🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲
👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest
This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity!
Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚
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We are looking for a postdoc (up to five years) interested in climate-driven plant extinctions! Working with @manuelsteinbauer.bsky.social and me and a large team on various aspects of Earth system sciences.
More information here: fau-earth-system-science.github.io
Very happy that Hamza Shafiq recently joined my group as a PhD student. With a background in biophysics, Hamza will study the movement behaviour of predators and prey and how it affects their trophic interaction: frank-pennekamp.info/people/curre...
New seminar series just dropped, this is going to be fun!
These are the people I want to hang out with over lunch break 🌮🥪🥙🍙
Thanks to @vojsavagjoni.bsky.social for leading us!
Conclusion: Energy use isn't size-independent when environments change and undergoes temporal change. Mediated by species interactions, temperature and biodiversity jointly shape community size structure. This has implications for predicting ecological responses to global warming.
How do these responses change over time? The slope stayed near -0.75 for half of the experiment, then deviated to become shallower. Comparing real communities vs. "no interaction" controls showed that species interactions - not just individual physiology - drive these changing patterns over time.
In species-rich communities, warming favored small protists much more than large ones, steepening the size-abundance slope. At low richness? Temperature had minimal effect. This suggests that complex species interactions amplify thermal effects on community size structure.
Metabolic theory predicts a -0.75 slope: smaller organisms are more abundant. We confirmed this overall pattern across 53 protist communities spanning 1 to 6 species and 15 to 25°C. But here's the caveat: temperature and richness INTERACT to modify this relationship, not just shift the intercept.
Does body size predict abundance the same way in all environments, as predicted by the Metabolic theory of Ecology? Our new study challenges this assumption. Read it here: 📄 doi.org/10.1111/ele....
New paper out in Ecology Letters!
“The Imbalance of Nature: The Role of Species Environmental Responses for Community Stability”
📖 Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We tried to answer the question: What drives community stability in fluctuating environments?
Job Alert
@qmulsbbs.bsky.social is advertising a position:
Environmental Analytical Facility Technician.
Join our team #ecology, #stable #isotopes, #Mass-spectrometer
Will check it out 😍
A new 4 year PostDoc position in our lab! Modeling + experiments to explore dynamics of carbon fixing hot-spring microbiomes. Part of an exciting multidisciplinary team with Sophie Nixon, @brockhurstlab.bsky.social & others
Please share & get in touch if interested!
tinyurl.com/e7j7bha3
A blue poster describing opportunities to join the Bernhardt Lab -- for more information please see https://www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us
✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨
Please spread the word!
www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us
#CSEE2025
PhD position in theoretical ecology: Excited to announce an open PhD position in my lab (U. Amsterdam) aimed at exploring how different functional response types emerge from animal movement behaviours. Applications are due July 18th: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
#ecology
#phd
Another week to apply. Please RT!
Please apply, if you are interested in experimental ecology involving microorganisms, 3D tracking, and bridging between data and functional response theory.
The project involves a close collaboration with Prof. Benjamin Martin (University of Amsterdam) and Prof. Andrew Hein (Cornell University).
Are you interested in predator-prey interactions and movement ecology?
I am looking for a PhD student to work on the project "A mechanistic theory of functional responses: zooming into movement behaviour to understand and predict predator-prey interactions"
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/342402.
Come and join our thematic session on Dynamical Ecological Networks @britishecolsoc.bsky.social on Friday 10:00-12:00 in Auditorium 1A #BES24 #networks #foodwebs #theory
Our speakers are:
Hi Billur, exciting pack, could you please add me? Thanks!
Three research assistant positions are now open to work in Community Ecology at the Basque Centre for Climate Change. All info here: info.bc3research.org/2024/11/27/t...
My commute is ridiculously scenic… Eawag institute on Lake Luzern, Switzerland 🇨🇭. Great place to sabbatical and/or send students for research visits (eg 3-6 months is usually possible).
🚨JOB 🚨Would a title "Professor of Life History Evolution" suit you? If yes... Become a colleague of us here in Mainz! I am happy to provide more information if this intrigues you.
cms.zdv.uni-mainz.de/karriere/wp-...
Oil and gas extraction regions are the hotspots of light-emitting human activity in the Arctic
Industrial activity in the Arctic is rapidly increasing and now we can map hotspots of development at pan-Arctic scale. Our latest paper is out.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Starting here in the best way: presenting a new paper.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Have a look at our new proposed way of calculating response diversity when multiple environmental drivers change simultaneously.
