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Benjamin Wildermuth

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Arthropod ecology in different ecosystems. (Functional) diversity, community composition, trophic niches, plant-animal interactions, temporal & spatial patterns www.idiv.de/staff/benjamin-wildermu…

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Elia Guariento @eliaguariento.bsky.social · 21h
New paper out on the future impact of extreme weather events on butterflies in Italy - 🦋❄️🌡️⛈️ Lead by @dinobiancolini.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @euracalpenv.bsky.social @europebutterfly.bsky.social
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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
📖 New research 📖 These results suggest that promoting mixed forests could be an effective strategy to attenuate the impact of invasion by non-native forest pests 🌲 🕷️ 🌳 Find out more 👉️ buff.ly/aZn16Y6
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Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Postdoc Alert! New Postdoc Position for 3 years (max 3 more)- offers the freedom to develop your own research projects in close interaction with my group. Research on invertebrates preferred. Apply by October 31. Please RP. zoologie.uni-greifswald.de/en/organizat... 🧪
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Open Postdoc position (3 + max 3 years)
Universität Greifswald
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Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata @ento-ea.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Call for Papers! Plasticity and Adaptation: Insect Responses to Global Warming Submission Deadline: 31 January 2027 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
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Call for Papers – Plasticity and Adaptation: Insect Responses to Global Warming
Submission Deadline: 31 January 2027
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Will Pearse @willpearse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Our global analysis of ecosystem functions and services is online now! This is probably the paper I'm most proud of - a quantitative, global map of every one of the IPBES ecosystem service categories, all tracked back to the original data! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Biodiversity safeguards ecosystem services and functions worldwide - Nature Ecology & Evolution
An analysis of a global database of 423 studies and >200,000 data points outlines the strength and generality of biodiversity relationships with ecosystem functioning and services.
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Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
RESEARCH ARTICLE Disturbance Mosaics Shape Multiple Pollinator Taxa Across Spatial and Temporal Scales in Fire‐Managed Forests 🔗 buff.ly/CLKghM0
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Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com · 06/10/2026
🌲Drought is perceived as a major threat to European forests, and while professionals prioritize species diversity, broadleaf-conifer mixtures and assisted regeneration, timber price increases may favor maintaining conifers. 👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Economic incentives for conifers may limit broadleaf expansion in climate-adaptive European forests - Communications Earth & Environment
Drought, is perceived as a major threat to European forests, and while professionals prioritize species diversity, broadleaf-conifer mixtures, and assisted regeneration, timber price increases may fav...
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Gesellschaft für Ökologie e.V. @gfoesoc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#CALL: Open PhD position in our new project #EUOLIVES! 🫒📊🌍 We are looking for a PhD candidate in Quantitative Agroecology & Biodiversity Modelling to join our new project EU-OLIVES ("Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in EU Olive Farming") based at the University of Vienna.
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Julian Resasco @julianresasco.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’m recruiting a grad student to join our lab at CU-Boulder in Fall 2027. I’m especially interested in students excited about insect community ecology and biodiversity, sp. interactions, and landscape connectivity. Please share with students who may be interested! www.colorado.edu/lab/resasco/...
ecologists in the field
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Lars Gamfeldt @gamfeldt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Postdoc position opening up, with me at University of Gothenburg. Scaling up the functional consequences of changes in #marine #biodiversity. Working with #algae and maybe #fish. Apply by Oct 15. web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103... 🧪🦑
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Postdoc in functional biodiversity
The Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg, (https://www.gu.se/en/marina-vetenskaper) combines extensive scientific competence with unique
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Tobias Kuemmerle @tkuemmerle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Single biodiversity metrics miss the target 👉 new paper by Ria Gloor, Martin Mikoláš and colleagues @jappliedecology.bsky.social Integrating local habitat structure and landscape heterogeneity is essential to conserve multitaxonomic biodiversity in European primary forests doi.org/10.1111/1365...
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Integrating local habitat structure and landscape heterogeneity is essential to conserve multitaxonomic biodiversity in European primary forests
Our results demonstrate that the drivers of primary forest biodiversity are largely context-dependent; therefore, conservation strategies based on single biodiversity indicators or individual structu...
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Lee Dyer @gusanero.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We are looking for an excellent evolutionary biologist doing cool stuff. No taxonomic focus or specific approaches needed. Reno is a GREAT place to live, and the Biology Department and EECB at UNR Program are fabulous! nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UNR-external...
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Assistant Professor, Evolutionary Biology
The University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) appreciates your interest in employment at our growing institution. We want your application process to go smoothly and quickly. Final applications must be submitt...
