Last day of our Quantitative Plant Ecology in magnificent grasslands in #Gülpe Havelaue. Looking forward to be back next year #ÖkologischeStationGülpe with Felix May, @dariiaborovyk.bsky.social & our great students
‪ @fubcp.bsky.social, @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

#Gülpe has so many amazing spots and paths and even more plants and insects :) (The only thing better is going to be the Borscht on Saturday) @oksanabuzh.bsky.social @dariiaborovyk.bsky.social

Honored to receive the Best Paper Award from @jpecol.bsky.social 🏆

Our paper shows that multitrophic biodiversity enhances ecosystem functions, services, and ecological intensification in agriculture.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...

Enjoying fieldwork in beautiful #Gülpe Havelaue, despite the rain 🌧️

Sampling nested plot series at multiple scales in dry grasslands 🌾 #GrassPlot #EDGG

Geat teamwork with @dariiaborovyk.bsky.social & @charly-gha.bsky.social

#FieldEcology #GrasslandScience

‪with @selina-b.bsky.social, @brittatietjen.bsky.social, ‬ #BlühenderCampus of #FUBerlin, ‪ @fubcp.bsky.social, @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

A trait-based model to describe plant community dynamics in managed #grasslands (GrasslandTraitSim.jl v1.0.0)
by Felix Nößler, Thibault Moulin, Oksana Buzhdygan, Britta Tietjen, and Felix May doi.org/pfrn via @EgUsphere
#PlantScience

Still glowing 5 days after Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften #lndw25 ✨

🌿 Identifying plants
🐾 Matching mammal fingerprints
💻 Playing with computer models
✔️ Guessing plant diversity
🦊 Exploring animal habitats at game tables

It was a blast – thanks for the curiosity and great conversations! 🧠🌼

Interested in #ecological #theory & live on this side of the world (Asia-Pacific)? Tune in to the @pop-bio.bsky.social seminar series! I'm speaking next on #biodiversity change, #food-web energetics and #ecosystem function. Register here: forms.gle/7vEiUQKJqeUL... 🌐🌏🍁🧪 @newzealandecology.bsky.social

Paper out in Biological Conservation 🎉

Traditional management maintains species-rich grassland 🌼

▶️19% plant species dispersed via livestock feces💩
▶️Grassland cleaning🧹 boosts diversity
▶️Low-intensity grazing🐄 & manuring💩 shape plant composition without reducing diversity 👩‍🌾
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

Pathogens and herbivores differ in key life history characteristics, and we expected that these might drive differences in terminology, patterns, and hypotheses in the published literature.

Two PhD positions available at Wageningen University on resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across landscapes. Supervision will be by my great colleagues @iris-hordijk.bsky.social @amandataylor.bsky.social @dominic-martin.bsky.social @lucianachr.bsky.social and Merel Hofmeijer.

🚨Paper in @ecography.bsky.social led by @sbfiedler.de
One-size-fits-all doesn't work in restoration! Trade-offs between carbon gain, water use & nitrogen use shift with abiotic context in Mediterranean-type ecosystems. Match plant traits to place! nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Paper just out:

Jeltsch et al.

The need for an individual-based global change ecology ibe.pensoft.net/articles.php...

Lets the sampling begin 🎉
Start of sampling in the #BlühenderCampus of the @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social to assess the effects of management intensity on biodiversity 🌼🐛🐞🐿️ & functioning ♻️ of campus green spaces. Stay tuned for more 😉

by @dariiaborovyk.bsky.social

Ich fühle mich auf jeden Fall seit 2017 wie eine Schallplatte mit Sprung: Qualität in der Standardisierung ist das Wichtigste, weil biologische Vielfalt sehr komplex ist…

Reiht sich gut ein in den Artikel von @christianschwaegerl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy letztens

www.faz.net/aktuell/wiss...

Here we share the press release on our paper and how our collaboration in #iDiv | #sDiv helped reunite Ukrainian scholars scattered across Europe www.idiv.de/grassland-bi...
with @anyameadow.bsky.social, @dariiaborovyk.bsky.social, and #sCaleGrassDiv group

New key finding:
Landscapes of fragmented habitat have lower diversity, at all scales, than do unfragmented landscapes.

Habitat fragmentation does not compensate for the loss of local (alpha) diversity by increasing the diversity among fragments (beta diversity).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The effects of different drivers and their scale-dependency operated through different mechanisms:

We investigated how climate, soil properties, abiotic disturbance, and land use influence plant diversity across two fine grain sizes (10 vs 100 m2) in various grassland types in Ukraine. The strength of most of the effects of these drivers varied between spatial scales, affecting β-diversity.

Paper out in Ecology and Evolution @ecol-evol.bsky.social

Scale-Dependent Effects of Plant Diversity Drivers Across Different Grassland Habitats in Ukraine doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

result of #sDiv synthesis working #sCaleGrassDiv in @iDiv www.idiv.de/research/sdi...

We have published our first article based on the results of the sCaleGrassDiv project supported by The German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Legumes strengthened the top-down control of primary consumers. Biomass stocks and energy flows were responsive to different biodiversity facets. Targeted grassland management would profit from focusing on specific plant diversity facets depending on the ecosystem function or service of interest.

We showed that plant diversity constrains consumer functioning by means other than only altered consumer biomass. The effects of plant species richness across the food web attenuated with higher trophic levels and often operated through mechanisms of plant functional-trait diversity.

Paper is out in Ecological Monographs @esajournals.bsky.social

Plant diversity facets differentially affect energy dynamics in grasslands depending on trophic contexts doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

Research in @jena-experiment.bsky.social