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The Struggling Scientists @thestrugglings4.bsky.social · 15d

PhD's log:

How to finish writing your thesis

1. Open the Word doc
2. Procrastinate for 3 months with a new hobby
3. Write a paragraph of the introduction
4. Procrastinate for 3 months with a new hobby
5. Stress finish everything in 3 weeks

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 21d

Latin America’s feline species are losing their habitat and becoming trapped in small patches. Researchers say biological corridors are vital for their conservation. 🐆

Read more w/ @mongabay.com : https://news.mongabay.com/2025/01/conservation-corridors-provide-hope-for-latin-americas-felines/

Illustrated artwork showing five different wild cat species in a tropical setting. From largest to smallest: a brown mountain lion (puma), two spotted jaguars, an ocelot with distinctive orange-brown markings, and a small spotted wildcat. The cats are arranged in a naturalistic scene with palm fronds, red flowers, and other tropical vegetation in the background. The composition shows the relative size differences between these feline species native to the Americas.

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Henriette Christel @henriettechristel.bsky.social · Aug 30

Don't miss this talk at the GFÖ conference this year 💯

Gesellschaft für Ökologie e.V. @gfoesoc.bsky.social · Aug 29

📊 Anne Chao & Pia Bradler, presenting the iNEXT framework, rooted in Alan Turing’s concept of sample coverage, as a powerful statistical tool for standardizing biodiversity data and enabling meaningful comparisons across ecosystems.
#Gfoe2025

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The Struggling Scientists @thestrugglings4.bsky.social · Jul 31

Think I have a better chance of seeing the Northern lights at this point 😅

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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · Jul 9

🌳 Tree placement matters! A new study shows forests with diverse, non-clustered species boost biomass (+11%), nutrient cycling and decomposition.

🛠️ Line planting = sweet spot between ecology and management. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

www.idiv.de/the-right-mi...

The right mix and planting pattern of trees enhance forest productivity and services

By modelling different planting design strategies and species mixtures, researchers offer insights for sustainable forest management, reforestation, and climate change mitigation in a new paper.

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Henriette Christel @henriettechristel.bsky.social · Jun 11

Proud to be part of a group that won a prize for the "best research environment 2024" 🎉🎉🎉

Die Junge Akademie @jungeakademie.bsky.social · Jun 8

🏆 Die 10 Gewinnerteams des Preises „Bestes #Forschungsumfeld 2024“ stehen fest! Aus fast 300 Bewerbungen wurden sie aus einer beeindruckenden Shortlist per Los gezogen. Wir gratulieren gemeinsam mit der @volkswagenstiftung.de! 🎉
Wer gewonnen hat? 👉 www.diejungeakademie.de/de/presse/be...

Gruppenbild mit frühlichen Menschen. Foto: Die Junge Akademie/Bernd Brundert

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Die Junge Akademie @jungeakademie.bsky.social · May 15

Nominiert für die 10 besten Forschungsumfelder 2024 ist die Arbeitsgruppe „Experimentelle #Interaktionsökologie“ (eisenhauerlab.bsky.social) am German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (@idiv-research.bsky.social). 🌱
Mehr zum Team:
👉 www.diejungeakademie.de/de/projekte/...

Das Gruppenfoto zeigt 34 Personen in 3 Reihen vor einem Gebäude. Viele strecken ihre Hände in die Luft.
Bildrechte bei Experimental Interaction Ecology/iDiv

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Florian Schnabel @mixedforests.bsky.social · Apr 7

Interested in how #forest #resilience to #drought depended on tree diversity and #mycorrhiza?

The study by @lsachsenmaier.bsky.social in @journalofecology.bsky.social was just shortlisted for the Harper Prize🚨👏 Read more on the paper here👇

jecologyblog.com/2025/04/04/l...

