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Anna Bucharova
@annabucharova.bsky.social
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Conservation Biology Prof at the University Marburg, Germany. Restoration ecology, rapid adaptation, botany Mom of 2
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Anna Bucharova @annabucharova.bsky.social · Jun 4
Assessing limits of sustainable seed harvest in wild plant populations. How many seeds can we harvest in a wild population without causing damage? A massive modeling effort, with @robsalgo.bsky.social @bossdorf.bsky.social @plantevoeco.bsky.social
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Restoration Ecology @restorationecology.bsky.social · 1d
A gentle reminder that for this journal (and many others) the EIC and Managing Editor don't have any authority or rights over what the publisher charges or how they configure their emails. That's not a complaint, simply a reminder that queries about those have to be sent to the publishing company.
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Margaret Evans @mekevans.bsky.social · Jul 31
New paper out on the dangers of using patterns across spatial climate gradients to predict what will happen with changing climate. That includes species distribution modeling. Space-for-time substitution can be misleading in sign, not just the magnitude of effects.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reconsidering space-for-time substitution in climate change ecology - Nature Climate Change
Ecologists often leverage patterns observed across spatial climate gradients to predict the impacts of climate change (space-for-time substitution). We highlight evidence that this can be misleading n...
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Anna R Landim @annarl.bsky.social · 6d
Excited to share that the second paper of my PhD is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🍈🦜🍒🐒🍊🐿️

We show that the functional diversity of seed-dispersal interactions in tropical forests takes circa 20 years to recover after deforestation.

You can read it here: www.cell.com/current-biol...
Delayed recovery of seed-dispersal interactions after deforestation
Landim et al. show that seed-dispersal interactions require about two decades to functionally recover in tropical forests in Ecuador, but the recovery time of seed-dispersal functions is delayed in pa...
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Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social · Sep 5
Red devil spiders from the Canary Islands have a genome half the size of mainland counterparts - Pisarenco, @jrozasub.bsky.social et al. show how purifying selection against slightly deleterious DNA and TE insertions is the primary mechanism.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf206

#evobio #molbio #TEsky
How Did Evolution Halve Genome Size During an Oceanic Island Colonization?
Abstract. Red devil spiders of the genus Dysdera colonized the Canary Islands and underwent an extraordinary diversification. Notably, their genomes are ne
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Anna Bucharova @annabucharova.bsky.social · 7d
Congratulations! We have observed rapid evolution of clonality in restored populations in response to mowing for hay. It was over 20 years in a perennial, so possibly even fewer generations than 4. Cool to see similar results from an experiment!
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Rapid evolution of flower phenology and clonality in restored populations of multiple grassland species
Grassland plants introduced into degraded habitats within the framework of ecological restoration may quite commonly evolve in response to novel selection pressures at restored sites. This rapid evol....
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Anna Bucharova @annabucharova.bsky.social · 7d
On the way to the office
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Liz Koziol @lizkoziol.bsky.social · 13d
Excited to share our paper on grassland establishment 7 yrs after native #AMF inoculation—showing AMF result in higher diversity + prairie spread into old fields—was selected Editor’s Choice by @femsjournals.bsky.social.🦠🌎
I’ll discuss next week at #SER2025 Denver ! academic.oup.com/femsle/artic...
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FEMS Journals @femsjournals.bsky.social · 16d
🍄 Fungi to the rescue! Native AMF inoculation helps prairie restoration 🌱 by boosting native plant diversity and kicking weeds to the curb (even 7 years later). A long-term win for restoration ecology. 📄https://buff.ly/Uyl6f78 #FEMSMicrobiolLett #Mycorrhiza #Microbiology
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Anna Bucharova @annabucharova.bsky.social · 12d
This is a must
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Principles of experimental design for ecology and evolution
Here I argue that we do not discuss experimental design, often until it is too late. This editorial seeks to begin a conversation about how and where to replicate appropriately.
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Will Allen @wlallen.bsky.social · 13d
📢🦋 Our paper ‘Global selection on insect antipredator coloration’ is out and featured on the cover of @science.org

We ran a huge experiment to find out how ecological context favours camouflage and warning colouration as antipredator strategies. 1/6

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A white-fronted bee-eater (Merops bullockoides) decides whether to consume a warningly colored white-barred acraea butterfly (Telchinia encedon). Photo (c) Mike Rowe
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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 14d
Job Alert! We're hiring a BIOINFORMATICIAN / NGS SPECIALIST to support our new Molecular Biodiversity Lab in the @terra-cluster.org at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Like the idea to use your skills for understanding biodiversity? To work on diverse questions in a wonderful place? Apply!
Please repost!
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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 16d
Very interesting read:

Historical and experimental evidence that inherent properties are overweighted in early scientific explanation | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Historical and experimental evidence that inherent properties are overweighted in early scientific explanation | PNAS
Scientific explanation is one of the most sophisticated forms of human reasoning. Nevertheless, here we hypothesize that scientific explanation is ...
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 16d
"Why do queen bumblebees emerge from hibernation during weekends?"

