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Reassembly Research Unit
@reassemblynet.bsky.social
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We study the recovery of a rainforest (Chocó, Ecuador). Resistance and resilience of species interaction networks and ecosystem processes. DFG-funded (FOR 5027) www.reassembly.de
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Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · Sep 20
Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social
Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃
www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...
Ecological synthesis including forest ecosystems, grassland, land use, climate change, time series, stability, ecosystem functioning, biodiversity, species interaction networks
reassemblynet.bsky.social
Reassembly und 🌴Regenwald-Regeneration im Kontext der Klimakrise.
Sehenswerte Vorlesungsreihe an der Uni Mainz @zukunftjgu.bsky.social
Kurzbericht:
www.reassembly.de/news/reassem...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIzT...
Kann sich der Regenwald wieder regenerieren? | #voicesforclimate mit Prof. Dr. Nico Blüthgen
YouTube video by OKTV Mainz
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November 4, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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wildwoods.bsky.social
Burying millions of tons of wood, which would require disturbing many thousands of acres of land, sounds like such a great idea. Just like carbon offsets were a good idea. Let's do anything else but deal with the actual problem.
October 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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wildwoods.bsky.social
“We already know what works to stop forest loss, but countries, companies, and investors are only scratching the surface. And even those initial efforts are facing strong pushback from the standard bearers of an economic system built on forest destruction.” 🌍 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Dismal’ health of world’s forests is threat to humanity, report warns
Financial institutions pouring money into land clearance and undermining efforts to stop destruction, says Climate Focus
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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bigearthdata.bsky.social
Banks make $26bn in decade of financing deforesting companies
->Global Witness | More from Lil' Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai
Banks make $26bn in decade of financing deforesting companies
Deforestation in the region of Maraba, Para state, Brazil Key findings US financial institutions made $5.4 billion from deforesting companies between 2016-2024, with Vanguard, JPMorgan Chase and BlackRock the top earners. EU bank...
globalwitness.org
October 14, 2025 at 2:47 AM
reassemblynet.bsky.social
Ein Beweis gefällig, dass zuviel FLEISCH 🥩 dumm macht? Konservative WURSTesser können offenbar nicht lesen & "Veggiburger" 🍔 wegen begrifflicher Verwechslungsgefahr nicht tolerieren.
Winner of the Day: Massentierhaltung & Klimawandel, Prost! (mit alkfreiem "Bier"? 🍻)
www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/e...
Entscheidung im Streit über Bezeichnung: EU-Parlament stimmt für »Veggie-Burger«-Verbot
Veggie-Schnitte statt -Schnitzel? Straßburg hat über die Bezeichnung von Fleischalternativen entschieden. Nun müssen die Staaten ausloten, ob solche Produkte bald nicht mehr Wurst oder Schnitzel heiße...
www.spiegel.de
October 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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annarl.bsky.social
Excited to share that the second paper of my PhD is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🍈🦜🍒🐒🍊🐿️

We show that the functional diversity of seed-dispersal interactions in tropical forests takes circa 20 years to recover after deforestation.

You can read it here: www.cell.com/current-biol...
Delayed recovery of seed-dispersal interactions after deforestation
Landim et al. show that seed-dispersal interactions require about two decades to functionally recover in tropical forests in Ecuador, but the recovery time of seed-dispersal functions is delayed in pa...
www.cell.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:19 PM
reassemblynet.bsky.social
#Jane #Goodall She was an incredibly inspiring person for #nature #conservation, appreciation of #wildlife ... and to never give up in the fight for justice! RIP.

May her legacy survive: “giving #young #people #hope and … a sense of #empowerment.”

edition.cnn.com/2025/10/01/e...
Conservationist Jane Goodall, whose work revolutionized the study of primates, has died | CNN
Jane Goodall, whose lifelong work as a primatologist helped broaden the world’s understanding of animal behavior and emotions, has died, her institute said Wednesday. She was 91.
edition.cnn.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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reassemblynet.bsky.social
Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social
Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃
www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...
Ecological synthesis including forest ecosystems, grassland, land use, climate change, time series, stability, ecosystem functioning, biodiversity, species interaction networks
September 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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bexplo.bsky.social
👉 Interested in joining our #Bexplo Synthesis Team?
Apply now – the deadline is October 25!
🔗 www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...
reassemblynet.bsky.social Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · Sep 20
Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social
Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃
www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...
Ecological synthesis including forest ecosystems, grassland, land use, climate change, time series, stability, ecosystem functioning, biodiversity, species interaction networks
September 22, 2025 at 7:15 AM
reassemblynet.bsky.social
Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social
Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃
www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...
Ecological synthesis including forest ecosystems, grassland, land use, climate change, time series, stability, ecosystem functioning, biodiversity, species interaction networks
September 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
reassemblynet.bsky.social
Forest bird communities 🦜recover -- and their choires captured by sound recorders 🎤🎶-- but biodiversity recovery is hampered in agricultural landscapes where tropical forests disappeared!
New study led by @cofeuniwue.bsky.social published in Conservation Letters
www.reassembly.de/news/impover...
August 21, 2025 at 9:59 AM
reassemblynet.bsky.social
Pristimantis latidiscus #frogs bury their eggs! Froglets 🐸 from experimentally disturbed egg clutches hatched earlier - potentially to reduce predation risk. New paper by Niklas Fuchs and M.-O. Rödel @roedellab.bsky.social from the Ecuadorian rainforest.
www.reassembly.de/news/scienti...
August 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
reassemblynet.bsky.social
What do Blue-bellied Whiptail 🦎lizards eat? And how? Natural history notes on Holcosus bridgesii in 🇪🇨Ecuadorian #rainforest 🌴published in #Herpetological_Review by @roedellab.bsky.social
They feed on earthworms (see picture) and four other diets that are nastier
www.reassembly.de/news/what-wh...
August 20, 2025 at 8:27 AM
reassemblynet.bsky.social
Poison frogs 🐸 with fly 🪰 parasite? First record of myiasis in a frog in Ecuador by Michelle Vélez, Mónica Guerra @roedellab.bsky.social and others published in the Intern. J. for Parasitology:
www.reassembly.de/news/poison-...
The picture shows a Oophaga sylvatica with four lesions caused by flesh-fly larvae
June 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
reassemblynet.bsky.social
Playing death: Thin-toed Frogs 🐸🐸

