Benjamin Wildermuth

@bmwildermuth.bsky.social

Arthropod ecology in different ecosystems. (Functional) diversity, community composition, trophic niches, plant-animal interactions, temporal & spatial patterns

Videos

Environmental science 43%

Agriculture 28%

Posts Replies Media Videos

Pinned

Benjamin Wildermuth @bmwildermuth.bsky.social · Dec 2

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...

Reposted by Julia Koricheva, Benjamin Wildermuth

Pete Manning @peteecology.bsky.social · 14h

Still time to submit an abstract to the BE20 meeting! Please share.

Reposted by Stephen D. Murphy, Benjamin Wildermuth

Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · 17h

Periodic reminder that we should avoid testing the Normality of the response variable.

For a linear model, what matters is the Normality of residuals (and not that much). Visual checks better than test. #statistics

A Shapiro-Wilk test of the response variable concludes very significant deviation of Normality. But residuals of linear model consistent with Normal distribution.

Visual check of the linear model with DHARMa

Reposted by Julie L. Lockwood, Benjamin Wildermuth

Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 21h

📖Published!

Food webs on green roofs are unique but less robust than their ground-level counterparts

Green roofs offering novel environmental conditions, increasing urban habitat diversity and supporting denser but less robust food webs compared with ground-level habitats🌳🏙️

🔎 buff.ly/XxwXsct

Reposted by Glen P. Peters, Brian J. Enquist, Stephen D. Murphy , and 3 more Glen P. Peters, Brian J. Enquist, Stephen D. Murphy, Timo Conradi, Billur Bektaş, Benjamin Wildermuth

Between the Fjords Research Group @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social · 2d

🌍Come work with us!
We are hiring a postdoc in Climate Change Ecology. In this position, you will work on Climate Change synthesis research, and assist the upcoming IPCC report (CH14: impacts on terrestrial, freshwater and cryosphere) 🌿🐸❄️ Deadline: 8 March

More information: tinyurl.com/2c83uakz

Postdoctoral Research Fellow within Climate Change Ecology  (295093) | University of Bergen

Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow within Climate Change Ecology  (295093), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, March 8, 2026

tinyurl.com

Reposted by Christoph Scherber, Benjamin Wildermuth

LIB @leibnizlib.bsky.social · 2d

Why are insects declining — and what can we do about it? A new review synthesises current evidence: habitat loss, land-use change, climate change and pollutants are key drivers reshaping insect communities worldwide. #LIBresearch

© Scherber et al., CC BY 4.0 @cscherber.bsky.social

1/2

Diagram showing main drivers of insect biodiversity change with interconnected arrows between five labeled photos: invasive alien species with a sphecid wasp on a plant, land use change with agricultural machinery, natural resource extraction with a sandy landscape, climate change with clouds in the sky, and pollution with industrial smokestacks.

Reposted by John Parker, Benjamin Wildermuth

Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 4d

More than mitigation: The role of forests in climate adaptation | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

More than mitigation: The role of forests in climate adaptation

Forests regulate global and local climates in ways that impact human well-being. In this Review, we discuss the scale-dependent mechanisms through which forests regulate climate, highlighting their co...

www.science.org

Reposted by Guy Pe’er, Benjamin Wildermuth

Teja Tscharntke @teja-tscharntke.bsky.social · 4d

www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html...
Hidden insect diversity in grass shoots threatened by mowing

Information for the Media - Georg-August-University Göttingen

Website of the Georg-August-University Göttingen

www.uni-goettingen.de

Reposted by Scott C. Doney, Elena Litchman, Billur Bektaş , and 1 more Scott C. Doney, Elena Litchman, Billur Bektaş, Benjamin Wildermuth

Blake Matthews @ebmatthews.bsky.social · 5d

Eawag 2-year postdoc fellowship in Switzerland. Funding for Independent projects hosted in one of the research departments… come join us in Switzerland 🇨🇭! apply.refline.ch/673277/1335/...

2-Year Postdoctoral Fellowship

We are pleased to invite applications for a

apply.refline.ch

Reposted by Benjamin Wildermuth

mta-lace.bsky.social @mta-lace.bsky.social · 5d

Our paper with Teja, Péter, and Stefan, "The hidden multitrophic diversity of specialized grass-shoot insects – neglected by grassland management," is published in @basicapplecol.bsky.social. It emphasizes the need for unmown refuges to support persistent insect populations.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...

Redirecting

doi.org

Benjamin Wildermuth @bmwildermuth.bsky.social · 6d

wow, thanks a lot! Sorry for giving reviewer vibes at a point where you should have been past that :D I was just curious and I find it very interesting that it's such a strong effect. Cool!

Reposted by Benjamin Wildermuth

Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 6d

📖 Published!

