It was a very nice tour with extremely motivated students!😍 Glad for the chance to teach about #biodiversity in such scenic landscapes.🏔

Very happy that our study analyzing weather anomalies as a major driver of insect biomass made it to the cover of this weeks nature together with 4 other brilliant papers on the topic! 🐝🐞

nature.com/articles/s4158…

Thanks to the Nationalpark #Hunsrück -Hochwald for unique insights into their park and for providing this great location for our spring #meeting ! Looking forward to the next one.🌳
#biodiversity #multifunctionality #forests #BETAFOR

Rarefaction on YouTube Matt Parker! Hat tip to Anne Chao et at. for the software (not sure if it's mentioned in the video, but I know the plots all too well 😉): youtu.be/TeY1fY0Bi_M?si…

For the R package, see: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/20…

A great option for insights in current research:

Cost-effective biodiversity monitoring through time is important for evidence-based conservation. Müller et al. show that automated bioacoustics monitoring can be used to track tropical forest recovery from agricultural abandonment.
Ecological Station Fabrikschleichach
nature.com/articles/s4146…

New study on insect biomass patterns in Germany: reanalysis of the Krefeld data led by Jörg Müller Ecological Station Fabrikschleichach shows that weather conditions and anomalies explain temporal patterns including declines suggesting that climate change is already a major driver. nature.com/articles/s4158…

We recorded some data on tree regeneration in the @uni_WUE forest last week.🌱🌳 Crazy how much young trees can grow in just 4.5 years... in particular
inside the #ungulate exclosure fences on the gap patches @beta4diversity.🦌
Can you spot Ludwig Lettenmaier?😅

In the context of a digital exhibition, the museum of natural history in Paris, France Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle is seeking for the whistle sound of wind passing through the African acacia tree Vachellia drepanolobium. Would anyone have this very peculiar sound? This would be so great! Cheers!

The campus Universität Würzburg #UniWürzburg is home for several rare and endangered #beetle species.😊 Recently we found Trichoferus pallidus. A beetle rated extinct ❗️ in Bavaria. How cool is that? 😍🐞 #teambeetle #longhornbeetle #coleoptera #phdlife Zoology III Würzburg

Yesterday I was happy to show some #nationalpark tourguides our @beta4diversity experiment 🌳🪵🌳 and some of the methods 🐛🪺🎙💡📸 we are using to record biodiversity! Transfering our first results to the public was fun but is also very important I feel!😊 #phdlife #scicomm

Happy to share my first publication as a first author! 🥳 We looked at how different silvicultural interventions 🌳🌳🪓 from conventional logging to enrichment of different 🪵 types affect forest #beetle diversity within the @beta4diversity experiment🐞 ➡️authors.elsevier.com/a/1g~k-1L~GwYY…

🐞 #Hirschkäfer gesucht: Meldet Eure Funde unkompliziert auf hirschkaefer-suche.de, gerne mit Foto. 📷

💡 Tipp: Die Käfer sind gerne an warmen Tagen unterwegs, v.a. im Mai/Juni am frühen Nachmittag.

🙏 Ihr unterstützt eine Langzeitstudie der #LWF & Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt - Danke Euch!

OPINION
Enhancing the structural diversity between forest patches—A concept and real‐world experiment to study biodiversity, multifunctionality and forest resilience across spatial scales

📄 bit.ly/3GE5M4X

Cool to see our paper in #ColeopSocPicks22 !😍

Fortunate to be in this workgroup and these beautiful forests in Bayern. Thank you all, especially to the guy talking beside the big beech.

When fieldseason is over, autumn hiking season starts.🍁 Discovered some cool fungi and roaring red deer the other day.🦌🍄 Can't wait for the leaves to be fully colored orange and red!😍🍂 #bavarianforest #phdlife #hikingadventures

Finally out after several years of development: 'Quantifying wood decomposition by insects and fungi using computed tomography scanning and machine learning'. Great collaboration with Ecological Station Fabrikschleichach, O. Mitesser, M. Ulyshen, Mitos GmbH, Petr Baldrian et al. doi.org/10.1038/s41598…

You want to make a PhD in forest ecology and conservation?
We are looking for a person with a strong interest in biodiversity to study differences in insect and fungal communities between forest reserves in Bavaria differing in size and time since designation.

We are hiring a full-time postdoc (4yr) to work on the effects of #foreststructure affected by #forestmanagement on the #microclimate as main driver of #biodiversity in Central European Forests. Come join our new research group BETA-FOR. Please RT.
uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.html…