Main conclusion: Effective conservation must integrate landscape restoration and social levers 1. local management boosts plant and bee richness 2. landscape-scale habitat connectivity strengthens species diversity and ecosystem functions 3. farmers’ motivation matters @biodiversa.eu

Congratulations on your very successful PhD defence! 🎉 Thank you for all your contributions to the lab from managing our social media to organizing outreach events and promoting science communication. 🐝 I’m truly grateful for everything you’ve done! All the best! 💚

It is an honour and pleasure to have Teja presenting at our Ecology Seminar this week. I greatly appreciate his consistent mentorship and look forward to building on the creative team spirit of the Agroecology group with him. Thanks so much, Teja! 💚 The Festschrift: www.openagrar.de/receive/open...

I am very excited to announce that a fully funded PhD position is available in my group. Topic: Synergistic coevolution in mono-specific and multi-species microbial consortia Please RT or forward this information to interested candidates. Deadline: 11.01.26 More info: shorturl.at/f1TuF

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...

🎉 Congratulations on this great achievement! The students’ feedback says it all: The excursions, research-oriented exercises, and diverse applied topics were perceived as highly inspiring, practical, and relevant to their training. Keep up the great work! 🚀 @agrarunigoe.bsky.social

Don’t miss the related article: a Europe-wide meta-analysis led by Qian on how to optimize flower-area design to support ground-active predators. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @jappliedecology.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

📢Don’t miss this opportunity to gain insights into AI-powered #biodiversity research shaping the future of eco-informatics and #conservation! We’re excited to welcome outstanding international speakers who will present and actively engage in our workshops. www.biointakt.de/en/springsch...

We’re on board! In our team meeting, we already discussed comments and suggestions on the EU Nature Restoration Law, drawing on the different perspectives within the group 🚜🐝👩‍🌾 Led by @velado.bsky.social #Teamwork #Research #NatureRestorationLaw #EU

🎉 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...

📰Published📰 Spiders that inhabit agricultural landscapes benefit from diverse habitat types🕷️ buff.ly/cEydJJH 🧪🌍

Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone," says PIK director Johan Rockström presenting the key findings of the Planetary Health Check 2025 today. #PlanetaryBoundaries ➡️ www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

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/...

Hiking along the villages and flower fields of the #ProjectKOOPERATIV! With perfect weather, diverse landscapes and lively stands from regional partners, the atmosphere was truly inspiring. www.uni-goettingen.de/de/628701.html #Landvolk #DeutscherImkerbund #Northeim

🥾 Hiking along the villages and flower fields of the #ProjectOOPERATIV! With perfect weather, diverse landscapes and lively stands from regional partners, the atmosphere was truly inspiring. www.uni-goettingen.de/de/628701.html #Landvolk #DeutscherImkerbund #Northeim

Hiking along the villages and flower fields of the #ProjectKOOPERATIV! With perfect weather, diverse landscapes and lively stands from regional partners, the atmosphere was truly inspiring. www.uni-goettingen.de/de/628701.html #Northeim #Landvolk #DeutscherImkerbund

🌼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

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

Huge congrats to Qian Zhang on finishing the first chapter of her dissertation and publishing a major study! Big milestones — well done! 🥳 #PhDJourney

Landscape-scale conservation can mitigate negative effects of habitat fragmentation. doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... #Pollinators #Biodiversity #Agroecology #Bumblebees #Metabarcoding #ConservationScience @uni-goettingen.de @agrarunigoe.bsky.social

Using pollen metabarcoding, we found that B. lapidarius and B. pascuorum forage across the landscape, relying particularly on flowers in non-productive AES within small grassland fragments. 🌼 doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... @uni-goettingen.de @agrarunigoe.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

Great excursion to Frau Holle Land! 🌿🐑🦋 Traditional sheep grazing keeps rare dry grasslands alive — we even spotted the thyme blue butterfly (Phengaris arion) and the bee orchid (Ophrys apifera). Plus, rare segetal flora like Venus’s comb and tasty orchard snacks along the way.

Many thanks to the fantastic team for making our outreach activity a great success! Your creativity, energy, and dedication turned complex scientific topics into fun and engaging experiences for everyone who visited.

Bei uns gibt es nicht nur Fakten zu #Bienen und #Blühmischungen - wir simulieren Verluste in Nahrungsnetzen und machen ein #CitizenScience Knetraupenexperiment 🐛🐛🐛 #ndwgoe 🧪 @funcagroeco.bsky.social @agrarunigoe.bsky.social

More isn’t always better. Landscape-scale measures that offer both nesting habitats and floral resources support bees more than those boosting only flowers. We show empirical evidence of synergistic and antagonistic effects of organic farming, flower fields, and natural habitats.

