Julia Koricheva

@juliakoricheva.bsky.social

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Professor of Ecology at Royal Holloway University of London | Forest biodiversity and ecosystem functioning | Plant-herbivore interactions | Methods and applications of meta-analysis in ecology

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Julia Koricheva is an ecologist in the UK. She is professor of ecology at Royal Holloway, University of London and she researches ecosystem services in forests, the interactions between insects and plants and is an expert in meta-analysis. .. more

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Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · Oct 25

📣 Excited to advertise a new @treesdla.bsky.social CASE PhD project exploring the effects of forest diversity on soil fauna with ecoacoustics. Supervised by me, @evolecollab.bsky.social and Carlos Abrahams @soilacoustics.bsky.social. Apply by December 17th! 🌳🌲🐜🎧🎤 www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/nov...

Reposted by Julia Koricheva, Pieter A. Zuidema, Tommaso Jucker , and 2 more Julia Koricheva, Pieter A. Zuidema, Tommaso Jucker, Carly D. Ziter, Martin Ehbrecht

Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 1d

We're currently looking for new Associate Editors to join our Editorial Board! 🌎🧪

If you're interested in contributing to the publishing landscape, check out the link below 👇
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...

Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 4d

Good discussions today at the stakeholder kick-off meeting in Pori about our case study on diversifying Finnish forests in @trees4adapt.bsky.social project. Heading back to the UK now. Many thanks to @mdpashkevich.bsky.social, @albrichk.bsky.social and @luke.fi team for organizing the meeting! 🌲🌳❄️

Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 5d

An eventful day in winter wonderland! It was a pleasure to show Satakunta forest diversity experiments to colleagues from @trees4adapt.bsky.social project

Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 6d

Really enjoying the kick off meeting of @trees4adapt.bsky.social project in Helsinki - fantastically organised by @luke.fi team, great group of people and inspiring discussions. Looking forward to 'team building sauna' tonight!

Trees4Adapt @trees4adapt.bsky.social · 7d

The Trees4Adapt team is in Helsinki for our kick-off meeting! Two days of planning, good discussions, a cold ferry to Suomenlinna, and a sauna ahead. A strong start to a Horizon Europe project on tree-based solutions 🌱

#Trees4adapt
#TreeBasedSolution #MissionClimateAdapt
#EUproject
#KickingOff

Reposted by Julia Koricheva

Kent Wildlife Trust @kentwildlife.bsky.social · 6d

The results from this year's Bugs Matter survey (with Buglife) show that the number of flying insects sampled on vehicle number plates across the UK has fallen by a staggering 59%, corresponding to an average annual decline of 19%.

👉 kentwildlifetrust.org.uk/get-involved/our-projects/bugs-matter

Reposted by Julia Koricheva

Trees4Adapt @trees4adapt.bsky.social · 7d

Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 7d

New OA #TreeDivNet paper is out in @geoderma.bsky.social and it is focussed on effects of tree species richness on topsoil carbon and fungal diversity doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 19d

Thank you! 😀

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Elina Mäntylä @elinamantyla.bsky.social · 19d

Zhu et al. Volatile‐Mediated Plant Defense Networks: Field Evidence for Isoprene as a Short‐Distance Immune Signal onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Volatile‐Mediated Plant Defense Networks: Field Evidence for Isoprene as a Short‐Distance Immune Signal

Transgenic silver birch (Betula pendula) with altered isoprene emission capacities enhanced pathogen resistance in neighboring Arabidopsis thaliana through a jasmonate-independent, salicylate-depende...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Julia Koricheva

Matt Grainger @drmattg.bsky.social · 22d

Dynamic meta-analysis tools promise transparency by letting users explore evidence by species, region or outcome — but each filter is a new test. My new post argues that without safeguards, transparency can become multiplicity.
🔗 drmattg.github.io/Uncertain_Ec...

Dynamic Meta-analysis: When Transparency Meets Multiplicity

drmattg.github.io

Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 23d

Crimped Gill fungus (Plicatura crispa) on a birch log

Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 23d

Autumn in Windsor Great Park

Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 23d

Congratulations Alfredo! Exciting new chapter for you, and Coimbra is such a lovely place

Reposted by Julia Koricheva, Connor Morozumi

Ramya Ganesan @chaintist.bsky.social · 24d

Had to draw a cartoon for this fascinating finding!
Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#SymbioSky

A cartoon/ digital drawing summarising the findings of the paper "Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs" by T. Nishino et al published in 2025. On the top left, a female Megymenum gracilicorne bug shows off symbiotic organs on the hind legs where she carries Ascomycota fungi. These were previously assumed to be Tympanal organs in these bugs but only females had them?; that didnt make a whole lot of sense to the authors...To the right of the bug is a row of eggs lying side by side. The paper shows that the bugs deposit the symbiotic fungi on the egg surface after egg-laying. Next on the image, fungal conidia grow on the egg surface. The eggs are pinkish in colour. A few fungi wear sunglasses like they are body guards. The paper shows that they protect the eggs from Trissolcus brevinotaulus, a parasitoid wasp, that likes to lay its eggs inside the developing bug's eggs. There are two wasps in this cartoon "eyeing" the fungi and looking frustrated. Eggs turn from whitish to pinkish within 10-days because they are reflecting the body colour of the nymph within the eggs.

