Six members taking a selfie in front of Itxina before heading to the fieldsites. Team members are carrying insect nets and other misc field supplies.
Two team members are surveying for bumblebees in open fields of a meadow.
Hoverfly on Bellis perennis
Lasioglossum on Taraxacum sp.
This week we began our first round of #fieldwork for the season, keeping busy with #plant-pollinator interaction surveys, #flower marking, #biomass collection and more 🌿🐝. Teamed up with new and returning members, we are ready to tackle yet another year in #Gorbeia Natural Park 💪.
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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.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y54ja6epq7xto73txfip6kki/bafkreifpny2grbvw274o6pe7r65wxrljmctdxpbxuejbvfjoeskb2rhg7i)
