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The deadline has been extended – you can still submit your abstract and secure the early-bird rate.
Look forward to inspiring keynote speakers and join us for an excursion to the Exploratorium Schorfheide-Chorin! 🌱🌿
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Ready to start your own lab? Interested in #GlobalChange,#Biodiversity and #Ecosystem#Resilience? Join us in Göttingen - we are looking for a (female) Junior Research Group Leader in #EcologicalNovelty.
Attractive conditions, see euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/415857 - please share widely if you can!
Does plant diversity stabilize ecosystem functioning in mountain ecosystems? Maybe not - we show that spatial variation mediates both.
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #OpenAccess
While orthopterans 🦗 showed the highest heat tolerance, flies 🪰 appeared as the most sensitive group. Intact forests with high complexity, shade and connectivity are of high importance to prevent (further) species losses in the Earth's most biodiverse area.
iDiv and @uni-jena.de are recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) in Trait-Based Community Ecology and Modelling.
Highlights:
🔺Full-time (100%, 40 h/week) with the option to reduce to 80%
🔺Fixed-term for 2 years
🔺Salary up to E13 TV‑L
📆 Apply by: 29 March 2026
www.idiv.de/career/job-o...
New nutrients&roots paper out! 🌳🌲🧪
Douglas fir and beech saplings partition ammonium vs. nitrate under competition, enabling complementary N use and their coexistence in mixed stands.
@mrakklara.bsky.social @bmwildermuth.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#forestecol
#PhDPosition in Ecological #DataScience in our group. For details, see www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet... #MachineLearning #AI #DeepLearning #Statistics #Ecology #AcademicJobs
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Beech seems to be adaptable in its N form preference, when non-native but economically attractive Douglas fir is admixed.
I didn't know an awful lot about roots and what they like or not, but it was fun contributing & learning here. Seems to be good news for climate-adapted forestry! 🌲🌳🌱
Nice, congrats! And what a beautiful figure :)
2 PhD & 1 postdoc available at BioM in Oslo
www.uio.no/english/rese... Interdisciplinary methods to model and govern biodiversity under uncertainty. Re-post widely! Work with statistical ecologists Olav Skarpaas (Natural History Museum Oslo @uio.no) @t-ergon.bsky.social
New paper online today. In it, we advocate for biodiversity in the increasingly modernized agricultural world. Smart farming could be a wonderful tool to alleviate pressure from agro-ecosystems, but, as we argue here, this will only happen if biodiversity becomes an explicit target.
rdcu.be/e6zB7
Our package estar for quantifying ecological stability is out: MEE @britishecologicalsociety.org! Provides 11 stability metrics for measuring stability at different levels of organization, from individuals to populations, communities + ecosystems. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
📣 Registration for the BE20 Conference is still open—the deadline has been extended to March 2, 2026!
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We’re hiring! 🌿
Permanent E13 (100%) position in Plant Ecology & Biodiversity Research at Leibniz University Hannover.
Focus: vegetation ecology, field research, quantitative skills, teaching (BSc, German required).
Deadline: 15 April 2026
Details: www.uni-hannover.de/jobs/id/8379/
Congratulations to our postdoc Soumen on his new publication! 🎉🌳
In German beech forests, canopy gap and deadwood enrichment reduced insect damage but stressed trees at low elevations, while the opposite happened higher up.
👉 Local climate makes the difference.
📖 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
🚨Our cross-journal special feature is open to proposals!🚨
🐛Focus: how climate change affects plant–antagonist interactions, including those involving phytophagous insects, plant pathogens and more
💡Find out more: buff.ly/fFy6ker
@jappliedecology.bsky.social
@journalofecology.bsky.social
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I knew global remote-sensing products—especially forest maps—could differ, but I didn’t realize just how much. 🌍🌲🛰️
When comparing 10 different global forest cover datasets, they overlapped in only 26% of the area. 🤯 doi.org/10.1016/j.on...
