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marion-chatelain.bsky.social @marion-chatelain.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

🐦🎥 Behind the scenes of our project on how bird feeding affects reproduction and nestling welfare! A big thank you to Denise Zortea for producing this wonderful short video showcasing our research and fieldwork. Watch it here: youtu.be/PkxVKE9bOIA

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"To feed or not to feed wild birds" - University of Innsbruck

YouTube video by Denise Zortea | Into the woods

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Applied Animal Ecology @apanec-lab.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

🐋🔬 MSc thesis opportunity in the eWHALE project! Study humpback whale genetic diversity in Skjálfandi Bay using eDNA. Work on lab & bioinformatics (mtDNA D-loop sequencing & molecular sexing) at WasserCluster Lunz & Innsbruck (Austria). Start June 2026. Contact: Bettina.Thalinger@wcl.ac.at

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Applied Animal Ecology @apanec-lab.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

🔬🌙 Once again, the 2026 Lange Nacht der Forschung was a great success! Children especially loved extracting DNA from strawberries, observing arthropods, and playing bird memory games. 🧬🕷️🐦 Thanks to everyone who joined us!

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Applied Animal Ecology @apanec-lab.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

🔬🌙 Meet us today at the Lange Nacht der Forschung on the UIBK Technik campus from 5 pm! Discover applied animal ecology: extract DNA from strawberries, play biodiversity games, see live insects, and learn how we catch & measure birds for research. 🐦🧬🌿 langenachtderforschung.at/station/5405

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Was passiert da hinterm Zaun im grünen Dickicht? - #LNF26 Lange Nacht der Forschung

Entdecken Sie auf einem Gartenrundgang Lehr- und Forschungsbereiche aus Zoologie und Biologiedidaktik!

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Applied Animal Ecology @apanec-lab.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

🐦 Update on the “To feed or not to feed wild birds” project, which investigates the impact of bird feeding on nestling development and welfare. We’re especially excited as the first tit eggs were found today (30 March)! 🥚✨

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RestPoll @restpoll.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

🍎Did you Know? Apples depend on honeybees, wildbees and bumblebees for pollination🍏

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Applied Animal Ecology @apanec-lab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

🐦🏙️ New paper! Beyond “urban dullness”: across 8 urban–rural gradients (Poland), great & blue tits show species- & trait-specific colour shifts. Carotenoid & structural colours respond differently, while melanin traits remain stable www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Applied Animal Ecology @apanec-lab.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

🧀🌿🧬New project cureCHEESES (DaFNE/BMLUK) with VetMedUni & HBLFA Tirol tackles cracking, eye formation & aroma defects in Austrian mountain cheese. Daniela Sint contributes by leading the plant DNA detection module to link cow diet with cheese properties. Exciting collaboration!

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Pau Colom @paucolom.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

New paper on global change impacts on insects, out in GEB🦋🌍 Climate change and urbanisation act synergistically: butterfly declines are stronger under warming in urban environments. Species traits help explain heterogeneous responses. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @ylndmc.bsky.social

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Iberian Group of Urban Ecology @igue-aeet.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

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marion-chatelain.bsky.social @marion-chatelain.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Our project on bird feeding & reproduction is underway! Blue tits, great tits, and even some sparrows are already exploring the nestboxes. We will soon find out if feeding makes gardens more attractive as breeding sites🐣 — exciting insights ahead!

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Applied Animal Ecology @apanec-lab.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Congrats to Jana Robertson on receiving the Haus des Meeres stipend for her MSc thesis! She’s using eDNA sampling to improve the amphibian species catalogue in Costa Rica — exciting conservation research ahead! 🐸🧬

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Applied Animal Ecology @apanec-lab.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

🐝🌾 Welcome Georg Teischinger to our group! His PhD will use eDNA to study insect networks in Austrian farmland, aiming to design better flowering strips, support wild bees, manage pests, and boost sustainable agriculture while protecting local biodiversity.

