Paper out🎉Spatial scale matters for grassland invasions doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... ▶️Native richness limits invaders, but effect weakens at larger scales ▶️Old aliens respond to climate & disturbance🌧️ ▶️Neophytes & invasives thrive with roads, urban & croplands 🚗 #sCaleGrassDiv @idiv-research.bsky.social

New paper out led by Felix Nößler! We present #GrasslandTraitSim.jl, a process-based simulation model that links plant traits to ecosystem processes to predict how management and climate change shape productivity and composition of plant community in temperate grasslands doi.org/10.5194/gmd-...

Our new paper about scale dependency of phytoinvasions in grasslands based on data from Ukraine. Unfortunately some of our sampling plots still under Russian occupation

Quantifying similarity among ecological network is getting feasible to understand assembly processes from communities to species interactions. Upcoming publication using this for African mammal food webs is under revision now. Stay tuned! #Ecology #EcologicalNetwork #Macroecology #Biogeography

Are you researching the conservation, ecology or taxonomy of soil & litter invertebrates? Submit your paper to this Special Issue of NZ Journal of Zoology, edited by me, @carlosbarreto.bsky.social & @barnesecodiv.bsky.social! More info: www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/nzjz-so... #SoilBiodiversity 🧪

Last day of our Quantitative Plant Ecology in magnificent grasslands in #Gülpe Havelaue. Looking forward to be back next year #ÖkologischeStationGülpe with Felix May, @dariiaborovyk.bsky.social & our great students ‪ @fubcp.bsky.social, @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

#Gülpe has so many amazing spots and paths and even more plants and insects :) (The only thing better is going to be the Borscht on Saturday) @oksanabuzh.bsky.social @dariiaborovyk.bsky.social

Honored to receive the Best Paper Award from @jpecol.bsky.social 🏆 Our paper shows that multitrophic biodiversity enhances ecosystem functions, services, and ecological intensification in agriculture. Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...

Enjoying fieldwork in beautiful #Gülpe Havelaue, despite the rain 🌧️ Sampling nested plot series at multiple scales in dry grasslands 🌾 #GrassPlot #EDGG Geat teamwork with @dariiaborovyk.bsky.social & @charly-gha.bsky.social #FieldEcology #GrasslandScience

A trait-based model to describe plant community dynamics in managed #grasslands (GrasslandTraitSim.jl v1.0.0) by Felix Nößler, Thibault Moulin, Oksana Buzhdygan, Britta Tietjen, and Felix May doi.org/pfrn via @EgUsphere #PlantScience

Still glowing 5 days after Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften #lndw25 ✨ 🌿 Identifying plants 🐾 Matching mammal fingerprints 💻 Playing with computer models ✔️ Guessing plant diversity 🦊 Exploring animal habitats at game tables It was a blast – thanks for the curiosity and great conversations! 🧠🌼

Interested in #ecological #theory & live on this side of the world (Asia-Pacific)? Tune in to the @pop-bio.bsky.social seminar series! I'm speaking next on #biodiversity change, #food-web energetics and #ecosystem function. Register here: forms.gle/7vEiUQKJqeUL... 🌐🌏🍁🧪 @newzealandecology.bsky.social

Paper out in Biological Conservation 🎉 Traditional management maintains species-rich grassland 🌼 ▶️19% plant species dispersed via livestock feces💩 ▶️Grassland cleaning🧹 boosts diversity ▶️Low-intensity grazing🐄 & manuring💩 shape plant composition without reducing diversity 👩‍🌾 doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

Pathogens and herbivores differ in key life history characteristics, and we expected that these might drive differences in terminology, patterns, and hypotheses in the published literature.

Two PhD positions available at Wageningen University on resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across landscapes. Supervision will be by my great colleagues @iris-hordijk.bsky.social @amandataylor.bsky.social @dominic-martin.bsky.social @lucianachr.bsky.social and Merel Hofmeijer.

🚨Paper in @ecography.bsky.social led by @sbfiedler.de One-size-fits-all doesn't work in restoration! Trade-offs between carbon gain, water use & nitrogen use shift with abiotic context in Mediterranean-type ecosystems. Match plant traits to place! nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Paper just out: Jeltsch et al. The need for an individual-based global change ecology ibe.pensoft.net/articles.php...

Lets the sampling begin 🎉 Start of sampling in the #BlühenderCampus of the @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social to assess the effects of management intensity on biodiversity 🌼🐛🐞🐿️ & functioning ♻️ of campus green spaces. Stay tuned for more 😉 by @dariiaborovyk.bsky.social

Ich fühle mich auf jeden Fall seit 2017 wie eine Schallplatte mit Sprung: Qualität in der Standardisierung ist das Wichtigste, weil biologische Vielfalt sehr komplex ist… Reiht sich gut ein in den Artikel von @christianschwaegerl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy letztens www.faz.net/aktuell/wiss...

Here we share the press release on our paper and how our collaboration in #iDiv | #sDiv helped reunite Ukrainian scholars scattered across Europe www.idiv.de/grassland-bi... with @anyameadow.bsky.social, @dariiaborovyk.bsky.social, and #sCaleGrassDiv group

New key finding: Landscapes of fragmented habitat have lower diversity, at all scales, than do unfragmented landscapes. Habitat fragmentation does not compensate for the loss of local (alpha) diversity by increasing the diversity among fragments (beta diversity). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Paper out in Ecology and Evolution @ecol-evol.bsky.social Scale-Dependent Effects of Plant Diversity Drivers Across Different Grassland Habitats in Ukraine doi.org/10.1002/ece3... result of #sDiv synthesis working #sCaleGrassDiv in @iDiv www.idiv.de/research/sdi...

We have published our first article based on the results of the sCaleGrassDiv project supported by The German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Paper is out in Ecological Monographs @esajournals.bsky.social Plant diversity facets differentially affect energy dynamics in grasslands depending on trophic contexts doi.org/10.1002/ecm.... Research in @jena-experiment.bsky.social

New research in @esajournals.bsky.social Ecological Monographs led by @oksanabuzh.bsky.social Different facets of plant diversity differentially affect energy dynamics across trophic levels and below- or aboveground compartements. 🌱🍃🪲🪱 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

It was such a great week, thanks everyone ##BEassembly2025 #Biodiversityexploratories 🎉 Looking forward to ##BEassembly2026

Imagine finding out @vincentab.bsky.social @noahgreifer.bsky.social and @andrew.heiss.phd wrote a thing and it's open access 👀 Awesome paper about {marginaleffects} R/python packages in JOSS (which needs to join Bsky) www.jstatsoft.org/article/view...

🎉 PAPER OUT 🎉 doi.org/10.1111/aab.... We show that simultaneous application of aphid predator🐞and companion planting with garlic 🌱holds promise as a strategy for the natural control of cereal aphids on grain crops🚜 without generating related agroecosystem disservices