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Wilhelm Osterman

@wilosterman.bsky.social
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Ecologist, entomologist and botanist. Ph.D student at Gothenburg university

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Wilhelm Osterman @wilosterman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
We started the mark recapture project of florivores in Latnjajaure. Bombus lapponicus is so far the most common and truly beautiful but a species which previously was really rare at this elevation.
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Wilhelm Osterman @wilosterman.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
📢 Viewpoint in New Phyt. on polyploid establishment! Key take-homes🧵 1. In contrast to earlier hypotheses that pollinators can help new polyploids establish, we suggest that pollinators mainly prevent polyploid establishment because outcrossing increases the strength of minority cytotype exclusion.
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Wilhelm Osterman @wilosterman.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Ice crystals today in the forest around Gothenburg in Sweden. How cool aren’t they?!
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Wilhelm Osterman @wilosterman.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
How cool arent these Vaccinium trees and their blueberry-flowers in Canary Islands? Canary island strawberry tree ☀️ Arbutus canariensis
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Wilhelm Osterman @wilosterman.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Oh my oh my! What a hero!
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Wilhelm Osterman @wilosterman.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
A special moment was spotting one of the rarest plants in Sweden ”Gentiana purpurea”. One single population in the country with 5-20 individuals flowering per year. Would be great to know more about the pollination of the species - at this time a single individual flowered
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