Reposted by Pieter Vantieghem

Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 24d

Green islands on beech leaves with Stigmella tityrella mines and galls caused by Hartigiola annulipes

Reposted by Julia Koricheva, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Andrew Hacket‐Pain , and 3 more Julia Koricheva, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Andrew Hacket‐Pain, Joan Dudney, Julen Astigarraga, Benjamin Wildermuth

Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 26d

Mortality from fire & wind is increasing in Europe's forests, but what about biotic disturbances? A new, massive dataset compiled by @thlasny.bsky.social and many local experts shows a mixed picture: While wood borers increase strongly, defoliator activity generally decreases doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Reposted by Julia Koricheva, Benjamin Wildermuth

Phil Stevenson @philstevenson.bsky.social · 28d

I have a PhD opportunity with @juliakoricheva.bsky.social at @rhulbiology.bsky.social and @rbgkew.bsky.social to research the effect of forest diversification on understory forage provision for pollinators in an experimental mixed forest in Finland. www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/eff... please share

Effects of forest diversification on floral reward production for pollinators | TREES DLA

The herb layer in forests has a large potential to provide nectar and pollen for pollinators, but forest management practices such as planting tree species mixtures vs monocultures can affect floral r...

www.trees-dla.ac.uk

Reposted by Julia Koricheva

International Union of Forest Research Organizations - IUFRO @iufro.bsky.social · 29d

🚨Application deadline has been extended to 1 December 2025!

🔗 www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

#ForestScience #ForestResearch #entomology

Reposted by Ben C. Sheldon, Julia Koricheva

Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · Oct 26

Humans perceive but animals don’t: pitfalls in using plasticine models for assessing biotic interactions buff.ly/7hcLYXx | #ProcB #Ecology

Reposted by Ingolf Kühn

Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · Oct 25

Green pathways to mental health: relationships between treescapes and well-being and distress @peopleandnature.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Green pathways to mental health: Relationships between treescapes and well‐being and distress

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Pieter Vantieghem

Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · Oct 24

Love @royalholloway.bsky.social campus! Short walk around my office building provided sufficient material to demonstrate green islands phenmenon at today's lectures on herbivory simonleather.wordpress.com/tag/green-is...

Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · Oct 23

Another nice output from TreE_PlaNat project @uktreescapes.bsky.social: a video on integrating natural processes into woodland creation has just been released www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0N2...

Integrating natural processes into woodland creation

YouTube video by TreE PlaNat

www.youtube.com

Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · Oct 23

sorry, not really my area of expertise, but I think the summary of this report contains some answers www.gov.uk/government/p...

Tree Supply Report

Analysis of tree sapling supply in Great Britain 2022/2023.

www.gov.uk

Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · Oct 23

See press release here: www.stir.ac.uk/news/2025/oc...

Woodland creation strategies reshaped by Stirling-led research | About | University of Stirling

Woodland creation strategies reshaped by Stirling-led research

www.stir.ac.uk

Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · Oct 23

yes, see e.g. www.forestresearch.gov.uk/tools-and-re...

Provenance trials of native tree species - Forest Research

Project page about Genetic conservation in forestry.This project also considers various aspects of the genetic diversity of forest dwelling species.

www.forestresearch.gov.uk

Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · Oct 23

thanks Ros!

Reposted by Mathias Disney, Tommaso Jucker

Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · Oct 23

New OA publication from TreE_PlaNat project @uktreescapes.bsky.social in Ecological Solutions and Evidence: Creating woodland through natural processes: Current understanding and knowledge gaps in Great Britain besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Creating woodland through natural processes: Current understanding and knowledge gaps in Great Britain

Natural colonisation can successfully create structurally diverse, locally adapted woodlands in Britain, but the outcomes of this process can vary considerably. Combining natural colonisation and tre...

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · Oct 22

That was great fun!

Royal Holloway Biology @rhulbiology.bsky.social · Oct 22

Today we had @rhulbiology.bsky.social annual fungal foray @royalholloway.bsky.social campus led by our fungal expert Dr Brian Ferry. Lots of interesting finds! Many thanks to everyone who came and to Brian for sharing his vast knowledge 🍄‍🟫

Reposted by Julia Koricheva

Royal Holloway Biology @rhulbiology.bsky.social · Oct 22

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