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Functional Agrobiodiversity & Agroecology @funcagroeco.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

📢 Upcoming #EcologySeminar! Dr. Alina Twerski will give a talk about grasslands’ multifunctionality and it's restoration 🌾 📅 Wed 4. Feb at 10:15 AM 📩 DM for webinar link @hsanhalt.bsky.social @agrarunigoe.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de

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Applied Animal Ecology @apanec-lab.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

🍯🌼 New project funded! A joint initiative on honey DNA pollen analytics brings together the UIBK, the Tyrolean Beekeepers’ Association & Sinsoma, supported by the Land Tirol Innovation Programme. Congrats to Daniela Sint on leading this exciting science–practice collaboration!

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Applied Animal Ecology @apanec-lab.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

🐋New paper! Integrating eDNA sampling into whale-watching tours boosts awareness & willingness to support marine conservation. Survey across Italy, Azores & Iceland shows citizen science + eDNA is a scalable, cost-effective way to engage the public in biodiversity protection. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Bettina Thalinger @bettinathal.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

🧬 New year, new job! 🧬 I have started a position as Group Leader at #WasserCluster #Lunz (Austria). Stay tuned for job openings at all levels in the TRIDENT group @trident-wcl.bsky.social and collaboration opportunities in upcoming national and international #eDNA Projects.

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Applied Animal Ecology @apanec-lab.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Happy to welcome Marina Sperling as a new Master’s student! She’ll study how bird feeding affects pathogen prevalence in great & blue tits, opening our work on disease transmission linked to feeding 🐦🦠 www.uibk.ac.at/de/zoology/f...

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Applied Animal Ecology @apanec-lab.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

🌆🐦 New paper! DNA metabarcoding of 370 tit droppings across Innsbruck urban mosaic shows urbanisation drives habitat-linked diet shifts shaped by vegetation & feeders, likely underlying urban–rural differences in reproduction and informing bird-friendly city design. doi.org/10.1016/j.la...

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Applied Animal Ecology @apanec-lab.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

A big farewell to @bettinathal.bsky.social as she leaves our group to start her own Applied Biodiversity Research & Molecular Ecology team at WasserCluster Lunz (@trident-wcl.bsky.social)! 🚀Congrats Bettina — we will miss you, but we can’t wait to follow the great science coming from your team! 🧬🐟

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Pete Manning @peteecology.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

The joint meeting of NSO and GFÖ, September 2026, Odense, Denmark (for which I'm leading the science programming group) is now open for workshop and thematic session proposals! Please share. Details here: nordicsocietyoikos.glueup.com/event/nordic...

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Nordic Oikos 2026 | Nordic Society Oikos

Join us for one of Europe’s leading ecological conferences, where scientists, students, and professionals from across the Nordic countries, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland come together to explore t...

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Functional Agrobiodiversity & Agroecology @funcagroeco.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

📢 Upcoming #EcologySeminar! Kyra Zembold will share novel insights from #ProjectKOOPERATIV on how landscape diversity + flower fields togehter effect natural pest control at the landscape scale. 📅 Wed 10.Dec. at 10:15 AM 📩 DM for webinar link @agrarunigoe.bsky.social

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Jeroen Brijs @jeroenbrijs.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

🌡️ New publication alert! 🐠🌿 Herbivorous reef fish kept feeding during marine heatwaves—but still lost body mass due to a mismatch between energy intake and demand. As oceans warm, their ability to control invasive algae may be under threat. 🔗 dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... #ClimateChange #CoralReefs

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Outlasting the Heat: Collapse of Herbivorous Fish Control of Invasive Algae During Marine Heatwaves

Marine heatwaves (MHWs) and eutrophication are driving coral reefs toward algal dominance. Herbivorous fishes are thought to help slow this shift by feeding on fast-growing and often invasive, herbiv...

