Julien L Bota
@bota-jb.bsky.social
Ecologist studying plant-herbivore interactions in a changing climate. PhD @bugnet.bsky.social @slfdavos.bsky.social and @wslresearch.bsky.social 🐌🐛🦗🌱 🏔️ 🌈
Welcome to BES2025! 💫 Today, we are so excited to welcome ecologists from 58 countries, encouraging innovative research and practice in ecology. We have exciting talks and sessions ahead in the next days from agriculture, human's place in nature, AI to green finance and much more.
So happy to be back at the BES this year for #BES2025! I had a lot of nice discussions today already, and I'll be looking forward to the poster session this evening! Feel free to pass by poster nr: A-4.95 if you want to discuss species coexistence and higher-order interactions! 🌱🌿🌱
The @bugnet.bsky.social Delegation from @slfdavos.bsky.social very much enjoyed the first day of #BES2025 in Edinburgh! Don’t miss our posters on herbivore interactions under current and future climate that we will present in the community ecology poster sessions today and tomorrow.
...and @bota-jb.bsky.social took care that everything worked smoothly, and did amazing drone images of our experiments! Thank you all, you are the best! 🥰
Today we definitely ended the field season of our @bugnet.bsky.social experimental sites in @slfdavos.bsky.social. What a year - with such a great team of students this was one of my best field seasons ever! Thanks @bota-jb.bsky.social, Carole, Ida, Carla, Sevi, Flo and Irene for the great summer!
Our first paper from the Bug-Network (BugNet) is out! 🎉 BugNet is a global network studying how invertebrate herbivores and fungal pathogens shape plant diversity & ecosystem functioning worldwide. The paper reports on the methods of the experimental part: 📄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The Bug‐Network (BugNet): A Global Experimental Network Testing the Effects of Invertebrate Herbivores and Fungal Pathogens on Plant Communities and Ecosystem Function in Open Ecosystems
The Bug-Network (BugNet) is a novel global collaborative research network that implements standardized consumer-reduction experiments in herbaceous- or shrub-dominated ecosystems to assess the impact...
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Jahrelange Vorbereitungen zur Pflanzung von 92'000 Bäumen: Warum dies gemacht wurde kannst du morgen Samstag, 13.9.2025 am Tag der offenen Forschungsfläche Stillberg in Davos erleben. Im Video: Aufnahmen von #SLF und #WSL aus den Jahren zwischen 1968 bis 1987. Infos: www.slf.ch/de/veranstal...
50 years of treeline- and ecological research at our @slfdavos.bsky.social research site at Stillberg in Davos. Great fun to present some findings together with @annekempel.bsky.social to a super interested audience and some junior scientists.
Do microbes contribute to prey digestion in Nepenthes pitcher plants? We investigated this through a field experiment on Borneo by sterilising the digestive fluid of N. hemsleyana. We found that plants with microbes benefit quicker from captured prey. A thread👇 🌱🧪 🌏 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
UV treatment of the digestive fluid of Nepenthes hemsleyana pitcher plants affects their digestive process, possibly via reducing microbial inquilines - Oecologia
Interactions with microbes are ubiquitous, and many of them are essential for the survival and success of plants. In Nepenthes pitcher plants, they occur as part of a diverse community of organisms, s...
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Our paper on unifying theory around biodiversity–consumer relationships (pathogens & herbivores) is now out in TREE! I hope it helps those navigating the forest of theories & hypotheses in this space to see more clearly 🤓 Check out @fletcher-h.bsky.social great summary of the paper here 👇
Fletcher Halliday@fletcher-h.bsky.social · last yr.As a special Earth Day gift, our new paper integrating decades of related, but siloed research on how changing biodiversity drives plant disease and herbivory is out today in TREE www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Thanks to @idiv-research.bsky.social for supporting our sConsume working group!
