Jelena Bujan (@jelenabujan)

#EntSoc25 Join us for our symposium on Ecophysiology of Social Insects. Wednesday at 9:30 am in Portland Ballroom 251. @entsocamerica.bsky.social @jelenabujan.bsky.social @mmlopezu.bsky.social @isabellamanning.bsky.social

03.11.2025 22:14 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

✨ New paper out! ✨

A plea for the conservation of Western Balkan peatlands – a case study from Croatia. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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01.11.2025 10:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Same task, different city.📝☕️

11.10.2025 12:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Microscopic, yet seen from space. Invisible, yet astronauts watch them glow.

Billions of tiny artists shape climate, feed the seas, and write history in calcium armor.

Meet them in 2 days.
#InvisibleHeroes #OceanGuardians #ClimateWarriors #protistsonsky
Illustrations: Rosie Sheward

08.10.2025 10:25 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1

Urban flower-power for wild bee and hoverfly conservation - Urban Ecosystems Wild bees and hoverflies are some of the most important pollinator groups across the globe, including in urban areas. Urban areas are increasingly recognized as potential pollinator refugia, mostly due to the lower pressure from agrochemicals in comparison to rural areas and often high floral diversity in human-maintained landscapes. Because many factors influence the suitability of urban green spaces for pollinators local studies considering different taxa are needed to best inform the pollinator-friendly management. We studied bee and hoverfly communities across urban green spaces of Zagreb, a city in an understudied region of Europe. We tested how temperature, urbanization, and availability of floral resources impact pollinator species richness. We report 123 species of wild bees and 50 species of hoverflies for Zagreb, including 7 species of conservation interest at the European level. Increased average site temperature, due to urban heat island effect, negatively impacts hoverfly species richness, but not that of the bees. Sites with higher floral abundance had higher species richness of both pollinator groups. Our results show that a simple intervention such as reducing the intense mowing regime in urban green areas to increase abundance of floral resources, can have significant positive impact on urban pollinator diversity and contribute to conservation of threatened species.

Did you know that there are 123 wild bee species and 50 hoverflies species buzzing in Zagreb?! 🐝

Our new paper explores how urbanization, flower availability, and temperature shape these pollinator communities.🌻🌺 💪
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

07.10.2025 21:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🐝 Our latest Special Feature, "Network Ecology in the Anthropocene", is now accepting proposals.
📝 The Special Feature will be accepting submissions to all 7 of our British Ecological Society journals.

04.08.2025 12:36 👍 27 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 0

It's that time of year when we pick ants on wild asparagus.🌱🐜 I'm proposing it as a new method for community level sampling. You end up with ant data and a lunch! 🤩

21.04.2025 14:27 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Doctoral Researcher, Biodiversity Change Doctoral Researcher, Biodiversity Change

I am recruiting a doctoral researcher to conduct research on tundra plants and microclimates 🌱🌡️💧❄️ Call ends April 25! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

16.04.2025 09:51 👍 22 🔁 27 💬 0 📌 0

The rain did not disappoint. But we managed to see some ants!

16.04.2025 04:38 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Spent months prepping for field field work - protocols, supplies, logistics. We leave tomorrow for a week. The week: 🌧🌧⛈️🌦

13.04.2025 07:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

First day of Science is Wonderful! was a success.🤩 Excited to welcome kids for day #2 at our booth #48 which will soon get an upgrade...🐜
@bracic.bsky.social @kosicek.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

14.03.2025 07:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🐜🔬🍺 come and say hi to us in Bruxelles @Science is Wonderful! @ Booth #48

We prepared a lot of fANTastic stuff!
@bracic.bsky.social @kosicek.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

12.03.2025 21:50 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Moras sKUPIT sve!🤓

09.03.2025 16:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bad news for butterflies coming from the US.😭 Abundace of 🦋 🦋 fell by 22% from 2000-2020.😢 We're losing pollinators at an alarming rate🚨

09.03.2025 16:33 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

clim ants - Adriatic Islands as natural laboratories of climate change The project clim ants investigates how ants use the microclimate and whether they can avoid elevated temperatures through changes in behavior, physiology, or both.

We finally have a project webpage! 👀

Oh, and a logo!🐜🌡

www.climants.eu/en/

10.02.2025 15:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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