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Applied Animal Ecology @apanec-lab.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

📃 New paper out! Our high-frequency sampling in barley fields shows food webs shift rapidly, with connectance, community makeup & predator–prey links changing over weeks and between years. Snapshot sampling can misjudge ecosystem functioning. 🕷️🐞🌾 rdcu.be/eSI9G

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The dynamic nature of cereal food webs challenges the suitability of snapshot sampling for assessing ecosystem services

Scientific Reports - The dynamic nature of cereal food webs challenges the suitability of snapshot sampling for assessing ecosystem services

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marion-chatelain.bsky.social @marion-chatelain.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

📃Call for Papers! Scientific Reports: "Burden of air pollution on biodiversity & habitat loss". Submit by 1 Jul 2026. We welcome research on direct & indirect effects of NOx, O₃, PM on individuals, populations, communities & species interactions 😶‍🌫️🐞🌿 Mitigation studies also welcome!

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Applied Animal Ecology @apanec-lab.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Antonia from our eRNAmaris project visited Le Croisic, France, to collect water samples with our partners at Ifremer 🌊! Sampling over time will reveal how fish eRNA degrades 🐠🧬. Big thanks to the Océarium for making this possible!

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RSPB Science @rspbscience.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Sadly, we have seen a big increase in avian flu cases in the UK - particularly in waterfowl Whilst the risk to the public remains assessed as very low, Government advice is not to touch any visibly sick or dead birds, and to keep pets away Read on for ways to help: 📷Ben Andrew

A Whooper Swan looks back over its folded wings at the camera.

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Applied Animal Ecology @apanec-lab.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

New book chapter in Advances in Organic Farming! 🌱 Philippe Belliard examines the challenges and solutions of agroecological pest management in organic farming, emphasizing integrated pest management approaches for controlling arthropod pests in crop production. doi.org/10.1079/9781...

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Key Challenges and Solutions for Sustainable Pest Management in Organic Farming | Advances in Organic Farming

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Applied Animal Ecology @apanec-lab.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

🎉 Exciting news! Our project Frog in the Waterdrop led by Corinna Wallinger received the Peter Petrich Award for Sustainability from Biotop, along with €1000 to support our work on amphibian biodiversity and pathogens. A big thanks to everyone involved! 🐸💧

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Applied Animal Ecology @apanec-lab.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Developing eDNA approaches to measure biodiversity is a key endeavour in our group! 🌿🧬 Join us tomorrow (Nov 6, 9–11 am, in German) on Zoom to discover three exciting projects on amphibians, forest wildlife & pollinators with C. Wallinger, M. Traugott & S. Gurten : haup-ac-at.zoom.us/j/88638709922

Picture of a European tree frog. Photo by Andreas Kirschner

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Applied Animal Ecology @apanec-lab.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

New funded project! 🎉 Led by Lauren Rodriguez (PI) and @bettinathal.bsky.social (Advisor), this study will push the boundaries of eDNA research by testing cutting-edge genomic tools to identify individual sperm whales from environmental samples — a major step for non-invasive marine monitoring! 🐋

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Orianne Tournayre @otournayre.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

🚨Turning air quality networks into a global #biodiversity monitoring system? Air pollution filters were repurposed for #airborne #eDNA, enabling detection of #vertebrates, #invertebrates, #plants & #fungi at a national scale.🧬🌐🧪 📄Check out our new paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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First national survey of terrestrial biodiversity using airborne eDNA - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - First national survey of terrestrial biodiversity using airborne eDNA

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WSL Umweltforschung @wslresearch.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

🌿 #PostDoc Alert! PhD in #EnvironmentalSciences? Proficient in #bioinformatic, #EcologicalModelling and good knowledge of trait-based #ecology🦋? Our #ConservationBiology group offers a PostDoc position in biotic and trophic interactions🐜: apply.refline.ch/273855/1769/... #UrbanEcology #ScienceJobs

