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Blanca Iváñez-Ballesteros (she/her)

@bioivanezb.bsky.social

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Tropical ecologist/🇪🇸 PhD at @Zoo3_Wuerzburg (🇩🇪) Researching in cacao agroforestry systems in Perú🍫🌳🐜 (@AgroEcoDiv) Arthropods/Ants/Socioecosystems

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Blanca Iváñez-Ballesteros (she/her) @bioivanezb.bsky.social · Sep 1

Let’s talk about cacao pollination! You can hear more about my research today at the #gfoe2025 🍫🌳🦟 @gfoesoc.bsky.social

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MERGE - Master of Global Change Ecology @merge-master.bsky.social · Jul 22

Alpine Adventures Await! MERGE offers 10 days excursion in the breathtaking German Alps! 🏔️ Check out here: www.ecology-conservation.de/courses/ From lush valleys to snowy peaks, we explore ecosystems across elevation gradients. 🌿🦋 #LifeOfMERGE #PhotoOfTheWeek
Photo by Fabienne Maihoff

Beautiful Alpine landscape, photo by Fabienne Maihoff

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Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology (Zoology III) @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social · Apr 15

👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 Be a scientist for a day! We invite you to the #BioBlitz 2025 in farmland!
📅 May 9–10, 2025
📍 Hubland, Würzburg

Grab a sweep net & binoculars and help document local biodiversity! 🐝🌼🐦🦊

👉 Register: go.uniwue.de/gxwtm

#CitizenScience #Biodiversity #UniWuerzburg #JoinIn
@uni-wuerzburg.de

This butterfly can be easily recognized even by laypeople thanks to its unique wing pattern: the white marble butterfly Melanargia galathea is commonly observed in flower-rich, nutrient-poor meadows, such as those found in the Lower Franconia region. (Picture: Stefanie Timm / DLG)

At the BioBlitz, children get to know the animals and plants of our agricultural landscapes up close and can become researchers themselves for a day. (Image: Martin Wegmann / Earth Observation Research Hub)

Equipped with sweep nets, magnifying glasses and specialist literature, the BioBlitz participants take off into fields, meadows and hedgerows to record as many animal and plant species as possible. (Image: Martin Wegmann, Earth Observation Resarch Hub)

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Pablo Aycart Lazo @pabloaycart.bsky.social · Mar 2

We found that shade tree diversity and cover had different effects on bird and bats depending on their functional guild and the landscape surrounding the agroforestry systems

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Pablo Aycart Lazo @pabloaycart.bsky.social · Mar 2

[new paper] I'm very happy to present my first PhD chapter in my first post in this nicer environment. If you're interested in birds, bats, agroforestry and tropical agricultural landscapes, check it out! 🦜🦇🌳🍫

¡Contáctame para leer el artículo en español!

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Landscape context influences local management effects on birds and bats in Amazonian cacao agroforestry systems

Agricultural expansion and intensification are major drivers of biodiversity loss, particularly in tropical regions. Cacao agroforestry systems can bo…

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Blanca Iváñez-Ballesteros (she/her) @bioivanezb.bsky.social · Feb 27

Yesterday I talked about leaf-cutter ants and their role on Peruvian cacao agroforests at #ECTE2025 @soctropecol.bsky.social

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Blanca Iváñez-Ballesteros (she/her) @bioivanezb.bsky.social · Feb 25

Excited to get reunited at #ECTE2025

Elise Sivault @elisesvlt.bsky.social · Feb 25

Peruvian memories ✨
@bioivanezb.bsky.social & Pablito

#ECTE2025

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