Sehr empfehlenswerter Artikel 📰 - danke für das detaillierte Interview! Habe mich verleiten lassen, ein paar neue Ideen für Renaturierung zu äußern... (mehr Kühe 🐄, Bodentransfer statt Bäumepflanzen, Klimarisiken 🌤️).
Ecologists should always think about experiments for their study systems, clean & replicated manipulations to separate mechanism from correlation! Any scale from petri dish to forest. The "Sythetic" Ecology metaphor may offer a good excuse to do it :) See my response in Matthias' blog (Nico)
Sehr (!) empfehlenswerter Podcast! 📻
🆕 insights how #frugivorous #birds 🦜and #mammals 🐒shape the functional #trait distribution of #seed rain 🌱in a recovering #tropical #rainforest 🌴: a paper led by @annarl.bsky.social 📝 in @journalofecology.bsky.social
#restoration #biodiversity #forestecol
www.reassembly.de/news/its-rai...
Better late than never 😅
Happy to share that the final paper of my PhD was out this February in @journalofecology.bsky.social ! We asked: what drives the functional recovery of seed rain as tropical forests regnerate after disturbances? 🫘🌿
@reassemblynet.bsky.social #restoration #forestecol
Trees🌳 provide multiple #microhabitats which support a high #biodiversity of organisms🪲🐜🦠
Do these #TreMs recover in a secondary #tropical #rainforest?
Not fully, shown by @rhausmann.bsky.social @cofeuniwue.bsky.social in #Biological #Conservation
#forestecol
www.reassembly.de/news/seconda...
Great news - tropical forests are resilient!
Long-term research in Ecuador's Chocó rainforest shows that nature bounced back quickly after deforested land was abandoned
Diversity and abundance of species reached 90% of original levels within 30 years
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Intact #tropical #forests 🌴🌴 can buffer hot and dry extremes 🌞 by >6°C. When do recovering #secondary forests recover this capability?
New paper Felicity Newell et al. in Agricult Forest Meteorol
#forestecol #restoration #climate @jocotoco.bsky.social
www.reassembly.de/news/how-muc...
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...
Big effort, exciting results - our paper on the constraints of thermal limits in tropical insects is now out in @nature.com! 🦋🐝🪰🪲🦗
@ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social
@biologie-uniwue.bsky.social
@uni-wuerzburg.de
BE20 - Emerging Topics in Long-Term and Large-Scale Biodiversity Research
The Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social warmly invite *all* #biodiversity #researchers worldwide to join (celebrating the 20th anniversary).
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION AND EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO MARCH 2, 2026
www.biodiversity-exploratories.de/en/be20/
Pale billed aracari (Pteroglossus erythropygius) - one of the important fruit dispersing birds.
Fruitful🫐 experiment in a restored tropical cloud forest! 🌴🌱🇪🇨
New paper by @biopedroluna.bsky.social in Buenaventura reserve @jocotoco.bsky.social based on small & large artificial fruits #Biodiversity #Conservation #Restoration #forestecol
www.reassembly.de/news/fruitfu...
BE20 - Emerging Topics in Long-Term and Large-Scale Biodiversity Research
The Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social warmly invite *all* #biodiversity #researchers worldwide to join (celebrating the 20th anniversary).
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION AND EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO MARCH 2, 2026
www.biodiversity-exploratories.de/en/be20/
Tropical rainforests are structurally complex
Can tropical rainforests 🌴🌎🇪🇨 regain their structural complexity in 40 years? Yes! Shown by @martinehbrecht.bsky.social et al. in their new article in @journalofecology.bsky.social
www.reassembly.de/news/recover...
The new Bothrocophias pitviper found in the Tesoro reserve. Foto by Mark-Oliver Rödel.
hisssss.... 🐍
Geographically and taxonomically unexpected:
A 🆕(?) pitviper from the lowland rainforest in the Ecuadorian Chocó 🌴🇪🇨 discovered by @roedellab.bsky.social
Published in Herpetology Notes
www.reassembly.de/news/unexpec...
Two new papers on tropical bees:
1) Nocturnal (!) 🌘Megalopta bees 🐝 in recovering tropical forest
www.reassembly.de/news/dietary...
2) Proboscis length 😜 estimation in tropical bees
www.reassembly.de/news/models-...
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Title page of REASSEMBLY Newsletter #4
Final #Newsletter 📰 from our first phase of #Reassembly Research Unit 🇪🇨🌴🌱🦜🐸🐜. Spanish version will follow soon.
Enjoy!
www.reassembly.de/posts/newsle...
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...
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.
“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/...
Banks make $26bn in decade of financing deforesting companies
->Global Witness | More from Lil' Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai
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...
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...
#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...
Ecological synthesis including forest ecosystems, grassland, land use, climate change, time series, stability, ecosystem functioning, biodiversity, species interaction networks
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...
👉 Interested in joining our #Bexplo Synthesis Team?
Apply now – the deadline is October 25!
🔗 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
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...
Richtig! Man muss bei solchen Falschbehauptungen immer wieder widersprechen und mit Fakten kontern. Haben wir in ähnlicher Weise auch bei Bauer Willi's Kolumne in BiuZ gemacht zum selben Thema www.biuz.de
(Gruß, Nico B.)
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...