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Felix Neff

@felixneff.bsky.social
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Community #ecologist studying #insects under #globalchange, with a special focus on #landuse and #climatechange. Based at #Agroscope in Switzerland Hobby #macro photographer He/him

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Felix Neff @felixneff.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
📄Out now 📄: 90-year trends in Switzerland show declines in butterfly and saproxylic beetle richness around the mid-20th century, linked to agricultural mechanisation. Some groups have recovered in recent decades, especially warm-adapted species. Specialised and cold-adapted species remained low.🦋🪲
A combined figure with figure panels from the publication. One panel (panel a) showing the trends in Switzerland-wide relative richness of butterflies and saproxylic beetles, with clear declines of butterflies until the 1980s and declines followed by increases for the saproxylic beetles. The other panel (panel b) shows trends of relative species richness for the two insect groups divided by different traits. In the upper part of the figure, groups are built based on the habitat specialisation of the species and it is evident in both groups, that habitat specialists declined strongest. In the lower part of the figure, groups are built based on temperature niche of the species and it is evident that while warm-adapted species have declined strongest until the 1980s, they have clearly reversed their trends and are now increasing strongly.A photo of Lycaena virgaureae, a species with specialised food resources that has mostly disappeared from the Swiss lowlands in the last 90 yearsA photo of Aromia moschata, a longhorn beetle that has become rare in the mid 20th century, but which has increased in recent decades
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Forum Biodiversität Schweiz @biodiversity.scnat.ch · 15/01/2026
🌱 #Biodiversität in der #Schweiz: Der Zustand bleibt ungenügend. Trotz verlangsamtem Rückgang besteht grosser Handlungsbedarf. Unser neuer datenbasierter #Report zeigt #Fakten, Entwicklungen und Lösungsansätze 👉 biodiversitaet2026.ch #Wissenschaft #Forschung
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Benjamin Wildermuth @bmwildermuth.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
New study on arthropod declines @natecoevo.nature.com 🪲 In two time series @jena-experiment.bsky.social & @bexplo.bsky.social we show how community (dis)assembly underpins local biomass declines. It mostly boils down to species loss, with identity losing relevance. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Arthropod species loss underpins biomass declines - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Insects are declining in many regions. Here the authors show that arthropod biomass losses in Jena Experiment and Biodiversity Exploratories time series are driven more by species loss than by species...
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Gregor Kalinkat @gkalinkat.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
„The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing“ 🧪🎓 english.elpais.com/science-tech... Many of my colleagues in ecology will know the name of the journal: Science of the total environment (STOTEN)
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The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing
One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 bill...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 21/11/2025
The first study to survey insect populations on a continental scale finds no evidence of widespread decline, at least over a recent 10-year period. scim.ag/4pnb6hN
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Radar data find no decline in insect numbers—but there’s a catch
Study of continental U.S. sees stable population of bugs, but it may be missing important pieces of the puzzle
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Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Interested in nocturnal #moths? ☑️ Check our new BE-Paper in @oikosjournal.bsky.social: #Land-use intensification reduced trait & phylogenetic beta #diversity - mainly in common moths. Rare #forest species responded differently. Body size ↓, wing load & darkness ↑. 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/oik.... 🌐
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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The #EditorsChoice article for the issue discusses how #moth communities are shaped by season, weather, elevation, and landscape composition doi.org/10.1111/icad.12835 #Biodiversity #InsectCommunities @felixneff.bsky.social @agroscope.bsky.social @vogelwarte.bsky.social Photo credit: Felix Neff
Photo credit: Felix Neff.
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Merin Reji Chacko @merinrejichacko.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Thrilled to announce the publication of the trophiCH database: a multi-trophic, species-level #metaweb for #Switzerland🇨🇭 Out now in #ScientificData 📃 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Want to explore the dataset? 🔍 webapps.wsl.ch/trophiCH/ #OpenData #Ecology #FoodWebs 🌐 1/6
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Merin Reji Chacko @merinrejichacko.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
🚨 Hot off the press! We show that species loss from key habitats (like wetlands) accelerates secondary extinction in regional multi-habitat food webs. Also, we show the importance of common species to regional food web robustness. doi.org/10.1038/s420... #Ecology #FoodWebs #Biodiversity #Metaweb
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Species loss in key habitats accelerates regional food web disruption - Communications Biology
Simulating extinctions across regional food webs reveals that losing species from one habitat— especially wetlands—can cascade to others, accelerating multi-habitat food web collapse, highlighting the...
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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
A new article in #RESInsectConsDiv shows moth communities are shaped by season, weather, elevation & landscape composition - a dataset of unusually large spatial & temporal extent Read the article now🔽 doi.org/10.1111/icad.12835 @felixneff.bsky.social @agroscope.bsky.social @vogelwarte.bsky.social
Graphical abstract of: Moth communities are shaped by season, weather, elevation, and landscape composition
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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Please enjoy this ridiculously cute butterfly, which was about the size of my pinkie fingernail. It's in the butterfly family called metalmarks (Riodinidae). Males, like these, have reduced front legs and perch using only the rear 4 (females can use all 6). Sarota acantus; Costa Rica 🐙🌿 #insects
A macro photo, front three-quarter view, of a little butterfly perched on a green leaf. The butterfly has pale green eyes with black speckles, legs covered in thick yellow fuzzy hair, and orange wings sprinkled with metallic light blue patches. It is very cute.A macro photo, side view, of a little butterfly perched on a green leaf. The butterfly has pale green eyes with black speckles, legs covered in thick yellow fuzzy hair, and orange wings sprinkled with metallic light blue bands and patches. It is very cute.