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Don Yee @mosquitolab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Posting for a colleague (so don't contact me for questions). North Carolina State is looking for a Assistant Professor in Insect Ecology. 💼🪰🐜🦋
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Alejandro Ordonez @anordonez1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"🌿 We're hiring at @econovoau.bsky.social! Postdoc position forecasting how land-use change, climate shifts & rewilding will reshape European plant diversity. Biodiversa+ REDESIGN project, Aarhus Uni. 2 years. Closes 1 Nov 2026. 🔗 www.au.dk/om/stillinge... #ecology #postdoc
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Postdoctoral researcher in biodiversity forecasting, vegetation dynamics and rewilding - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet
Ledig stilling ved Institut for Biologi - Økoinformatik og biodiversitet, Aarhus Universitet
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Pedro Mittelman @pmittelman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What is a supposedly ground-dwelling mouse doing 21 metres up a tree? 🐭🌳 Check on our Brief Report: Apodemus at heights: doi.org/10.1007/s133...
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Fons van der Plas @fonsvanderplas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We have an open PhD position on how nitrogen deposition affects plant and arthropod biodiversity. The research includes large-scale fieldwork across Northwestern Europe with hands-on experiments. Interested? See www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
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PhD: Effects of atmospheric nitrogen deposition on plant and insect diversity
Are you a highly motivated and enthusiastic ecologist who wants to uncover how nitrogen deposition affects plant and arthropod biodiversity? Are you excited by the idea of combining large-scale fieldw...
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Jamie Alison @jamiealison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sensors and AI could transform how we track insect declines, but the road to robust “insect sensing systems” is riddled with pitfalls 🫗🐞🪰 @insectai.bsky.social & friends propose seven steps to dodge them, working responsibly with tech and AI to generate huge & standardized datasets Open access 1/
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Insect monitoring without pitfalls: Seven steps for robust insect sensing systems
Cameras, acoustics, radar and photonics allow us to observe insects at unprecedented spatial and temporal scales. Different sensors have unique strengths, while species ID is a critical bottleneck. ...
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Jolyon Troscianko @jtroscianko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🦋 Butterfly wing patterns create motion illusions that protect them from predators! Our new study (8 years in the making) is out in Nature today doi.org/10.1038/s415... @grahancock.bsky.social @esbriolat.bsky.social @scienceanna.bsky.social @lauraakelley.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social
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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
📢 #JobOffer for #PostDoc in #Robotics & #AI: If your skills in the field of machine learning shall contribute to #biodiverse, #resilient & #sustainable #agroecosystems: Apply now: forms.gle/dTVadJpjLBek... @unituebingen.bsky.social; @uni-freiburg.de; @terra-cluster.org; @ml4science.bsky.social
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Robert Tropek @robtrop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New study published in @natecoevo.nature.com ! We assembled the largest global dataset of plant–pollinator networks to ask a simple question: do interactions become more specialised towards the tropics? doi.org/10.1038/s415... Study led by @saileesakhalkar.bsky.social and myself ☺️ 1/8
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Joanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com · 30/09/2026
Insect declines threaten wildlife far beyond insect world. Apart from being food, insects provide other species with homes, protection, chemical defence and sanitation - to name a few things. Great review article by @r-cooke.bsky.social with BEAUTIFUL visuals. 🧪🪳 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Visuals demonstrating the following:

Many freshwater fish eat insects
Parrots nest in termite mounds
Chimpanzees use insects on wounds
Poisonous frogs get toxins from ants and beetles.

73% of studied vertebrate species eat invertebrates
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Ingolf Kühn @ingolfkuehn.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
Are you an experimental plant ecologist? Keen on working with great colleagues in a thriving scientific environment and a unique global change experiment? Join us! recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/V… #ecology #ecologyjob #ecoevojob
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Leading Scientist (f/m/x) in Biodiversity Research
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Experimental Interaction Ecology @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New study by Wang et al. in @pnas.org shows that nematode α- and γ-diversity were significantly and positively associated with plant β-diversity, but nematode β-diversity was primarily shaped by their functional traits and environmental heterogeneity. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Soil nematode diversity is structured by vegetation turnover and trait-mediated dispersal limitation | PNAS
Soils support substantial biodiversity that is crucial for ecosystem functioning. Nematodes represent one of the most abundant and diverse groups o...
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please pass along: I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab. We study physical ecology, macroecology, and biodiversity — spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested 🧪🌐🌾
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Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery @naturerecovery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How are tropical insect communities responding to rapid environmental change? In this talk @louiseaashton.bsky.social explores what long-term data on tropical insects can tell us about the impacts of climate change, habitat loss & other pressures & what this means for tropical forest ecosystems.
