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...

Cross-ecosystem linkages between freshwater insects and riparian birds across the USA 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We currently are looking for a postdoctoral research associate (3 years with possibility to extend) with experience in community ecology, and ideally a good match with our group profile; biodiversity, land use change and urban ecology.

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The American Naturalist classic cover

Disturbance Interacts with Dispersal and Niche Breadth to Shape Scale-Dependent Diversity Change in Metacommunities by Hajian-Forooshani and Chase

Available now ahead of print!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Adalia bipunctata, commonly known as the two-spot ladybird.

Lady beetles have declined in abundance by 39% since 1993 in experimental plots in Michigan. Rather than a steady decline, researchers found ups and downs with different rates of change and apparent drivers among species and across habitats. In PNAS Nexus: https://ow.ly/94Ur50YAFBG

🦋 Do you think you can read nature's patterns better than an AI? We just released an interactive challenge that puts human intuition to the test.

🔗 No expertise required, and anyone is invited to participate! Try ANTENNA's Biodiversity Forecasting Challenge here: pollinators-antenna.eu/forecasting

A red mason bee (Osmia bicornis) in its winter quarters, a reed stalk. It has just hatched and is preparing to leave the nest. (Image: Cristina Ganuza / University of Würzburg)

A large-scale experiment shows that warmth brings #bees and #wasps out of #hibernation earlier – leaving some of them with poorer starting conditions. New paper @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social @funecology.bsky.social #climatechange
➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...

Do you work on how environmental stressors drive insect population & community dynamics? Why not consider submitting a Letter of Intent to the special issue in #RESAgForestEnt on the subject?

Info here ⬇️
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Deadline: 30 June 2026 ⏰

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📢 The new programme for the Ecology Seminar is out - starting tomorrow!🐝🚜🐦

Everyone who is interested is invited to join.
🗓️ Wednesdays at 10:15 a.m. CET
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🌳🔬 Forschungsduell im Blätterdach: Wer gewinnt das Duell um die Krone?

Wasserstress, Nährstoffhaushalt, und mehr - Proben aus der Baumkrone helfen uns, den Zustand unserer Wälder zu verstehen. Aber wie kommt man an die Proben?

Teaser hier, ganzer Film auf YouTube: youtu.be/CSGO046Ahqo

Increasing risks of post-experimental ecology - Nature Climate Change Nature Climate Change - Increasing risks of post-experimental ecology

There are ways in which I agree with this (strongly!), yet also, ways that I disagree (experiments are not the end-all be-all solution…scaling problems there!)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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

Nature conservation e.g. by NGO Fundacion Jocotoco, can help to bend the curve of biodiversity decline. The graph shows how large parts of the diversity comes back due to natural regeneraion of a rainforest. It illustrates the main finding of our study published in Nature: Protection restores 90% of species diversity in 30 years.

Good news! #Biodiversity🦜🐜🐒🐸 in a tropical #rainforest 🌴🇪🇨can naturally recover quickly 📈 (if the conditions are suitable = enough surrounding forest). Our new study in #Nature
#forestecol #restoration @jocotoco.bsky.social
www.reassembly.de/posts/recove...
www.reassembly.de/news/rainfor...

Spider with a rounded body covered in white spots and two upward-curving horn-like projections on its back sitting on a green leaf with web strands around it

What if a predator hides in plain sight, by mimicking a deadly parasite?
A newly described spider from the Amazon (Taczanowskia waska) imitates a fungus that infects other spiders - combining appearance and behaviour to stay undetected. #LIBresearch

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Figure 4 Yang (2026): (a) shoot biomass ratio (natives/range-expanders [RE]) of plants with and without grasshopper herbivory (Control, grasshopper) directly after summer drought; (b) survival ratio (natives/RE) of plants during rewetting, and (c) shoot biomass ratio (natives/RE) during rewetting under drought (including drought legacy effects from previous years) and under soil conditioning by natives (native legacy) and range-expanders (RE legacy) in soils from the Netherlands (North) or Hungary (South). The horizontal line represents a ratio equal to 1 (i.e., Shoot biomassrange-expanders = Shoot biomassnatives, Survivalrange-expanders = Survivalnative). Means ± 1 SE.

