Holacanthella paucispinosa on the cover of this month's issue of Nature Ecology and Evolution. Photo by Frank Ashwood
Breaking news: giant springtail from Aotearoa NZ made the cover of @natecoevo.nature.com!
This amazing pic of H. paucispinosa by @frankashwood.bsky.social should lure readers to the global study by @zheng-zhou.bsky.social et al on soil animal trophic diversity 🌍🌿🕷️🪱🪳🧪
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Cover image for the April 2026 issue of Nature Ecology & Evolution. The image shows a close-up image of a black and orange collembolan foraging in soil. The headline reads "Soil trophic diversity".
Our April issue is now live! www.nature.com/natecolevol/...
Featuring research on:
🦑 squid and cuttlefish diversification
🌊 priority questions for blue carbon science
🐦⬛ the emergence of Usutu virus
Cover image from Zhou et al (credit @frankashwood.bsky.social ) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New paper in Advances in Ecological Research:
'Quantifying the impact of social and ecosystem changes through expanded ecosystem multifunctionality metrics'. Led by Margot Neyret, we present the 'netNCP' approach.
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A long-running experiment in Colorado provides an ‘alarming’ view of how rapidly unchecked global heating could transform fragile ecosystems
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Here the authors use a large dataset of stable isotope observations to analyse how soil animal trophic diversity varies across climates and land-use types and identify potential biotic mechanisms 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Forest stand age and deadwood diversity promote synergies between climate change and biodiversity loss mitigation. My 1st paper out now in Ecological Applications @esajournals.bsky.social
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Greater trophic diversity of soil animal communities under agricultural land use and tropical climate. Just out in @natecoevo.nature.com led by Zheng Zhou and @antoncollembola.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Schätze müssen gehoben werden, so auch die Datenschätze zur #Biodiversität. Wir freuen uns über die Fortsetzung der Kooperation mit dem @lfu.bayern.de zur Nutzung der bayerischen Insektendaten, um zu neuen Erkenntnissen in Wissenschaft & Naturschutz beizutragen
www.uni-wuerzburg.de/aktuelles/ei...
Promotionsstelle (75% für drei Jahre) im Bereich Stadtökologie
Die Gruppe Stadtökologie und Biodiversität sucht neue Mitarbeiter*innen im Bereich Konnektivität urbaner Lebensräume, urbane Biodiversität und Mensch-Umwelt-Beziehungen.
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Fig. 1. The relationship between mean shoot length per grass species to species richness of the endophytic insects found in these shoots. A The number of herbivore species, B the sum of herbivore and parasitoid species. The five points indicating no species at all indicate that no one insect species has been reared from the five annual grass species studied, despite intensive shoot sampling (see Table 1). The inquilines of P. australis are included (see Table 2, see also Fig. S2A and S2B for regressions without inquilines). Regression lines were fitted to the species richness found in the ten perennial grass species.
Fig. 2. Images illustrating the insect community of the shoot-inhabiting gall midge Giraudiella inclusa on Common Reed Phragmites australis. A Phragmites australis reedbelt with the ricegrain-like galls of Giraudiella inclusa inside internodes. B The gall midge Giraudiella inclusa: Oviposition, C Early Giraudiella gall development, D late Giraudiella gall development, E the Giraudiella parasitoid Torymus arundinis ovipositing, F the gregarious Giraudiella parasitoid Aprostocetus calamarius, G T. arundinis eggs on a dead 2nd instar host larva, H the conspicuously hairy, solitary T. arundinis larva, I midge skin filled with pupae of the gregarious Platygaster szelenii, J the solitary parasitoid Platygaster cf. quadrifarius (Tscharntke et al. 1991).
