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Sybille Unsicker

@sunsicker.bsky.social
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scientist interested in plant-environment-interactions, professor at Kiel University

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Jörg-Peter Schnitzler @jpschnitzler.net · 22/05/2026
Now as preprint: Same garden - different chemistry. 🌿 Across Populus trichocarpa genotypes, leaf #metabolomes still reflected climate and geographic origin, revealing hidden chemical signatures of adaptation. @sunsicker.bsky.social @mopinger.bsky.social @chemodiversity.bsky.social #PlantScience
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Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Good news! #Biodiversity🦜🐜🐒🐸 in a tropical #rainforest 🌴🇪🇨can naturally recover quickly 📈 (if the conditions are suitable = enough surrounding forest). Our new study in #Nature #forestecol #restoration @jocotoco.bsky.social www.reassembly.de/posts/recove... www.reassembly.de/news/rainfor...
Nature conservation e.g. by NGO Fundacion Jocotoco, can help to bend the curve of biodiversity decline. The graph shows how large parts of the diversity comes back due to natural regeneraion of a rainforest. It illustrates the main finding of our study published in Nature: Protection restores 90% of species diversity in 30 years.
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Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology @mpi-ce.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Huge congratulations to Pamela Medina van Berkum on successfully defending her PhD! Supervised by @sunsicker.bsky.social and Jonathan Gershenzon, her work on how plant biodiversity shapes chemical defenses bridges ecology, chemistry, and evolution. Pam is now part of Sybille’s group at @uni-kiel.de.
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Functional Ecology @funecology.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
⭐️Shortlisted for the 2024 Haldane Prize!⭐ Pamela Medina-van Berkum explored whether introduced ribwort plantain populations differed from native populations in growth and chemical defence traits🛡️
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Pamela Medina-van Berkum: Plant geographic distribution influences chemical defences in native and introduced Plantago lanceolata populations
2024 HALDANE PRIZE SHORTLIST: Pamela Medina-van Berkum discusses her paper “Plant geographic distribution influences chemical defences in native and introduced Plantago lanceolata populations…
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Malte Jochum @maltejochum.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Fellow Ecologists, The #gfoe2025 @gfoesoc.bsky.social call for papers has just been published. Please submit your abstracts for exciting talks and engaging posters to present in Würzburg in September! gfoe-conference.de/index.php?ca... @uni-wuerzburg.de @globalchangeeco.bsky.social
Logo of the 2025 Annual Meeting of the GfÖ in Würzburg, Germany.
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Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Tropical ecologists on Bluesky - where are you? Let's network. go.bsky.app/5B14mCT There's one by Emilio on plants too: go.bsky.app/FSQE1vP
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UFZ @ufz.de · 27/02/2025
Warum koexistieren in artenreichen Wäldern so viele Baumarten und wie hängt dies mit bestimmten räumlichen Mustern der Baumarten zusammen? Ein vom #UFZ geleitetes internationales Team hat unerwartete Muster in der räumlichen Verteilung von Baumarten entdeckt. @nature.com www.ufz.de/index.php?de...
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Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Good news! 🌴 Reassembly at the #ECTE2025 conference in Amsterdam... and featured in MONGABAY in the same week: www.reassembly.de/news/reassem... news.mongabay.com/2025/02/an-e...
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An Ecuadorian hotspot shows how forests can claw back from destruction
Can a tropical forest mend itself? After trees are cut down and wildlife flees, do microbes on the dank, leafy floor and woody giants with epiphyte-laden crowns come back; do the pollinators, seed dis...
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Thorsten Reusch @thorstenreusch.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The GEOMAR seagrass team is hiring. Time to make coastal restoration long-term sustainable. A fully funded 4-yr PhD position on eelgrass seascape genomics in the Baltic Sea, further details see here www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... @geomarkiel.bsky.social DM me for inquiries
Seagrass Zostera marina in Baltic Sea showing blue carbon, photo credit Pekka Tuuri
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Sybille Unsicker @sunsicker.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I am thrilled that this study by my former PhD student and current postdoc Chrisin Walther is now published in Ecology Letters! Congratulations Tine!!! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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A Fungal Endophyte Alters Poplar Leaf Chemistry, Deters Insect Feeding and Shapes Insect Community Assembly
It is already known that endophytic fungi can influence plant defence against natural enemies such as herbivorous insects. However, our understanding of the underlying mechanisms is still limited. We...
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