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Oksana Buzhdygan

@oksanabuzh.bsky.social
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Community ecology, ecosystem functioning, biodiversity, trophic interactions, energy dynamics, nutrient cycling

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Oksana Buzhdygan @oksanabuzh.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Paper out🎉Spatial scale matters for grassland invasions doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... ▶️Native richness limits invaders, but effect weakens at larger scales ▶️Old aliens respond to climate & disturbance🌧️ ▶️Neophytes & invasives thrive with roads, urban & croplands 🚗 #sCaleGrassDiv @idiv-research.bsky.social
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Oksana Buzhdygan @oksanabuzh.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
New paper out led by Felix Nößler! We present #GrasslandTraitSim.jl, a process-based simulation model that links plant traits to ecosystem processes to predict how management and climate change shape productivity and composition of plant community in temperate grasslands doi.org/10.5194/gmd-...
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A trait-based model to describe plant community dynamics in managed grasslands (GrasslandTraitSim.jl v1.0.0)
Abstract. Temperate semi-natural grassland plant communities are expected to shift under global change, mainly due to land use and climate change. However, the interaction of different drivers on dive...
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Anna Kuzemko @anyameadow.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Our new paper about scale dependency of phytoinvasions in grasslands based on data from Ukraine. Unfortunately some of our sampling plots still under Russian occupation
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Drivers of plant invasions and their scale-dependency in grasslands
Conservation and management policies for plant invasions often rely on coarse-scale data, while plant diversity effects on ecosystem functions and ser…
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Chia Hsieh @chiahsieh.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Quantifying similarity among ecological network is getting feasible to understand assembly processes from communities to species interactions. Upcoming publication using this for African mammal food webs is under revision now. Stay tuned! #Ecology #EcologicalNetwork #Macroecology #Biogeography
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Quantifying functionally equivalent species and ecological network dissimilarity with optimal transport distances
Quantifying the structure and dynamics of species interactions in ecological communities is fundamental to studying ecology and evolution. While there are numerous approaches to analysing ecologic...
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Frank Ashwood @frankashwood.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Are you researching the conservation, ecology or taxonomy of soil & litter invertebrates? Submit your paper to this Special Issue of NZ Journal of Zoology, edited by me, @carlosbarreto.bsky.social & @barnesecodiv.bsky.social! More info: www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/nzjz-so... #SoilBiodiversity 🧪
A screenshot of a webpage making a call for papers announcement for a special issue of the New Zealand Journal of Zoology, focussed on soil and litter invertebrates. The page has a banner image photograph of a globular springtail facing towards the camera, with its head down, feeding on fungi on a decaying log.
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Oksana Buzhdygan @oksanabuzh.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Last day of our Quantitative Plant Ecology in magnificent grasslands in #Gülpe Havelaue. Looking forward to be back next year #ÖkologischeStationGülpe with Felix May, @dariiaborovyk.bsky.social & our great students ‪ @fubcp.bsky.social, @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
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Charlott Guttek @charly-gha.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
#Gülpe has so many amazing spots and paths and even more plants and insects :) (The only thing better is going to be the Borscht on Saturday) @oksanabuzh.bsky.social @dariiaborovyk.bsky.social
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Oksana Buzhdygan @oksanabuzh.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Honored to receive the Best Paper Award from @jpecol.bsky.social 🏆 Our paper shows that multitrophic biodiversity enhances ecosystem functions, services, and ecological intensification in agriculture. Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...
