We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

Scientists worldwide: We invite you to sign the World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Third Notice. Thirty-five years after the first warning, we now declare a planetary emergency. If you are a scientist, please read, sign, and share and go to this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

How do bees and wasps respond to warming in spring? Our very own Cristina Ganuza appeared on the Bee's Knees podcast 🐝 talking about her latest research! #pollinators #climatechange thebeesknees.website/spring-bees/

When Spring Comes Too Soon: The effects of warm springs on bees (Ep. 86) - The Bee's Knees

Europe is warming twice as fast as the global average—and wild bees are running out of time. When spring arrives early or scorching hot, it triggers a survival crisis. We speak with Dr. Cristina Ganuz...

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Our paper on how understorey vegetation responds to enhanced forest structure was just published @jappliedecology.bsky.social! We found an increase in alpha- and gamma-diversity driven by heterogeneity in light conditions at the landscape-scale 🌱🌳🥬 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Enhancing structural heterogeneity in managed forest landscapes promotes gamma but not beta diversity in understorey plant communities

Our findings highlight the benefits of enhancing structural heterogeneity for understorey plant diversity in managed forest landscapes. Specifically, management strategies that create a spatial mosai...

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📃🕸🕷 Check out this recent publication by our PhD candidate Jean-Léonard Stör and @juliarothacher.bsky.social from @cofeuniwue.bsky.social 🕷🕸! @betafor.bsky.social

Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg@uni-wuerzburg.de · 4mo ago

Spiders prefer dense forests 🕷️🌲 A University of Würzburg study @animalecology.bsky.social shows: more forest gaps don’t mean more diversity—spider diversity actually drops. The reason: the missing canopy as key habitat. #forest #biodiversity 📷: Louis Puille ➡️ go.uniwue.de/animal-ecology

#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

Our paper on the drivers of dung beetle diversity along a tropical elevational gradient is now out in #ProcB @royalsocietypublishing.org 🪲🪲🪲 doi.org/10.1098/rspb... @royalsociety.org @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social

5 years ago I joined a field work campaign in the stunningly beautiful Swedish primary forests, still one of my all-time favourite fieldwork experiences!🌲🌿 Now there is a new study out lead by Didac Pascual and Anders Ahlström from Lund University www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Higher carbon storage in primary than secondary boreal forests in Sweden

Boreal forests provide considerable global land carbon storage and uptake, but they are being rapidly transformed to managed secondary forests, with poorly quantified implications for ecosystem carbon...

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Nature research paper: Limited thermal tolerance in tropical insects and its genomic signature go.nature.com/4ua5R82

Limited thermal tolerance in tropical insects and its genomic signature - Nature

A survey of tropical insect populations and thermal tolerance limits indicates that species from lowland areas have low capacity to survive increased temperatures, and that thermal tolerance is limited by fundamental properties of protein architecture.

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New paper out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social! We investigated how forest structural heterogeneity and climate influence temperate dung beetles in production forests. 🪲

Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg@uni-wuerzburg.de · 8mo ago

Canopy openings can harm the biodiversity of dung #beetles 🪲: Scientists of the University of Würzburg examined 234 areas in eleven #forests across Germany. Rising temperatures exacerbate the problem. ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-... 📸 Johanna Asch

Ich durfte kürzlich ein bisschen über den tollen Waldmistkäfer erzählen und warum wir uns Sorgen um seine Zukunft machen 🪲

Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology (Zoology III)@ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Unsere Doktorandin @johannaasch.bsky.social hat beim Deutschlandfunk über den Waldmistkäfer und den Klimawandel gesprochen 🌳🪲 www.deutschlandfunk.de/mehr-mist-kl...

Anne Chao and @piambr.bsky.social, the 100% perfect dialogue duo at #gfoe2025! ✨ Thank you for sharing statistical insights on sample coverage and it's standardization in the first @gfoesoc.bsky.social keynote session using #BETAFOR data.🌳🌱 @uni-wuerzburg.de @cofeuniwue.bsky.social

Had a blast at #gfoe2025!

BETA-FOR@betafor.bsky.social · last yr.

Our #BETAFOR PhDs had an amazing time presenting their research at last week’s #gfoe2025 at @uni-wuerzburg.de! 🌟 Full of fresh ideas and inspiring discussions, it’s back to daily life. 💻✨ @claudiki.bsky.social @piambr.bsky.social @johannaasch.bsky.social @juliarothacher.bsky.social

After months of preparation, today we are starting the physical build-up of #gfoe2025 at @uni-wuerzburg.de @gfoesoc.bsky.social Looking forward to seeing all of you here! As an appetizer, here is part of what you will be able to enjoy next week:

New paper out! 📃 Enhanced structural complexity in forests has limited effects on #soil abiotic properties, but #microbial activity and biomass respond site-specifically. Soil moisture and understory growth link to microbial functions. 💧🧫🌳🍁 Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Inconsistent short-term effects of enhanced structural complexity on soil microbial properties across German forests

Structural and biotic homogenization can result from forestry practices lacking promotion of canopy gaps and deadwood. This can lead to biodiversity l…

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Congratulations to our colleague @sabinenooten.bsky.social from the Chemical Ecology group at @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social on receiving the Marcella Boveri Prize of the @uni-wuerzburg.de Biocenter, and on her great presentation of her work on insect #ecology and #biogeography

Photo gallery from our Peru project on biodiversity along an elevational gradient on the cover of the Bulletin! 🐒

ESA Journals@esajournals.bsky.social · last yr.

Take a taste of the Bulletin's July issue! Thanks to @kimholzmann.bsky.social‬ for the cover monkey, from her Photo Gallery submission documenting a study of mammal diversity in Peruvian old-growth forest Find the Photo Gallery, & lots more, here: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/23276096...

New research out from our PhD student Fabian Klimm!

Journal of Applied Ecology@jappliedecology.bsky.social · last yr.

Life at the (h)edge—Multidiversity in shrub ecotones is driven by habitat quality & shrub foliage cover 🌱🌏 To maximise biodiversity benefits across taxa, recommends managing shrub ecotones at the landscape scale, maintaining a mosaic of open & half-open shrub ecotones 📈🧪 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Have you ever wondered what happens when you put 400g of cow dung in the Bavarian Forest? - A feast! 🪲🪲 @betafor.bsky.social

Check out the new honey bee paper of our PhD student @giuliamai.bsky.social! 🐝

Journal of Applied Ecology@jappliedecology.bsky.social · last yr.

Floral diversity enhances winter survival of honeybee colonies across climatic regions 🐝 Highlights the critical role of including floral resource diversity and weather conditions in a comprehensive framework for studying honeybee hibernation 🌻🌏🧪 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Insects are struggling with major global change drivers, like climate change and habitat loss. Researchers from @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social have now investigated, how these threats interact. The results show that bees suffer in particular. 🐝☀️🏙️ ➡️ go.uniwue.de/beesheatland...

Had fun presenting my poster about the effects of climate and forest structure on dung beetles at #EGU2025. Thanks to everyone in the Forest Floor session for showing so much interest in my somewhat different research topic! 🌲🪲 @betafor.bsky.social

Find us at #EGU25, where our PhD student @johannaasch.bsky.social of @betafor.bsky.social will present her research on how climate and forest structure shape forest dung beetle communities 🌲🪲 ➡️ meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-...