New publication: #Insect #herbivores reduce #plant #biomass loss and enhance plant #recovery in response to extreme #drought, by @ciskaveen.bsky.social and others.
doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

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

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/...

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity as part of DFG Research Training Group "GönomiX" at the University of Göttingen!
​We are seeking a bioinformatician/scientist to study cross-species comparison of Gene Regulatory Networks using our "Göttingen Zoo" of emerging model systems.
#GoenomiX
@bucherlab.bsky.social

LCAB Postdoctoral recruitment The Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity (LCAB) is a major research centre funded by the Leverhulme Trust to increase knowledge of how the relationship between humanity and the natural worl...

Are you looking for a Post-doc related to biodiversity? We might have just the role for you! @anthropocenebio.bsky.social are curently advertising 10 (yes!) post-docs covering natural & social science of biodivesity. Come work with us & share with anyone appropriate! sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...

Biodiversity Insurance of Forest Productivity Has Strengthened Under Recent Climate Change

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Come join us! We're recruiting 3 new academic posts in the School of Biology, University of Leeds, closing 23/04/26.

Assoc Prof Plant Science tinyurl.com/4x48jc78
Assoc Prof Animal Biology tinyurl.com/2s4sk85s
Lecturer in Ecology, Zoology, Biodiversity or Ecosystem Management: tinyurl.com/39dwp47j

Scenic spring retreat with our team at the historical observatory @uni-goettingen.de

From field updates & planning our upcoming drought experiment "ResCUE" to impressive progress reports by our PhD candidates & Postdocs - thanks to everyone who organised, participated and to our hosts!

🌱🌼

We're accepting proposals for our Special Feature!

We invite scientists and practitioners to share experiences from management projects that didn't go to plan, but still provided important insights into how best to manage ecosystems and species🌱

⏰Submit by 30th April

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New work in #RESAgForestEnt

Epigeal #arthropods in small-scale oil palm #plantations of Central America driven by landscape-scale habitat disturbance
doi.org/10.1111/afe.70046

#Biodiversity
@jordancuff.bsky.social @chrisranger.bsky.social @ukladybirds.bsky.social

Photo credits: Alessia Pilati

Happy to see our antifragility paper published! With @jonaswickman.bsky.social and @chrisklausmeier.bsky.social.

Reducing ploughing promotes ground-nesting flying insects Many flying insects, such as bees, wasps, and hoverflies, live aboveground, but depend on soil for nesting, development, and overwintering. In agricul…

New #AGEE paper out 🎉 Insect #conservation also happens below ground: ploughing #wildflower strips resets ground-nesting flying insects 🚜 Leaving strips unploughed for just two years can strongly benefit bees, wasps, flies, moths and more 🐝 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (OA)

Suburban land management impacts bee community composition and cucumber (Cucumis sativus) pollination - Urban Ecosystems Urban green spaces can provide quality habitat for insect pollinators. However, few studies have investigated the quality of pollination services provided by urban insect pollinator communities or com...

🐝 New paper alert! 🐝

It took longer than I hoped, but the cucumber paper from my dissertation is finally out in the world!

Surprisingly we found that cucumber pollination was negatively related to total bee abundance. Bees do not all pollinate with equal quality!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Adding dogs to ggplot2 with ggdogs Add dogs to ggplot2 charts instead of points with ggdogs. There are 15 types of dogs available to select using the geom_dog function of the package

ggdogs already exists: r-charts.com/miscellaneou...

Jobs | Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart Offene Stellen

Postdoc in Macroevolution - Deadline April 12th -

Join a team of Stuttgart botanists & myself to test drivers of Angiosperm diversification! Fully open process

Submit cover letter, CV, 3 referees & publication list in a single PDF to postdoc-botany@smns-bw.de + 3 key papers (if possible) as PDF

PhD student wanted!

Project focused on synzoochoric seed dispersal (oaks and jays) and its effects on tree recruitment 🌱🦅 More details here:

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