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Symposium of the #MultiTroph project starting in Beijing today! #biodiversity, #subtropical #forest, #insects, #multitrophic #interactions, #ecosystemfunction, www.multitroph.com, www.bef-china.com, @multitroph

People opening the symposium with a presentation

New publication: Investigating the role of hydrological connectivity on the processing of organic carbon in tropical aquatic ecosystems,.
#organicmatter #carbon #transport #algalbiomarkers #wetland #ecosystemfunction
https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2023.1250889

'Maintain Asian forest diversity to avoid climate change impact,' suggests new study

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-asian-forest-diversity-climate-impact.html

#biodiversity #ecosystems #forest #climatechange #climatemitigation #carbonsequestration #ecosystemfunction #BEFS

New publication: Structure and Productivity of Aquatic Ecosystems. #community #diversity #ecosystemfunction #foodweb #lakes #rivers
https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822701-5.00009-4

5. I've been reading a running series by someone I follow, I think, about the evils of Doomerism.
And it's funny. I think we could do more to combat #EcosystemCollapse than almost anyone else I know of.
I think that if we fully put our minds and our personal energies as a people behind #EcosystemRegeneration instead of #TechnoToys we could start processes which would, by the next generation, begin to improve #EcosystemFunction worldwide.

#Agrivoltaic systems can serve as a scalable way to expand #SolarEnergy production while maintaining #EcosystemFunction in #managed #grasslands, especially in climates where #water is more limiting than #light: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-00904-4

A bioenergetic framework for aboveground terrestrial food webs

In a new paper https://rb.gy/jve8ub in TrendsEcolEvo@mstdn.science, Fernanda Valdovinos (https://twitter.com/fevaldovinos) et al. propose a new bioenergetic food web approach to understand and predict the network structure and stability of terrestrial food webs and their biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships.
#foodwebs #bioenergetics #biodiversity #EcosystemFunction

Illustrative figure of the structural complexity of terrestrial plants supporting herbivores feeding on different plant tissues (including nectar and pollen, fruits and seeds, leaves, and bark and wood) and proposed new approaches to integrate the effects of plant structural complexity into a bioenergetic food web framework by incorporating the chemical and physical constraints governing the interactions between herbivores and particular plant tissues. (From Figure 2)

Very happy to see that my colleague Britta Tietjen (@btietjen )
has just joined us here on the 🐘 side!

Follow her for #TheoreticalEcology
#EcologicalModelling
#AgentBasedModels
#Biodiversity
#EcosystemFunction #ClimateChange
#Landuse
etc

Without her support, our latest paper on #BushEncroachment in #Savanna systems would never have seen the light of day...

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/oik.09462

#EcosystemFunction

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