Sphaerocarpos cf europaeus, a strange looking liverwort growing on bare disturbed soil in extensively managed arable fields, endangered across Europe 🌿

Choropleth map of fertilizer application per hectare of cropland in 2023, measured in kilograms of total nutrient per hectare, where East and South Asian countries and Brazil show the highest application rates while much of Africa and some other regions show low application. Data source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025). License: CC BY.

📊 Billions of people depend on synthetic fertilizers. Track how they're produced, traded, and used.

Fertilizers have played an essential role in feeding a growing global population. It's estimated that just under half of the people alive today are dependent on synthetic fertilizers.

Sphagnum capillifolium with a view #moss #bryophyte

Bird Mimics Chainsaw, Car Alarm and More | World's Weirdest YouTube video by Nat Geo Animals

Thinking about his old gem
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjAc...

Only one week left to apply for the full professorship in Experimental Biodiversity Research at our institute @unituebingen.bsky.social ! Please re-post.

Naturschutz auch für Mikroorganismen! Eine Begründung findet Ihr in einem kurzen Editorial von @ninafarwig.bsky.social und mir in @claudialudy.bsky.social:
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Zwei Luftbilder desselben Gebiets in Baden-Württemberg: links 1968 in Schwarz-Weiß mit offenen, strukturreichen Flächen, rechts 2019 in Farbe mit deutlich mehr geschlossener Waldfläche. Sichtbarer Struktur- und Nutzungswandel der Landschaft.

Luftbilder von 1968 zeigen in BW einen gravierenden Verlust an Offenlandbiotopen durch Aufforstung & Sukzession. Heute sind Wälder zudem geschlossener – ohne die früher zahlreichen Lichtungen, Schläge oder offenen Felsbereiche, die für viele Nachtfalter (& andere Tiere) wichtige Lebensräume waren.

Digitally native species are a necessary shift in taxonomic practice Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 07 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s44358-026-00156-yBiodiversity science laments how little is known about the planet’s biodiversity, yet routinely discards much of the taxonomic evidence generated during species description. Digitally native species conceived and maintained in machine-actionable environments can both address shortcomings and broaden participation in taxonomy.

New online! Digitally native species are a necessary shift in taxonomic practice

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@uni-goettingen.de has an opening for a junior group leader position in Ecological Novelty (6 years, no tenure - due to the specific funding it's restricted to female applicants) 🧪👩‍🔬

www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht...

Deadline April 19th 📅

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/...

6/ I think saying ‘our gardens are bigger than all our national nature reserves’ is misleading because it individualises the problem.

Nature-friendly gardening is great, but political action is more important, & we really need the Government to create more nature reserves!

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Organ‐specific terpenoid responses in Tanacetum vulgare are chemotype‐dependent Common tansy varieties defend differently: some boost root chemicals against soil pests, while others release stronger leaf scents against aphids.

This paper provides a phytochemical framework for understanding above- versus belowground herbivore interactions.
From @jpschnitzler.net, @robinheinennl.bsky.social, @terrecolgroup.bsky.social et al.

Read #OpenAccess in our societies journal #PlantBiology #PlantSci
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Introducing ggauto: automating better charts – Nicola Rennie The ggauto package is an opinionated ggplot2 extension package that aims to help people make better charts by default. This blog post explains why it exists and how it works.

🎉 ggauto is now on CRAN 🎉

An #RStats package that selects better chart types, and provides more accessible styling for #ggplot2 plots 📊

Blog post explaining why I made it and how it works: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu...

#DataViz

Studierende der Uni Hohenheim & Forschende von Senckenberg Gesellschaft und Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart entdecken invasive Ameisenart. EU stuft Asiatische Nadelameise (Brachyponera chinensis) als besonders problematisch ein. Studie in „Zootaxa“: t1p.de/5kkoh
@sgn.one @smnstuttgart.bsky.social

Contrasting thermophilization among forests, grasslands and alpine summits - Nature Analyses of large-scale, multitaxa and long-term thermophilization patterns in forests, grasslands and alpine summits across Europe provide insight into shifts in community composition among different...

