I am happy to share that our bilingual field guide is now published!🌳📖
It shows fruits, seeds & seedlings 🥭🌱 of 40 plant species of the Tropical Dry Forest at the Laipuna reserve, Ecuador.🌎

➡️ doi.org/10.5678/jcfh...

#Ecuador #TDF #RESPECT #FOR2730 #plantidentification #fruits #seeds #seedlings

The first paper of my PhD is out!😊

We conducted a in vivo seed-sowing experiment with 8 tree species in the Tropical Dry Forest, showing that seed size mediates the effects of environmental filters on recruiting seedlings.🌱☀️
doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...

#Seedlings #TDF #RESPECT #SBiK-F #LaipunaReserve

Super cool campaign advertising the often overlooked survivors in our cities 🌱🌾🌻
#Krautschau #SGN #biodiversity

Planning your garden? Think like a pollinator! 🐝

- Little Green Space

Jügen Homeier of @unigoettingen.bsky.social showed us that rare tree species contribute a lot to functional diversity in a tropical forest of Ecuador #ecte2025

Heute ist der Tag des "Unkrauts" (Weed Appreciation Day), eine Gelegenheit, die oft übersehenen und missverstandenen Pflanzen in unseren Gärten und Grünflächen zu würdigen.
Macht Ihr mit?
Siehe auch www.senckenberg.de/krautschau
#Krautschau #Stadtgrün

📣Our May issue is out now!📣

📗On the cover: a spotted nutcracker carrying a cone of Swiss stone pine, courtesy of Valentin Graf🐦

Read it here👇
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👀Behind the Paper!👀

🌲Valentin Graf, a PhD student at the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, discusses the importance of moving from species to individual scale in ecology, overcoming research setbacks, and the benefits of aerial fieldwork🐦

Read it here👇
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Can we use tree-related microhabitats (TreMs)🌳 as indicators of #tropical #biodiversity? Our new study led by Giovanni Bianco shows that TreM diversity actually increases with temperature and decreases with human impact on Kilimanjaro 🇹🇿 Now published in Ecological Indicators: doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

Happy to share that the first paper of my PhD is out!

We developed a trait-based framework 🌱🦜 to quantify how plant-frugivore interactions and animal movement shape plant functional connectivity—the dispersal of seeds between habitat patches.

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...