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Fabian A. Boetzl

@fboetzl.bsky.social

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Dr. rer.nat., ecologist, working on biodiversity 🌷🐝🦋 and pest control in agricultural landscapes 🌽🐛🐞 postdoc @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social Part time cicindelid taxonomist, curator @inaturalist.bsky.social, japanophile 🍙🗾🇯🇵, https://linktr.ee/fboetzl

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 1d

This is also a long known problems in entomological collections - collectors do not want the common species, they accumulate the rare species ....

Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · 1d

Large citizen science datasets are powerful tools for biodiversity science, but they may have biases. Nice new paper from @louisbackstrom.bsky.social et al. showing that for eBird and Birdtrack lists there is a tendency for rare species to be over-represented
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 1d

Get it! 😂 I have accumulated quite some Japanese insect books and cannot read a word - they give me immense joy 😅

Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 1d

Very excited to share our latest paper: We investigated landscape-scale predictors of #insect pest damage to #sugarbeet showing that the species’ ecology is determining their responses making unified approaches difficult #agroecology #pestcontrol www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 2d

Many thanks!

Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 2d

Great work and very much needed! I have updated my conservation status table and noticed that Hipparchia genava and Phengaris rebeli do not occur any more in the list - were they synonymised?

Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 9d

Our 600 seat lecture hall had one that was used in almost every one of my BSc physics lectures around 2012/2013 ...

Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 13d

Good luck! 🤞

Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 17d

Entweder doof oder naiv, das sind die alternativen. Beides nicht das was man von Parteien in Regierungsverantwortung erwarten müsste.

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 17d

Das glaube ich nicht. Ich kann nicht glauben dass diese Leute so naiv wären. Ich glaube sie bauen sich eine neue Machtposition auf, jenseits der Mitte der Gesellschaft.

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 17d

Ich unterstelle dass die genau wissen was sie tun.

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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 27d

As we near the end of #PeerReviewWeek, we'd like to say a massive thank you to everybody who has taken the time to review for us over the past year ✨🌏

Your efforts are crucial in helping us to continue to publish high quality research 📚🧪

Full list here: bit.ly/4m3WW2I

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 29d

Cannot help here - this one ist still on my list of species to find. I guess I'll look for it around Würzburg next year ....

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Emily May @emtomology.bsky.social · Sep 12

Exciting new meta-analysis: compared to calendar spraying, threshold-based management cuts insecticide use by 44% and costs by 40% without reducing yields, and supports more beneficial insects. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Threshold-based management reduces insecticide use by 44% without compromising pest control or crop yield - Communications Earth & Environment

Pest control programs using pest density thresholds cut insecticide uses by 44% and costs by 40%, while maintaining yield and pest suppression, and enhancing beneficial insect populations, as revealed...

www.nature.com

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Cate Macinnis-Ng @loraxcate.bsky.social · Sep 9

Great mentoring opportunity for emerging researchers based in the global south- join the Journal of Applied Ecology editorial board!

Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · Sep 9

You can now apply to take part in our 2026 Associate Editor Mentoring Scheme! 🔖

If you want to learn more about the peer review process and you're an ECR based in the Global South, then this voluntary position could be for you 💭🌏🧪

More info here 👇
bit.ly/47uwYlD

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · Sep 4

Das ist ja eine ganz andere Aussage als die oben 😉 der Kontext macht auch klar was gemeint ist. Eine Diskussion darüber ob man die Kuh jetzt Kuh oder Rind nennen möchte ist eigentlich sinnlos.

Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · Sep 4

Das ist leider derselbe Fatalismus den man sonst von deutschen Stammtischen kennt, wenn es um Klimawandel, Biodiversitätsschwund usw geht - war schon immer so, kann man nichts machen, funktioniert eh nicht ....

Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · Aug 25

Sehr schön!

Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · Jul 9

... so - forced labour camps? I feel like I have heard this idea before ...

Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · Jun 21

Sounds very cool and very close to my own research - how can one join?

Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · Jun 20

I have this impression with all US journals and submissions from Europe .... I wonder if us researchers feel the same about e.g. the BES ....

Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · Jun 10

Reducing meat consuption would be woke ideology 🤪

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · Jun 9

Meet Harpalus politus, a predominantly granivorous #carabid beetle threatened with extinction in #Germany (RL1) that is found exclusively on dry grasslands on limestone soils 🪲. Suitable habitat management and traditional grazing regimes are needed to help the species survive 🌿🐑

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · May 31

Check out our new paper on the drivers of hedgy biodiversity 🌱🦗🐞🕷️

Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · May 30

Life at the (h)edge—Multidiversity in shrub ecotones is driven by habitat quality & shrub foliage cover 🌱🌏

To maximise biodiversity benefits across taxa, recommends managing shrub ecotones at the landscape scale, maintaining a mosaic of open & half-open shrub ecotones 📈🧪

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · May 29

I second this

Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · May 17

The field of taxonomy also has such rules - there having co-authors is often seen (especially among non-academic taxonomists) as weakness as it implies you could not do your work alone ... quite old fashioned views.

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