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Tropical insects in the Anthropocene
YouTube video by Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery
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Stephanie Schelfhout @stephschelfhout.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🥳 Paper alert: Food forestry can enhance nectar resources and support wild pollinator biodiversity in temperate agricultural landscapes -> More wild bees (species) in food forests (for syrphids, forests are better) @fornalab.bsky.social @niooknaw.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Experimental setup to compare nectar resources and pollinators in food forests vs cropland, intensive grassland and forests in 14 locations in Belgium and The Netherlands. Wild bee and syrphid abundance and diversity per land use type.
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Experimental Interaction Ecology @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New paper by Lettenmaier er al. on how canopy openness and deer interactively shape earthworm biomass in @esajournals.bsky.social Ecology: "Native earthworms and roe deer in temperate forests: Friends in the sun, foes in the shade" 🪱🦌🌳🌞 doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... @christianristok.bsky.social
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Research Centre For Ecological Change @rececochange.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
📢 Open position in Biodiversity Science The 2-year position focuses on how patterns of species co-occurrence are shifting under global change, using long-term biodiversity datasets and advanced statistics. 📍 Helsinki, Finland | ~€3,700/month 📅 Apply by 19 Oct. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Biodiversity Science
Postdoctoral Researcher in Biodiversity Science
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Rising, falling, stalling: complex biodiversity trajectories in English rivers vist.ly/5k4yz #Biodiversity #Macro #Invertebrates
Three charts showing cluster analysis: (a) ASPT trends from 2002 to 2022, (b) NMDS plot, (c) LDA plot with clusters.Bar graphs displaying percentage of sites by ClusterID for ASPT, Richness, and Abundance. Below, maps show geographic data points in England categorized by these metrics.
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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
New research in #RESInsectConsDiv Does #topography matter in the canopy? Spatial variation of #ant assemblages across vertical and horizontal gradients doi.org/10.1111/icad... #SpeciesAssemblages #Biodiversity #Formicidae @manusaunders.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social
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Shawan Chowdhury @shawan-chowdhury.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
📢 PhD opportunity at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 🦋 We are looking for a motivated domestic/international PhD student to work on citizen science and insect conservation. Please share with anyone interested! 🌐 shawanchowdhurylab.com #PhD #Ecology #Conservation #CitizenScience #Insects
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Fons van der Plas @fonsvanderplas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
New paper out, on a grassland experiment in which we manipulated plant alpha and beta diversity, and found that both affect plant productivity: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... Thanks to @henneckejustus.bsky.social @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social Katie Barry and Lea von Sivers.
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Effects of biotic homogenization on community assembly and biomass production in an α × β‐diversity grassland experiment
Various studies have shown that local loss of plant species within patches (i.e., α-diversity loss) hampers plant biomass production, raising concerns about the consequences of biodiversity loss. How....
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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
📖 These findings advocate mosaic debushing strategies that preserve vegetation complexity and edaphic mosaics, reconciling bush control with arthropod conservation to ensure long-term savannah ecosystem resilience 🪳 🌏️ 🌾 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/PQW58ZF
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Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity @anthropocenebio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We're looking for a postdoc to work on biodiversity and land use modelling. You will adapt and develop an existing land use and food system modelling and decision-support tool to incorporate biodiversity and land use. Find out more and apply by 14 Oct: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...
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Florian Altermatt @florianaltermatt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#Riparian land use reduces multitrophic #community #stability in #rivers 🐟🐠🌍🌐. In #GlobalChangeBiology by Feilong Li et al. dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... 🚜 🏙️ We combined #eDNA 🧬 metabarcoding across a river network to analyze land use intensification on biodiversity and community stability.📈 🧵1/5
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Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
RESEARCH ARTICLE Climate Warming Drives the Breakdown of Plant–Pollinator Mutualisms Despite Phenological Synchrony 🔗 buff.ly/rElLWEE
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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New #OpenAccess work in #RESEcolEnt #Honeybees directly outcompete other flower visitors through interference competition on shared resource doi.org/10.1111/een.... @sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social Photos courtesy of article authors
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Nature Communications @natcomms.nature.com · 04/09/2026
This study shows that functionally similar and specialized interactions play a crucial role in enhancing #ecosystem #multifunctionality and moderating #biodiversity effects. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @multitroph.bsky.social
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Multitrophic interaction networks mediate biodiversity effects on ecosystem multifunctionality - Nature Communications
Biodiversity loss alters the functioning of ecosystems by modifying how species interact. This study shows that functionally similar and specialized interactions play a crucial role in enhancing ecosy...
