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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Poor picture with my mobile phone, but a proof we have seen Polyommatus humedasae, one of the rarest European butterflies occurring exclusively on a 13 ha spot in Valle d'Aosta.

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

One of the most impressive plants in Gran Paradiso is Astragalus alopecurus. And Decticus verrucivorus (though also abundant elswhere) is always impressive.

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Back in Gran Paradiso after 13 years. Still one of the greatest National Parks in the Alps. But unbelievably dry and not much left of the glaciers.

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I do not have a camera, but even with a mobile phone it is simple to take a picture of these 5 long-eared owls in my neighbours garden. (The top one is adult, the others juvenile.)

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Liebe @deutschebahn.com, wie alle Passagiere der immer ausfallenden und verspäteten S6 verbringe ich viele Stunden an Gleis 12 in Essen Hbf. Immer sieht es dort so aus. Wenn ihr uns schon immer warten lasst, könnt ihr nicht mal den Müll räumen? Demnächst mache ich es selbst.

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Have used the holidays wisely (but enough dead wood remained in the forest).

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

A bit less wind, a bit more solar than in 2024, but also in 2025 61% of the electricity generated in Germany stems from renewable sources. Strong increase over the next years to be expected, given that alone 30GW of windpower have been permitted and granted financing in recent auctions.

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Merry X-mas from the Aquatic Ecology group!

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Auf den Friedhöfen im Westlichen Ruhrgebiet leben fast 1000 Wildpflanzenarten, mehr als 100 davon stehen auf der Roten Liste. Die Veröffentlichung von Corinne Buch et al. in Natur und Landschaft ist nun open access verfügbar. bfn.bsz-bw.de/frontdoor/de...

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Third year in a row that the neighbours and I brew our own beer. Different receipe in 2025, targeting "Helles" instead of "Pils".

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

And we can now also align species richness to combinations of stressors (Fig 4):

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

We observed consistent relation with salinity, oxygen depletion, and fine sediment accumulation, while the relation with nutrient enrichment and warming varied among groups. The results allow us, amongst others, to predict how species richness changes with increasing stressors intensity (Fig. 3):

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

We extracted data on 1,332 stressor–response relationships from literature and ran Generalised Linear Mixed Models for each dataset individually. With the resulting estimates (e.g. regression coefficients) we performed a Bayesian meta-analysis. In short, these are the results:

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I rarely go to ResearchGate and then I immediately close.

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Retreat of our working group in the new field station of Cologne University in Bienen.

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Es gibt auch noch Lackpoliturmilch, Bitumenmilch, Farbenmilch, Wolfsmilch, Milchglas, Zementmilch und Waschmilch.

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Field trip to the Scheld flooplain restoration during a BioAgora workshop.

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Friedhofsrasen mit erstaunlicher Pflanzenvielfalt, darunter viele Relikte extensiver Landwirtschaft und von Sandheiden. www.tuexenia.de/publikatione...

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Conference dinner of this year's meeting of the German Limnological Society in the Senckenberg Natural History Museum.

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Great PhD defense by Andrea Schneider today. Biodiversity effects of modified grassland maintenance on dykes in urban areas. @merlin-project.bsky.social @valentinecology.bsky.social

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Ich transkribiere ein paar alte Unterlagen, die mein Opa gesammelt hatte, darunter die Ernennungsurkunde als Professor für einen entfernt Verwandten aus dem 19. Jahrhundert. Auch der Text ist toll. Dagegen sieht meine Urkunde aus wie ein Sonderangebot bei Aldi.

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

One of the most fascinating popular science books I have ever read. History of Europe from the decline of the dinosaurs to the rise of humans.

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

40+ years ago, I spent much time with placing and controlling nesting boxes for boreal owls (Aegolius funereus) in a mountain range in Germany (Ebbegebirge). Today I found one that survived, though the forest has since long died of drought and the owls disappeared.

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Downstream of the alpine #glaciers you find some of the most impressive braided river sections. I wonder what will happen to them in 50 years when the glaciers have melted. Most likely some sort of (boring) floodplain forest.

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Not much left of the #glaciers in #Ecriens, but when walking on the moraine you get an idea of the former size.

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Yesterday, we observed 42 butterfly species, nice ones like Parnassius apollo and Limenitis reducta, but also rarities like Hipparchia geneva and Muschampia lavatherae.

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Since 15 years we search for Eryngium alpinum. Today we found a few.

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

A few more butterflies and mothes from Ecriens: Polyommatus daphnis, Zygaena hylaris, Melitaea phoebe.

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Poor picture but the proof that we have seen Coenonympha oedippus, one of the rarest European butterflies. In the Rhone floodplain north of Lac du Burget.

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Some nice things on the way: Ophrys fuciflora elatior (one of three locations in Germany).

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Over the last 15 years, we have visited almost all national parks in the Alps. This year Ecriens (France) as the final one. Some plant and insect pictures ahead.

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Verbote haben schon immer geholfen, wenn man nicht weiterwusste.

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Wednesday will be a great day for my Climate change lecture!

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

I hate this. You submit a review, the receipt of the review is acknowledged, and then they keep reminding you to submit the review.

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Electrofishing demonstration ba Florian Keil for our students.

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Triturus carnifex, Geltung more abundant every year.

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Corallorhiza trifida - have rarely seen it flowering.

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Cypripedium calceolus - always great to see.

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Back in Mondsee for a fieldtrip. Some plant and animal pictures ahead. Start with Bombina variegata.

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Zum Thema Varianten: Wir waren an der Uni Duisburg-Essen tatsächlich nur auf den Erfolgsfall vorbereitet. Das unerwartete Ausscheiden hat offenbar auch unsere Pressestelle kalt erwischt.

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

While a predominantly lotic community shifts to an assemblage with more heterogeneous flow preferences, almost no taxa were eliminated from beaver territories. Beavers thus enhance aquatic invertebrate biodiversity, while maintaining the original community.

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The habitat type with highest invertebrate abundance was side channels in beaver territories. And the beaver dams are also exceptionally rich in taxa and individuals and support a very special community.

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Species richness in beaver territories increased by factor of 2.7, compared to non-beaver territories. Of the 254 taxa recorded, 141 occurred exclusively in beaver territories.

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