TU Darmstadt starts a new #Master programme on #Ecology & #Biodiversity! International students interested in a broad spectrum of topics, organisms and ecosystems (e.g. temperate / tropical forests) are welcome to apply, and it's basically free! www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCgN...

Ecology and Biodiversity: The New Master's Program at TU Darmstadt

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🌳🌲 Meet #ForMIX - this BE paper presents a new index to quantify #forest management intensity by combining #tree species composition, tree removal, #deadwood availability and stand maturity. ForMIX is usable, comparable, easy to apply & biologically meaningful. 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🌐

Forest loss dropped sharply last year, yet primary forests are still disappearing at an alarming rate. Major nations are making progress, but smaller forest-rich countries are losing trees faster than ever. To end deforestation by 2030, the world must move beyond relying on favorable weather.

Tropical forest loss falls in 2025, but world still off track on deforestation goals

JAKARTA — Tropical primary forest loss fell sharply in 2025, dropping 36% from the record highs of the previous year, according to new data from a long-running satellite monitoring project. Non-fire…

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#Biodiversity🦜🐒🐸 in a tropical #rainforest 🌴🇪🇨can recover 📈 if conditions are suitable - in #nature #reserve protected by NGO @jocotoco.bsky.social --> Cover story in @nature.com 📔 Featured by many media e.g. @nytimes.com and (links)... www.reassembly.de/news/rainfor... www.nature.com/nature/volum...

Sehr empfehlenswerter Artikel 📰 - danke für das detaillierte Interview! Habe mich verleiten lassen, ein paar neue Ideen für Renaturierung zu äußern... (mehr Kühe 🐄, Bodentransfer statt Bäumepflanzen, Klimarisiken 🌤️).

Ulrike Prinz@prinzulrike.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Der Wald wächst zurück – wenn man ihn lässt! Tropische Regenwälder können sich überraschend schnell regenerieren. Entscheidend ist weniger Bäume pflanzen. Ein Interview mit Nico Blüthgen @reassemblynet.bsky.social @riffreporter.bsky.social @jocotoco.bsky.social www.riffreporter.de/de/internati...

Sehr (!) empfehlenswerter Podcast! 📻

Anne Preger@apreger.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Gute Nachricht: 🌳🌳🌳 Tropischer #Regenwald kann nachwachsen und zwar unerwartet schnell und unerwartet artenreich 🤩 Wir schauen in 🎧 Update Erde 🌎 bei Deutschlandfunk Nova, was gegeben sein muss, damit das klappt @reassemblynet.bsky.social @jocotoco.bsky.social 👂 www.ardsounds.de/episode/urn:...

🆕 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

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

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...

Great news - tropical forests are resilient! Long-term research in Ecuador's Chocó rainforest shows that nature bounced back quickly after deforested land was abandoned Diversity and abundance of species reached 90% of original levels within 30 years www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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...

Big effort, exciting results - our paper on the constraints of thermal limits in tropical insects is now out in @nature.com! 🦋🐝🪰🪲🦗 @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

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

The Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social warmly invite *all* #biodiversity #researchers worldwide to join (celebrating the 20th anniversary). ABSTRACT SUBMISSION AND EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO MARCH 2, 2026 www.biodiversity-exploratories.de/en/be20/

Fruitful🫐 experiment in a restored tropical cloud forest! 🌴🌱🇪🇨 New paper by @biopedroluna.bsky.social in Buenaventura reserve @jocotoco.bsky.social based on small & large artificial fruits #Biodiversity #Conservation #Restoration #forestecol www.reassembly.de/news/fruitfu...

The Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social warmly invite *all* #biodiversity #researchers worldwide to join (celebrating the 20th anniversary). ABSTRACT SUBMISSION AND EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO MARCH 2, 2026 www.biodiversity-exploratories.de/en/be20/

Can tropical rainforests 🌴🌎🇪🇨 regain their structural complexity in 40 years? Yes! Shown by @martinehbrecht.bsky.social et al. in their new article in @journalofecology.bsky.social www.reassembly.de/news/recover...

hisssss.... 🐍 Geographically and taxonomically unexpected: A 🆕(?) pitviper from the lowland rainforest in the Ecuadorian Chocó 🌴🇪🇨 discovered by @roedellab.bsky.social Published in Herpetology Notes www.reassembly.de/news/unexpec...

