Christian Hof

@christianhof.bsky.social

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Ecologist, biogeographer, professor, ornithologist, father, choir singer, political animal. Head of the Global Change Ecology group at University of Würzburg, Germany.

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Environmental science 70%

Geography 18%

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Global Change Ecology group @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social @globalchangeeco.bsky.social · 7h

Yesterday at our GCERetreat2025 our postdoc @esme-ashe.bsky.social presented her impressive data collection as well as first models and findings on butterfly thermoregulation and thermal tolerance. Many more cool results coming up!

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Global Change Ecology group @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social @globalchangeeco.bsky.social · 8h

GCERetreat2025: Our MSc student Katrin Fuest presented ideas and first fieldwork reports from her thesis. She studies thermoregulation of forest #butterflies in relation to habitat structure and microclimate. Well done Katrin!

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Malte Jochum @maltejochum.bsky.social · 10h

At our @globalchangeeco.bsky.social retreat to Austria, we are both taking in the beautiful surrounding landscape and discussing the latest research advancements of the team members. Here, Rasmus Dam Jensen presents our #MultiCrossBEF project as part of @bexplo.bsky.social
@uni-wuerzburg.de

The Global Change Ecology crowd listening to Rasmus Jensen introducing his PhD research.

A field path and some trees in the foreground with a mountain range in the background

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Global Change Ecology group @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social @globalchangeeco.bsky.social · 10h

A wonderful morning in the Austrian Alps, our next GCERetreat2025 day has started, and Rasmus Dam Jensen gives an overview of the MultiCrossBEF project @bexplo.bsky.social and some first results on the Earthworm subproject

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Global Change Ecology group @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social @globalchangeeco.bsky.social · 22h

GCERetreat2025: Congrats to our @ekengelhardt.bsky.social on her new project bAImo (Bavarian AI for insect monitoring), funded by bayklif2.0. Cool research at the interface of modelling, macroecology & conservation science coming up! With @maximilianpichler.bsky.social & @cofeuniwue.bsky.social

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Global Change Ecology group @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social @globalchangeeco.bsky.social · 1d

GCERetreat2025: Our MSc student Lars Landgraf presents his ideas and first analyses for his thesis project on how landscape heterogeneity influences distribution and trends of biodiversity in Bavaria

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Global Change Ecology group @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social @globalchangeeco.bsky.social · 1d

Retreat time! In the great setting of the Austrian Alps we just started our group retreat to discuss science, new ideas & how to further develop our @globalchangeeco.bsky.social ecosystem. Here @christianzehner.bsky.social is kicking off the program with his project on occurrence sampling biases.

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Global Change Ecology group @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social @globalchangeeco.bsky.social · 3d

Another MSc thesis update was recently presented by our student Nicolas Willems. He studies the variation of colour lightness, body size and other traits of #grasshoppers along an elevational gradient in the Bavarian Alps. Well done!! We look forward to the results…

Christian Hof @christianhof.bsky.social · 3d

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Christian Hof @christianhof.bsky.social · 4d

Herzliche Einladung zu einem Vortrag, den ich demnächst im heimatlichen Westerwald halten darf!

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Malte Jochum @maltejochum.bsky.social · 14d

Looking for a PhD / researcher position on #arthropods in #urban green spaces? Our colleague @nadja-simons.bsky.social @cofeuniwue.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de has a 3 year position advertised here:
www.uni-wuerzburg.de/karriere/sin...

Researcher Position at the Chair of Conservation Biology and Forest Exology

Universität Würzburg Sanderring 2 97070 Würzburg

www.uni-wuerzburg.de

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Global Change Ecology group @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social @globalchangeeco.bsky.social · 14d

Another impressive thesis update talk by our MSc student Mara Kuschke: advised by @esme-ashe.bsky.social she studies how #thermoregulation of #grasshoppers varies with elevation in the Bavarian Alps. Great work, Mara!

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Global Change Ecology group @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social @globalchangeeco.bsky.social · 15d

Last week our MSc student Karl Gehrig gave an update about his MSc thesis on how #butterflies change their #behaviour depending on their thermal preferences preferences. His work is supervised by @esme-ashe.bsky.social who leads our research theme of #thermalecology. Well done, Karl!

Guy Pe'er @guypeer.bsky.social · 22d

Open Letter by scientists to the Council:
"Climate Neutrality Is Europe’s Greatest Economic Opportunity”.
Ahead of the European Council meeting on 23.10.2025,
2,178 scientists urge EU Heads of States & Governments to take ambitious decisions for the 2040 targets.
zenodo.org/records/1739...

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Global Change Ecology group @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social @globalchangeeco.bsky.social · 26d

We are happy and proud to host Mariana Prokupuk from the Ukrainian National Academy of Science as a guest researcher at our chair. With a Coimbra scholarship she studies ecological niches and traits of invasive aquatic plants. Welcome again, Mariana! www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/gce/news/...

