🪲 🪱 🌳 WSL researchers sampled tree holes in France, Brazil and India and found that spatial structuring explained #macroinvertebrate diversity better than local conditions, highlighting the importance of connectivity and old-growth forests for conservation. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The final chapter of my PhD thesis was now published in Limnology and Oceanography! It was one of those manuscripts that took a bit longer, but I am extremely happy it's finally out!
Open Access:
aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
My Odonata talk organized by the Association Hyla is now available online on YouTube, check it out here:
youtu.be/e3OpuoBYHTM?...
New paper out in Ecology ☺️
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Just one more week to go! Join me next Tuesday for my talk organized by @hyla_ngo about dragonflies & damselflies. DM me for the registration link. Hoping to see many of you there!
It is my greatest pleasure to announce my online talk about dragonflies and damselflies on 13th of January 2026. I am extremely grateful to @hyla_ngo for this opportunity! The talk will be in English and you can join via Zoom. Everyone is welcome! Contact me for the registration link ☺️
It is my greatest pleasure to announce my online talk about dragonflies and damselflies on 13th of January 2026. I am extremely grateful to @hyla_ngo for this opportunity! The talk will be in English and you can join via Zoom. Everyone is welcome! Contact me for the registration link ☺️
If you are planning to remove your garden pond, consider contacting someone who is an expert and can help with the remaining animals and move them into another pond. 5/5
This example just shows that garden ponds can be extremely important for dragonflies, and that one should never underestimate the potential of a garden pond as a habitat harbouring a large number of individuals. 4/n
These were all moved to two other garden ponds (many thanks to those offering their garden ponds as a refuge!). There are probably still a few larvae left, so a colleague will take over and help on Monday. 3/n
I was called yesterday and asked if I could check this pond before it gets drained, so I took some equipment and started collecting larvae around 10:30. After ca. 1:15 h, I managed to collect 146 Aeshna cyanea larvae, a common frog (Rana temporaria) and two great pond snails (Lymnea stagnalis). 2/n
146: The number of Aeshna cyanea larvae (🇬🇧Southern Hawker, 🇩🇪 Blaugrüne-Mosaikjungfer, 🇭🇷 Modri kralj) I found today in a garden pond which is about to be removed. 1/n
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New updates just dropped 👇
💚 #rgbif 3.8.4
New features &🐞 bug fixes
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Stats all folks! 👋
#Rstats #python #GBIF
PhD opportunity!
Focusing on ecological processes offers an adaptive approach to conservation at a time of rapid environmental change
But how do we measure & conserve these processes?
This PhD will explore the use of species traits to assess ecosystem condition
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
See www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-202... for a full description of the session. Hope to see you there! @aquacosm-ecr.bsky.social @aslo.org @sil-limnology.bsky.social @majailiczg.bsky.social
Reminder: please consider contributing to our sessions at the ASLO SIL 2026 joint meeting in Montreal, Canada
Registration:
www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-202...
📢for abstracts! Join us on the joint ASLO-SIL26 Confluence: Science, People, Knowledge Meeting / @majailiczg.bsky.social, @zsofiahorvath.bsky.social and I organize session 78 "Urban waters under pressure: socio-ecological feedback and anthropogenic stressors in city ponds, streams, and estuaries"
Working in genetic diversity monitoring? Consider submitting an Abstract to the @worldbioforum.bsky.social session "Implementing and achieving the GBF goals and targets for genetic diversity"
🧪 🧬 ⚛️
#WBF2026 #geneticdiversity #KMGBF #biodiversity
Amazing PhD opportunity at the University of Stirling! Don't miss this chance. Amazing supervisors (Arthur Broadbent and @jasubke.bsky.social ) and a strong collaboration team including Lindsay Newbold, @annekempel.bsky.social and myself :)
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
SS088 Trophic Ecology and Biogeochemistry in Aquatic Food Webs: Integrating Novel Techniques to Disentangle Ecosystem Dynamics
With Rita García Seoane and Grégoire Saboret
SS082 Mesocosm-based approaches for tackling grand challenges in aquatic ecosystems
With @aquacosm-ecr.bsky.social members Cihelio Alves Amorim, Anna Schmidt, Gabriela Ágreda-López and Gülce Yalcin
SS078 Urban waters under pressure: socio-ecological feedback and anthropogenic stressors in city ponds, streams, and estuaries
With Kristien I. Brans and Zsófia Horváth @zsofiahorvath.bsky.social
Abstract submission for ASLO-SIL 2026 in Montreal is open!
Together with several colleagues, I will be co-hosting three sessions. For more information, please see below (each session mentioned in the comments).
Session list (with session descriptions):
www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-202...
One of our members @majailiczg.bsky.social is co-hosting two sessions at the ASLO-SIL 2026 in Montreal. Please consider submitting abstracts to: Session SS078 and SS088.
You can find session descriptions here:
www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-202...
Abstract preparation guide:
www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-202...
It was my honour to give my first keynote within the Aquatic Ecology sesssion this week at the interdisciplinary meeting on extreme events in Koblenz, Germany. Many thanks for the invitation and great organization! #aquaticecology #extremeevents #climatechange #gewässerökologie #extremereignisse
Join me at 16:15 today in HS 1 if you're attending #DGL2025 and especially if you're interested in heat tolerance, video monitoring and Daphnia 😊
Attending my first ever annual DGL conference in Frankfurt - looking forward to many interesting talks over the next four days!
Last weekend, I attended the second part of the Odonata identification course organized by KennArt and NABU Münsterland. I am extremely grateful for this opportunity, for meeting amazing odonata fans and learning so much!
FYI if you're not in the right time zone for this do not fret! Sign up as an online attendee to get access to the required docs and Discord site, then you can contribute when it's a good time for you and chat with others awake at the same time on Discord. Fun for all time zones!
