Combining a suggested set of essential ecosystem variable with measurement protocols and associated costs.

#ecosystems #newPublication #xp [2/2]

Very successful week with another paper published: Steffen Zacharias et al.: Achieving Harmonized and Integrated Long-Term Environmental Observation of Essential Ecosystem Variables - The eLTER Framework of Standard Observations.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2025EF00... [1/2]

@ananovoaperez.bsky.social @giuseppebrundu.bsky.social @franzessl1.bsky.social @theresahenke.bsky.social

Twenty-five years of Neobiota: building a community for invasion science in Europe and beyond While the influential role of scientific associations in shaping research fields is well recognized, their impact within the domain of invasion science remains underexplored. This review combines qual...

#NewPaper out: "Twenty-five years of Neobiota: building a community for invasion science in Europe and beyond" by Ingo Kowarik and many great colleagues

#alienspecies #biologicalinvasions #neobiota

neobiota.pensoft.net/article/1732...

"Warnung vor nationalistisch ausgerichteter Kulturpolitik in #Sachsen-Anhalt

Gemeinsame Stellungnahme von Kulturinstitutionen Sachsen Anhalts".

Gut so. Warnt und wehrt euch.

A larger mountain lake surrounded by mostly snow-less mountains with scattered forests and krummholz. The landscape is mirrored in the lake below a blue sky with some clouds.

#silentSunday #xp

🐦 New PhD position!
@prfju.bsky.social @ckecz.bsky.social
Nest defence in passerine birds

Interested in animal behaviour, fieldwork and evolutionary ecology?
📅 Start July 2026 | ⏳ 4 years | 💰 Fully funded

Apply by May 10 → veselp03@jcu.cz / krausl07@jcu.cz

#PhDjobs #PhDchat #PhD #ornithology

SAVE THE DATE #Neobiota2026 is coming to Brussels Leave your contact details www.neobiota2026.org

If you haven't seen it yet, our international Conference on Connections between Biodiversity, Climate, and Human Behaviour is taking shape: cbc-conference.org Abstract deadline next Friday, 14 April. Great keynote speakers and nice side-events, please check out the programme or get in touch!

Job opportunities - Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité Créée en 2008, la FRB recherche régulièrement de nouveaux collaborateurs. Elle constitue un point de convergence entre la science et la société, autour des défis que doit aujourd’hui relever la recher...

[📢 Postdoc offer in Montpellier, France] Tree diversity effects on forest resilience to drought 🌲

Join the international team of the #DIV4DROUGHT project at the #FRB-CESAB

🔗 More informations: bit.ly/43uRz6Z
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Funded PhD Project: Barriers and opportunities for restoration in coffee production landscapes The University of Melbourne Restoration can benefit biodiversity while enhancing crop productivity through ecosystem services such as pollination and pest control. However, these benefits take time to materialise, while establishment costs and lost production are immediate. Therefore, the aim of this interdisciplinary PhD project is to explore the barriers, opportunities, and benefits from different types of restoration within coffee production landscapes. The successful applicant will conduct ecological field work and interviews in coffee farms in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest region and Australia’s north-east coast. This PhD will be integrated with an Australian Research Council “Linkage” project on optimising restoration to balance production and conservation objectives. Selection Criteria (essential): A master’s degree (including a research component) or a first-class honours degree (with thesis) in ecology, geography, or related disciplines. Fluency in Portuguese and English. Experience in social or ecological field work. Selection Criteria (desirable): Experience in GIS and statistics. Evidence of publishing in international journals. The successful applicant will be awarded an annual stipend of AUD$38,500 and relocation costs. The preferred start date is early 2027 (negotiable). They will be enrolled at The University of Melbourne and will be supervised by Dr. Rebecca Runting, Prof. Jean-Paul Metzger, Prof. Margie Mayfield, and Dr. Sofia Lopez-Cubillos. The successful applicant will also spend substantial time as a visiting student at Universidade de São Paulo, in Prof. Jean-Paul Metzger’s research group. To express interest please send a cover letter, CV and academic transcript to rebecca.runting@unimelb.edu.au by 30 June 2026, or contact for more information.

We're recruiting for two funded PhDs exploring restoration in agricultural landscapes!

Project 1: Barriers & opportunities for restoration in coffee landscapes
(see below for details)

Project 2: Spatial optimisation of restoration for ecosystem services
findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/opportunity/...

Naturschutz auch für Mikroorganismen! Eine Begründung findet Ihr in einem kurzen Editorial von @ninafarwig.bsky.social und mir in @claudialudy.bsky.social:
rdcu.be/fcyBT

We are hiring! Interested in doing a PhD and excited about forest management, ecosystem services, simulation modeling and beta diversity? Come work with us @edfm-tum.bsky.social at @tum.de, full job ad here: cloud.edfm.ls.tum.de/index.php/s/...

Cross-ecosystem linkages between freshwater insects and riparian birds across the USA - Nature Ecology & Evolution Aquatic insects such as mayflies, stoneflies and caddisflies are widely used for freshwater biomonitoring and could provide resource pulses to terrestrial insectivores. Here the authors show a positiv...

