@SerainaCappelli jederzeit 😊

Look at this, no handwritten labels anymore! Thanks to my phd student Julien Bota our helpers now use a barcode and supermarketscanner when weighing biomass. Great these smart, skilled and young early career scientists! I feel so modern 😎

I had my first TV-experience 🙈recently about an insect resampling project led by @WSL_research
. This will never be my favourite task but thanks to the nice reporter and our fantastic communication team @SLFDavos I survived🤪
https://www.suedostschweiz.ch/sendungen/rondo-news-fokus/insekten-in-gefahr-13-09-23

#insect_decline #insect_monitoring

RT @MalteJochum
Come do your #PhD with Nico @EisenhauerLab & me @idiv & @UniLeipzig #Germany on #multidiversity #multifunctionality relationships in above-belowground #grassland systems. Join our #BadBug #experiment within #BugNet.

Apply by April 23rd
Email 4 questions
https://t.ly/7tfVp

Since a few days I am testing these #DIOPSIS #Insectcameras in my garden before I will use them to #monitor #insects along elevational gradients in the Alps. Exciting! But so far just a few flies...and a cuddly lynx that sneaked on the screen

Final call for applications for our #multidiversity #multifunctionality #PhD position @EisenhauerLab @unileipzig @idiv .
Please share and/or apply by this Friday, January 20th!

@gkalinkat @MalteJochum
Very interesting thought! Would be fun to test whether predators accumulate under street lamps and if as a consequence the vegetation is different due to lower herbivore pressure (rather fast growing species, and less defended)!

New paper out led by @annekempel in #EcologyLetters

#Nutrient availability controls #insect #herbivore biomass when #predators are few, but bottom-up control switches to top-down control when they are common.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ele.14161

@gkalinkat @MalteJochum
Thanks!

This trophic flip probably arises because predators were not affected by cascading effects of plant productivity but also preyed on aquatic insects. Thus, classic theories of terrestrial community regulation can be incomplete when organisms forage across ecosystem boundaries.
With @MalteJochum Eric Allan Martin Gossner Jim Grace and David Wardle.

Our new paper is now online in
#EcologyLetters
We show that #nutrient availability strongly controls insect herbivore biomass when predators are few, but that there is a switch from bottom up to top-down control when predators are common.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.14161#.Y9BYGpK_KKg

Are you interested in the effects of insects and fungal pathogens on plant communities? Then our global research network #BugNet might be for you! We are looking for more collaborators who want to install exclusion experiments in their area. Check out bug-net.org

We have an online info event on the 24th of January at 3pm CET - reach out if you are interested to join!

Great #PhD opportunity with the amazing supervisor Elina Kaarlejärvi about #biodiversity change, #species interactions and #ecosystem #functions in boreal #forests and #tundra @helsinkiuni @ecoevojobs

https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki/760088102/?feedId=350602&utm_source=CareerSite_UniversityOfHelsinki

RT @RobertGBjork@twitter.com

Great opportunity to really do some cool research, go ahead and apply! https://twitter.com/annebeejay/status/1605590315615653889

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RobertGBjork/status/1605814062981402626

In this new #NatureCommunications paper, we study 40-year trends of #insects in #Switzerland and relate them to the concurring changes in #LandUse and #Climate.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35223-3

Result of a research initiative with #Agroscope #WSL #FiBL #Vogelwarte #infofauna

#biodiversity #globalchange #butterfly #grasshopper #dragonfly #temporal #bayesian

@granjel Looking forward reading it, congrats!

RT @Open_Traits@twitter.com

"Ten (mostly) simple rules to future-proof trait data in ecological and evolutionary sciences" (https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14033) is now available as a living document at https://opentraits.org/best-practices.html, allowing the document to change along with our knowledge of best practices in traits!
#traits #OpenTraits #bestPractices #OpenScience

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Open_Traits/status/1597286889316552704

@zyzyphos Great, get in touch if you have questions! Would be super nice to have you on board!

@bomengidsnl Yes, definitely! The aim is to experimentally show how important insects, molluscs and pathogens are for the functioning of ecosystems, the diversity of plants and many more.

Are you interested in the effects of insect herbivores and pathogens on plant communities and ecosystem functioning? We are looking for collaborators to establish an exclusion experiment in their area and join our global network #BugNet!

We offer an exciting research community with many great scientists and the involvement in publications! Check out bug-net.org and contact us if interested. Please forward to interested scientists!

#SLFDavos #AllanEcology #insects #pathogens #communityEcology