM 📩 DM for webinar link @agrarunigoe.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de

🎉 Congratulations to Kathrin Czechofsky on successfully defending her doctoral thesis! 🥳 Well done - an incredible achievement. It was great to have you in the lab, and we will miss your energy, dedication, openness, and friendliness. We wish you all the best for the next stage of your life! 💚

📢 Upcoming #EcologySeminar! Kyra Zembold will share novel insights from #ProjectKOOPERATIV on how landscape diversity + flower fields togehter effect natural pest control at the landscape scale. 📅 Wed 10.Dec. at 10:15 AM 📩 DM for webinar link @agrarunigoe.bsky.social

First door of our lab Advent calendar opened! 🎄 A cozy start into December — small surprises, big smiles, and the great team to share it with. 🎁 ✨🕯️ #AdventCalendar #LabLife #DecemberJoy“

📢 Join our #EcologySeminar this week! Prof. Dr. Teja Tscharntke will share new insights on biodiversity-friendly farming without yield loss. 📅 Wed 3. Dec. at 10:15 AM 📩 DM for webinar link @agrarunigoe.bsky.social @teja-tscharntke.bsky.social

The joint meeting of NSO and GFÖ, September 2026, Odense, Denmark (for which I'm leading the science programming group) is now open for workshop and thematic session proposals! Please share. Details here: nordicsocietyoikos.glueup.com/event/nordic...

📢 Join our #EcologySeminar! Dr. Rene Heim will deep dive into interdisciplinary remote sensing and new ways to understand plant stress - from Leaf to Landscape 🌿🔭 📅 Wed 26. Nov at 10:15 AM 📩 DM for webinar link @agrarunigoe.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de

Award ceremony for outstanding courses at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences Ricarda Koch and Marco Ferrante offered diverse courses on the ecology of agricultural landscapes - their dedication was highly appreciated by the students. Congratulations to both of them! 👏 @agrarunigoe.bsky.social

📢 Join us #EcologySeminar! Qian Zhang will will share new #ProjectKOOPERATIV insights, on how flower areas enrich ground-dwelling arthropod diversity and ecosystem services. 📅 Wed 19.11. at 10:15 AM 📩 DM for webinar link @agrarunigoe.bsky.social www.uni-goettingen.de/en/628701.html

📢 Join us #EcologySeminar! Jule Huber will share novel results from #ProjectKOOPERATIV How collaboration at the landscape scale can drive conservation through shared motivations, relational values and transformative change. 📅 Wed 12.11. at 10:15 AM 📩 DM for webinar link @agrarunigoe.bsky.social

📢Upcoming #EcologySeminar Reut Vardi will focus on digital #BiodiversityConservation and the question What online platforms reveal about people and nature? 📅 Join us Wed (05.11.) at 10:15 AM 📩 DM for webinar link! @stedmundhall.bsky.social @agrarunigoe.bsky.social @unigoettingen.bsky.social

Only few days left to apply for the full professorship in Functional Ecology at @unituebingen.bsky.social. We are looking for a female colleague to join our institute. Come and join us! Lots of opportunities for collaboration in a beautiful work place!

📢Upcoming #EcologySeminar Marlene Wätzold will start this winter semester with a talk on How Sustainable are Sustainability Certifications? Evidence from Rwanda's Coffee and Ghana's Cocoa Sectors 📅 Wed 27.10.25 10:15 AM 📩 DM for webinar link! @agrarunigoe.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de

📢 The new programme for our Ecology Seminar is out! It features a diverse lineup of early career researchers sharing insights on #Agroecology every week 🐝🚜🐦 🗓️ Wednesdays at 10:15 CET 📧 DM for webinar link! www.uni-goettingen.de/en/ecology+s... @agrarunigoe.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de

🎉 Great team success! New publication just came out — the result of inspiring group discussions led by @teja-tscharntke.bsky.social It's fantastic to have such a collaborative spirit in the lab! Biodiversity conservation needs mix of measures and collaboration www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We need much more semi-natural habitat (6-37%, depending on species group) in agricultural landscapes to effectively conserve pollinators. Large collaborative synthesis study looking at 59 studies in 1250 landscapes from 19 countries now published in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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

📣New publication ! In agricultural landscapes, spontaneous grass margins can serve as refuges for spider species that cannot tolerate crop field conditions and that possess unique morphological or behavioral traits. @funecology.bsky.social @agrarunigoe.bsky.social 👉🏼 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Check out the new publication by Marco Ferrante and Gábor L. Lövei on biodiversity functions that can lead to ecosystem services and disservices. @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de @agrarunigoe.bsky.social

📖Published📖 In this review paper, Ferrante and Lövei propose a standardised set of methods to monitor ecosystem functions that underpin ecosystem services and disservices 🌱 🌍 🧪 Read the article here 👇 buff.ly/2rAeHgq

📣 New Publication! Biodiversity supports functions that drive ecosystem services and disservices. Measuring these functions is key to evaluating conservation strategies and land use change. We present methods to quantify ecosystem functions using the sentinel approach: doi.org/10.1111/2041...

Along several routes you can explore: 🌼blooming areas of the KOOPERATIV project 🚜local farms and agricultural practices 🦌fascinating insights into crafts, nature & conservation ☕delicious offers from local gastronomy

This day is made possible thanks to the strong engagement of our regional partners in agriculture, crafts & nature protection – working hand in hand for a vibrant and sustainable countryside. 💚 #AgriEnvironmental #CoDesign #CoCreation #Participation @funcagroeco.bsky.social

🌼Tour de Flur in Northeim! On September 14, 2025 (10 AM – 4 PM), we invite you to join our community #HikingDay, together with many dedicated local partners. Here you find the routes: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/628701.html #ProjectKOOPERATIV @agrarunigoe.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de

📣 Die 2. Tour de Flur des Projekts KOOPERATIV startet am Sonntag, den 14.09.25 🥾 Die Wanderrouten führen entlang unserer Blühflächen und geben Einblicke in landwirtschaftliche Betriebe. Zudem gibt es spannende Mitmachaktionen und viele Infos 🚜🌻🐝 www.uni-goettingen.de/de/628701.html

Back to the office after a great time at the GFÖ conference! We shared talks & posters on bee health, ground-nesting, grassland #Restoration, bird #Conservation, combinations of landscape-scale conservation measures, and the establishment of perennial flower fields as #AECM. @gfoesoc.bsky.social

📣 New Publication! Drought stress impairs crop performance and pollinator attraction. Intercropping shows promise for mitigating impacts and sustaining yields under climate change. 👉🏼https://doi.org/10.1007/s11829-025-10170-0 @uni-goettingen.de @agrarunigoe.bsky.social

📣 New Publication! Our meta-analysis highlights the value of flower areas🌼 in supporting ground-active predators 🪲🕷️and offers practical guidance on how to design them for greater effectiveness 📊 👉🏼 doi.org/10.1111/1365... @uni-goettingen.de @agrarunigoe.bsky.social @jappliedecology.bsky.social

📝 Paper alert: Our study shows how non-productive agri-environmental schemes (AES) boost pollen diversity for bumblebees in fragmented, dry grasslands. doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... #Pollinators #Biodiversity #Agroecology #Metabarcoding #ConservationScience @uni-goettingen.de @agrarunigoe.bsky.social

New study: Farmers join collaborative AECMs for more than just money. 🌱 Insights from 36 interviews show diverse motivations, key collaborative features and a need for stronger early coordination. @uni-goettingen.de @agrarunigoe.bsky.social 📝 doi.org/10.1016/j.jr...