High-throughput information extraction of printed specimen labels from large-scale digitization of entomological collections using a semi-automated pipeline🖥️ 🐞

🔎

buff.ly

Benjamin Wildermuth @bmwildermuth.bsky.social · 7d

Cool :) I mean, I am just fishing here of course, but it's an interesting result. Might also be a case of a very strong other predictor that left little variance to explain. Or it makes sense ecologically (competition, no redundancy, as discussed in the paper) :D

Reposted by Benjamin Wildermuth

iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 7d

📢 iDiv and @unileipzig.bsky.social are hiring Technical Staff (m/f/d) for the BioDive4Soil soil biodiversity project! 🌍🔬 Work includes lab soil analyses, field sampling, data prep & supporting student assistants.🧪
65 % part-time | until 31 Dec 2029 | apply by 24 Feb 2026
www.idiv.de/career/job-o...

Job Openings

Explore exciting career opportunities at iDiv. Join a modern, international, and innovative research centre in the heart of Germany.

www.idiv.de

Benjamin Wildermuth @bmwildermuth.bsky.social · 7d

Cool work! I find it remarkable that alpha functional diversity had a negative impact on stability. I wonder if that's possibly related to equally weighing all species in the Rao's Q calculation? Maybe it would be different when weighing by relative abundances?

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää, Benjamin Wildermuth

Basic and Applied Ecology @basicapplecol.bsky.social · 7d

🪲 New BAAE article:

Metabarcoding of stored carabid beetles reveals declining prey diversity over the last decade. Temporal diet shifts highlight long-term invertebrate declines and the value of historical collections for monitoring.

DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...
@gfoesoc.bsky.social

Fig. 3. Percentage of reads attributed to carabid, prey and other for Nebria salina and Poecilus cupreus for samples from 2013 to 2019 and 2021. Colors distinguish between (a) prey reads (green), (b) carabid reads (blue) and (c) other reads (contaminants and not assigned – orange). Proportions are given as percentages of the total number per sample (after filtering the singletons).

Fig. 5. Prey diversity in the diet of Nebria salina (a) and Poecilus cupreus (b) through time. Each dot represents the diet of one carabid specimens, dots are jittered horizontally and vertically for more clarity. The curve corresponds to a linear regression with the grey area displaying the 95 % confidence interval.

Reposted by Benjamin Wildermuth

Uni Göttingen @uni-goettingen.de · 8d

Wie nutzen Bäume Wasser und Stickstoff aus dem tieferen Boden? Forschende haben verfolgt, wie sie beides aufnehmen und von der Wurzel zur Krone leiten. Ergebnis: Stickstoff kommt verzögert oben an. Und Douglasien sind im #Klimawandel im Vorteil. Details lesen: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html...

Klara Mrak, zusammen mit Christina Hackmann Erstautorin der Studie, extrahiert mit einer Druckkammer Wasser aus Zweigen. Dadurch kann sie die Ankunftszeit der in den Boden injizierten stabilen Isotope von Wasserstoff und Stickstoff in der Baumkrone abschätzen. © Christina Hackmann

Reposted by Benjamin Wildermuth

Catrin Westphal @catrinwestphal.bsky.social · 8d

📢 We’re hiring!
We’re looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to join our team at @funcagroeco.bsky.social

The position focuses on how collaborative agri-environment measures affect multiple taxa and ecosystem services.

See: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/vacancy+f...

Reposted by Benjamin Wildermuth

Federico Riva @riva-ecology.bsky.social · 9d

Miguel's MSc thesis is now available here sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... In disturbed regions and landscapes, across ~ 1700 sites and 45 studies, we found a lower butterfly biodiversity for the same plants diversity. @ecospat-ch.bsky.social @shawan-chowdhury.bsky.social @fcollart.bsky.social

Reposted by Benjamin Wildermuth

TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 9d

there is another chance to #join #TeamTERRA! We have a nice longer than 3 years position in Frankfurt: #hiring Doctoral or postdoctoral position in Global Vegetation and Biome Modelling. For more information, see position 11-26003 at www.senckenberg.de/de/stellenan...

Reposted by John A. Finn, Tuomas Mattila, Laura E. Dee , and 1 more John A. Finn, Tuomas Mattila, Laura E. Dee, Benjamin Wildermuth

Functional Agrobiodiversity & Agroecology @funcagroeco.bsky.social · 9d

📢 Join our team: Are you interested in the synthesis of ecological data?

We are offering a postdoctoral researcher position on the effects of collaborative agri-environment measures on multiple taxa and ecosystem services.

See #job advert
www.uni-goettingen.de/en/vacancy+f...