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! #WomenInScience #WomenInStem #FrauenInderWissenschaft #FrauenInMINT #MintFrauen #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience
Save the date: 50 Jahre Forschungsfläche #Stillberg, Davos 13. September 2025 1975 pflanzten #WSL und #SLF am Stillberg 92'000 Bäume, um den #Schutzwald zu erforschen. Zum Jubiläum öffnen wir unsere Forschungsfläche für alle! Infos: www.slf.ch/stillberg50 📷️ E. Dimitrov / W. Schönenberger / C. Rixen
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How do herbivores and fungal pathogens shape plant communities in a changing climate? Learn how we’re investing this experimentally on our @bugnet.bsky.social field sites in Davos. 🌱 🌐 youtu.be/3zJhOJqYkcg?... @slfdavos.bsky.social
Plants and their predators in climate change: Julien Bota explains the BugNet experiments in Davos
YouTube video by WSL-Institut für Schnee- und Lawinenforschung SLF
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Are you working on the impact of herbivores & pathogens on plant communities and would be interested to join a global research network? Learn more about the Bug-Network and our easy to maintain exclusion experiment at our upcoming info-meeting 👇 #ecology 🌐🌱🐌🦗
BugNet@bugnet.bsky.social · 2y agoWant to join or learn more about BugNet? Join our BugNet info meeting with @annekempel.bsky.social online on Wednesday, January 29th 2025 at 9am CET or 3pm CET. Register here for the info meeting: www.bug-net.org 🌱 🌐
What's the impact of herbivores and pathogens on plant communities? That's what we investigate in our global Bug-network with many collaborators from across the world! Today we had our global meeting - what a great BugNet-spirit! Thank you all for joining!
That was fun! Creating a summary figure for a paper on pitcher plants escalated slightly when I couldn’t find what I needed and decided to draw it myself…
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Our first starter pack is here! A list of members and alumni of @wslresearch.bsky.social working on biodiversity research and outreach. It will updated as more people join. Let us know if you'd like to be added. go.bsky.app/3Gzw93e
Starter pack about researchers interested in plant-herbivore and plant-pathogen interactions! This list is by far not complete - so please help me to get it extended. Leave suggestions or self-nominations in the comments and I'll add you. go.bsky.app/4JR67t6
Want to see our BugNet sites in Davos? @bota-jb.bsky.social explains our transplant experiment to test how novel plant-consumer interactions affect plant fitness, nicely featured by @slfdavos.bsky.social! Check it out 👇
WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF@slfdavos.bsky.social · 2y agoWhat do #SLF researchers do in summer? For example, they are investigating #insect diversity and the interactions between #plants and living organisms. There are two videos about this on our website: slf.ch/en/news/of-p... #CERC #biodiversity #climatechange
What do #SLF researchers do in summer? For example, they are investigating #insect diversity and the interactions between #plants and living organisms. There are two videos about this on our website: slf.ch/en/news/of-p... #CERC #biodiversity #climatechange
#SLF -Wissenschaftlerin @annekempel.bsky.social und ihr Team haben im Sommer 2024 in #Davos Insektenkameras aufgestellt. Diese fotografieren automatisch die #Insekten, wenn sie sich auf dem leuchtgelben Schild befinden. Mehr dazu im Video: youtu.be/omFmS3aAu3c #CERC #Biodiversität
Insektenkamera zur Erfassung der Insektenvielfalt
YouTube video by WSL-Institut für Schnee- und Lawinenforschung SLF
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Thanks to @annekempel.bsky.social our @bugnet.bsky.social data collection workflow is now fully digitised which saves an incredible amount of time! Also, with access to our database in the field, we have all relevant information at hand… 🐛
SLF researcher Julien Bota writes in the Bündner Woche about alpine plants and their inconspicuous herbivores. academiaraetica.ch/assets/forsc... Original article (in german): academiaraetica.ch/assets/forsc...
Absolutely thrilled that our Biotremology meets Klangkunst tour with the fantastic Chuchchepati Orchestra from last year has been released on vinyl! And I can hardly believe that @monikaeberhard.bsky.social and I were invited to write the foreword - what an honour! unitrecords.com/artists/chuc...
