Conservation Biology and Forest Ecology
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Jörg Müller & Nadja Simons Biodiversity and nature conservation in forests and open landscapes
Still super grateful for having worked in the Galápagos last year! 🐢🏝 Now the reason for this beautiful (and partly exhausting) fieldwork is out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social led by the brilliant Kirtana Kumar @cofeuniwue.bsky.social 📄 🦎Give it a read: doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Congrats to Kirtana Kumar on her first new publication! 🎉 Her study reveals responses of Galápagos lizards following invasive mammal eradication, a fascinating example of how quickly ecosystems can respond to conservation action🦎 Give it a read! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Response of endemic lizard populations to attempted eradication of invasive predators on a Galápagos island
Integrating reptile monitoring into invasive predator eradication programmes can reveal rapid responses in ecologically important, yet frequently overlooked, components of island ecosystems. Accounti...
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The conference was a huge success! Thanks to all the visitors of our posters and talks 🦦 We had nice conversations and discussions because of your questions 🪲 We're now heading to the Waddensea and than we have to say goodbye to Odense 🪱 Thanks @nordicoikos.bsky.social and @gfoesoc.bsky.social !
Our PhD-Student Anna-Lena is presenting her work today at the @gfoesoc.bsky.social @nordicoikos.bsky.social conference 🦦 So if you are interested in habitat suitability modelling of the Eurasien otter come visit her at 15:00 in K2🏞
If you are interested in urban ecology or forest ecology visit our posters in the Konzerthus this afternoon! 🌳🌇 We are at stand 33 and 14 📃 @gfoesoc.bsky.social @nordicoikos.bsky.social
Congrats to our PhD student Ronja Hausmann on her new publication! 🎉 Her study investigated whether official pest infestation signs are reliable indicators of the pest species #Agrilus_biguttatus 🪲 The answer: they are not! 📃 doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... #forest #ecology #pests
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Congratulations! 🎉 Professor Anne Chao has just been elected as an Academician of Academia Sinica, Taiwan's national academy. This is the highest academic honor in Taiwan, recognizing a lifetime of outstanding scholarly contributions.
Fresh off the press @animalecology.bsky.social 📃 Compared to many other taxa #spiders do not profit from forest heterogenization, as gap cutting reduces important habitat in the canopy! 🍁🌳🕸🕷 ➡️ doi.org/10.1111/1365... @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social @cofeuniwue.bsky.social @betafor.bsky.social
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Congrats to our PhD student Sophie Horlebein on the publication of her new paper! 🎉 🐭🦊Small and medium-sized carcasses support high landscape-scale diversity and contribute disproportionately to biodiversity conservation. 📃Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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#Forests: Canopy gaps and deadwood increase diversity of #bats and #birds: New study @currentbiology.bsky.social. Bats benefit from variety between different forest patches, birds react strongly to local enrichment on-site. @betafor.bsky.social @cofeuniwue.bsky.social ➡️ go.uniwue.de/forest-div
🎉 Congrats to @julian-lunow.bsky.social on his new publication! Promoting a mosaic of forest management types while reducing overall management intensity can foster positive relationships between carbon stocks and arthropod diversity. 📖 doi.org/10.1016/j.fe... #Biodiversity#CarbonStorage#Ecology
🔍 We’re hiring! Our chair is looking for a motivated Researcher to join our team! 🌳 The aim of the project is to analyse the influence of canopy openings and deadwood management on insect communities. 🪲🦋 We’re looking forward to your application. 🌲📩 www.uni-wuerzburg.de/karriere/sin...
Stelle im wissenschaftlichen Dienst (w/m/d) am Lehrstuhl für Naturschutzbiologie und Waldökologie // Researcher Position (f/m/d) at the Chair of Conservation Biology and Forest Ecology
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New paper out @currentbiology.bsky.social! Led by Clara Wild we show that restoring heterogeneity in forests increases bat and bird diversity. 🧪🍁 Interestingly mechanisms differ between taxa 🐦🦇 and diversity facets. @cofeuniwue.bsky.social @betafor.bsky.social
Restoring structural complexity in temperate forests increases bat and bird diversity
Wild et al. show in a large-scale experiment that increasing forest structural complexity enhances bat and bird diversity by separating within- and between-patch contributions to landscape diversity, ...
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Now online in @forestecosyst.bsky.social: By synthesising data from the @bexplo.bsky.social, we found that promoting a mosaic of forest management types while reducing overall management intensity could foster positive relationships between carbon stocks and arthropods. doi.org/10.1016/j.fe...