Continental-scale evidence that emergent aquatic insects sustain riparian birds, thus freshwater conservation offers considerable co-benefits to terrestrial ecosystems! A fun collaboration w/ postdoc @cschuerings.bsky.social

@uwsafs.bsky.social @uwenvironment.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Forest ground flora with a white flower of Helleborus niger, pink Daphne mezereum, blue Hepatica nobilis, as well as non-flowering Oxalis acetosella, Anemone nemorosa, Fragaria vesca, Carex spec.

How many species of vascular plants can you spot?

#springflowers #bloomscrolling
#xp

A stand of Leucojum vernum (spring snowflake/Märzenbecher).

A yellow/green pasture in the foreground, spruce forest in the middle and a massive snow covered mountain in the back. The picture is framed to the right by a spruce tree; a group pf spruce trees is to the left. The sky is blue withe several contrails and a few clouds.

Today we stayed in the valley - amd had a warm and sunny spring day.

#xp

New article! By Määttänen, @mariahallfors.bsky.social & me :-)

A sun-lit ridge and snow cornice covered in powder snow in the foreground, with a snow-covered, rocky mountain in the background. A blue sky with clouds.

Dramatic snow-covered, rocky limestone Mountains in the fog. A shallow slope with snow in the foreground.

Light and shadow are so close together. Yesterday I had a wonderful day of ski touring in the finest powder and good weather. Today, I struggled uphill in fog and wind and then downhill through the worst kind of slush.

#skitouring #skimountaineering
#xp

Screenshot von der Startseite zur Kampagne "geschwärzte Zutaten". Es wird behauptet, dass bald nicht mehr ersichtlich wäre, ob sich "gentechnisch veränderte DNA in unseren Lebensmitteln" befindet.

Die Kampagne setzt vor allem auf Weiterleitung der Share Pics und Videos bei WhatsApp und anderen Messengern.

Screenshot einiger Logos der beteiligten Organisationen, vor allem Demeter und andere Bio-Verbände

Angeführt von Demeter, haben viele Organisationen aus der Anthroposophie und Biolandbau-Bubble gerade eine neue Aktion gegen #Gentechnik gestartet. Anlass ist die letzte Abstimmungsphase zu einem jahrelang diskutierten EU-Gesetzentwurf zur Regulierung sog NGT-Pflanzen. Wir gucken uns das mal an:
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We present TaxonMatch, a tool designed to align taxonomic names, resolve synonymy, and correct typographical and structural inconsistencies across species name databases www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #biodiversity #taxonomy #bioinformatics

Get ready for the second webinar about open vegetation data, co-hosted with EVS!
On March 27, Martin Večeřa, Salza Palpurina, and Ilona Knollová will show us how to get from a vegetation-plot database to a GBIF dataset. Join the meeting at us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Addressing Gaps in Butterfly Population Monitoring to Catalyze Global Insect Conservation The conservation community sorely lacks a global indicator of change in insect populations. Given widespread insect declines, addressing this gap is key for conservation and policy targets. We sugges...

🚨🚨🚨Publication alert! 🚨🚨🚨

Taking a breather from #uproarchallenge, there's a new paper online today that was several years in the making (all the best papers are!):

conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Ein grüner Streifen Polarlicht mit drei Personen im Vordergrund

Polarlicht über einer Schneelandschaft

Polarlicht über einer Schneelandschaft

A long-held dream has come true 🤩 Aurora borealis in Finnish Lappland

The impacts of non‐native species on UK biodiversity and the effectiveness of control 1. The introduction of non-native species continues to cause ecological concern globally, but there have been no published reviews of their effects in the UK. Impacts in the UK are therefore reviewe...

If non-native species affect ecosystems, we need to demonstrate if and how these are negative impacts,

rather than simply assuming they are because the species are non-native

We made this point over 25 yrs ago, but still it has to be repeated
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Home page for available jobs at NINA with a photo of a red fox

Three PhD positions are open at NINA: seabird ecology in a changing arctic (25 mar), areal planning and land use change (15 apr) and geospatial AI tools for fine-scale ecosystem accounting (15 apr). Study applied ecology at a major research institute in Norway! nina-english.attract.reachmee.com/jobs

In 10h of field work, we further ruined one sediment corer, one snowshoe and a glove.

This is not what successful #fieldwork looks like...

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A pit in the snow on a lake surrounded by Mountains. In the pit are two scietists in black clothes, bowing to drive the corer into the sediment. Hazy blue sky.

Third attempt to get sediments from the "Unterer Eissee" beneath the Hallstätter Glacier, Austria. We carried our equipment three hours up, partially steep slopes and deep snow. In 1.5h, we dug a 1.6 m pit into the snow on the lake and moved c. 2. [1/3]

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

A groomed Nordic Skiing track through a spruce and pine forest between two snow covered hills. Cloudy sky.

An open snow coverd plain with coniferous and birch trees around. Grey sky.

I never did 35km of Nordic Skiing before. And was quite hungry after...

#xp

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