Two new papers on tropical bees: 1) Nocturnal (!) 🌘Megalopta bees 🐝 in recovering tropical forest www.reassembly.de/news/dietary... 2) Proboscis length 😜 estimation in tropical bees www.reassembly.de/news/models-... www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Subgenus Megalopta

Megalopta from Quininde, Ecuador on October 15, 2021 at 05:42 AM by Philipp Hoenle

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Final #Newsletter 📰 from our first phase of #Reassembly Research Unit 🇪🇨🌴🌱🦜🐸🐜. Spanish version will follow soon. Enjoy! www.reassembly.de/posts/newsle...

Reassembly und 🌴Regenwald-Regeneration im Kontext der Klimakrise. Sehenswerte Vorlesungsreihe an der Uni Mainz @zukunftjgu.bsky.social Kurzbericht: www.reassembly.de/news/reassem... www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIzT...

Kann sich der Regenwald wieder regenerieren? | #voicesforclimate mit Prof. Dr. Nico Blüthgen

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Burying millions of tons of wood, which would require disturbing many thousands of acres of land, sounds like such a great idea. Just like carbon offsets were a good idea. Let's do anything else but deal with the actual problem.

Andrea Thompson@andreatweather.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Very interesting piece @sciam.bsky.social by @shapersyris.bsky.social looking at a decidedly low-tech way to do carbon removal: bury wood that would otherwise be burned or left to decompose. 🧪 It's called "wood vaulting".

“We already know what works to stop forest loss, but countries, companies, and investors are only scratching the surface. And even those initial efforts are facing strong pushback from the standard bearers of an economic system built on forest destruction.” 🌍 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Dismal’ health of world’s forests is threat to humanity, report warns

Financial institutions pouring money into land clearance and undermining efforts to stop destruction, says Climate Focus

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Banks make $26bn in decade of financing deforesting companies ->Global Witness | More from Lil' Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

Banks make $26bn in decade of financing deforesting companies

Deforestation in the region of Maraba, Para state, Brazil Key findings US financial institutions made $5.4 billion from deforesting companies between 2016-2024, with Vanguard, JPMorgan Chase and BlackRock the top earners. EU bank...

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Ein Beweis gefällig, dass zuviel FLEISCH 🥩 dumm macht? Konservative WURSTesser können offenbar nicht lesen & "Veggiburger" 🍔 wegen begrifflicher Verwechslungsgefahr nicht tolerieren. Winner of the Day: Massentierhaltung & Klimawandel, Prost! (mit alkfreiem "Bier"? 🍻) www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/e...

Entscheidung im Streit über Bezeichnung: EU-Parlament stimmt für »Veggie-Burger«-Verbot

Veggie-Schnitte statt -Schnitzel? Straßburg hat über die Bezeichnung von Fleischalternativen entschieden. Nun müssen die Staaten ausloten, ob solche Produkte bald nicht mehr Wurst oder Schnitzel heiße...

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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...

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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#Jane #Goodall She was an incredibly inspiring person for #nature #conservation, appreciation of #wildlife ... and to never give up in the fight for justice! RIP. May her legacy survive: “giving #young #people #hope and … a sense of #empowerment.” edition.cnn.com/2025/10/01/e...

Conservationist Jane Goodall, whose work revolutionized the study of primates, has died | CNN

Jane Goodall, whose lifelong work as a primatologist helped broaden the world’s understanding of animal behavior and emotions, has died, her institute said Wednesday. She was 91.

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Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃 www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...

👉 Interested in joining our #Bexplo Synthesis Team? Apply now – the deadline is October 25! 🔗 www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...

Reassembly Research Unit@reassemblynet.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃 www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...

Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃 www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...