Well done! Congratulations to this gereat and comprehnsive landsape-scale study 🥳

Vegetation monitoring has started in our perennial flower fields: After 2 years, our 100% native #wildflower mix is still thriving 🌿🌼🐝 — we recorded many sown and wild plant species, with only few problematic weeds or grasses. #ProjectKooperativ #NextCAP 🚜 www.uni-goettingen.de/en/628701.html

It’s a privilege to teach #ResourceManagement in landscapes as rich as the Bratental near Göttingen. Thanks to conservation authorities and @bsggoettingen.bsky.social, these unique habitats are being successfully preserved and managed.

pretix.eu/MUEH/viegoe/ Insektensterben meets Theater, in Göttingen @bsggoettingen.bsky.social @consbiogoe.bsky.social @svenbradler.bsky.social @catrinwestphal.bsky.social @funcagroeco.bsky.social @cblei.bsky.social @herbertnickel.bsky.social @forumwissen.bsky.social @fminifera.bsky.social

Everyone welcome: register now for inspiring online talks in the run up to #WoCaNet2025: uni-goettingen.de/de/203891.html #ResearchLeaders in #Industry #Management #Publishing #Academia Join #Wocanet: Women’s Careers & Networks 2025 on June 4-5 #StopTheLeakyPipeline #WomenInSTEM #Networking

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.

🥳 We are celebrating our 5th anniversary - the Ecology Seminar went online with the first Covid lockdown - in the summer semester 2020. Since then, we have had many international speakers and guests from all over the world! Thank you very much for your interest and the many exciting discussions.

Die "Salamanderpest" (Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans, kurz Bsal) ist eine Pilzerkrankung, die insbesondere für Feuersalamander eine dramatische Gefahr darstellt.☠️ In Göttingen gibt es Bsal noch nicht, aber er rückt näher. Kranke Tiere können gemeldet werden: [email protected]

Day 3: Focus & Reflection Today, we dived deep into our own manuscripts ✍️📖 and analyses 📊, making great progress! Had two inspiring workshops — one on AI in science 🤖🔬 and another on Flops, Failures & Fumbles in academia 🤯🎭. A day of learning, reflection, and growth! 🌟 #WritingRetreat

Day 2: Writing, Nature & Learning We had a productive work session, enjoyed a beautiful walk around the Edersee 🌊🌿, and wrapped up with an insightful text mining workshop 💻📊 by @velado.bsky.social. Now, time for a fun joint activity with the whole group! 🎉🙌 #WritingRetreat

🌸 FuncAgroEco on TOUR Day 1: Group Workshop We’re kicking off our group writing retreat-workshop with plenty of ☀️ sunshine and a brief 📝 meeting on our joint 📖 manuscript. Excited for inspiring days ahead, filled with ✍️ focused work and great company. Let’s make the most of it! 🌻👩‍💻🐝💡✨

#Conservation and #restoration of #grasslands: we identified challenges and pathways to maintain species-rich, semi-natural grasslands in Europe. On key finding is the need to acknowledge their essential role for resilient agricultural landscapes. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Interested in #Biodiversity, #EcosystemServices and #Sustainable #Agriculture? We offer a postdoctoral researcher position on ecological synthesis in our lab🧪 @funcagroeco.bsky.social

We offer a doctoral researcher position in our lab @funcagroeco.bsky.social

Working together for more #natureconservation: Researchers of our @funcagroeco.bsky.social have identified how to facilitate successful agricultural-environmental collaboration at landscape level. Their key factors: buff.ly/3EDa27a; doi.org/n7dp Project leader: @catrinwestphal.bsky.social

Gemeinsam für mehr #Naturschutz: Das Projekt "KOOPERATIV" unserer @funcagroeco.bsky.social zeigt, wie die Zusammenarbeit von landwirtschaftlichen Betrieben mit u. a. der #Politik den #Artenschutz fördert: https://buff.ly/4b5Qk04 ; https://doi.org/n7dp Projektleitung: @catrinwestphal.bsky.social

📣New study: Social levers for agri-environmental collaboration: Bridging structures, regional facilitators & addressing expectations of actors support #collaborative initiatives in #agriculture besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @agrarunigoe.bsky.social #ProjectKOOPERATIV #bpbv

🌾 Introducing the GfÖ Working Group: Agroecology! We connect researchers, policymakers, #land-users, and food producers to foster #sustainable land-use systems to bridge science & agricultural practice while enhancing #biodiversity & #ecosystem functions. 📧 Join us: [email protected]

📢Join our team: We’re hiring a #Postdoctoral #Researcher to work on #acoustic #monitoring of insects for #biodiversity #conservation in agricultural landscapes! Aim: Development and validation of an AI-based solution for insect monitoring across diverse habitats. Please share widely! #JobAlert

📣 New global synthesis on agricultural and urban land use effects on the taxonomic and phylogenetic α-, β-, and γ-diversity of bees, highlighting the large-scale declines of bee diversity due to agricultural expansion

Good morning, it is great to see that starting the day with coffee is healthy www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ja...

New study: #CropDiversification can help pollinators without taking land out of agricultural production, but only some #pollinator species may benefit. We highlight mechanisms on the spatial and temporal #diversity of crops. Led by Thijs Fijen @w-u-r.bsky.social

Starkes Signal!! Über 60 dt. Hochschulen & Forschungsinstitutionen haben heute ihren Ausstieg bei X bekanntgegeben, s.u. #eXit X sei nicht mehr vereinbar mit ihren Grundwerten: „Weltoffenheit, wissenschaftliche Integrität, Transparenz und demokratischer Diskurs.“ Liste der Beteiligten hier: