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Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social · 6d

🌿🦋 Interested in how #land-use intensity shapes #moth communities? Check out this BE-paper in @animalecology.bsky.social
🌳 #Forests host higher abundance & diversity than grasslands. 🌡️Temperature is a key factor. It's all a complex interplay of habitat , LUI and weather.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365... 🌐

Habitat and land‐use intensity shape moth community structure across temperate forest and grassland

This study reveals how land-use intensity, plant diversity, weather and artificial light interact to shape moth diversity across forests and grasslands. Using 300 plots across Germany, we highlight h...

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Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social · 8d

📢Check out our latest BE-publication on #invertebrate 🐞abundance in #grasslands 🌱 published in @basicapplecol.bsky.social.

Reducing land use (single late #mowing) increased #insects by +41% after 1 yr and +99% after 3 yrs.
Species diversity, however, remained unchanged.

🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...

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Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social · 9d

Last week our infrastructure teams gathered in the Exploratory Schwäbische Alb for the annual meeting – sharing ideas and shaping future steps of the Exploratories. Great to connect, exchange, and build visions together! 🤝

📷 L. Marian

#bexplo #Teamwork #Research #SwabianAlb

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Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social · 16d

👉 Interested in joining our #Bexplo Synthesis Team?
Apply now – the deadline is October 25!
🔗 www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...

Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · 18d

Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social
Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃
www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...

Ecological synthesis including forest ecosystems, grassland, land use, climate change, time series, stability, ecosystem functioning, biodiversity, species interaction networks

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MicGeo Lab @kolb2018.bsky.social · 20d

MicGeo team on the DBG conference 2025 in #Tübingen.

Talk given by Nils Volles.

Mechanisms of Methane Sink Recovery in Grasslands

@zalf.bsky.social @dfg.de @bexplo.bsky.social #Methanotrophs

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Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social · 23d

Trade-offs with other goals exist, but joint optimization across multiple goals helps minimize them. 🌍
Regional strategies are essential.
Our study shows: multi-goal, cost-effective management is both ecologically & economically viable.

Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social · 23d

Using data from the #BExplo, the study optimized management for plants & butterflies 🦋 in 2 regions.
👉 With only 30% of the budget, up to 80% of the maximum achievable in the ecological optimizations can be reached - if cost-effectiveness is prioritized.

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Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social · 23d

📢New BE-paper out on cost-effective #conservation of multiple goals in #grasslands.

🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

Permanent grasslands are key for #biodiversity but face rising threats. Traditional #conservation looked at species counts, but resilience, #ecosystem services & interactions matter too. 🌐

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Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social · 29d

🌱 New paper highlights how #BExplo & #BioDivKultur advance grassland research through collaboration, interdisciplinarity & transdisciplinarity. Conserving #grasslands is a shared societal task - requiring long-term, inclusive efforts across #science, #policy & practice. 🌐

🔗 doi.org/10.1002/glr2...

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Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social · Sep 2

🍄 How does land use shape the world of #fungi beneath our feet?
📣 New BE-study: #Land-use intensity (LUI) affects soil fungal communities – but #forests 🌳 show more resilient fungal diversity, while #grasslands 🌱 are more sensitive to management.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1462...

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Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social · Aug 19

📢Save the Date!👩‍🔬
Join us in Berlin, June 8–12, 2026 for the #BE20 Conference:
“Emerging Topics in Long-Term and Large-Scale Biodiversity Research” 🦋🌱🌳

📍 Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus, Berlin
🎉 Celebrating 20 years of the #Biodiversity Exploratories!

Please RT and share this news!

#Research #Conference

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Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social · Aug 14

🌳Making forests accessible for all!
With #Nationalpark Hainich we supported an inclusive field trip for students with and without mobility challenges.
Thanks to rangers, volunteers & off-road wheelchairs (Joelette), everyone could experience the forest and its #biodiversity up close. 🌲♿

📷 S. Pompe

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Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social · Aug 12

First record of Thyreophagus corticalis deutonymphs phoretic on Ixodes ricinus in Germany (found in our exploratory Schwäbische Alb). Rare, geographically restricted occurrence; likely incidental contact at sites with established mite populations.
🔗Read more: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🌐

First report of phoretic deutonymphs of Thyreophagus corticalis (Michael, 1885) (Acari: Acaridae) on Ixodes ricinus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Ixodida: Ixodidae)

Phoretic deutonymphs of Thyreophagus corticalis (Michael, 1885) were found associated with a male and nymphs of Ixodes ricinus during a sampling condu…

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Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social · Aug 8

🎋 Mikado in the field? Not quite!
In May, ~ 600 bamboo sticks were used as multiple #research projects investigated our experimental plots in the Hainich-Dün Exploratory.
It may look like a game, but it's all about precise planning and coordination!

📷 S. Pompe, M. Rubenbauer
#BExplo #Fieldwork

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Wolf Lab @jochenwolflab.bsky.social · Aug 6

Chongyi's paper from the biodiversity exploratories (@bexplo.bsky.social‬) is finally out ! How do genomic traits interact with community ecology?

Antropogenic

havoc. Communities shake.

Genomes grow and break.

doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Context‐dependent relationships between genomic traits and plant performance in temperate grasslands

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

doi.org

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Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social · Aug 4

📉 Results: Pollinators face persistent land-use pressure, affecting morphology & abundance.

Bumblebee body size ↓ with local land-use, ↑ with floral resources.
Syrphid fly body size ↓ with landscape-level land-use & was temp-sensitive.
Abundance: Bumblebees ↓, syrphid flies ↑ with local land-use.

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Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social · Aug 4

#Pollinators are essential for ecosystem functioning. 🐝🌼
This BE-study explores temporal stability of #land-use and climatic effects on morphological traits & abundance of the #bumblebee Bombus lapidarius and syrphid fly Episyrphus balteatus in agricultural #grasslands. 🌐

🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...

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Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social · Aug 1

🔬🌿 Field research up close!
Students from @uniulm.bsky.social and @unituebingen.bsky.social explored forest and grassland plots in the Explo Schwäbische Alb as part of their #biodiversity and #plant #ecology courses.
Hands-on #science -insightful, practical, and inspiring!

📷 M. Müller
#Fieldwork

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Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social · Jul 31

🦇 What drives #bat diversity in #forests? 🌲

Gaps boost species richness & abundance. More #deadwood & understory = higher bat & feeding activity. Generalists thrive in gaps, specialists stay under canopy. Structural variety is key!

Check out our latest BE paper for more:
doi.org/10.1016/j.fo... 🌐

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Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social · Jul 30

Interested in nocturnal #moths?
☑️ Check our new BE-Paper in @oikosjournal.bsky.social:
#Land-use intensification reduced trait & phylogenetic beta #diversity - mainly in common moths. Rare #forest species responded differently. Body size ↓, wing load & darkness ↑.

🔗 doi.org/10.1002/oik.... 🌐

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Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social · Jul 29

🌼 Spring flashback! Our team recorded 44 #plant species on 50 plots in the Hainich-Dün Exploratory. Featured: lesser celandine & wood anemone. 🌿
🙌 Shout-out to Christoph Zwahlen and the @unibe.ch #botany team for additionally spotting 47 species in Mülverstedt!
📷 S. Pompe
#Biodiversity #bexplo

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Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social · Jul 28

📢 New BE study: #Land-use intensity affects the species–area relationship only indirectly via reduced #plant species richness.🌱 #Mowing lowers, grazing raises spatial heterogeneity ➡️divergent effects of land-use components & the need to assess direct vs. indirect drivers.

🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...

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Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social · Jul 25

No we don't, we just collect them from the treeholes.

Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social · Jul 24

Summer vibes in the forest. A look up into the canopy—pure calm. The forest is the perfect place to recharge and cool down in the hot summer month. 🌲

Where do you go to cool down?🌞❄️

📷 C. Penone

#bexplo #SummerInTheForest #Biodiversity #GetOutside

Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social · Jul 18

🔬 New BE study on the #grassland hyphosphere #microbiome: Substrate quality shapes microbial communities & N transfer. More N from arginine than root litter reaches #plant roots. Saprotrophic #fungi play a key role in litter processing & plant nutrition.
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Organic substrate quality influences microbial community assembly and nitrogen transport to plants in the hyphosphere of a temperate grassland soil

The availability of different organic substrates influences the assembly and functionality of hyphosphere microbial communities; however, the underlyi…

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