🌾🐛 New #BAAE article: Hidden insect food webs thrive inside perennial grass shoots 🌿
Longer shoots host richer herbivore–parasitoid communities. Unmown refuges are key to protecting these overlooked specialists. 🕷️
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2026.01.004
@gfoesoc.bsky.social
🚀 iDiv and @uni-jena.de are hiring! Join the Ecological Networks Lab as an IT Specialist (full-time, permanent). Work on lab automation, software dev, and cutting-edge research! 🌿💻
🗓️ Apply by 27 Mar 2026
📍 Leipzig (Germany)
👉 www.idiv.de/career/job-o...
#JobAlert #ITJobs #Biodiversity #iDiv
🔍 We’re hiring! Our chair is looking for a motivated Researcher to join our team! 🌳
The aim of the project is to analyse insect communities and their responses to different forest structural conditions. 🪲🦋
We’re looking forward to your application. 🌲📩
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Amazing inaugural lecture double feature today by Kathi Zarnack @zarnack-group.bsky.social and Sabine Fischer! @cctb-wue.bsky.social. Here’s to formalising a core bioinformatics, computational and theoretical biology competence @uni-wuerzburg.de
In the current issue of NEE, you can find our research on the community assembly mechanisms behind arthropod 🪲🕷️ biomass declines ⚖️📉 both as
the original paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
and (new🌟) as research briefing by @ebelingae.bsky.social and myself: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Some weeks ago I submitted my first own research proposal. And now it got accepted! 😍 This means, @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social will go underground and start investigating the evolution of cave arthropods. So excited for this new chapter! 🦇 🪲🕷️
@biologie-uniwue.bsky.social @merge-master.bsky.social
There will also be opportunities for thesis projects during 2026, and for the final large-scale project (starting approx. 2027) a PhD position. Contact me if interested!
Wow, this is so bad, Benjamin! I am really sorry to read it. It's unbelievable how universities regularly treat employees! Glad that you are calling out this behaviour!
University administration sent me an email yesterday, inviting me to come to the office today to finalize everything. Now they just cancelled the appointment and told me they can't employ me anymore. Who treats people like this?? #IchBinHanna
New paper alert! Microclimate temperatures are more extreme than we previously thought! Near-ground temperatures are amplified in hot weather, cool refugia is lost and replaced with heat traps ☀️🔥🥵 escape from heat will be very hard for small ground-dwelling organisms
doi.org/10.21425/fob...
Hypothesised scaling relationships between body size and population density and energy use (metabolism and energy flux) for predators and secondary consumers
❗New paper alert❗
The 2nd publication from Poppy Romera's Masters is just out in @natcomms.nature.com
We find that adherence of 180 soil food webs to the energy equivalence rule strongly depends on the measure of energy use, trophic level, and food web structure. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Impressive presentation and PhD work overall! Well done, Kim! Congratulations 🎉
👏 New timelapse inspired by “healthy soils for healthy cities” illustrating why you should be careful not to include plastic or cigarette butts in your vermicompost bin 🪱 🪱
by Wim van Egmond, with Gerlinde De Deyn, Ingrid Lubbers&Jan Willem van Groenigen from SBL and SGL!
Here: lnkd.in/enbjVE95
Prof Michael Staab @leuphana.bsky.social is currently offering two 3-year positions in arthropod 🪲🕷️🦗 ecology in the @bexplo.bsky.social framework (apply until January 14th):
PhD (65%):
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Research associate (50% ):
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Thrilled to share our new #stoichiometry paper on the environmental correlates of plant and animal stoichiometry. This was a fantastic collaborative work supported by #idiv www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Some food for the Global Ecology Feed 🌐
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So grateful for this fantastic group of collaborators! Truly, a team effort, thrilled to see it out!
Great team led by expert leaders, @ecolgonzalez.bsky.social and Olivier Dezerald (www.researchgate.net/profile/Oliv...). Such a nice outcome and more to come ;)
Thanks @idiv-research.bsky.social #sDiv for the support!
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🌍🔬 Our new paper is out! We identify the global mechanisms shaping the elemental composition of organisms — and the results overturn long-standing assumptions in ecology.
👇 Thread ↓
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