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Oksana Buzhdygan @oksanabuzh.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Enjoying fieldwork in beautiful #Gülpe Havelaue, despite the rain 🌧️ Sampling nested plot series at multiple scales in dry grasslands 🌾 #GrassPlot #EDGG Geat teamwork with @dariiaborovyk.bsky.social & @charly-gha.bsky.social #FieldEcology #GrasslandScience
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in silico Plants @insilicoplants.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
A trait-based model to describe plant community dynamics in managed #grasslands (GrasslandTraitSim.jl v1.0.0) by Felix Nößler, Thibault Moulin, Oksana Buzhdygan, Britta Tietjen, and Felix May doi.org/pfrn via @EgUsphere #PlantScience
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A trait-based model to describe plant community dynamics in managed grasslands (GrasslandTraitSim.jl v1.0.0)
Abstract. Temperate semi-natural grassland plant communities are expected to shift under global change, mainly due to land use and climate change. However, the interaction of different drivers on…
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Oksana Buzhdygan @oksanabuzh.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Still glowing 5 days after Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften #lndw25 ✨ 🌿 Identifying plants 🐾 Matching mammal fingerprints 💻 Playing with computer models ✔️ Guessing plant diversity 🦊 Exploring animal habitats at game tables It was a blast – thanks for the curiosity and great conversations! 🧠🌼
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Andrew Barnes @barnesecodiv.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Interested in #ecological #theory & live on this side of the world (Asia-Pacific)? Tune in to the @pop-bio.bsky.social seminar series! I'm speaking next on #biodiversity change, #food-web energetics and #ecosystem function. Register here: forms.gle/7vEiUQKJqeUL... 🌐🌏🍁🧪 @newzealandecology.bsky.social
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Oksana Buzhdygan @oksanabuzh.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Paper out in Biological Conservation 🎉 Traditional management maintains species-rich grassland 🌼 ▶️19% plant species dispersed via livestock feces💩 ▶️Grassland cleaning🧹 boosts diversity ▶️Low-intensity grazing🐄 & manuring💩 shape plant composition without reducing diversity 👩‍🌾 doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
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Fletcher Halliday @fletcher-h.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Pathogens and herbivores differ in key life history characteristics, and we expected that these might drive differences in terminology, patterns, and hypotheses in the published literature.
Figure 1 from our paper showing biological differences in life-history traits (bold text) across above- and belowground compartments for pathogenic and herbivorous consumer groups. some consumers (i.e., leaf miners and parasitic nematodes) exhibit traits that span both categories.

The bold text for pathogens reads: "span a wider taxonomic breadth (viruses, bacteria, and multi-cellular eukaryotes), limited host choice, may require vectors, fast reproduction".
 
The text for herbivores reads: "span a narrower taxonomic breadth (restricted to animals), consumed by predators, movement, range in body size, host choice."
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Fons van der Plas @fonsvanderplas.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Two PhD positions available at Wageningen University on resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across landscapes. Supervision will be by my great colleagues @iris-hordijk.bsky.social @amandataylor.bsky.social @dominic-martin.bsky.social @lucianachr.bsky.social and Merel Hofmeijer.
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PhD position - Resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across landscapes
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Oksana Buzhdygan @oksanabuzh.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
🚨Paper in @ecography.bsky.social led by @sbfiedler.de One-size-fits-all doesn't work in restoration! Trade-offs between carbon gain, water use & nitrogen use shift with abiotic context in Mediterranean-type ecosystems. Match plant traits to place! nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Trade‐offs among restored ecosystem functions are context‐dependent in Mediterranean‐type regions
Global biodiversity hotspots, including Mediterranean-type ecosystems worldwide, are highly threatened by global change that alters biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and services. Some restoration a....
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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Paper just out: Jeltsch et al. The need for an individual-based global change ecology ibe.pensoft.net/articles.php...
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The need for an individual-based global change ecology
Biodiversity loss and widespread ecosystem degradation are among the most pressing challenges of our time, requiring urgent action. Yet our understanding of their causes remains limited because prevai...
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Oksana Buzhdygan @oksanabuzh.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Lets the sampling begin 🎉 Start of sampling in the #BlühenderCampus of the @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social to assess the effects of management intensity on biodiversity 🌼🐛🐞🐿️ & functioning ♻️ of campus green spaces. Stay tuned for more 😉 by @dariiaborovyk.bsky.social
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Thomas Hörren @thoerren.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Ich fühle mich auf jeden Fall seit 2017 wie eine Schallplatte mit Sprung: Qualität in der Standardisierung ist das Wichtigste, weil biologische Vielfalt sehr komplex ist… Reiht sich gut ein in den Artikel von @christianschwaegerl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy letztens www.faz.net/aktuell/wiss...
