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Pierre-Michel Forget @pmforget.bsky.social · Mar 14

When you arrive at your favorite field site, unexpectedly meet with your co-author, John Mensah. Life is entire of surpises. zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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William Gosling @ecologypast.bsky.social · Mar 14

Time for Tropical Ecology #ECTE2025 #GTOE2025 post meeting information now online, remind yourself of all the great talks and posters by downloading the abstract booklet ecologyofthepast.info/2025/03/14/t... #ecology #tropical #biogeography #palaeoecology @soctropecol.bsky.social

Time for topical ecology

8th European Conference of Tropical Ecology 36th Annual Meeting of the Society for Tropical Ecology 24-28 February 2025, Amsterdam The 8th European Conference of Tropical Ecology took place in Amst…

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Massimo Martini @entomassi.bsky.social · Mar 5

Just returned from Amsterdam, where I presented my poster at #ECTE2025! 🌿🏝️ It showcases part of my PhD research: 10 years of monitoring cavity-nesting #Hymenoptera in SE China and their multitrophic interactions. Great to share and discuss science! @multitroph.bsky.social

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Patrick Jansen 🐾 @patrickjansen.bsky.social · Mar 3

Today, I am starting as full professor at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social to build a new research group on Wildlife Ecology & Nature Restoration.
I feel honored and welcome. Very much looking forward to the challenge of doing science to support effective wildlife #conservation and nature restoration.

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Society for Tropical Ecology @soctropecol.bsky.social · Mar 2

Beautiful summary of our #ECTE photo competition by Pia Parolin
youtube.com/shorts/FLO54...

Photography at the Amsterdam 2025 Conference of Tropical Ecology (feat. Pia’s Journey)

YouTube video by Pia’s Journey

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Society for Tropical Ecology @soctropecol.bsky.social · Mar 3

🚨 Job announcement :
Head of the Ecuadorian-German Integrative Biodiversity Research Center in Quito

More info at :
www.dzg-ev.de/wp-content/u...

www.dzg-ev.de

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Nature @nature.com · Feb 28

Agencies across the US government have been ordered to initiate another punishing round of layoffs at the same time Congress is moving forward with a plan to slash their budgets — a potential blow to science.

https://go.nature.com/3QCaFAP

Trump team orders huge government layoffs: how science could fare

Nature talks with scientists inside US agencies about what the latest directive could mean for their staff members and budgets.

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Pierre-Michel Forget @pmforget.bsky.social · Mar 1

Just presented during #ECTE2025 @soctropecol.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...

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Society for Tropical Ecology @soctropecol.bsky.social · Feb 27

Last keynote speaker #ECTE2025 : Joeri Zwerts. He will talk about solutions to protect tropical forests 🌴🐘

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Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · Feb 27

Good news! 🌴 Reassembly at the #ECTE2025 conference in Amsterdam... and featured in MONGABAY in the same week:
www.reassembly.de/news/reassem...

news.mongabay.com/2025/02/an-e...

An Ecuadorian hotspot shows how forests can claw back from destruction

Can a tropical forest mend itself? After trees are cut down and wildlife flees, do microbes on the dank, leafy floor and woody giants with epiphyte-laden crowns come back; do the pollinators, seed dis...

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Society for Tropical Ecology @soctropecol.bsky.social · Feb 27

This was #ECTE2025 !!!
Thanks to all participants for making this an amazing experience 😌
Thanks to Jelle Kraak for taking the photos (@kraakkiekjes)

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Pierre-Michel Forget @pmforget.bsky.social · Feb 28

Three decades of friendship and collaboration with Mr. Agouti.eu meeting during #ECTE2025 @patrickjansen.bsky.social

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Society for Tropical Ecology @soctropecol.bsky.social · Feb 27

Ending ECTE2025 and looking forward to ECTE2026 - see you in Passau 🤩 #ECTE2025

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Pierre-Michel Forget @pmforget.bsky.social · Feb 27

Closing ceremony #ECTE2025 - Maria Sibylla Merian. Changing the Nature of Art and Science, Bert van de Roemer
Florence Pieters
Hans Mulder
Kay Etheridge
Marieke van Delft www.lannoopublishers.com/en/maria-sib...

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Society for Tropical Ecology @soctropecol.bsky.social · Feb 27

Congratulations to the 1st winner of the Poster competition: Kaare Christopheren 🙌🎉 #ECTE2025

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Pierre-Michel Forget @pmforget.bsky.social · Feb 27

Full support to all my Federal colleagues in the USA. Signed by Past-President ATBC 2008 and Former President (2018-24) of the Society For Tropical Ecology. Professor Tropical Ecology @mnhn.fr

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Elise Sivault @elisesvlt.bsky.social · Feb 27

Last day at #ECTE2025

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Society for Tropical Ecology @soctropecol.bsky.social · Feb 27

Last day at #ECTE2025
The keynote speaker Gonzalo Rivas-Torres will talk about advanced technologies for mapping tropical ecosystems 🌿

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Pierre-Michel Forget @pmforget.bsky.social · Feb 27

Watching the habitat dynamics from above on the Galapagos islands and on the mainland in Equator with Gonzalo Rivas Torres during #ECTE2025 @soctropecol.bsky.social

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Society for Tropical Ecology @soctropecol.bsky.social · Feb 27

Best talk and Merian award winner: Malika Gottstein 🤩 #ECTE2025

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Pierre-Michel Forget @pmforget.bsky.social · Feb 27

And the last keynote speaker is a rising star in the sky of #ECTE2025 Joeri Zwerts from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @soctropecol.bsky.social

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Stéphanie Bodin 🌿🪵🔥🔬 @tifanosaurus.cpesr.fr · Feb 27

So let's meet next year in Passau, Germany! (Hopefully I'll have a new position somewhere by this time🤞)
Thanks for a great conference here in Amsterdam! 🙌🙌
I liked the pinapple 🍍 handover, that was funny 🤣
#ECTE2025

Crystal McMichael and Will Gosling closing the conference

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Society for Tropical Ecology @soctropecol.bsky.social · Feb 27

Winners of the photo Competition 📸! Congratulations 🎉

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Simon Haberle @thatpollenguy.bsky.social · Feb 27

Humans in Africa’s wet tropical forests 150 thousand years ago.

The onset of human occupations at Bété I found to be ~150 ka, linking them with Homo sapiens. Plant wax biomarker, stable isotope, phytolith and pollen analyses all point to a wet forest environment.

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Pierre-Michel Forget @pmforget.bsky.social · Feb 27

And, of course, no pollinators, no fruit, no seeds for frugivores.”Pas de bras, pas de chocolat” or in other words: “No bees, butterflies, moths, or flies, no cocoa fruit in the canopy! #ECTE2025 @soctropecol.bsky.social

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