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Nature Communications @natcomms.nature.com · 04/09/2026
#Biodiversity can stabilize ecosystems, but how stability scales across trophic levels is unclear. Using a forest biodiversity experiment, this study shows that herbivore diversity stabilizes plant populations, communities, and metacommunities via top-down effects. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Scaling biodiversity-stability relationships from populations to meta-communities across trophic levels - Nature Communications
Biodiversity can stabilize ecosystems, but how stability scales across trophic levels is unclear. Using a forest biodiversity experiment, this study shows that herbivore diversity stabilizes plant pop...
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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Is there generality in decomposition across substrates? We tested this in an experiment across elevation, studying carrion, dung, leaves & wood. We found idiosynchratic patterns of decomp, with local conditions being more important than macroclimate @sebseibold.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
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Experimental Interaction Ecology @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
New study from our myDiv tree diversity experiment out in @natecoevo.nature.com 🌳🍄 Harnessing the crossed design of mycorrhizal type x tree diversity, Yi et. al show that both factors drive multitrophic biodiversity, especially belowground 🦠🪱🪲
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Benjamin Wildermuth @bmwildermuth.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Final sampling of the year, and it did feel like it 🌫️ 🪵 Last 4 weeks yielded impressive numbers of beetles on first glance although a different community, while spiders seemed to have retreated overall 🪲 🕷️ @mrakklara.bsky.social @fboetzl.bsky.social
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Benjamin Wildermuth @bmwildermuth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Most of my review invites arrive the weekend, so I guess most editors do their free work for scientific publishers in their free time. It's just overall a tragic system :D
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Basic and Applied Ecology @basicapplecol.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🦋🏔️ New article: How do arthropod traits shift with elevation? Across four groups in Italy's Vinschgau Valley, orthopterans and butterflies lose trait diversity higher up, while ants gain it. 🐜 DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.ba... @gfoesoc.bsky.social
Fig. 1. The distribution of the traits body length, feeding type, wing development, and hibernation type of carabid beetles along Alpine elevation sites in Matsch/Mazia, South Tyrol (Italy). Numerical variables show mean CWM values of the variable per elevation and were tested with Kruskal Wallis rank-sum test (added in legend) followed by pairwise-Wilcoxon test. Categorical variables were also tested with Kruskal Wallis rank-sum test followed by pairwise Dunn test (significant results are shown with small letters). Credits for the icon: Eurac Research.Fig. 6. Overlap of pairs of hypervolumes indicated by the Sørensen index (0–1, where 1 is maximal similarity and 0 is no similarity). (A) The graph shows three comparisons on the X-axis of adjacent elevations, and (B) shows three comparisons along elevation starting always from the lowest elevation (1000 m) to all other elevations. (C) The photograph shows the silhouette of the actual sampled elevation sites in the LT(S)ER area "Matsch/Mazia". Please note: the lower part of the 1000 m was artificially extended due to perspectival reasons, and the locations of the sampling plots on this silhouette (yellow squares) are symbolic and do not represent their real location.
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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🌍 iDiv and the @uni-jena.de are hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) in Macroevolution & Macroecology. 🕒 Full-time (40h/week) or part-time (minimum 75%) 📅 Start: 1 Dec 2026 💼 Fixed-term: 3 years 💶 Salary: up to E13 (TV‑L) ⏳ Deadline: 30 Sept 2026 www.idiv.de/career/job-o...
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Job Openings
Explore exciting career opportunities at iDiv. Join a modern, international, and innovative research centre in the heart of Germany.
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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate - BECC @beccsweden.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Open position: Assistant professor in ecology and evolution of terrestrial arthropods Application deadline: 30 October 2026 Learn more: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
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Benjamin Wildermuth @bmwildermuth.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Got the hattrick of first decisions during my vacation. One reject, one major revision, one minor revision. Not exactly a triple crown, but ok 🙃
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Benjamin Wildermuth @bmwildermuth.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"Accounting for observer count changed the reported statistically significant 2.10% decline in Shannon index to a nonsignificant 0.58% increase (P = 0.288)" Not an expert, but isn't observer effort the most basic thing that needs to be considered in citizen science? 😮
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Hengxing Zou @hengxingzou.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
You might have seen the paper @science.org last week on the solar panels decreasing bird biodiversity. Our reanalysis, led by the talented Yangkang Chen, found fundamental, retraction-worthy flaws in their results, especially from the citizen science data and their models… (1/6)
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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
New research👇️ Higher and more stable biological control of multiple herbivore species in diversified strip cropping systems 🐛 🌾 🪴 🔎 Find out more: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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