The thermophilisation rate of plant communities in response to global warming is 5 times faster on alpine summits than in forests or grasslands across 🇪🇺

This finding corroborates former findings on the greater likelihood for upslope than poleward range shifts of plants 🌳🌲☘️🌾🪻🌼

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📢 PhD position in Vegetation Ecology (@ Leibniz University Hannover)

Join our team to study long-term coastal vegetation dynamics under sea-level rise, climate & land-use change. Fieldwork, traits, spatial analyses & drones included.

Deadline: April 15, 2026

Nice to find a new record of Scopelophila cataractae (Tounge-leaf Copper-moss) a rare Metallophyte species that grows on old mine sites high in Copper,Lead and Zinc,here growing on fine hard compacted mine waste at Penryhnmawer on the Llyn Peninsula on Sunday @bbsbryology.bsky.social

A Global Conservation Blind Spot: Neglect of Bryophytes Undermines Biodiversity Targets Bryophytes, including mosses, liverworts, and hornworts, are among the most ancient and widespread land plants, yet they remain a major blind spot in global biodiversity conservation. Using global sp...

A Global Conservation Blind Spot: Neglect of Bryophytes Undermines Biodiversity Targets

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ZDF heute Sendung vom 21. März 2026 Mit folgenden Themen: Angriff auf die iranische Atomanlage Natans, Weniger Geld für Psychotherapeuten; weiteren Nachrichten, dem Sport und dem Wetter.

BAdW-Gletscherforscher Christoph Mayer über den Gletscherschwund auf der Zugspitze (ab Minute 12:37): www.zdfheute.de/video/heute-...

#Gletscher #Zugspitze

Fig. 1 Sequential herbivory and the results of Delamore et al. (2025, doi: 10.1111/nph.70822).

Eaten alive: how plants cope with sequential herbivory

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👆 A #Commentary by @robinheinennl.bsky.social on this article by Delamore et al.
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#LatestIssue #PlantScience

A handbook for standardised measurements of plant reproductive traits: from pollen grain to seedling url: connectsci.au/bt/article/7...

This handbook discussed protocols for 58 reproductive traits of flowers (10 traits), fruits (6 traits), seeds (36 traits), and seedlings (6 traits).

New #Sci #Job !
Together with six other PI’s we are looking for two PhD students and a Postdoc for our LEAP project, which is part of @greenrobust.de

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Contact me for thesis opportunities 🦇 @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social

A patch of flowers on a rock. Small rosa flowers. Mountains with a bit of snow in the background

A bird with a grey head and reddish plumage in the front. Mountain Forest in the background

This week‘s drop in temperatures has lead to fresh snowfall in the mountains. I stayed indoors and enjoyed memories of last Sunday‘s hike with Erica in flower and alpine accentor singing close by #birds #alps #plants

Mosses are great up close. This sporophyte would open and close as I breathed on it. Sadly I could not get a good video of it. #oakland #moss #bryophytes

The University of Tübingen seeks applications for a W3-Professorship in Experimental Biodiversity Research starting Oct 1, 2027. Apply by April 26, 2026. More info: https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/213700 #job

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

We search for a postdoc focusing on the molecular ecology of #bryophytes 🌱🧬🔬. Join our work @sgn.one Institute for Plant Form and Function and @uni-jena.de

🗓️Deadline: March 29, 2026
👉 More Infos and Apply here: www.senckenberg.de/de/stellenan...

Photo of a tuft of Shagnum moss that’s off white to light and medium green in colour. The branches of the moss plants look feathery, radiating out from the centre.

Sphagnum moss. #Newfoundland, Canada. #moss #bryophyte #plants
Photo covers about 6cm, left to right.

A small plant of Draba aizoides with bright yellow flowers growing on a limestone rock. Snow covered mountains in the background.

A small plant of Draba aizoides with bright yellow flowers growing on a limestone rock. Snow covered mountains in the background.

As the snow melts, the first flowers appear on the sun-warmed rocks. Spring has arrived to the mountains 🏔️🌼