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Fascinating new insights on the forest volatilome! 🍁🧪 Led by Lena Carlson we identify deadwood as a main driver of VOC beta-diversity, linked to the diversity of beetles. 🪲 @betafor.bsky.social @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social
The invisible heterogeneity of forests—β-diversity of volatiles - Landscape Ecology
Context Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) create invisible chemical landscapes that influence ecosystem processes. Yet whether VOC β-diversity (i.e., variability in VOC composition between patches) responds to structural heterogeneity and reflects silvicultural habitat management remains unclear. Objectives In a large field experiment, we quantified how enhanced structural beta complexity (ESBC) affects VOC β-diversity patterns and investigated potential drivers and ecological effects in temperate production forests. Methods We sampled VOCs in ambient forest air using Tenax/Carboxen adsorbent traps at forest floor and 1 m heights across 234 treatment and control forest patches in six German regions. We analyzed VOCs via thermal desorption-gas chromatography mass-spectrometry (TD-GCMS) and examined environmental drivers including deadwood characteristics, canopy cover, tree species dissimilarity, and herb layer dissimilarity. We tested potential ecological relevance by analyzing saproxylic beetle community responses. Results VOC β-diversity increased significantly at 1 m height in heterogeneous forests compared to homogeneous forests, but we found no significant change at the forest floor. Deadwood volume and deadwood structural diversity, rather than canopy openness, were identified as the main drivers of increasing VOC β-diversity. Dissimilarity in beetle community composition was associated with VOC β-diversity, but only for forest floor VOCs, suggesting these chemical patterns may correlate with variables beetles respond to. Conclusions Our findings suggest that volatile β-diversity represents an overlooked dimension of habitat heterogeneity, one that creates invisible chemical heterogeneity influencing inter- and intra-species interactions and ecosystem processes. We demonstrate that enhancing forest heterogeneity through deadwood retention increases both structural heterogeneity and volatile β-diversity.
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🏔️New study examined plant–microbe associations in mountain forests across different climatic zones. Plant–microbe associations were more pronounced at low latitudes + intermediate elevations, mediated by abiotic conditions. @jiayunzou.bsky.social; @sebseibold.bsky.social 👉️ buff.ly/xsZDNG1
New paper on metacommunity dynamics out! 📃🍁 Led by Oliver Mitesser we show that habitat heterogeneity shifts communities from patch-dynamics toward mass effects and species sorting using beetles as focal taxon. 🐞😍 @betafor.bsky.social @cofeuniwue.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Forest Heterogeneity by Chain Saw: How Between‐Patch Variation in Old Growth Attributes Changes the Metacommunities of Beetles
Metacommunity theory has expanded our understanding of how spatial dynamics and local interactions influence species communities, but we lack empirical studies specifically in terrestrial habitats te...
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New paper published🎉 Congrats to Soumen Mallick Our team demonstrate that it is now possible to track phenological dynamics across thousands of individual trees over multiple years. This has enabled us to identify a previously unrecognised defence strategy in trees! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Satellite data show trees delay budburst across landscapes to escape herbivores - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Plant phenology tends to track with climate warming, but it could also be sensitive to biotic factors. This study from a temperate forest landscape in Germany shows that a single year of tree response...
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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...
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...
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...
Congratulations to our postdoc Soumen on his new publication! 🎉🌳 In German beech forests, canopy gap and deadwood enrichment reduced insect damage but stressed trees at low elevations, while the opposite happened higher up. 👉 Local climate makes the difference. 📖 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Elevation reverses the effects of forest structure on folivory and leaf asymmetry
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Check out the new paper of our PhD student @rhausmann.bsky.social🌳 Showing that TreMs increase during forest recovery yet remain distinct in old-growth forests, highlighting the importance of protecting intact forests and retaining remnant trees for restoration. doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
🦗 Meadows are now home to only a few different insect species when compared across different locations in Bavaria. Specialized and unique species communities have been lost. The situation in forests is similarly monotonous 🌳 📃 Read more: www.br.de/nachrichten/...
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Paper published by Orsi Decker! 🎉🐞 doi.org/10.1038/s414... Distance-decay reveals contrasting effects of land-use types on arthropod community homogenisation. Managed grasslands are most affected by community homogenisation, while arable lands and settlements showed heterogeneous communities.
Distance-decay reveals contrasting effects of land-use types on arthropod community homogenisation - Nature Communications
Species homogenisation driven by land-use intensification is threatening many taxa globally. Here, the authors find that for arthropod communities in Central Europe, managed grasslands are the most af...
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New #OpenAccess work in #RESPhysEnt Influence of #temperature & light on #development of #moth larvae: Different response in the sister species #Orthosia gothica & O. cerasi doi.org/10.1111/phen.70030 #Phenology #Photoperiod @wybouw.bsky.social @tbuescher.bsky.social @tobybruce.bsky.social
🔍 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. 🌲📩 www.greenjobs.de/stellenanzei...
Stelle im wissenschaftlichen Dienst - Bereich: Waldökologie - in Teilzeit / researcher [...]
Am Lehrstuhl für Naturschutzbiologie und Waldökologie der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg ist frühestens zum 01.04.2026 eine Stelle imWissenschaftlichen Dienstin Teilzeit (65%) befristet für 3...
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