Lena Sachsenmaier: Forest growth resistance and resilience to the 2018–2020 drought depend on tree diversity and mycorrhizal type

2024 HARPER PRIZE SHORTLIST: For the next two weeks, we are featuring the articles shortlisted for the 2024 Harper Prize. The Harper Prize is an annual award for the best early career research pape…

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Rémy Beugnon @remybeugnon.bsky.social · Mar 23

🌴🌳 Tree species richness increases climate buffering 🌡️🥵

I am so happy to share our latest piece, now published in Ecology Letters!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Tree Diversity Increases Forest Temperature Buffering via Enhancing Canopy Density and Structural Diversity

Making use of 6 years of microclimate measurements in a large-scale tree diversity experiment covering a species richness gradient ranging from 1 to 24 tree species, we demonstrate that tree species ...

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · Feb 27

One for lab meeting!
Congratulations 🍾

Toby Kiers @tobykiers.bsky.social · Feb 27

Our newest research in @nature.com

We built a robot (!) to track plant-fungal trade networks. By following half a million fungal highways & nutrient flows within them, we discovered how plants & fungi build hyper-efficient supply chains

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📹 @sasaspacal.bsky.social

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · Jan 20

Boreal forests have been experiencing both gains and losses in recent decades. Liu et al show that boreal forest resilience is more sensitive to forest cover losses than to gains, indicating that functional declines due to forest loss outpace improvements following forest recovery.

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Asymmetric sensitivity of boreal forest resilience to forest gain and loss

Nature Ecology & Evolution - Boreal forests have been experiencing both gains and losses in recent decades. Here, the authors show that boreal forest resilience is more sensitive to forest...

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · Jan 15

Very excited to share my new paper, just out in Nature Reviews Biodiversity

Global change refugia could shelter species from multiple threats

@natrevbiodiv.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Global change refugia could shelter species from multiple threats - Nature Reviews Biodiversity

Locations that are relatively insulated from the effects of climate change (so-called climate change refugia) might be similarly insulated from a range of other anthropogenic stressors. The degree of ...

www.nature.com

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The Jena Experiment @jena-experiment.bsky.social · Jan 7

New study led by Ana Elizabeth Bonato Asato published in @journalofecology.bsky.social 🌱🪱

Plant diversity increases above- and below-ground ecosystem functioning and their phenological synchrony, but effects on traits vary across seasons.

doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Seasonal shifts in plant diversity effects on above‐ground–below‐ground phenological synchrony

Plant diversity modulates above-ground–below-ground interdependence through intricate phenological dynamics, with the degree of synchrony fluctuating in response to the varying combination of process....

doi.org

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Henriette Christel @henriettechristel.bsky.social · Jan 7

You can also check out my first research publication focusing on tree-tree interaction effects on soil microbial biomass and respiration: tinyurl.com/Christel-et-al

The spatial distribution of tree–tree interaction effects on soil microbial biomass and respiration

In our study, we were able to show in a subtropical tree diversity experiment (BEF-China) that soil microbial biomass and respiration show a fine spatial distribution pattern between trees. This sugg...

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Henriette Christel @henriettechristel.bsky.social · Jan 7

In my PhD, I collected many many many soil samples in different tree diversity experiments to measure soil multifunctionality. Curious? Find here a little glimpse of our adventures in subtropical China: tinyurl.com/China-adeven...

Pablo Castro Sánchez-Bermejo, Henriette Christel, Michael Köhler, Julia Imola Piko, Lena Sachsenmaier: TreeDì—Understanding tree diversity effects on Chinese subtropical forests

In this new post, the group – PhD students at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Germany – discuss their experiences working on the BEF-…

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Henriette Christel @henriettechristel.bsky.social · Jan 7

Hi Bluesky 👋🏼 I want to use the new year to introduce myself a bit ☺️ I am an ecologist in progress 📚 interested in biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships as well as tree-soil interactions on small scales 🌳🪱

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Henriette Christel @henriettechristel.bsky.social · Dec 12

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · Dec 12

Are there underrated ways to save the world as a research lab?
Read this week's newsletter and decide for yourself.... :)

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Underrated ways to save the world as a research lab

Some thoughts about running a lab

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