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Maximilian Hanusch
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Ecologist | loves Mosses and Mountains | Research on ecosystem dynamics | PostDoc @chemodiversity.bsky.social maximilianhanusch.github.io
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Hello Bluesky! 🌱 I’m a nature-loving ecologist with a soft spot for alpine plants. Join me for glimpses of their beauty! Happy to reconnect with old friends from Twitter and welcome new ones to share this journey. 🌿 #ecology #nature #alpinePlants
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#PhD position!

I’m looking for a PhD Student (1+3 years) to model insect populations using statistical models + deep learning at #TheoreticalEcology, Regensburg (Germany).

Join our team - please RT!

Details: karriere.uni-regensburg.de/tg7w9

#Insects #Ecology #DeepLearning #Ecology #Monitoring
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For those of you interested in plant chemical diversity, I highly recommend our latest preprint, led by Humay Newrzella. Her experimental efforts show the strong localized chemical responses to herbivory in Tanacetum. Great work with the wonderful @jpschnitzlerlab.bsky.social team
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Halloween-Moss
Tetraplodon mnioides likes to grow on dead animals (and humans).
England, Yorkshire, Upper Warfdale
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Airborne laser scanning reveals stone walls stretching several kilometers across Europe's Karst Plateau, on the border between Slovenia and Italy, likely built over 4,000 years ago to herd and corral red deer—a legacy of coordinated hunting. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/urYx50Xir5z
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Only 4 days left to apply for the coordinator position (7 years!) for the geo-biodiversity experiment platform in our @terra-cluster.org. If you love experiments, and you want to be part of an large amazing interdisciplinary project, go for it! @unituebingen.bsky.social @unihohenheim.bsky.social
JOB ALERT: Become our #TERRA #DIVERSITORIUM manager @unihohenheim.bsky.social. If you have extraordinary coordination skills & feel dedicated to bring the first large-scale #geodiversity manipulation experiment to a global success: Please apply & become a #TERRAnaut, see uni-tuebingen.de/en/285483!
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La diversité chimique des parfums floraux pourrait non seulement façonner la spécialisation/généralisation des assemblages de visiteurs floraux, mais aussi agir comme un mécanisme de régulation des communautés microbiennes.
Les espèces végétales aux profils olfactifs plus variés attirent davantage de pollinisateurs, mais présentent une diversité bactérienne plus faible
Floral scent chemodiversity 🌸🧪 increases generalization in interactions with pollinators 🪰 – but reduces diversity of bacteria 🧫🦠 associated with flowers. New publication led by @mhanusch.bsky.social. @chemodiversity.bsky.social @unimarburg.bsky.social @newphyt.bsky.social https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70600   Floral scent chemodiversity is associated with high floral visitor but low bacterial richness on flowers - Hanusch - New Phytologist - 22.10.2025 https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.70600   ------ ndé traduction (extrait)   Nos résultats révèlent qu'une grande diversité chimique des parfums floraux est associée à une richesse accrue des visiteurs des fleurs, mais à une richesse bactérienne réduite sur les fleurs. Ces résultats nous ont amenés à proposer l'« hypothèse du pollinisateur sale ». Notre hypothèse repose sur deux idées fondamentales : les fleurs dont les parfums sont chimiquement diversifiés attirent un plus large éventail de visiteurs, augmentant ainsi le potentiel de transmission microbienne ; et la diversité chimique des parfums floraux agit comme un filtre sélectif, atténuant les risques de colonisation microbienne indésirable en empêchant l'établissement de microbes nuisibles tout en permettant l'établissement d'un microbiome sain.   La diversité chimique des parfums floraux pourrait donc non seulement façonner la spécialisation/généralisation des assemblages de visiteurs floraux, mais aussi agir comme un mécanisme de régulation des communautés microbiennes.   En mettant en évidence la multifonctionnalité de la diversité chimique dans la structuration des interactions plante-animal et plante-microbe, notre étude fait progresser la compréhension de la diversité chimique et souligne son importance dans l'écologie végétale. Traduit avec DeepL.com (version gratuite)   ------ via Post de @robinheinennl.bsky.social — Bluesky, 22.10.2025  https://bsky.app/profile/robinheinennl.bsky.social/post/3m3rhcfsltk2x  
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🌟New PhD opportunity: 🌱🦠Predicting functional plant–microbiome networks for soil remediation 🌾🧫

The University of Manchester FSE Bicentenary PhD
Competition funded (worldwide)

Deadline 31st Jan, see info at bit.ly/4qn74qH

@manchester.ac.uk @rothamsted.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social
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The world is full of beautiful birding sites. On Birdingplaces.com birders share their knowledge about great places to watch birds. A not-for-profit and free platform that makes it easy to find birding areas. Great if you join us or add an area!

Green-headed Oriole (Oriolus chlorocephal)
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Happy that Lina Ojeda Prieto's latest work is online @funecology.bsky.social! We manipulated the number of plant chemotypes in a plot, and tested how this influenced visitation by different arthropod groups. A massive endeavor for Lina's PhD.
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Intraspecific plant chemodiversity at plot level has contrasting effects on arthropod functional groups
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
doi.org
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Floral scent chemodiversity 🌸🧪 increases generalization in interactions with pollinators 🪰 – but reduces diversity of bacteria 🧫🦠 associated with flowers. New publication led by @mhanusch.bsky.social. @chemodiversity.bsky.social @unimarburg.bsky.social
@newphyt.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
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Monday morning throwback to our wonderful meeting on #chemodiversity in Großbeeren – hosted by @nmvandam.bsky.social. Again a big thank you to Matthias Erb, Karin Gorzolka, @ainhoamartinez.bsky.social, Stefan Dötterl, Eva Castells, John D'Auria and Kirsten Leiss for their enlightening contributions.
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Sphagnum balticum taken yesterday in a wetland nature reserve #moss #bryophyte
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Morgen (am 25.9.25) erscheint mein Buch "Mutter Erde", geschrieben gemeinsam mit dem Wissenschaftsjournalisten Jörg Blech. Im Buch schildere ich auch den wissenschaftlichen Prozess der Erforschung des Bodens und seiner Ökologie.
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"Moss meets laser on a mountain" may sound like cheap clickbait, but is actually the topic of my recent paper in @journalofecology.bsky.social
Thanks a lot for the shout-out!
🏔️New study from the #Ödenwinkel glacier forefield! 3D-laser scans show that vegetation structural complexity uniquely captures competition between vascular plants and bryophytes. 🌱🌿 Structure, not cover, richness, or traits, drives the interactions @mhanusch.bsky.social 👇
buff.ly/bYgl6LD
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Thanks for setting up this platform, Ingolf and colleagues. Exciting times ahead for glacier forefield research :)
I am happy to share our new paper, introducing our glacier forefield study platform in the Dachstein and Berchtesgaden Mountains

https://we.copernicus.org/articles/25/157/2025/

#newpaper #glacierforefields #alps
And by coincidence just in time for the #imc2025
(Edited 10:17 via @skeetsapp.com)