-> Choose your forest map wisely I say!
Job advertisement: PhD candidate "Connectivity of Urban Areas for Wildlife" - apply now!
We are looking for a PhD candidate in the field of urban habitat connectivity and biodiversity. Further information can be found here: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/a...
Apply before March 15th.
Cool selection of understudied taxa!
New paper out using trend data on occupancy and Species Climate Indicators. We show that species of wet and cold areas of the UK are doing badly across lots of different invetebrate groups not just the big, colourful ones.🕷️🐜🪰🪲
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
With @jennistockan.bsky.social
Fig. 1. The relationship between mean shoot length per grass species to species richness of the endophytic insects found in these shoots. A The number of herbivore species, B the sum of herbivore and parasitoid species. The five points indicating no species at all indicate that no one insect species has been reared from the five annual grass species studied, despite intensive shoot sampling (see Table 1). The inquilines of P. australis are included (see Table 2, see also Fig. S2A and S2B for regressions without inquilines). Regression lines were fitted to the species richness found in the ten perennial grass species.
Fig. 2. Images illustrating the insect community of the shoot-inhabiting gall midge Giraudiella inclusa on Common Reed Phragmites australis. A Phragmites australis reedbelt with the ricegrain-like galls of Giraudiella inclusa inside internodes. B The gall midge Giraudiella inclusa: Oviposition, C Early Giraudiella gall development, D late Giraudiella gall development, E the Giraudiella parasitoid Torymus arundinis ovipositing, F the gregarious Giraudiella parasitoid Aprostocetus calamarius, G T. arundinis eggs on a dead 2nd instar host larva, H the conspicuously hairy, solitary T. arundinis larva, I midge skin filled with pupae of the gregarious Platygaster szelenii, J the solitary parasitoid Platygaster cf. quadrifarius (Tscharntke et al. 1991).
🌾🐛 New #BAAE article: Hidden insect food webs thrive inside perennial grass shoots 🌿
Longer shoots host richer herbivore–parasitoid communities. Unmown refuges are key to protecting these overlooked specialists. 🕷️
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2026.01.004
@gfoesoc.bsky.social
Recovering European River Invertebrate Communities Homogenize or Differentiate Depending on Anthropogenic Stress
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New paper on global change impacts on insects, out in GEB🦋🌍
Climate change and urbanisation act synergistically: butterfly declines are stronger under warming in urban environments.
Species traits help explain heterogeneous responses.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@ylndmc.bsky.social
🚀 iDiv and @uni-jena.de are hiring! Join the Ecological Networks Lab as an IT Specialist (full-time, permanent). Work on lab automation, software dev, and cutting-edge research! 🌿💻
🗓️ Apply by 27 Mar 2026
📍 Leipzig (Germany)
👉 www.idiv.de/career/job-o...
#JobAlert #ITJobs #Biodiversity #iDiv
Canopy openings can harm the biodiversity of dung #beetles 🪲: Scientists of the University of Würzburg examined 234 areas in eleven #forests across Germany. Rising temperatures exacerbate the problem. ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-... 📸 Johanna Asch
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A Shapiro-Wilk test of the response variable concludes very significant deviation of Normality. But residuals of linear model consistent with Normal distribution.
Visual check of the linear model with DHARMa
Periodic reminder that we should avoid testing the Normality of the response variable.
For a linear model, what matters is the Normality of residuals (and not that much). Visual checks better than test. #statistics
📖Published!
Food webs on green roofs are unique but less robust than their ground-level counterparts
Green roofs offering novel environmental conditions, increasing urban habitat diversity and supporting denser but less robust food webs compared with ground-level habitats🌳🏙️
🔎 buff.ly/XxwXsct
The @terra-cluster.org is offering another position - this time @sgn.one in Frankfurt: Interested in global vegetation or biome modeling - then apply. The position is open for #PhD and for #Postdocs 😀
