We are happy to share our latest paper on response diversity with M. Pitzer as first author: 🌱📈🌿📉 Response diversity increases functional but decreases compositional stability of grassland communities doi.org/10.1111/nph.... @newphyt.bsky.social @unimarburg.bsky.social @bexplo.bsky.social

Response diversity increases functional but decreases compositional stability of grassland communities

Response space of grassland plant species to increasing land-use intensity based on response dissimilarities quantified by using a novel approach. The response space clusters species that benefit fro....

doi.org

Response diversity increases functional but decreases compositional stability in grasslands Pitzer et al. @rrjunker.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

An exciting day today. Our work, co-led by @mhanusch.bsky.social and @thomasdussarrat.bsky.social was published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. In this review, we explore the concept of chemodiversity and what role it could play for ecological functions at landscape-level. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Ecological role of emergent properties in the chemodiversity landscape - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Many biotic interactions occur via chemical compounds released in the environment. Here the authors review the field of chemical ecology and discuss the importance of investigating landscape-scale che...

doi.org

Naturschutz auch für Mikroorganismen! Eine Begründung findet Ihr in einem kurzen Editorial von @ninafarwig.bsky.social und mir in @claudialudy.bsky.social: rdcu.be/fcyBT

Floral scent chemodiversity is associated with high floral visitor but low bacterial richness on flowers 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Hanusch et al. @WileyPlantSci @mhanusch.bsky.social @rrjunker.bsky.social

The 'Filthy #Pollinator Hypothesis': does floral scent affect insect visitors and bacterial strains on #flowers? New research published today suggests scent diversity could be a clever way for plants to welcome visitors while keeping unwanted #microbes out.

Does scent affect insect visitors and bacterial strains on flowers?

Using information on alpine plant species, researchers investigated how the chemistry of flowers’ scent affects not only the diversity of insect pollinators but also the communities of bacteria…

newphytologist.org

Floral scent chemodiversity 🌸🧪 increases generalization in interactions with pollinators 🪰 – but reduces diversity of bacteria 🧫🦠 associated with flowers. New publication led by @mhanusch.bsky.social. @chemodiversity.bsky.social @unimarburg.bsky.social @newphyt.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Opinion piece: To effectively conserve #ecosystems, we must also conserve #microbes. This plan supports traditional #conservation goals while offering adaptations to conserve #microorganisms themselves. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #biodiversity

🐜+🥛 = yogurt 😲 “If the nomads want to make yogurt and cannot find enough starter culture [...] they crush the tiny eggs of the ants sheltering under the stones in their palms. When you put this into the milk that was decided to be made into yogurt that milk becomes yogurt.” doi.org/10.1177/0278...

Opinion piece: Any effective #conservation plan must include the conservation of #microbes. Here’s a plan that supports traditional conservation goals and outlines adaptations to conserve #microorganisms themselves. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

“Nature conservation is not working unless it protects entire ecosystems with all their interacting members—big and small” Fantastic opinion piece on advancing nature conservation to the next level by applying existing microorganism strategies to microbes.

Microbial conservation is essential for sustaining ecosystem functions and services | PNAS

Microbial conservation is essential for sustaining ecosystem functions and services

pnas.org

It’s always a great idea to work with Nico @reassemblynet.bsky.social and @bexplo.bsky.social. I highly recommend applying.

Reassembly Research Unit@reassemblynet.bsky.social · 12mo 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...

Charles Cockell said that “without lions there is life, but without microorganisms there can be no higher life forms” … Microbial conservation is essential for sustaining ecosystem functions and services | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Microbial conservation is essential for sustaining ecosystem functions and services | PNAS

Microbial conservation is essential for sustaining ecosystem functions and services

pnas.org

Microbial conservation is essential for sustaining ecosystem functions and services! We propose a conceptual framework and a roadmap for microbial conservation: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Microbial conservation is essential for sustaining ecosystem functions and services | PNAS

Microbial conservation is essential for sustaining ecosystem functions and services

pnas.org

Thanks so much to @voltcenter.bsky.social, @riikkarinnan.bsky.social and everyone involved in organizing the PhD course on BVOCs and the Symposium on Volatile Interactions in Ecosystems. Great to be part of the discussions in Copenhagen! 🇩🇰

@unimarburg.bsky.social’s Robert Junker is now telling us about the difference between #chemodiversity and #functional #diversity with his talk ‘(Novel) statistics in chemical ecology: chemodiversity and RandomForest’ 🍃 💨

#PlantScience, plants on a crane: we just started the 2nd chemotypic plasticity & diversity experiment within @chemodiversity.bsky.social with Solanum dulcemara testing drought stress & herbivory with @nmvandam.bsky.social, @rrjunker.bsky.social, @sunsicker.bsky.social, @chemecolcm.bsky.social

Jörg-Peter Schnitzler@jpschnitzler.net · 2y ago

#PlantScience today we started with #VOCs sampling in our joint @chemodiversity.bsky.social experiment on chemotypic plasticity & diversity in tansy under drought stress & herbivory….next days will be full of sampling for #metabolomics, #transcriptomics & #microbiome analyses.

📃BE-study shows that the #plant #microbiome plays a crucial role in species persistence & #ecosystem stability! 🌱🦠 Lab experiments reveal that microbiomes from different land-use intensities shape distinct plant traits, highlighting their adaptive potential. academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

Our new paper in The ISME Journal @ismeoffice.bsky.social : 🌱 Rapid natural modulation of the plant microbiome enhances plant tolerance to global change. 🦠 A prerequisite for this effect is a high local diversity of microorganisms. 🏞️ Microbial conservation is essential. doi.org/10.1093/isme...

Tolerance to land-use changes through natural modulations of the plant microbiome

Abstract. Land-use changes threaten ecosystems and are a major driver of species loss. Plants may adapt or migrate to resist global change, but this can la

doi.org

#weekendreading🔬 Tolerance to land-use changes through natural modulations of the plant microbiome🌱 @ismeoffice.bsky.social #microsky academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Tolerance to land-use changes through natural modulations of the plant microbiome

Abstract. Land-use changes threaten ecosystems and are a major driver of species loss. Plants may adapt or migrate to resist global change, but this can la

academic.oup.com

Tolerance to land-use changes through natural modulations of the plant microbiome -in #ISMEJournal from Robert Junker at @unimarburg.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Tolerance to land-use changes through natural modulations of the plant microbiome

Abstract. Land-use changes threaten ecosystems and are a major driver of species loss. Plants may adapt or migrate to resist global change, but this can la

academic.oup.com

Excited to join the 7th International Ecosummit in Zhengzhou, China. I am looking forward to meeting some great colleagues from China and other countries!