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!

Dominique Gravel from University of Sherbrooke explained how to predict the effect of species loss on ecosystem functioning in complex systems. #redundancy vs #complementarity. What a pity, he could not be with us in person!

Today at @idiv-research.bsky.social Feilong Ji showed responses of tree diversity on pre-disersal seed redation for several tree species in BEF-China - great progress 😊

Haikuo Zhang convinced us: Microbes are key! They mobilize P and P mobilization increases with tree diversity.

Georg Albert, our synthesis postdoc, shiws how species interactions shape (multi) functions in the BEF-China experiment.

Joint conference between @treedi.bsky.social and @multitroph.bsky.social has begun in Leipzig! Good way to start my last year of PhD 🕷🐛🐝🌿

The saprophytic insects of BEF China and how this group is affected by tree species loss. Great work of our PhD student Matteo Dadda.

Joshua Spitz shows the importance of canopy cover for ant-nutrient networks 🐜🐜🐜.

Our MSc student Kai Zhang shows us influences of lignin with herbivore functional diversity 🐛 👍

@entomassi.bsky.social explains how tree diversity influences parasitism of bees and wasps using long-term trap-nesting data in BEF China.

Mareike Mittag showed that the loss of redundant species reduces herbivory more strongly than the loss of distict species.

Excellent keynote talk by Yi Li showing eg that multidiversity is more important in forests than in grasslands @treedi.bsky.social

Helge Bruelheide @idiv-research.bsky.social uses Confucius show how learning wisdom.

We are just starting our @treedi.bsky.social and #MultiTroph joint conference. 😊. Stay turned 🎄🌲🌳🎄🌳🌲

The start of a hopefully successful week of collaboration and research exchange 🔥 at our joint conference of #TreeDi 🌳and #MultiTroph 🐜🪲🕷 at the #idiv, Leipzig.

🗞️New study in @globalchangebio.bsky.social 🗞️ 🌳Diversity in resource use strategies promotes productivity across a global network of tree #diversity experiments?🌲 Read our new study led by Joel Jensen together with #TreeDivNet here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Hopping into #macromonday with this Monkey grasshopper nymph! Wishing all a good week filled with scientific reading and perhaps writing 📚🖋 Eumastacidae sp.

New #oak species described from China @nordicjbotany.bsky.social: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #trees #flora #newspecies

A comprehensive illustrated protocol for clearing, mounting, and imaging leaf venation networks 🌾🧪 bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Future Forests Excellence Cluster successful www.linkedin.com/pulse/future...

Forest clear-cuts support diverse moth fauna but lack common grassland species 🦋🌏 The absence of common grassland species suggests that clear-cuts cannot replace traditional open habitats & indicates the importance of conserving semi-natural grasslands 🌱🧪 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

The planet is changing—some of it is inevitable, but some of it is on us. 🔍 Researcher Jonathan Chase and podcast host Volker Hahn take on one of the biggest scientific challenges: distinguishing between detection (what’s changing) and attribution (why it’s changing) 📊 1/2

🎉Ab 1. Januar 2026 fördert die @dfg.de (#DFG) zwei #Exzellenzcluster der #UniFreiburg. Der bisherige #Exzellenzcluster @cibss.bsky.social wird weitere sieben Jahre fortgesetzt. Zudem startet der neue Exzellenzcluster #FutureForests. ufr.link/exzellenzclu...

"Wir haben einen fortlaufenden #Klimawandel, es wird ständig wärmer. Wir haben mehr Hitzewellen, wir haben mehr Dürrewellen." PIK-Forscherin Kirsten Thonicke via ZDF zur Waldbrandsaison in #Brandenburg. Deutschlandweit gibt es dort die meisten Waldbrände. www.zdf.de/nachrichten/...

Excited to share our new study published in JoVE! We explore how plant history and soil history influence the functioning of grassland ecosystems. Have a look! app.jove.com/v/67496/jena...

Das Senckenberg Biodiv Forschungszentrum hat eine Studie veröffentlicht zu den Auswirkungen von Kunstlicht! Wir haben dies zum Anlass genommen, die vielen Probleme die Tiere mit nächtlichem Kunstlichteinsatz haben zusammenzufassen! Inkl. Rechtslage! naturnacht-fulda-rhoen.de/2025/03/18/l...

While 'flashy' papers are great, analyses are ephemeral. It's the data, its preservation and organization that will persist. Honored to be involved with this amazing team on what I think are some of the most important biodiversity data out there. BioTime v 2.0.

Spring time... to get busy! And these two Tetanocerini wasted no time. Named marsh flies, these insects live next to water bodies, and apparently the larvae are gastropod (slugs & snails) hunters/parasites?! More trophic interactions to study? @multitroph.bsky.social #macromonday

This position can also contribute to #Multitroph 😊

We are #hiring a lecturer and #researcher: - Teaching in ecology and nature conservation - Research on plant-pollinator interactions - Supervision of students - Contribution to our major collaborative projects Start 01.09.2025 Salary according to TV-L E13, 100% 🔗 uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

Gave a seminar about long-term bee and wasp temporal dynamics at @nmbern.bsky.social today. Good thing about collaborating with a curator? You get to marvel at the hidden entomology collection 😍😍😍

Taxonomists can be brutal... but just like many of the species they describe, they too are endangered: a decline that has been ongoing for decades www.nature.com/articles/43762 op.europa.eu/en/publicati...

🔎 Thinking about your submission for the 2025 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge? This grant programme calls for innovative tools that leverage biodiversity data from the GBIF network to advance open science, supporting research and policy. 👩‍🔬 ⭐ Submissions are due 7 Sept 2025 🔗www.gbif.org/news/7c...

🔵Blog🔵 @cpavloud.bsky.social, a data scientist and postdoctoral researcher at @embrc-eu.bsky.social gives an overview on eDNA reference libraries. 🔗https://ednaquaplan.com/blog/ #eDNA #Genetics #Biodiversity #Science

Our paper on unifying theory around biodiversity–consumer relationships (pathogens & herbivores) is now out in TREE! I hope it helps those navigating the forest of theories & hypotheses in this space to see more clearly 🤓 Check out @fletcher-h.bsky.social great summary of the paper here 👇

Biodiversity is shifting. Andy Gonzalez (@bio-diverse.bsky.social) of @mcgill.ca calls for better global data and warns against biased biodiversity studies. Hear his perspective on #InsideBiodiversity — episode coming May 1st! insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

🚨 #job 🚨: The Department of Forest Ecology and Management at the Faculty of Forest Sciences, SLU, is hiring a full-tenure Professor in silviculture with a focus on silvicultural systems, mainly in boreal forests. 🗺️ Umeå, Sweden 📅 Apply by: 29 April 2025 ➡️ www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

Michael Staab, our ant expert in #Multitroph, a @dfg.de research unit, is now a full professor in the nice environment of the @leuphana.bsky.social 🍁 🐛🐜🐜👍

Exciting news: Our Global Change Ecology Double Degree Program with Norway is OFFICIAL! #JMU #UiB. This programme provides advanced training in the fields of Ecology, Conservation Biology and Global Change Biology. We welcome all students in Bioscience to join us here in Würzburg and Bergen!✊

📤 The #LivingData2025 abstract submissions are open! 🌍 Join the global biodiversity data community in Bogotá 🇨🇴 on 21–24 Oct 2025 73 sessions await: pick yours and submit your abstracts. 🗓️ Submission deadline: 20 May 👉 Complete session list: www.livingdata2025.com/sessions.html