The Wordwide Dragonfly Association #WDA with its 2nd ever „Odonate of the month“ post, featuring the ecologist Rassim Khelifa. We are very happy about submissions, covering the rare and fascinating from across the globe. #odonates #damselflies #dragonflies #biodiversity

📢 Over 90% of local insect biomass decline in German grasslands is explained by species loss. “By the end of the study period, species loss, regardless of rarity or size, had become the main driver of decline”, says @bmwildermuth.bsky.social of #iDiv and @uni-jena.de www.idiv.de/majority-of-...

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....

✨Proudly presenting our first odonate of the month! ✨ With lots of fun facts & species info, we hope to bring these #ancient, important & beautiful, yet increasingly #threatened, creatures to broader attention. +feat. the enthusiasts behind #Odonatology #WDA #Dragonflies #Damselflies #Biodiversity

Our postdoc Roberto Novella Fernandez presented his new work on phenological variation of functional traits in butterflies. #gfoe2025 Check out his paper on dragonflies @natcomms.nature.com, also highlighting the phenological dimension of functional diversity variation www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#gfoe2025 has started, whohoo! Just enjoyed 2 great talks by @kampjohannes.bsky.social & @felixneff.bsky.social, highlighting the importance of considering longer time periods than just the last 2 decades to understand #biodiversity trends

I am proud @unimarburg.bsky.social is represented by so many talks at this years @gfoesoc.bsky.social meeting @uni-wuerzburg.de; Here some impressions from the talks of Tobias Müller, Andry Rakotomalala & Annabell Wagner. Things are really accelerating so make sure to not miss the upcoming!

Naja Heitmann (Univ Cottbus/Ger) on the effects of the salt driven algal bloom catastrophe in the Oder river on aquatic insect communities. #gfoe2025

Big thank you for the warm welcome @uni-wuerzburg.de @gfoesoc.bsky.social: OB Martin Heilig, GfOe president Christan Ammer and Jörg Müller, and all the organizers, including Christian Hof!

As we are getting ready for a certainly great Annual Meeting of the @gfoesoc.bsky.social hosted by @uni-wuerzburg.de, …. highlight the “Macroecology and Biogeography” Session on Wed./Thurs.: 3rd/4th, in your calendar!!! Great line up!

We’re excited to launch our Double Degree Master’s in Global Change Ecology – a unique collaboration between the University of Würzburg (Germany) and the University of Bergen (Norway)! Passionate about biodiversity🐛, ecosystems🗻, and today’s urgent environmental challenges🌍? This program is for you!

I used my plenary to showcase our achievements, particularly in ecophysiology kicking off a brilliant session with lots of contributions of LatAm colleagues. Thank you Cornelio and Melissa for inviting me and @daadworldwide.bsky.social + @consecol.bsky.social @unimarburg.bsky.social for support!

So sad to leave this beautiful country earlier than most ICO attendees. The spirit was awesome. Feels like odonatology is taking off to become a flagship of global #insect #biodiversity #ecology & #conservation.

We’ve got 27 hours left on the Kickstarter campaign for Endlings, our new show on @bizarrebeastsshow.bsky.social, and we absolutely smashed our goal 🤯🥳🤩 I’m thrilled and so grateful that this many people are this enthusiastic about the stories we want to tell #scicomm

Just some of the great observations and impressions from today’s field trip #ICO #WDA #Odonatology here in Colombia. Be come a member of the Wordwide Dragonfly Association and follow our activities, but most importantly consider being part of the upcoming community events!

Heading out for a drink after a busy day at the International Congress of Odonatology. What a marvellous atmosphere and group of great people! Thank you so much for making this happen @colombias Odo Community & #WDA and @daadworldwide.bsky.social & @unimarburg.bsky.social for their support!

New paper out 👇 Artificial ponds do not support the natural functional and taxonomic composition of alpine dragon- and damselfly communities www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @euracalpenv.bsky.social @pro-pink.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

Back again from the Camargue, les Alpilles and Crau where students @consecol.bsky.social @unimarburg.bsky.social explored a hotspot of Mediterranean Biodiversity as well as meet players from conservation and land use(farming, hunting..) to understand their interests and ties.

Fantastic dispatch by @gemmabenevento.bsky.social on our recent article on eco-evol drivers of burrowing in mammals! Really like the format @currentbiology.bsky.social combing expert spotlight, commentary & mini-rewiew. Thank you Gemma for your interesting perspective on the results & broader topic!

Thanks to @pro-pink.bsky.social for the use of the phylogeny figure from the original paper, @quentinwildlife.bsky.social (quentinmartinez.fr) for the use of some beautiful burrowing mammal images, and to @currentbiology.bsky.social and editor @florianmade.bsky.social for the opportunity.

8am an it’s raining. Just me and the squirrels in the street but it feels nice to be back in NH.

Fellow Ecologists, The #gfoe2025 @gfoesoc.bsky.social call for papers has just been published. Please submit your abstracts for exciting talks and engaging posters to present in Würzburg in September! gfoe-conference.de/index.php?ca... @uni-wuerzburg.de @globalchangeeco.bsky.social

SOS Oceans - Paris Meeting. Harrison Ford’s left us quite a strong message.

