Our recent paper led by @alexrabeau.bsky.social shows that the diversity of seed-dispersal interactions 🐦🌱 may decline under future climate, especially in tropical forest biomes. But, rewiring to new partners may partially compensate for projected losses. Read more at GEB doi.org/10.1111/geb.... 🌐🌎

Projected Impacts of Climate Change on Interactions Between Plants and Avian Frugivores Across the Americas

Aim Frugivorous birds provide crucial seed-dispersal functions in terrestrial ecosystems. However, the impact of climate change on plant–avian frugivore interactions remains unclear due to past meth...

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Which plants and animals are able to rewire their seed-dispersal interactions under changing conditions?🐦🌱 We don't know yet but you can help to find out! Please apply to the open #PhD position in the ANEW project led by @emmamarjakangas.bsky.social at the University of Helsinki and @sgn.one 🌎🌐

Emma-Liina Marjakangas@emmamarjakangas.bsky.social · last wk.

📢 PhD opportunity at the University of Helsinki! Join the ANEW project to study ecological networks, seed dispersal and biodiversity conservation under global change. Apply by 31 Aug 2026. 🔗 jobs.helsinki.fi/job/31_8_202... #PhD #Ecology #Conservation #AcademicJobs

Biodiversity of #rainforest can recover within decades when located in highly connected landscapes because animal mobility drives natural recovery. Our @reassemblynet.bsky.social synthesis paper is out @nature.com: tinyurl.com/4w24a96b @sgn.one @unimarburg.bsky.social @jocotoco.bsky.social 🌐🌎🧪

🆕 insights how #frugivorous #birds 🦜and #mammals 🐒shape the functional #trait distribution of #seed rain 🌱in a recovering #tropical #rainforest 🌴: a paper led by @annarl.bsky.social 📝 in @journalofecology.bsky.social #restoration #biodiversity #forestecol www.reassembly.de/news/its-rai...

Anna R Landim@annarl.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Better late than never 😅 Happy to share that the final paper of my PhD was out this February in @journalofecology.bsky.social ! We asked: what drives the functional recovery of seed rain as tropical forests regnerate after disturbances? 🫘🌿 @reassemblynet.bsky.social #restoration #forestecol

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...

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

🚨 For those with access to collections of bird specimens: we are looking for collaborators who can quickly measure bulbuls/greenbuls (Pycnonotidae) for a project on intraspecific trait variation. We need 100s specimens measured from common species in return for co-authorship. Anyone up for it? 🧪🌐🪶

We had a little Functional Ecology group celebration yesterday. Coming to think of why this academic journey was worth it, it became apparent that it's all about people at the end. It's a big privilege to work and have worked with so many great and inspiring people over many years. Thanks to all!

Seed dispersal by 🦜🦇 underpins rainforest recovery. We want to understand more about its timing + traits driving recovery through obs, exp + genomic data. Ready to join the @reassemblynet.bsky.social team working in Ecuadorian Chocó? Pls apply to our 4-yr PhD position @sgn.one: tinyurl.com/2pkryc99

Our @sgn.one workshop organized together with @josephtobias.bsky.social and Susanne Fritz was enlightening, fun and will surely lead to many future interactions and outputs on how plant/animal traits translate into functions. Thanks to all for your excellent ideas and very respectful discussions! 🌐

@annarl.bsky.social used the interaction functional space combining plant and animal #traits to show that the recovery of functional diversity of seed-dispersal interactions is delayed by about 20 years after deforestation @reassemblynet.bsky.social 🧮➕📏 Open access: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Delayed recovery of seed-dispersal interactions after deforestation

Landim et al. show that seed-dispersal interactions require about two decades to functionally recover in tropical forests in Ecuador, but the recovery time of seed-dispersal functions is delayed in pa...

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Happy to share this important study by @annarl.bsky.social using her newly collected data in Ecuadorian Chocó forest @reassemblynet.bsky.social and a Bayesian model to estimate the recovery time of seed dispersal by animals after deforestation 🧪🌎

Anna R Landim@annarl.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Excited to share that the second paper of my PhD is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🍈🦜🍒🐒🍊🐿️ We show that the functional diversity of seed-dispersal interactions in tropical forests takes circa 20 years to recover after deforestation. You can read it here: www.cell.com/current-biol...

☀️Our July Issue is out now!☀️ 📙On the cover: The purple-throated carib, a large hummingbird endemic to the islands of the Lesser Antilles. Photo credit: Maximilian Vollstädt🐦 Read it here👇 buff.ly/2ohUs7e 🧪🌍

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Anna R Landim@annarl.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy to share that the first paper of my PhD is out! We developed a trait-based framework 🌱🦜 to quantify how plant-frugivore interactions and animal movement shape plant functional connectivity—the dispersal of seeds between habitat patches. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

We simulated how avian seed dispersal shapes connectivity b/w forest patches. What really matters: fruit diversity increases dispersal, especially to distant patches. A complex simulation by @annarl.bsky.social with implications for #rainforest recovery 🌐🧪🌎 #Reassembly #ProcB doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

go.bsky.app/3Qp6YYL We have created this promising starter pack 🫶🏼 All seed dispersal lovers are welcome 🤗!