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Felix Neff @felixneff.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
#newPaper published about how moth communities vary with #season, #weather, #elevation, and #landscape composition Based on an incredible dataset collected by Ladislaus Rezbanyai-Reser over 50 years in #Switzerland doi.org/10.1111/icad... #moths #Lepidoptera #insects #phenology #temperature
Four graphs showing the relationship between abundance on the y axis and (i) day of the year (bimodal), (ii) temperature (positive), (iii) elevation (positive) and (iv) proportion of forests (positive). Sketches of five moths on the left side.
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Florian Altermatt @florianaltermatt.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Our study ‘The #global #human impact on #biodiversity’ is out in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌍🌐🐟🌿🪲 Unprecedented synthesis of >2000 studies led by @francoiskeck.bsky.social shows humans are not only shrinking species numbers—but reshaping entire communities across the planet. 🧵1/5
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
New @science.org The disappearance of butterflies at a "catastrophic rate" in the United States www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Dominik Gross 🌍 @domigross.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Radio SRF streicht die Sendungen/Podcasts „Trend“ und das Wissenschaftsmagazin. Noch weniger Hintergrund zu Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft - doch genau das, was die Demokratie im Kampf gegen die Irrationalität der internationalen Fascho-Oligarchie braucht.
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Thomas Frölicher @froeltho.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Es kam sehr überraschend: Am Donnerstag fiel der Entscheid der SRF aus Spargründen das "Wissenschaftsmagazin" zu streichen. Zusammen mit anderen Forschern (u.a. @erichfischer.bsky.social @florianaltermatt.bsky.social) habe ich meine Bedenken geäussert www.srf.ch/audio/wissen...
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Das Ende des Wissenschaftsmagazins
Das SRF-Wissenschaftsmagazin soll auf Ende Jahr eingestellt werden. Wir fragen nach: Warum dieser Entscheid? Und wie sind die Reaktionen aus der Wissenschaft? Zudem: Wie uns künstliche Intelligenz umg...
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Gregor Kalinkat @gkalinkat.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Zwei neue Fischarten 🐟 in Schweizer 🇨🇭 Gewässern entdeckt www.uniaktuell.unibe.ch/2025/zwei_ne... 🧪 (also available in EN www.uniaktuell.unibe.ch/2025/two_new...) #biodiversity
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Zwei neue Fischarten in Schweizer Gewässern entdeckt
Die Bevölkerung kann per Umfrage mitentscheiden, wie zwei Fischarten heissen sollen, die Bárbara Calegari und ihre Kolleginnen und Kollegen entdeckt haben. Im Interview erklärt die Biologin, wo sie le...
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Felix Neff @felixneff.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
New paper about how effects of #land-use intensity on community stability are mediated by #functional traits in managed #grasslands and #forest. Based on lots of field data on both #plants and #arthropods 🌱🌳🦋🐞🕷️📈 #insects #ecology @bexplo.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Graphical representation of the hypothesized causal flow analysed in the study. in hypothesis 1, functional community features (represented as green boxes) mediate the effect of land-use intensity on acknowledged stability drivers within trophic levels. in hypothesis 2, functional traits of the lower trophic level mediate the effects of land-use intensity by influencing stability drivers both directly and indirectly through changes in the functional composition/diversity of higher trophic levels
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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Insect communities in windthrows peaked at the very beginning of two study decades and then slowly declined 🪲 Salvage-logging affected species composition, thus a mosaic of logged and unlogged windthrows best promotes biodiversity 🌲🌏 🧪 🔗 buff.ly/40ysYwz
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Viktoria Cologna @colognaviktoria.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳 With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5
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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
OK, here is a very rough draft of a tutorial for #Bayesian #SEM using #brms for #rstats. It needs work, polish, has a lot of questions in it, and I need to add a references section. But, I think a lot of folk will find this useful, so.... jebyrnes.github.io/bayesian_sem... (use issues for comments!)
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Full Luxury Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling with brms
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Jonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Everything you ever wanted to know to get started on #microclimate is compiled there ⬇️ in 🔟 guidelines 🤓 Unpack each 1️⃣ to select the right variable, the most relevant spatiotemporal scale, the best sampling design & to tailor your analyses to your study question 🧪🌐🍁 shorturl.at/VYP8f
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
More than 90% of fossil fuel emissions occurred since my parents were born. Over 80% since I was born. Over 30% since my children were born. And well over 50% since the world agreed at the Rio Earth Summit to prevent dangerous climate change. And I thought: „At last!“
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Christoph Scherber @cscherber.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Insect apocalypse? No! Intercropping can be a solution: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Multispecies crop mixtures increase insect biodiversity in an intercropping experiment
In an agricultural field intercropping experiment, we manipulated crop diversity (0–3 crop species) and the input of agrochemicals. We found that insect biodiversity increases with crop diversity and...
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iBartomeus @ibartomeus.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
[new paper] You probably suspected that loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants, but here we quantify it: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants
Nature Ecology & Evolution - A meta-analysis finds that decreasing diversity of pollinator species has a negative affect on multiple measures of plant reproductive success, with wild plant...
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