⭐️Shortlisted for the 2025 Haldane Prize!⭐️ Lifeng Wang investigated how typhoon-generated green litter alters multi-element release during decomposition🌀 buff.ly/Gej47XJ 🧪🌍️

A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution shows the long-term changes in tree species diversity across tropical forests in the Andes and Amazon. go.nature.com/45FPc1M 🌍 🧪

All Reforestation Methods Can Support Tropical Tree Diversity Recovery, but Drivers and Species Composition Vary 🔗 buff.ly/VB4ptsy

🪪📐Species identity and spatial scale drive context‑dependent tree diversity effects in a Finnish forest experiment vist.ly/4sut5 #DBH #NeedleTraits #NorwaySpruce #ScotsPine #SpeciesDiversity #TreeDivNet

Over four decades, tree richness across the Andes and Amazon has shifted unevenly. Some regions are losing species while others, like the northern Andes, are gaining. Researchers say precipitation and forest fragmentation drive the trend, and limiting deforestation could help protect diversity.

Insects living in the lowland tropics have evolved to deal with brutal heat. But many of them are close to their limit, according to a massive study that assessed the heat tolerance of hundreds of species. https://scim.ag/406Y5yh

‪A few more memories from #ECTE2026 in Passau! 🌍🌿 We had a great time connecting with the tropical ecology community. It was great to see so many early-career researchers presenting their work! Many thanks to the organizers of the fantastic conference! 📸© Ina Voshage @soctropecol.bsky.social

Big effort, exciting results - our paper on the constraints of thermal limits in tropical insects is now out in @nature.com! 🦋🐝🪰🪲🦗 @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

New nutrients&roots paper out! 🌳🌲🧪 Douglas fir and beech saplings partition ammonium vs. nitrate under competition, enabling complementary N use and their coexistence in mixed stands. @mrakklara.bsky.social @bmwildermuth.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1... #forestecol

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Our time to shine 🌻 #ECTE2026 @soctropecol.bsky.social

Excited to present my research at #ECTE2026. If you're interested in how biodiversity-ecosystem functioning #BEF relationships can change over the course of a decade, come to HS5 at 14:30 on Thursday! 🌿🐝🕙 @soctropecol.bsky.social @unipassauresearch.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de @dfg.de

Very interesting keynote this morning on Earth Observation of biodiversity and carbon by Viola Heinrich at #ECTE2026. Quite tricky to link field records and earth observations 🤝

Looking forward to showcase some of my work and to meet like-minded ecologists from all over 🌿🐝🐜

Next week the annual meeting of the Society of Tropcical Ecology @soctropecol.bsky.social takes place at @unipassauresearch.bsky.social 😀 We are there with 6 exciting talks/posters. Today mock talks took place at @uni-freiburg.de Please join us for feedback next week 🙏

Möllmann, @eckartstolle.bsky.social et al. report the first genome assembly for the European orchard bee and investigate its epigenomic architecture to find evidence for the limited role of methylation in gene regulation in Hymenopterans. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf224 #genome #evolution

🌳 PhD Position in Forest Genetics @uni-freiburg.de Join the BeGenDiv project to study genetic diversity of ~30 tree & shrub species across Germany’s Biodiversity Exploratories. 🧬 Fieldwork, lab work, bioinformatics & interdisciplinary collaboration More info: uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

Forest biodiversity experiments test how tree species richness improves the productivity & functioning of forests. After 30 years, there are now 45 experiments worldwide! A new synthesis on 30 years of research: Liu et al. 2026: doi.org/10.1038/s443... #TreeDivNet #BEF-China #MultiTroph

Three years ago, we began a Sino-German journey to understand how tree diversity influences the diversity and interactions of higher trophic organisms in subtropical China. Our ideas and concepts are now published in a new article! doi.org/10.3897/rio.... #multitroph #BEF-China #biodiversity

💪 Increasing plant diversity in agricultural grasslands boosts yields, reducing reliance on fertilizer phys.org/news/2025-12... #agriculture #plants #diversity #food #farming #grasslands #resources #environment #goodnews

New Article: "Decadal-scale observations are key to detecting the stabilizing effects of plant diversity in natural ecosystems" rdcu.be/eYixI Phylogenetic diversity is the key driver of long-term stability, whereas plant height shapes short-term productivity dynamics.

Happy to see this @econovoau.bsky.social paper out in the new issue of Journal of Animal Ecology - higher herbivore activity is linked to greater herb diversity & plant functional redundancy besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #ECONOVO #Biodiversity #savanna #SouthAfrica #Rewilding

🐝 New research finds the mechanism by which tree species richness influences bee diversity—taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional—through alterations in the microenvironmental conditions in the understory. 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/cHvVYER

The last chapter from PhD thesis by Juri Felix (co-supervised with @philstevenson.bsky.social) is now out in @oikosjournal.bsky.social! The study explores the effects of tree species identity and spatial scale on tree diversity effects #TreeDivNet nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🌳Interested in doing a PhD within the Excellence Cluster Future Forests @uni-freiburg.de?🌲 We are hiring a doctoral researcher for the project "Stand Density Management for #Forest Adaptation to #Drought“ Application link: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004... Website: uni-freiburg.de/futureforest...