I love this framing about bias in hobbyist-collected data.
Why do queen bumblebees emerge from hibernation during weekends? - Apidologie
Climate-driven shifts in bumblebee emergence and flowering time can disrupt plant reproduction and affect pollinator health. To study such mismatches, accurate phenological data is crucial but challen...
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Anna Bucharova @annabucharova.bsky.social · 18d
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Harms of introduced large herbivores outweigh benefits to native biodiversity - Nature Communications
Using impact assessment frameworks, this study shows that the introduction of large mammalian herbivores outside their native range has predominantly caused negative impacts on native biodiversity glo...
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Colautti Lab @colauttilab.bsky.social · 20d
Now published in @newphyt.bsky.social, @1pantunes.bsky.social and I review evidence for the "Novel Weapons Hypothesis" and the role of allelopathy during invasion. Bottom line: there is very good reason to be skeptical.
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Experimental approaches and key outcomes supporting the Allelopathy Postulates relevant to competitive interactions and the novel weapons hypothesis (NWH). Numbers in red correspond to the 11 postulates summarized in Table 1. The full experimental framework comprises five sequential steps: (a) assess the natural concentrations of a potential allelopathic compound; (b) demonstrate its ability to suppress native vegetation; releasing resources that enhance growth and reproduction of the invader (e.g. light, nutrients, water); (c) confirm that the compound has limited autotoxicity to the invading species; (d) investigate the biogeographical basis of the allelopathic compound as a ‘novel weapon’ by demonstrating that native communities coevolving with the invader in its home range are significantly more resistant to the allelopathic compound compared to those in the introduced (away) range; (e) confirm that genotypes producing higher concentrations of the allelopathic compounds experience a fitness cost in the context of intraspecific competition but gain a fitness advantage under interspecific competition. Investigating the role of soil-mediated interactions (11) is transversal across different components of the framework
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rrjunker.bsky.social @rrjunker.bsky.social · 21d
Microbial conservation is essential for sustaining ecosystem functions and services! We propose a conceptual framework and a roadmap for microbial conservation: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Microbial conservation is essential for sustaining ecosystem functions and services | PNAS
Microbial conservation is essential for sustaining ecosystem functions and services
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 21d
The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage.

When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig.

Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?
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Anna Bucharova @annabucharova.bsky.social · 22d
Congratulations Max!
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Journal of Ecology @journalofecology.bsky.social · 23d
🏔️New study from the #Ödenwinkel glacier forefield! 3D-laser scans show that vegetation structural complexity uniquely captures competition between vascular plants and bryophytes. 🌱🌿 Structure, not cover, richness, or traits, drives the interactions @mhanusch.bsky.social 👇
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Anna Bucharova @annabucharova.bsky.social · 27d
On the way to the office
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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 28d
Job Alert! The University of Tübingen is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) in FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY! Come and join our institute, and maybe our new excellence clusters @terra-cluster.org and @greenrobust.de. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Please repost!
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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 29d
One of the most enjoyable parts of my book was inviting researchers I admire to contribute essays

This what David Wardle said:
Every manuscript needs a simple take-home message. Every sentence must earn its place. Keep it clear, keep it simple.
This is an essay by David Wardle on my book (a pocket guide to scientific wriing and publishing). Can you make one or two tweets with some of the highlights of this text, so i advertise my book? Ecologist Here are ten points that continue to guide my own scientific writing. These are of course what works for me and are loaded with my opinions – others might have very different ways of doing things, and as always there are multiple equally effective alternative routes to the end goal. 1. Every manuscript needs a really simple take home message – what it is that you have discovered and why it is important ideally something that can be stated in a single sentence. Everything in the manuscript, from your hypotheses to your figures and tables, should then somehow connect to it.
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Anna Bucharova @annabucharova.bsky.social · 29d
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Spatially biased collections and the failure to cover all wild genetic clusters in plant populations under ex situ conservation
Successful ex situ conservation of plant populations requires a high degree of genetic representativeness. However, spatially biased sampling in ex si…
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Wayne Maddison @waynemaddison.bsky.social · Sep 5
Confused writing is usually a symptom of confused thinking. As we struggle to clarify writing, we clarify our thoughts. AI writing aids rob us of that struggle, leaving clean-looking text and thoughts still confused for lack of inspection. Writing is not just a product; it is a diagnostic tool.
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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · Aug 1
Ouch.

“If we plan restoration targets to match future climatic conditions and consider state transitions of currently natural ecosystems due to climate change, the potential for natural climate solutions related to ecosystem restoration is close to zero.”
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