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Insektensterben: Warum Studien immer wieder kritisiert werden
An Studien, die nach den Ursachen für das Insektensterben suchen, wird viel Kritik geübt. Wie erklären Forscher, dass es unterschiedliche Interpretationen gibt – und worin sind sich alle einig?
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Oksana Buzhdygan @oksanabuzh.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Here we share the press release on our paper and how our collaboration in #iDiv | #sDiv helped reunite Ukrainian scholars scattered across Europe www.idiv.de/grassland-bi... with @anyameadow.bsky.social, @dariiaborovyk.bsky.social, and #sCaleGrassDiv group
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Unraveling the secrets of grassland biodiversity in Ukraine
How an sDiv collaboration helped reunite Ukrainian scholars scattered across Europe
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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
New key finding: Landscapes of fragmented habitat have lower diversity, at all scales, than do unfragmented landscapes. Habitat fragmentation does not compensate for the loss of local (alpha) diversity by increasing the diversity among fragments (beta diversity). www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The figure explaining the contrasting outcomes for diversity and local and landscape scales in continuous vs. fragmented landscapes. The right column (panel d) shows the cases where increasing inter-fragment diversity (increasing beta diversity among fragments) compensates for loss of local (alpha) diversity results in an increase in regional (Gamma) diversity. Fragmentation is 'bad' for diversity when loss of alpha and beta diversity combine to cause landscape-wide declines in gamma diversity.
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Oksana Buzhdygan @oksanabuzh.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Paper out in Ecology and Evolution @ecol-evol.bsky.social Scale-Dependent Effects of Plant Diversity Drivers Across Different Grassland Habitats in Ukraine doi.org/10.1002/ece3... result of #sDiv synthesis working #sCaleGrassDiv in @iDiv www.idiv.de/research/sdi...
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Anna Kuzemko @anyameadow.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
We have published our first article based on the results of the sCaleGrassDiv project supported by The German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Scale‐Dependent Effects of Plant Diversity Drivers Across Different Grassland Habitats in Ukraine
Our findings support the idea that the responses of biodiversity to climate, soil factors, and litter depend on the size of the sampled area. We have identified main mechanisms behind the scale-depen...
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Oksana Buzhdygan @oksanabuzh.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Paper is out in Ecological Monographs @esajournals.bsky.social Plant diversity facets differentially affect energy dynamics in grasslands depending on trophic contexts doi.org/10.1002/ecm.... Research in @jena-experiment.bsky.social
Grouping of trophic compartments, their biomass stocks (shown by circles), and energy flows among them (shown by arrows) into trophic groups, ecosystem functions, trophic levels, and aboveground (AG) versus belowground (BG) subnetworks. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.70004
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The Jena Experiment @jena-experiment.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
New research in @esajournals.bsky.social Ecological Monographs led by @oksanabuzh.bsky.social Different facets of plant diversity differentially affect energy dynamics across trophic levels and below- or aboveground compartements. 🌱🍃🪲🪱 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
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Oksana Buzhdygan @oksanabuzh.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
It was such a great week, thanks everyone ##BEassembly2025 #Biodiversityexploratories 🎉 Looking forward to ##BEassembly2026
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Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Imagine finding out @vincentab.bsky.social @noahgreifer.bsky.social and @andrew.heiss.phd wrote a thing and it's open access 👀 Awesome paper about {marginaleffects} R/python packages in JOSS (which needs to join Bsky) www.jstatsoft.org/article/view...
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How to Interpret Statistical Models Using marginaleffects for R and Python by Vincent Arel-Bundock, Noah Greifer, Andrew Heiss
<p>The parameters of a statistical model can sometimes be difficult to interpret substantively, especially when that model includes nonlinear components, interactions, or transformations. Analysts who...
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Oksana Buzhdygan @oksanabuzh.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
🎉 PAPER OUT 🎉 doi.org/10.1111/aab.... We show that simultaneous application of aphid predator🐞and companion planting with garlic 🌱holds promise as a strategy for the natural control of cereal aphids on grain crops🚜 without generating related agroecosystem disservices
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