Honoured that the @stuttgarter-zeitung.de has reported on our (@unimarburg.bsky.social [email protected]) latest research! It's so important to translate research into awareness. Thank you for this feature, StZ! -> Rätsel der Evolution: Warum Graben für Säugetiere eine Überlebensstrategie ist

Really nice to see this article written by @floridamuseum.bsky.social about the amazing volunteer, Bob Belmont, who donated his collection and continues to help the McGuire Center as an expert of geometrid moths! www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/support/insp...

This paper is a wake up call to action for butterflies! www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

From @nytimes.com, “Butterfly populations are falling in the United States, a new study has found. Look up what’s happening in your area.” Don't forget to follow @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social, which recently joined Bluesky. 🌍🧪🦋 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

🚨"We project that up to 64% of the temperature niche space of butterflies in tropical realms will erode by 2070" thus turning mountains - known centers of butterfly diversity - from refugia to traps for butterfly diversity. Another sobering outlook for butterflies! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fresh from the press in @currentbiology.bsky.social by @unimarburg.bsky.social. We investigate the evol & ecol idiosyncrasies of burrowing mammals. Burrowing facilitates survival in seasonal climates but also during past env shifts - most prominently the impact-winter that wiped out most dinosaurs!

Great yet alarming work by @pro-pink.bsky.social & collaborators! Time to increase our efforts to assess, plan and ACT for (especially mountain, but also all) butterflies!

To get there we mobilised range maps & occurrence records from literature, country-dist info. Combined with citizen science data and integrated through newly developed approaches we now established a uniquely comprehensive knowledge base for butterflies, hoping this could be a role model for others.

A major milestone of our >4-year effort to bring #butterfly diversity and its threat to global attention. We show most species and hotspots cluster in mountains, with #climatechange projected to erode up to 67% of the thermal niche supporting this diversity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our Thailand butterfly tour has taken off with a bang, with tons of fantastic butterflies on the first day! Here's just a small sample of them. As with all our butterfly tours, a donation will be heading to our friends at @europebutterfly.bsky.social to help fund research & conservation.

Butterflies are a large, functionally important and charismatic invertebrate group. Here, Pinkert et al characterize global macroecological patterns of butterflies and project shifts in their bioclimatic niches under future climate scenarios🦋 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A major milestone of our >4-year effort to bring #butterfly diversity and its threat to global attention. We show most species and hotspots cluster in mountains, with #climatechange projected to erode up to 67% of the thermal niche supporting this diversity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Jackie Miller’s career grew from urban warehouse to butterfly bank to jungle laboratory to largest U.S. Lepidoptera collection, but she is often appreciated for drawing people into her world of butterfly research. 🦋 More about Jackie and her husband Lee: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/reme...

Exzellenz in der #Psychologie: Stefan G. Hofmann & Winfried Rief von der #UniMarburg zählen erneut zu den meistzitierten Forschenden weltweit! Ihre Arbeiten prägen die Forschung in Psychologie & darüber hinaus. 👏 https://uni-marburg.de/FbLQcC #HighlyCited Foto: AvH-Stiftung, Chr Stein

Mehr als 11.000 Wissenschaftler*innen haben in den letzten Tagen einen Appell der #S4F an die Politik unterzeichnet. Was wird u.a. gefordert? - Bekenntnis zum Klimaschutzgesetz und zum Green Deal - klare Kommunikation -... Alle Details finden sich hier: www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/s4f/de/top/o...

Wer gräbt, bleibt: Forschende der Uni Marburg um Stefan Pinkert haben herausgefunden, dass grabende #Säugetiere wie #Wühlmaus, #Fuchs und (im Bild) #Riesenmaulwurfsratte sich besser an schwankende Klimabedingungen anpassen können als andere. #Klima #Biodiversität 📷 St Pinkert uni-marburg.de/aDcdGJ

Fresh from the press in @currentbiology.bsky.social by @unimarburg.bsky.social. We investigate the evol & ecol idiosyncrasies of burrowing mammals. Burrowing facilitates survival in seasonal climates but also during past env shifts - most prominently the impact-winter that wiped out most dinosaurs!

📃BE-study shows that the #plant #microbiome plays a crucial role in species persistence & #ecosystem stability! 🌱🦠 Lab experiments reveal that microbiomes from different land-use intensities shape distinct plant traits, highlighting their adaptive potential. academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

Ist #Klimaschutz für die schlechte Wirtschaft verantwortlich? Nein, so PIKs @gunnarenergyclima.bsky.social: "Die Probleme der deutschen Wirtschaft sind von struktureller Natur und sie sind tieferliegend." Die Wirtschaft müsse die Chancen der "grünen Wende" aktiv annehmen. www.dw.com/de/muss-deut...

Für ein starkes, innovatives und zukunftsfähiges Wissenschaftssystem: Die Allianz der Wissenschaftsorganisationen hat Forderungen an die künftige Bundesregierung formuliert. 👉 www.allianz-der-wissenschaftsorganisationen.de/themen-stell...