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Daniel Rieker

@dan-rie.bsky.social
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community ecologist with a ❤️ for decomposers 🍄🦠🦉🐌🌲⛰️📚 he/him

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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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Daniel Rieker @dan-rie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New 📄 out led by @chao-guo.bsky.social In addition to elevation and local conditions we further investigated the effects of invertebrates across substrates, again with partly contrasting effects. It’s super interesting how different decomposition of various substrates takes place
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Daniel Rieker @dan-rie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Happy to present my current work on the effects of wildfires on birds and bats at the Joint Conference of @nordicoikos.bsky.social and @gfoesoc.bsky.social exited and exhausted after this great week full of input, inspiring talks and meeting old and new friends in Odense 🇩🇰 such a great community
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Daniel Rieker @dan-rie.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I’m thrilled to finally see months of hard work in action! Despite losing nerves while organising, moving tons of material within hours by hand 💪, sorting screws for hours, professional screwing or driving around Germany for days to distribute materials - it was a blast ❤️‍🔥
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Daniel Rieker @dan-rie.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Over the next few years, this experiment will investigate how summer droughts (precipitation exclusion via roofs) and microclimatic variability (altered soil contact) affect deadwood-inhabiting diversity, associated processes, under different forest management regimes across different regions
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Daniel Rieker @dan-rie.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Just yesterday, we completed the setup of the final rain-out shelter for the BEClimWood experiment in Schorfheide-Chorin, completing the set up in all three regions of the @bexplo.bsky.social 🥳 Huge thanks to the amazing team @sebseibold.bsky.social @stellawimmer.bsky.social @annestte.bsky.social 🙌
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Julia Rothacher @juliarothacher.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
New paper on metacommunity dynamics out! 📃🍁 Led by Oliver Mitesser we show that habitat heterogeneity shifts communities from patch-dynamics toward mass effects and species sorting using beetles as focal taxon. 🐞😍 @betafor.bsky.social @cofeuniwue.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Forest Heterogeneity by Chain Saw: How Between‐Patch Variation in Old Growth Attributes Changes the Metacommunities of Beetles
Metacommunity theory has expanded our understanding of how spatial dynamics and local interactions influence species communities, but we lack empirical studies specifically in terrestrial habitats te...
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Daniel Rieker @dan-rie.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Always interesting to see how phenology changes by a few hundred kilometers. Sampling BEClimWood in Schorfheide and there weren‘t as many spring geophytes already flowering as in Hainich, but more animals around. Also saw some cranes, white-tailed eagles, whooper and Bewick's swans!
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Daniel Rieker @dan-rie.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
First week of fieldwork this year successfully completed! We've been extremely lucky with this nice spring weather while taking the first samples from the new BEClimWood experiment in Hainich at the @bexplo.bsky.social Big thanks again to this great team! First 🌷 were also popping up everywhere
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Sebastian Seibold @sebseibold.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
HIRING! We are looking for a new PhD student to work on insects in deadwood, effects of microclimate and land use. This is part of the Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social and will use a new experiment using rain-out shelters in different regions of Germany. EU driver´s licence required.
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Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN) @spun.earth · 27/01/2026
Are you a researcher translating fungal science into real conservation action? 📣 Call for abstracts now open 📍14–17 April 2026 in Uppsala, Sweden 🔗 Apply: www.slu.se/en/fce2026/ ⏰ Deadline: 25 Feb 2026
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Fungal Conservation in Europe: Evidence to Action
We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming meeting: Fungal Conservation in Europe: Evidence to Action which will take place in Uppsala, Sweden 14-17 April 2026.
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Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Preparations for our new #deadwood experiment BEClimWood are in full swing! 🌳 The experiment explores how land use & #climate factors shape #biodiversity around deadwood. Our local management team is hard at work—moving stones (one weighed 28.5 kg!) to set up the logs at the Hainich Exploratory. 💪
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Daniel Rieker @dan-rie.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
First day at this years #gfoe2025 was a blast! See you at the deadwood session on Wednesday which I am hosting with my colleague Julia Moll. Talks will cover different species groups 🍄🦠🪲🐜 and processes in temperate and tropical forest. See you there!! @gfoesoc.bsky.social
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W. Joel Schneider @w-joel-schneider.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Now on CRAN, ggdiagram is a #ggplot2 extension that draws diagrams programmatically in #Rstats. Allows for precise control in how objects, labels, and equations are placed in relation to each other. wjschne.github.io/ggdiagram/ar...
An arrow with a LaTeX equationTrigonometric functions and a unit circleA bivariate change model with structured residualsA hierarchical model of cognitive abilities
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Daniel Rieker @dan-rie.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
New 📃 out, led by @LeahVogelfänger. While the ecology of saproxylic beetles is well studied, other invertebrates often come up short. Studying 15 taxa across 8 years, we found that—unlike for beetles—tree species mattered little for the communities of these diverse groups. 🌳 @bexplo.bsky.social
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Metabarcoding reveals time after tree death as main driver of diversity and composition of invertebrate communities in deadwood
Increasing the availability of deadwood habitats to protect saproxylic biodiversity is a key objective of forest nature conservation. However, most kn…
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