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multitroph.bsky.social @multitroph.bsky.social · 3h

@bgauzens.bsky.social gave a very nice introduction into food web theory, from its origins until today! Covering Euler, social and railway networks, and many more. Fascinating!

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multitroph.bsky.social @multitroph.bsky.social · 3h

Dominique Gravel from University of Sherbrooke explained how to predict the effect of species loss on ecosystem functioning in complex systems. #redundancy vs #complementarity. What a pity, he could not be with us in person!

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multitroph.bsky.social @multitroph.bsky.social · 16h

Today at @idiv-research.bsky.social Feilong Ji showed responses of tree diversity on pre-disersal seed redation for several tree species in BEF-China - great progress 😊

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multitroph.bsky.social @multitroph.bsky.social · 1d

Haikuo Zhang convinced us: Microbes are key! They mobilize P and P mobilization increases with tree diversity.

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multitroph.bsky.social @multitroph.bsky.social · 1d

Georg Albert, our synthesis postdoc, shiws how species interactions shape (multi) functions in the BEF-China experiment.

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Massimo Martini @entomassi.bsky.social · 1d

Joint conference between @treedi.bsky.social and @multitroph.bsky.social has begun in Leipzig! Good way to start my last year of PhD 🕷🐛🐝🌿

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multitroph.bsky.social @multitroph.bsky.social · 1d

The saprophytic insects of BEF China and how this group is affected by tree species loss. Great work of our PhD student Matteo Dadda.

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multitroph.bsky.social @multitroph.bsky.social · 1d

Joshua Spitz shows the importance of canopy cover for ant-nutrient networks 🐜🐜🐜.

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multitroph.bsky.social @multitroph.bsky.social · 1d

Our MSc student Kai Zhang shows us influences of lignin with herbivore functional diversity 🐛 👍

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multitroph.bsky.social @multitroph.bsky.social · 1d

@entomassi.bsky.social explains how tree diversity influences parasitism of bees and wasps using long-term trap-nesting data in BEF China.

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multitroph.bsky.social @multitroph.bsky.social · 1d

Mareike Mittag showed that the loss of redundant species reduces herbivory more strongly than the loss of distict species.

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multitroph.bsky.social @multitroph.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent keynote talk by Yi Li showing eg that multidiversity is more important in forests than in grasslands @treedi.bsky.social

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multitroph.bsky.social @multitroph.bsky.social · 1d

Helge Bruelheide @idiv-research.bsky.social uses Confucius show how learning wisdom.

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multitroph.bsky.social @multitroph.bsky.social · 1d

We are just starting our @treedi.bsky.social and #MultiTroph joint conference. 😊. Stay turned 🎄🌲🌳🎄🌳🌲

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multitroph.bsky.social @multitroph.bsky.social · 1d

The start of a hopefully successful week of collaboration and research exchange 🔥 at our joint conference of #TreeDi 🌳and #MultiTroph 🐜🪲🕷 at the #idiv, Leipzig.

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Florian Schnabel @mixedforests.bsky.social · 16d

🗞️New study in @globalchangebio.bsky.social 🗞️

🌳Diversity in resource use strategies promotes productivity across a global network of tree #diversity experiments?🌲

Read our new study led by Joel Jensen together with #TreeDivNet here:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Diversity in Resource Use Strategies Promotes Productivity in Young Planted Tree Species Mixtures

By analyzing data from over 83,000 trees in 21 experiments across five continents, we found that forests with more species were more productive and had more stable growth. Productivity was driven mai....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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multitroph.bsky.social @multitroph.bsky.social · Jul 3

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Massimo Martini @entomassi.bsky.social · May 26

Hopping into #macromonday with this Monkey grasshopper nymph! Wishing all a good week filled with scientific reading and perhaps writing 📚🖋

Eumastacidae sp.

Tiny grasshopper nymph, brown with some lighter coloured bands. Very tiny antennae a long face. Resting on a leaf, surrounded by blurred-out green

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · Jun 1

New #oak species described from China @nordicjbotany.bsky.social: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #trees #flora #newspecies

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · May 26

A comprehensive illustrated protocol for clearing, mounting, and imaging leaf venation networks 🌾🧪 bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

A comprehensive illustrated protocol for clearing, mounting, and imaging leaf venation networks

Premise Leaf venation network architecture can provide insights into plant evolution, ecology, and physiology. Venation networks are typically assessed through histological methods, but existing pro...

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Alexandra Klein @naturealexk.bsky.social · May 25

Future Forests Excellence Cluster successful
www.linkedin.com/pulse/future...

Future Forests Excellence Cluster successful

We did it! Our proposal for a Cluster of Excellence will be funded by the German Research Foundation. The Cluster of Excellence Future Forests – Adapting Complex Social-ecological Forest Systems to Gl...

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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · May 26

Forest clear-cuts support diverse moth fauna but lack common grassland species 🦋🌏

The absence of common grassland species suggests that clear-cuts cannot replace traditional open habitats & indicates the importance of conserving semi-natural grasslands 🌱🧪

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · May 26

The planet is changing—some of it is inevitable, but some of it is on us. 🔍 Researcher Jonathan Chase and podcast host Volker Hahn take on one of the biggest scientific challenges: distinguishing between detection (what’s changing) and attribution (why it’s changing) 📊 1/2

Cover of Inside Biodiversity episode 3: Is Biodiversity Loss Always Bad? Guest: Jonathan Chase

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Universität Freiburg @uni-freiburg.de · May 22

🎉Ab 1. Januar 2026 fördert die @dfg.de (#DFG) zwei #Exzellenzcluster der #UniFreiburg. Der bisherige #Exzellenzcluster @cibss.bsky.social wird weitere sieben Jahre fortgesetzt. Zudem startet der neue Exzellenzcluster #FutureForests. ufr.link/exzellenzclu...

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1. Reihe v.l.n.r. Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Driever (CIBSS), Prof. Dr. Kerstin Kriegstein (Rektorin), Prof. Dr. Stefan Rensing (Prorektor für Forschung und Innovation), Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bauhus (Future Forests)
2. Reihe v.l.n.r. Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kleine-Vehn (CIBSS), Dr. Carola Hunte (CIBSS), Prof. Dr. Friederike Lang (Future Forests)
3. Reihe v.l.n.r. Prof. Dr. Claudine Kraft (CIBSS), Prof. Dr. Marc Hanewinkel (Future Forests)
Fotograf: Michael Spiegelhalter

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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · May 19

"Wir haben einen fortlaufenden #Klimawandel, es wird ständig wärmer. Wir haben mehr Hitzewellen, wir haben mehr Dürrewellen." PIK-Forscherin Kirsten Thonicke via ZDF zur Waldbrandsaison in #Brandenburg. Deutschlandweit gibt es dort die meisten Waldbrände.
www.zdf.de/nachrichten/...

"Jeder Waldbrand ist anders": Wie sich Brandenburg für die Waldbrandsaison wappnet

Die Waldbrandgefahr in Deutschland ist in Brandenburg besonders hoch. Wie ein weiterer Sommer mit Waldbränden verhindert werden soll.

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