Job offer: PostDoc in biotic and trophic interactions 90% (f/m/d)
As part of the interdisciplinary PAPPUS project, which explores how plant communities and urban green space management support biodiversity and residents' quality of life, you will work with existing data. Your focus will be on analyzing biotic and trophic interactions between plants and arthropods, including predators, herbivores, pollinators, and detritivores. The data were collected from 60 public and private green spaces in Zurich. Your first task will be to analyse metabarcoding data from over 1200 invertebrate samples to generate a species lists. You will then examine the structure of mutualistic and antagonistic multitrophic networks, including food webs, and model their responses to urbanisation, management intensity, and plant preferences among residents. The position offers flexibility to develop your own research ideas within the scope of PAPPUS. You are expected to publish your findings in high-impact journals and present them at international conferences. Engagement with practitioners, especially through presentations and outreach in French, is also an important part of this PostDoc.
You have a PhD degree in environmental science or in a related field. You have a good publication record as well as a background in ecological sciences and quantitative analyses. Proficiency in bioinformatic, metabarcoding, multitrophic ecology (food web), and ecological modelling is required, as is good knowledge of trait-based ecology. Practical and interdisciplinary experiences (e.g., with urban engineers) and knowledge of the principles and theories of urban ecology are helpful. You are ambitious, motivated and communicative. You are used to a high standard of independent, structured and you demonstrate a high level of team spirit. Proficiency in English and French, as well as good knowledge in German is required.

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Applied Animal Ecology @apanec-lab.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Congratulations to Marina Sperling on her bachelor’s thesis featured in the Uni Innsbruck Newsroom! Marina studied bird diversity across five UIBK campuses, showing how green spaces attract rare species like hawfinches, while buildings offer nesting sites for swifts. www.uibk.ac.at/de/newsroom/...

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Zwischen Beton und Bäumen – Vögel an der Uni Innsbruck

Wer über den Campus der Universität Innsbruck geht, sieht vor allem Gebäude, Asphaltflächen und Fahrradständer. Doch zwischen Beton und Glas haben sich zahlreiche Vogelarten eingerichtet. Im Frühjahr ...

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Applied Animal Ecology @apanec-lab.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

🌊 New paper out! Our latest study in Environmental DNA shows how fish daily vertical migrations affect eDNA in the ocean. 🐟 For species like European hake, seafloor eDNA signals vary between morning and evening, showing that behavior must be considered in eDNA monitoring. 👉 doi.org/10.1002/edn3...

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Environmental DNA for Aquatic Monitoring: Impact of Diel Vertical Migration

Environmental DNA concentrations are affected by animal behavior, such as diel vertical migration (DVM), which has repercussions for designing eDNA sampling strategies. The effect of DVM was identifi....

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marion-chatelain.bsky.social @marion-chatelain.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Feeding birds connects us to nature 🐦 but it may also expose them to pathogens or stress. With our new FWF-funded project "Pathogens: From Feeders to Flocks", we will uncover how bird feeding shapes pathogen exposure and health in wild birds. With Daniela Sint and Tina Weedman in Innsbruck!

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Applied Animal Ecology @apanec-lab.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

👏 Wishing a fond farewell to Thomas Curran! Thomas has developed molecular approaches to assess arthropod & plant diversity in grasslands from eDNA as part of the GeMonA+ project. 🦗🌱 Best of luck in your new lecturer position at South East Technological University, Waterford!

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Applied Animal Ecology @apanec-lab.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

🎉 Congratulations to Rebecca Niklas on completing her master’s thesis! Rebecca used eDNA samples to assess marine biodiversity and whale diet in the Azores, as part of the @ewhale-dna.bsky.social project🐋🌊 Fantastic work bridging cutting-edge molecular tools with marine ecology!

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marion-chatelain.bsky.social @marion-chatelain.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Excited to kick off my project “To Feed or Not to Feed Wild Birds”, funded by @wildanimalinitv.bsky.social We’re setting up nestboxes and feeders in 40 private gardens in Innsbruck to study how bird feeding affects nestling welfare. Stay tuned to see if our backyard treats really help birds!

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