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Paulina Arancibia @pauliarancibia.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

🌎 Experiments are central to understanding community dynamics, yet their use is declining. We're trying to understand why. If you work in community ecology, we'd really appreciate your input in a quick survey (<5 mins). 👉🏼 link.webropolsurveys.com/S/2022629791... Reposts welcome!

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Julien L Bota @bota-jb.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

The @bugnet.bsky.social Delegation from @slfdavos.bsky.social very much enjoyed the first day of #BES2025 in Edinburgh! Don’t miss our posters on herbivore interactions under current and future climate that we will present in the community ecology poster sessions today and tomorrow.

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BugNet @bugnet.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

BugNet currently includes 36 experimental sites in 18 countries 🌍. Huge thanks to all collaborators for their enthusiasm and teamwork!! We’re also looking for new collaborators to join this global effort to understand how invertebrate herbivores and fungal pathogens shape ecosystems. 🌐 bug-net.org

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BugNet @bugnet.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Our first paper from the Bug-Network (BugNet) is out! 🎉 BugNet is a global network studying how invertebrate herbivores and fungal pathogens shape plant diversity & ecosystem functioning worldwide. The paper reports on the methods of the experimental part: 📄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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The Bug‐Network (BugNet): A Global Experimental Network Testing the Effects of Invertebrate Herbivores and Fungal Pathogens on Plant Communities and Ecosystem Function in Open Ecosystems

The Bug-Network (BugNet) is a novel global collaborative research network that implements standardized consumer-reduction experiments in herbaceous- or shrub-dominated ecosystems to assess the impact...

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BugNet @bugnet.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Congrats, @loveyouleafyou.bsky.social! What a beautiful field site 🤩

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Jana Stewart @loveyouleafyou.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Finished up the annual sampling and a spray treatment for @joe-atkinson.bsky.social and I @bugnet.bsky.social sites out at Fowlers Gap. Blue skies and red earth always a great backdrop for fieldwork

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Anne Kempel @annekempel.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Our paper on unifying theory around biodiversity–consumer relationships (pathogens & herbivores) is now out in TREE! I hope it helps those navigating the forest of theories & hypotheses in this space to see more clearly 🤓 Check out @fletcher-h.bsky.social great summary of the paper here 👇

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BugNet @bugnet.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Postdoc position available with one of our BugNet collaborators! Fletcher is great, check it out 👇👇

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Anne Kempel @annekempel.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Check out what our @bugnet.bsky.social PhD student Julien Bota is doing at our experimental sites in Davos! @slfdavos.bsky.social

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BugNet @bugnet.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

And finally with all the people from both BugNet meetings. Thanks to everyone for joining and the vivid discussions!

Zoom meeting screenshot with all the BugNet collaborators

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BugNet @bugnet.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Want to join or learn more about BugNet? Join our BugNet info meeting with @annekempel.bsky.social online on Wednesday, January 29th 2025 at 9am CET or 3pm CET. Register here for the info meeting: www.bug-net.org 🌱 🌐

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BugNet @bugnet.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Next Tuesday comes round two for those that could't make it today – we are already looking forward to see you then! 🐛🌱🦠🐌

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BugNet @bugnet.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

What's the impact of herbivores and pathogens on plant communities? That's what we investigate in our global Bug-network with many collaborators from across the world! Today we had our global meeting - what a great BugNet-spirit! Thank you all for joining!

Zoom screen with the participants of the BugNet meeting

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BugNet @bugnet.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

BugNet is growing! Explore our field sites and collaborator network here: www.bug-net.org/collaborators/

Map displaying the fieldsites of the Bug-Network

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Anne Kempel @annekempel.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Starter pack about researchers interested in plant-herbivore and plant-pathogen interactions! This list is by far not complete - so please help me to get it extended. Leave suggestions or self-nominations in the comments and I'll add you. go.bsky.app/4JR67t6

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BugNet @bugnet.bsky.social · 18/06/2024

BugNet family meeting at the World Biodiversity Forum in Davos with @annekempel.bsky.social, Eric Allan, Jana Stewart, Sergio Rasmann and @bota-jb.bsky.social #WBF2024 🌱🐛🐌

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Anne Kempel @annekempel.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

🫖 Teatime in @BugNet_research! Lots of green an roibos tea is packed and shipped to our collaborators to test the importance of aboveground insect🐛 , fungal pathogens🦠 and molluscs🐌 for decomposition 🍵

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Julien L Bota @bota-jb.bsky.social · 04/06/2024

A very warm welcome to our @bugnet.bsky.social intern Léon Lepesant who will join our team @slfdavos.bsky.social for this summer!

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Julien L Bota @bota-jb.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

The @slfdavos.bsky.social @bugnet.bsky.social team well represented #Biology24Zurich. Come to the poster of our master student Trix Junghardt to learn about first insights about drivers of herbivore and pathogen damage in alpine plant communities! -with @annekempel.bsky.social

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BugNet @bugnet.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

Welcome to our brand new BugNet-Bluesky account! @annekempel.bsky.social @suzeveringham.bsky.social and @bota-jb.bsky.social are skeeting here about latest news from the BugNet research network 🐛🌱🦠🐌

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