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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · 26d

The Paris Agreement offers a powerful framework for a fairer, healthier world. But as extreme heat shows, every tenth of a degree matters. We need higher ambition to stop violating the rights of ever more people. - new @wwattribution.bsky.social study
www.worldweatherattribution.org/ten-years-of...

frequency of extreme heat in Mali & Burkina Faso under different warming scenarios

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Helmut Hillebrand @hillebr1.bsky.social · Oct 9

Neben Klimawandel, Artensterben & Krieg waren die vielen armen Menschen, die jeden Tag heulend im Supermarkt zusammenbrechen weil sie den Veggieburger nicht von ihrem Fleischburger unterscheiden konnten, sicherlich eines der größten Probleme der Menschheit. Gut dass wir wenigstens das gelöst haben.

taz @taz.de · Oct 9

Das EU-Gesetz ist kein Sieg für Verbraucherschutz oder die deutsche Sprache. Die Fleischindustrie hat sich einfach gegen die Konkurrenz durchgesetzt.

Veggiefleisch muss umbenannt werden: Es geht nicht um die Wurst – sondern um Profite

Das EU-Gesetz ist kein Sieg für Verbraucherschutz oder die deutsche Sprache. Die Fleischindustrie hat sich einfach gegen die Konkurrenz durchgesetzt.

taz.de

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Global Change Ecology group @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social @globalchangeeco.bsky.social · Sep 23

Thanks for a great talk on her PhD project by @anamaria-bu.bsky.social in our @globalchangeeco.bsky.social seminar. Check out her recent paper on the influence of island isolation on dispersal traits of bird communities on #islands globally: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Christian Hof @christianhof.bsky.social · Sep 23

#Energiewende zwischen Kontinuität und Neustart - freue mich auf interessante Perspektiven und interdisziplinären Austausch aus Recht, Ökonomie und Politik zu einem Schlüsselbereich des globalen Wandels bei der Tagung der Stiftung Umweltenergierecht stiftung-umweltenergierecht.de

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Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · Sep 20

Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social
Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃
www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...

Ecological synthesis including forest ecosystems, grassland, land use, climate change, time series, stability, ecosystem functioning, biodiversity, species interaction networks

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Christian Zehner @christianzehner.bsky.social · Sep 19

Very happy to have given a talk and presented my phd project at this year’s @gfoesoc.bsky.social about insect trends
Grateful for the inspiring discussions and feedback on my research and my colleagues and supervisors @ekengelhardt.bsky.social @christianhof.bsky.social @globalchangeeco.bsky.social

Christian Hof Eva Katharina Engelhardt and me in front of a wall where my poster is attached. We smile and enjoy drinks. On the poster, you can see my phd project about exploring regional insect rends. the sun outside is shining and other posters are in the room, too

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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · Sep 17

The summer is over - and for about 16,600 people across 854 European cities that doesn't mean autumn comes, but death. People who would still be alive if it wasn't for our burning of fossil fuels. - New study with @lshtm.bsky.social www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · Sep 10

Job Alert! The University of Tübingen is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) in FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY! Come and join our institute, and maybe our new excellence clusters @terra-cluster.org and @greenrobust.de. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Please repost!

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Christian Hof @christianhof.bsky.social · Sep 4

Amazing keynote by Zuzana Burivalova at #gfoe2025 on soundscapes, African tropical forests, and conservation. www.soundforestlab.org/soundscapeba...

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Christian Hof @christianhof.bsky.social · Sep 3

A pleasure to be (co-)supervising these young folks @globalchangeeco.bsky.social, together with @esme-ashe.bsky.social and @christianzehner.bsky.social

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Global Change Ecology group @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social @globalchangeeco.bsky.social · Sep 3

Our PhD student @funbirdeco.bsky.social presented his recent work on the global variation of phylogenetic and functional bird diversity on islands at #gfoe2025 Thanks, Jan, for a great talk!

Christian Hof @christianhof.bsky.social · Sep 3

Great talk in the #macroecology session at #gfoe2025 by @pro-pink.bsky.social on global hotspots of butterfly diversity. Check out their recent paper in @natecoevo.nature.com : www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · Sep 3

Quite some interests in the #Macroecology session of our Macrecology interest group wothin @gfoesoc.bsky.social #gfoe2025

gfoe.org/en/specialis...

If you want to be part of our highly international email list for jobs & more PM me.

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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · Sep 3

Congratulations dear Volker Grimm (www.ufz.de/index.php?en... to the honorary medal of the @gfoesoc.bsky.social #gfoe2025

He helped me a lot in my early synthesis years @idiv-research.bsky.social always calling for involving theory

Maybe we still write the paper we talk about since 10 years.🤭😱

Christian Hof @christianhof.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thanks to @bugecology.bsky.social for a fantastic #gfoe2025 keynote on „Living on the edge - what determines species range limits“!

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