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Felix Neff

@felixneff.bsky.social

Community #ecologist studying #insects under #globalchange, with a special focus on #landuse and #climatechange. Based at #Agroscope in Switzerland Hobby #macro photographer He/him

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Felix Neff@felixneff.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📄Out now 📄: 90-year trends in Switzerland show declines in butterfly and saproxylic beetle richness around the mid-20th century, linked to agricultural mechanisation. Some groups have recovered in recent decades, especially warm-adapted species. Specialised and cold-adapted species remained low.🦋🪲

A combined figure with figure panels from the publication. One panel (panel a) showing the trends in Switzerland-wide relative richness of butterflies and saproxylic beetles, with clear declines of butterflies until the 1980s and declines followed by increases for the saproxylic beetles. The other panel (panel b) shows trends of relative species richness for the two insect groups divided by different traits. In the upper part of the figure, groups are built based on the habitat specialisation of the species and it is evident in both groups, that habitat specialists declined strongest. In the lower part of the figure, groups are built based on temperature niche of the species and it is evident that while warm-adapted species have declined strongest until the 1980s, they have clearly reversed their trends and are now increasing strongly.A photo of Lycaena virgaureae, a species with specialised food resources that has mostly disappeared from the Swiss lowlands in the last 90 yearsA photo of Aromia moschata, a longhorn beetle that has become rare in the mid 20th century, but which has increased in recent decades
Benjamin Wildermuth@bmwildermuth.bsky.social · 8mo ago

New study on arthropod declines @natecoevo.nature.com 🪲 In two time series @jena-experiment.bsky.social & @bexplo.bsky.social we show how community (dis)assembly underpins local biomass declines. It mostly boils down to species loss, with identity losing relevance. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Arthropod species loss underpins biomass declines - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Insects are declining in many regions. Here the authors show that arthropod biomass losses in Jena Experiment and Biodiversity Exploratories time series are driven more by species loss than by species...

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iDiv Biodiversity Research@idiv-research.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📢 Over 90% of local insect biomass decline in German grasslands is explained by species loss. “By the end of the study period, species loss, regardless of rarity or size, had become the main driver of decline”, says @bmwildermuth.bsky.social of #iDiv and @uni-jena.de www.idiv.de/majority-of-...

Gregor Kalinkat@gkalinkat.bsky.social · 8mo ago

„The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing“ 🧪🎓 english.elpais.com/science-tech... Many of my colleagues in ecology will know the name of the journal: Science of the total environment (STOTEN)

The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing

One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 bill...

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Merin Reji Chacko@merinrejichacko.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 Hot off the press! We show that species loss from key habitats (like wetlands) accelerates secondary extinction in regional multi-habitat food webs. Also, we show the importance of common species to regional food web robustness. doi.org/10.1038/s420... #Ecology #FoodWebs #Biodiversity #Metaweb

Species loss in key habitats accelerates regional food web disruption - Communications Biology

Simulating extinctions across regional food webs reveals that losing species from one habitat— especially wetlands—can cascade to others, accelerating multi-habitat food web collapse, highlighting the...

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Tom Astle@tjalamont.bsky.social · last yr.

Please enjoy this ridiculously cute butterfly, which was about the size of my pinkie fingernail. It's in the butterfly family called metalmarks (Riodinidae). Males, like these, have reduced front legs and perch using only the rear 4 (females can use all 6). Sarota acantus; Costa Rica 🐙🌿 #insects

A macro photo, front three-quarter view, of a little butterfly perched on a green leaf. The butterfly has pale green eyes with black speckles, legs covered in thick yellow fuzzy hair, and orange wings sprinkled with metallic light blue patches. It is very cute.A macro photo, side view, of a little butterfly perched on a green leaf. The butterfly has pale green eyes with black speckles, legs covered in thick yellow fuzzy hair, and orange wings sprinkled with metallic light blue bands and patches. It is very cute.
Dominik Gross 🌍@domigross.bsky.social · last yr.

Radio SRF streicht die Sendungen/Podcasts „Trend“ und das Wissenschaftsmagazin. Noch weniger Hintergrund zu Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft - doch genau das, was die Demokratie im Kampf gegen die Irrationalität der internationalen Fascho-Oligarchie braucht.

Thomas Frölicher@froeltho.bsky.social · last yr.

Es kam sehr überraschend: Am Donnerstag fiel der Entscheid der SRF aus Spargründen das "Wissenschaftsmagazin" zu streichen. Zusammen mit anderen Forschern (u.a. @erichfischer.bsky.social @florianaltermatt.bsky.social) habe ich meine Bedenken geäussert www.srf.ch/audio/wissen...

Das Ende des Wissenschaftsmagazins

Das SRF-Wissenschaftsmagazin soll auf Ende Jahr eingestellt werden. Wir fragen nach: Warum dieser Entscheid? Und wie sind die Reaktionen aus der Wissenschaft? Zudem: Wie uns künstliche Intelligenz umg...

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Gregor Kalinkat@gkalinkat.bsky.social · 2y ago

Zwei neue Fischarten 🐟 in Schweizer 🇨🇭 Gewässern entdeckt www.uniaktuell.unibe.ch/2025/zwei_ne... 🧪 (also available in EN www.uniaktuell.unibe.ch/2025/two_new...) #biodiversity

Zwei neue Fischarten in Schweizer Gewässern entdeckt

Die Bevölkerung kann per Umfrage mitentscheiden, wie zwei Fischarten heissen sollen, die Bárbara Calegari und ihre Kolleginnen und Kollegen entdeckt haben. Im Interview erklärt die Biologin, wo sie le...

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Viktoria Cologna@colognaviktoria.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳 With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf@rahmstorf.bsky.social · 2y ago

More than 90% of fossil fuel emissions occurred since my parents were born. Over 80% since I was born. Over 30% since my children were born. And well over 50% since the world agreed at the Rio Earth Summit to prevent dangerous climate change. And I thought: „At last!“

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iBartomeus@ibartomeus.bsky.social · 2y ago

[new paper] You probably suspected that loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants, but here we quantify it: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants

Nature Ecology & Evolution - A meta-analysis finds that decreasing diversity of pollinator species has a negative affect on multiple measures of plant reproductive success, with wild plant...

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