New paper out 🌱📄: More light in canopy gaps 🌤️ does not offset the loss of tree diversity caused by roe deer browsing 🦌. In paired exclosure experiments, roe deer browsing cut tree diversity by half🌳. Read it here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Deer browsing limits forest diversity – even in the light. New study in @jappliedecology.bsky.social by Würzburg ecologists and others: Even sunny canopy gaps cannot offset the impact of roe deer on forest regeneration. 🦌🌳☀️ ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...

Our #BETAFOR PhDs had an amazing time presenting their research at last week’s #gfoe2025 at @uni-wuerzburg.de! 🌟 Full of fresh ideas and inspiring discussions, it’s back to daily life. 💻✨ @claudiki.bsky.social @piambr.bsky.social @johannaasch.bsky.social @juliarothacher.bsky.social

Anne Chao and @piambr.bsky.social, the 100% perfect dialogue duo at #gfoe2025! ✨ Thank you for sharing statistical insights on sample coverage and it's standardization in the first @gfoesoc.bsky.social keynote session using #BETAFOR data.🌳🌱 @uni-wuerzburg.de @cofeuniwue.bsky.social

Interesting approach for the first keynote at the GfÖ, where Pia Bradler walks the audience through her PhD biodiversity data, together with Anne Chao. Creative, useful, interesting, and quite educational!

@piambr.bsky.social & Anne Chao presenting a stats -ecology dialogue about forest structural dynamics #gfoe2025 Nice way of presenting imo An interesting discussion around how to get to a complete species sample.

Anne Chao: "Data can't tell you everything! Your data are just not sufficient." #gfoe2025

Some shots from my talk at the #gfoe2025 on forest heterogeneity and hoverfly diversity 🪰🌲 If you’d like to hear more about the topic - and with a slightly less shaky voice than on stage - I’m always happy to chat during the conference! @gfoesoc.bsky.social

Ein kürzlich erschienener Fernsehbeitrag gibt Rückblicke auf das Anlegen unserer Experimentierflächen im Uniwald 🌳🍁 @uni-wuerzburg.de, Einblicke in die spannende Methodenvielfalt, die in unserem Projekt zum Einsatz kommt 🎤🎵📸🔬 und beleuchtet erste Ergebnisse. 🦉🐞🐝🦌 #BETAFOR #biodiversity

New paper out! 📃 Enhanced structural complexity in forests has limited effects on #soil abiotic properties, but #microbial activity and biomass respond site-specifically. Soil moisture and understory growth link to microbial functions. 💧🧫🌳🍁 Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Experimental research @betafor.bsky.social finds that canopy gaps with deadwood boost insect diversity by supporting rare phylogenetic lineages 🧪 Natural dynamics and targeted management can help conserve them and their ecosystem functions 🌳 🌏 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Canopy disturbances affect insect diversity via increased light availability and deadwood, but the effects of these two drivers on taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity differ. New insights from a replicated experiment, led by @juliarothacher.bsky.social @betafor.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Fresh #beetle delivery from the Bavarian Forest! 🍁🪲 In the next days we will start a lab #experiment to find out if and how #temperature alters their stress levels🌡😬 Taken together with field data this might help us understand effects of microclimate on #forestbiodiversity @betafor.bsky.social

Have you ever wondered what happens when you put 400g of cow dung in the Bavarian Forest? - A feast! 🪲🪲 @betafor.bsky.social

Had fun presenting my poster about the effects of climate and forest structure on dung beetles at #EGU2025. Thanks to everyone in the Forest Floor session for showing so much interest in my somewhat different research topic! 🌲🪲 @betafor.bsky.social

Find us at #EGU25, where our PhD student @johannaasch.bsky.social of @betafor.bsky.social will present her research on how climate and forest structure shape forest dung beetle communities 🌲🪲 ➡️ meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-...

New #soundscape study out: We investigated the effect of experimental forest manipulation @betafor.bsky.social on four #acousic indices. 🌳🍁 Manipulation diversified the soundscapes with distinct differences between open and closed #canopy patches. Deadwood however only played a minor role 🧪🌍🐛🐦‍⬛