Reposted by Tommaso Jucker, Martin Ehbrecht, Julen Astigarraga , and 3 more Tommaso Jucker, Martin Ehbrecht, Julen Astigarraga, Ana Stritih, Christina Dollinger, Benjamin Wildermuth

Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 9d

Central Europe has seen unprecedented forest disturbances recently, but how are forests recovering? We surveyed disturbance hotspots in 10 countries 3-5 years after disturbance, finding ample tree regeneration and no signs of forest loss (median 4750 stems/ha), but... 1/2 doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Reposted by Stephen D. Murphy, Benjamin Wildermuth

Conservation Biology and Forest Ecology @cofeuniwue.bsky.social · 9d

📢 Job opening! We’re excited to announce six open Researcher positions. 🪲🦋

4 PhD and 2 Postdoc positions in forest biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research!

Interested in forest ecology? Get in touch! 🌲🌳

www.greenjobs.de/stellenanzei...

#forestecology #researchposition #conservationbiology

4 PhD positions and 2 Postdoc positions (respective place of work in the text) in forest [...]

Julius-Maximilians University Würzburg (JMU) and its partner Universities Georg-August-University of Göttingen (GAUG), Leipzig University (UL), University of Bayreuth (UB), Universität Bremen (UB), Un...

www.greenjobs.de

Reposted by James M. Bullock, Benjamin Wildermuth

Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · 10d

The Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social warmly invite *all* #biodiversity #researchers worldwide to join (celebrating the 20th anniversary).
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION AND EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO MARCH 2, 2026

www.biodiversity-exploratories.de/en/be20/

BE20 - Emerging Topics in Long-Term and Large-Scale Biodiversity Research

Reposted by Maximilian Hanusch, Benjamin Wildermuth

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata @ento-ea.bsky.social · 11d

Did you know? Insects eat plants as medicine. #OpenAccess
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Pharmacophagy in insects: Ecological and evolutionary perspectives on the non‐nutritional use of plant specialized metabolites

Insects interact with plants not only for nutrition but also to actively seek plant specialized metabolites (PSMs) for chemical defense, reproduction, and self-medication—a behavior known as pharmaco...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Benjamin Wildermuth

iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 13d

Join iDiv's admin team! 🚨 We are hiring an Office Manager for Reception and Purchasing (f/m/d) to support organizational and infrastructural questions.
💡 Full time, salary up to E9a TV-L, unlimited contract
🗓️ Apply by 25 Feb 2026
www.idiv.de/career/job-o...

Job Openings

Explore exciting career opportunities at iDiv. Join a modern, international, and innovative research centre in the heart of Germany.

www.idiv.de

Reposted by John Parker, Benjamin Wildermuth

Journal of Ecology @journalofecology.bsky.social · 13d

📖Published!

Forest structural complexity recovers during secondary succession and reaches levels comparable to old-growth forests within 40 years🌳🌲

Recovery of forest structural complexity is driven by increasing tree species diversity along the recovery trajectory

🔎https://buff.ly/VGrATSK

Reposted by Samuele Ramellini, Benjamin Wildermuth

Florian Altermatt @florianaltermatt.bsky.social · 14d

Highly independent 2-Year #Postdoctoral #Fellowship in the field of #aquatic #science and #technology 🌍 🔬 🧬 🐟 🚰 🚹 🌊 🛰️ 🥼 at Eawag @eawag.bsky.social

Apply now:
apply.refline.ch/673277/1335/...

Reposted by Benjamin Wildermuth

Mario Vallejo-Marin @nicrodemo.bsky.social · 14d

I am looking for someone interested in a 6-month post as research assistant, ideally to start at the beginning of March. The job is to conduct an experiment with flowers and robotic actuators to study buzz pollination. Job description and application here:
uu.varbi.com/what:job/job...

Forskningsassistent i Växtekologi

Forskningsassistent Är du intresserad av att arbeta med bipollinerade växter och robotar i bistorlek? Vi söker nu en forskningsassistent till Programmet för växtekologi och evolution vid Institut

uu.varbi.com

Reposted by Jack H. Hatfield, Benjamin Wildermuth

shuyuO_o @shuyudeng.bsky.social · 15d

🧩Human modification does not always lead to a biotic homogenisation.

Using a scenario-based approach, we found that beta diversity increased despite reductions in local alpha diversity, thereby maintaining gamma diversity, when relatively natural landscapes were modified into mixed landscapes.

Reposted by Benjamin Wildermuth

Mariella Herberstein (she/her) 🌈 @mherberstein.bsky.social · 15d

Come to Hamburg and do a PhD on insect/spider traits with me!

Add to Home Screen

Light up
your news

Add to Home Screen

Light upyour news

Sign in to Lightnews

Sign up to start reading

Connect Bluesky

Connect with Bluesky

Light up
your news