Just before the Xmas break🎉 In @journalofecology.bsky.social and led by Anvar Sanaei, we provide insight into #trait coordination across 90 common and future European #tree species👇 doi.org/10.1111/1365... @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social @unileipzig.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de

Seed dispersal by 🦜🦇 underpins rainforest recovery. We want to understand more about its timing + traits driving recovery through obs, exp + genomic data. Ready to join the @reassemblynet.bsky.social team working in Ecuadorian Chocó? Pls apply to our 4-yr PhD position @sgn.one: tinyurl.com/2pkryc99

New study on arthropod declines @natecoevo.nature.com 🪲 In two time series @jena-experiment.bsky.social & @bexplo.bsky.social we show how community (dis)assembly underpins local biomass declines. It mostly boils down to species loss, with identity losing relevance. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What is the effect of increasing disturbances in C European forests on insect diversity, and how does salvage logging modulate it? We found an overall positive response for both cleared and uncleared sites, with a stronger signal for taxonomic vs phylogenetic diversity doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

#Agriculture 💘 wild #pollinators = The perfect match! Last week we brought farmers, advisors, researchers, and land managers together to share the results from the #EUproject @restpoll.bsky.social #LivingLabs across Catalonia.

New study out in Ecology Letters 🌱🐑! Using long-term Åland monitoring data, we found that herbivory increases plant diversity across scales and flips the diversity–area relationship: a positive relationship is found in grazed sites while a negative one in ungrazed sites. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ele....

New OA #TreeDivNet paper is out in @geoderma.bsky.social and it is focussed on effects of tree species richness on topsoil carbon and fungal diversity doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

iDiv and @unihalle.bsky.social are hiring!📣 New job offer for a technical assistant (full time) at the lab of @jon-chase03.bsky.social - check it out and apply by 27 Nov! www.idiv.de/career/job-o...

Our November Issue is now live: www.nature.com/natecolevol/... Featuring research on 🧪 🦆Threats to migratory shorebirds 🌍Phosphorus constraints on global photosynthesis 🦠Evolution of the meerkat MHC Cover shows a larva of an emperor moth, from Li et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The 🏡 @ipbes.net podcast #NatureInsight is back for Season 5! 🎙️ In Episode 1, Brit Garner and @rspaull.bsky.social talk to Victor Rault and Prof. Alex Antonelli about Charles Darwin and his epic 5-year voyage that still continues to inform and inspire people. 🌍 🎧🧪 natureinsight.podbean.com

Pollinators and politics in China: jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/11/14/p... #China #Bees #Pollinators #Biodiversity

Really nice paper from @tiff-ki.bsky.social & co. shows no overall decline in butterfly species richness in Sulawesi over 166 yrs, but changing communities with endemics & forest specialists declining. Short-term trends unreliable measures of long term. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... 🌏

Why are Procellariiform seabirds most diverse in the Southern Hemisphere? Our study found that wind patterns and time since evolutionary origin best explain the extratropical peak in breeding species richness of these remarkable seabirds. 🐦💨 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In our new article led by Gabriele Midolo, published in Ecology Letters, we show that plant species richness in European plant communities generally decreased between the 1960s and 1980s. However, since the 1990s, this trend seems to have stopped or even reversed. dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....

How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health In #Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Neue Ausgabe des Konfuzius Magazins mit einem Artikel über TreeDì: "Wald und Waldforschung in China" ab Seite 8. www.konfuziusinstitut-leipzig.de/konfuzius-in...

“Native #plant diversity was not a strong predictor of invasive plants’ effects. However, invasive species’ residence time modified their impacts, with native plant diversity decreasing more the longer the invasive species was present,” writes Editor Bianca Lopez doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Inspiring joint conference of @treedi.bsky.social and @multitroph.bsky.social at @idiv-research.bsky.social, with 20 presentations by doctoral researchers, 7 workshops, 5 international keynote speakers, 1 excursion and 1 guided city tour.

Tomorrow (30th) at 11am CEST, Clara Thoma from agroforst.de will talk about creating resilient landscapes through agroforestry🌳🪱🌱 Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Seminar series Forest Ecology: Science&Practice www.uni-goettingen.de/de/701005.html #agroforestry

Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾

#ResistanceEarth Nature drives more than half of global GDP — about $58 trillion — but companies had no framework for addressing biodiversity risks. The new ISO 17298 standard provides a comprehensive approach for embedding biodiversity into company decision-making. www.forbes.com/sites/felici...

For thousands of years, Indigenous people stewarded their forests with fire. Burns encourage more variation in the forest landscape, which leads to greater biodiversity — but there are hard limits.

New paper from our JenaTron facility: Bröcher et al. show that reciprocal effects between plants and invertebrate herbivores vary with plant species richness, plant history and soil history. Herbivores want nutritious plants with soil history, while they reduce plant height in monocultures 🐛🌱

🦣 New paper: Megafauna with large size & flat-footedness + less related to tropical African/Asian fauna were more likely to go extinct in recent prehistory; consistent w direct hunting including pre-sapiens human filtering👣👉 doi.org/10.1111/geb.... #Megafauna #Extinction #TraitEcology #Palaeoecology

@bgauzens.bsky.social gave a very nice introduction into food web theory, from its origins until today! Covering Euler, social and railway networks, and many more. Fascinating!