To avoid being eaten by a predator 🐍- or to be stepped on by a researcher 🥾- Leptodactylus rhodomerus displays death-feigning ☠️. ‪Discovered by roedellab.bsky.social‬ www.reassembly.de/news/playing...g/
May 20, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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christianhof.bsky.social
Mit der @fr-zeitung.bsky.social hatte ich die Freude, über unser Forschungsthema #Biodiversität im #Klimawandel zu sprechen. Danke!
www.fr.de/politik/fors...
Forscher schlägt Alarm: „Größtes Artensterben seit den Dinosauriern“
Der Biologe Christian Hof spricht über den Einfluss der Klimakrise auf die stark bedrohte Artenvielfalt. Ein Interview von Theresa Stoll.
www.fr.de
May 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
reassemblynet.bsky.social
Whow! Riesenholzwespen sind beeindruckend - aber einer ihrer Parasiten noch mehr! Gestern entdeckt: Die riesige Ichneumonide MEGARHYSSA PERLATA auf Totholz - drängelnde Männchen, eierlegende Weibchen.
youtu.be/QKAIGg5F4wM
www.inaturalist.org/observations/2
Megarhyssa perlata: a giant ichneumonid wasp. Mating and egg laying on tree trunk.
YouTube video by Nico Blüthgen
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May 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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ymalhi.bsky.social
In our new paper in @science.org, we show that tropical forests are changing over time, but too slowly to track climate change. Our article, led by @jeaggu.bsky.social just out:

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@oxfordgeography.bsky.social
@naturerecovery.bsky.social
@forestplots.bsky.social
Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change
Understanding the capacity of forests to adapt to climate change is of pivotal importance for conservation science, yet this is still widely unknown. This knowledge gap is particularly acute in high-b...
www.science.org
March 7, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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reassemblynet.bsky.social
Good news! 🌴 Reassembly at the #ECTE2025 conference in Amsterdam... and featured in MONGABAY in the same week:
www.reassembly.de/news/reassem...

news.mongabay.com/2025/02/an-e...
An Ecuadorian hotspot shows how forests can claw back from destruction
Can a tropical forest mend itself? After trees are cut down and wildlife flees, do microbes on the dank, leafy floor and woody giants with epiphyte-laden crowns come back; do the pollinators, seed dis...
news.mongabay.com
February 27, 2025 at 9:51 PM
reassemblynet.bsky.social
Sample coverage matters: succession of #bird communities along a #chronosequence of a recovering tropical #rainforest.
🦜🕊️🦉🌱🌴
www.reassembly.de/news/sample-...
March 5, 2025 at 8:28 AM
reassemblynet.bsky.social
Good news! 🌴 Reassembly at the #ECTE2025 conference in Amsterdam... and featured in MONGABAY in the same week:
www.reassembly.de/news/reassem...

news.mongabay.com/2025/02/an-e...
An Ecuadorian hotspot shows how forests can claw back from destruction
Can a tropical forest mend itself? After trees are cut down and wildlife flees, do microbes on the dank, leafy floor and woody giants with epiphyte-laden crowns come back; do the pollinators, seed dis...
news.mongabay.com
February 27, 2025 at 9:51 PM
reassemblynet.bsky.social
More than half of the Reassembly team participates at the great #ECTE2025 conference... and warms up for their talks tomorrow at a hot pot restaurant. #tropical #ecology
February 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
reassemblynet.bsky.social
#Reassembly of a tropical #rainforest: A new #chronosequence in the #Chocó tested with the #recovery of #ree attributes
Our basic article is now online, with all the information on our study design and exciting results for trees.
www.reassembly.de/posts/basic-...
February 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
reassemblynet.bsky.social
Tightly snuggling up 🐍❤️🐍 #snake #courtship behaviour of the Chocó endemic Northern Eyelash Boa #Tropidophis boulengeri described for the first time!
@roedellab.bsky.social
www.reassembly.de/news/snuggli...
Tropidophis boulengeri copulation. Foto by Moira Wiedebusch.
February 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
reassemblynet.bsky.social
Nuestro tercer boletín está listo. ¡Gracias a todos los estudiantes de doctorado e investigadores postdoctorales que contribuyeron con sus historias! 🇪🇨🌴🪲🐗
www.reassembly.de/posts/tercer...
Tercer Boletín – REASSEMBLY
www.reassembly.de
January 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM