Alexandra Klein
@naturealexk.bsky.social
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Nature Conservation & Landscape Ecology at Uni Freiburg. Sustainable farming, functional biodiversity, bee-flower interplay 🚵‍♀️ @[email protected] at Mastodon
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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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Georg Albert, our synthesis postdoc, shiws how species interactions shape (multi) functions in the BEF-China experiment.
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Freiburger Doktorand*innen Alessandro Mainardi & Claudia Viganò klettern in #Ecuador in die Baumkronen, um das „geheime Leben“ tropischer Wälder zu erforschen. Dabei untersuchen sie ökologische Mechanismen & erste Auswirkungen des Klimawandels. ufr.link/regenwald-ecuador #Forstgenetik #Klimawandel
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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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Helge Bruelheide @idiv-research.bsky.social uses Confucius show how learning wisdom.
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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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@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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We also visited the experimental fields at IRTA Mas Badia, where we were able to see the #LivingLabs and the experiments currently being carried out. On our way to #BaixEmpordà, we visited Fructícola Empordà orchards and Mooma’s facilities 🍎🍷
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Over two days, we exchanged updates on the project’s progress and worked collaboratively across the different work packages, covering #research, cooperation with #farmers, #communication, and much more 😍🍏
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This week, the partnership of the #EUproject RESTPOLL 🐝 @restpoll.bsky.social came together to share knowledge and experiences during the Annual Meeting in #Barcelona.
Group picture, RESTPOLL team
Fruit production in Spain and some Nature Group team members inbetween millions of apples #RestPollAGM2
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RestPoll is today learning from IRTA Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentaries in Catalunya about their research about sustainable food production 🐄🍓🍇🤠
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@uni-freiburg.de explains RestPoll members the Nagoya protocol and it's implications.
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JOB OFFER ⚠️ Research Engineer in Economics #RestPoll project 🌼 Restoring Pollinator habitats across European agricultural landscapes based on multi-actor participatory approaches 
➡️ https://www.iamm.ciheam.org/en/agendas/vacancy-announcement-recruitment-of-a-research-engineer-in-economics-3/
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Wildbienen, Hummeln und Schmetterlingen fehlt Lebensraum. Auch das Ziel der EU-Biodiversitätsstrategie, den Anteil naturnaher Flächen in der Landwirtschaft auf 10 % zu erhöhen, reicht nicht aus. Das zeigt eine neue Studie in Science mit Beteiligung der #UniFreiburg. ufr.link/bestaeuber-lebensraum
We are starting our group retreat to work on overarching group goals, communication and connections to other researchers and stakeholders.
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Share & join us for 11 TEDx talks about "The future is now" in Berlin 18. October 2025 😊
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‚Pathways for biodiversity enhancement in German agricultural landscapes‘

New paper in People and Nature led by Christian Sponagel & Amybeth Thompson with many coauthors, e.g. @sebastianlakner.bsky.social @naturealexk.bsky.social

Open Access
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Call for help! For a course about nature #conservation on land, we are looking for recent "must-read' publications. It could be anything from practical conservation efforts to policy. Focus is though Europe and even Northern Europe. What are your must-reads? #biology #restoration #protection
#RestPoll please send out posts and links in the different languages of our partners
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Give the Ribwort Plantain some urban space to feed pollinators #wordbeeday
#Wordbeeday meets #Krautschau
Give some urban space to the Ribwort Plantain to feed our pollinators.