Different generations of @sgn.one Functional Ecology group at @soctropecol.bsky.social 😊

Trait matching between interacting bird and plant species is widespread globally! Yet its importance for avian seed dispersal is not just about complementarity among consumers but it depends on the resource traits in a community 🧪🌐 Now out in Ecology Letters: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Global Trends of Trait Matching in Avian Frugivory and Its Consequences for the Complementarity and Irreplaceability of Birds

We show that trait-matching affects avian frugivory on a global scale, and hence, birds with contrasting beaks and diets respond differently to the size and lipid content of fruits. Also, morphologic....

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BESLab@labbiodiversity.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 New publication!📢 🍎🐦 Led by Tere Morán-López, we analyze how widespread is trait-matching in plant-frugivore (bird) interactions across the Globe, and how matching matters for functional complementarity and species irreplaceability @mschleuning.bsky.social @universidadoviedo.bsky.social @csic.es

#Reassembly of a tropical #rainforest: A new #chronosequence in the #Chocó tested with the #recovery of #ree attributes Our basic article is now online, with all the information on our study design and exciting results for trees. www.reassembly.de/posts/basic-...

I enjoyed some great discussions about the ecology of protea plants (and the manifold links to their animal partners) in the Western Cape over the last week. It's just such an amazing team and great place to work 🇿🇦 #ProteaChange

If you're interested in Ecology at larger scales, here's the second volume of the Global Ecology starter pack! go.bsky.app/L37W5uH

👀Behind the Paper!👀 🌲Valentin Graf, a PhD student at the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, discusses the importance of moving from species to individual scale in ecology, overcoming research setbacks, and the benefits of aerial fieldwork🐦 Read it here👇 buff.ly/4bVWjDr

Valentin Graf: The importance of individual behavior for bird-mediated seed dispersal

In our latest post Valentin Graf, PhD student at the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre in Frankfurt, presents his work ‘Individual behavior shapes patterns of bird-mediated seed dis...

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The first pygmy cormorants have bred in SE Germany in 2022 and they continue to expand. Similar trends occur for many other cormorant species globally, likely due to higher food availability and better legal protection. This first year bird is the first at my local patch in #Mainz. Success stories!

Can we use tree-related microhabitats (TreMs)🌳 as indicators of #tropical #biodiversity? Our new study led by Giovanni Bianco shows that TreM diversity actually increases with temperature and decreases with human impact on Kilimanjaro 🇹🇿 Now published in Ecological Indicators: doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

Enjoy the #scientific and #adventurous journey through many facets of a #recovering #tropical #rainforest 🌴 🇪🇨 with us: Our 3️⃣rd NEWSLETTER 📰 is out!!! #Ecuador #tropical #forest #biodiversity #conservation #networks #animals #plants #recovery www.reassembly.de/posts/third-...

Thanks so much for this great contribution to the C&S section of Ecological Monographs! Charlotte's paper was actually one of our first invited contributions to this section. If you have cool and innovative ideas like this one, please have a look: www.esa.org/wp-content/u...

Charlotte Kunze@ckunze.bsky.social · 2y ago

Read our new paper in EcologicalMonographs esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... We introduce a framework on how to partition species contributions to ecological stability in disturbed communities based on species absolute change in biomass and relative change in proportion.

#Fakten allein reichen nicht aus, um die #Klimakrise zu begreifen, argumentiert Samira El Ouassil. In einem Gespräch mit Silke Jäger erklärt sie, dass Geschichten emotional ansprechen und helfen, abstrakte Krisen wie den #Klimawandel besser zu verstehen: @samelou.bsky.social

Warum Geschichten in der Klimakrise einen Unterschied machen

Samira El Ouassil erklärt, warum Erzählungen uns helfen können die Klimakrise besser zu verstehen und zu bekämpfe. Ein Gespräch über Narrative und Psychologie.

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Recent study estimates large global potential for natural regeneration in deforested tropical regions & substantial associated #climatechange #mitigation effects www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌳🌿🌴🍃 #reforestation #naturalprocesses #trees #tropics #forests

Global potential for natural regeneration in deforested tropical regions - Nature

An estimated area of 215 million hectares has the potential for natural forest regeneration across tropical forested countries and biomes, representing an above-ground carbon sequestration potential o...

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Tree-related microhabitats (TreMs) 🌴🌳are important for #biodiversity, and particularly diverse in the #tropics. A useful new catalogue defined and applied by Ronja Nußer at @eco_FSF & coauthors published in Ecol Indicators, see reassembly.de/news/trees-hos

I love nature and the challenge to understand how all its bits and pieces interact to form an ecosystem - including how we as humans shape and relate to nature. Here we are at Senckenberg: www.senckenberg.de/en/institute...