Call for nominations: #GfÖ #Prizes 2024! 🏆 Nominate #Ecologists for the #GfÖPrize (€10,000) or the #HorstWieheAward (€2,000) for outstanding research or dissertations. Members can nominate candidates to the board. No Self-nominations. Deadline 30.3.24 gfoe.org/en/prizes

🍂 Litter decomposition along 3.6 km elevation gradient 🏔️ 12 vegetation types, 2 seasons Natural and disturbed vegetation Most important: #climate, but different optima for natural and disturbed sites. #mountain #ecology #KiLiProject #Tanzania

This is why Web Ecology has all its publications redundantly stored in two different long term repositories CLOCKSS and Portico nature.com/articles/d4158…

New article out by Maher et al: Pollinator responses to farmland habitat features: one-size does not fit all doi.org/10.26786/1920-…

NOW talking: Helena Freitas, the Ernst Haeckel awardee at #NordicOikos2024: Advancements in ecological science within agri-food systems. #OikosTogether EEF

Prey may "freeze" to avert detection by predators. However, unexpected observations of “post-contact freezing” suggest that contact does not always help to distinguish freezing from other types of predator-induced immobility. we.copernicus.org/articles/24/35… Purdue University Fort Wayne WSU News

Dryland perennial plants create productive and biodiverse hotspots, known as fertile islands. In Nature Plants we report results from the first assessment of how grazing and other factors relate to plant-created fertile islands across global drylands nature.com/articles/s4147…

Amazing work by David John Eldridge & Jingyi Ding leading this article, which presents the latest set of the results from the BIODESERT global dryland survey. To learn more about this survey check this Web Ecology article we.copernicus.org/articles/22/75…

Urban roadkill assessments reveals low incidence rates, likely as a result of already depleted wildlife populations. Free download: we.copernicus.org/articles/24/41… BOKU University

Our Big Flowering Plant Bang paper is now out in Nature!! So excited to have been part of this massive collaborative effort led by the Kew Gardens team, involving 279 co-authors from 27 countries! #angiosperms #phylogenomics nature.com/articles/s4158…

"Ecologists: don’t lose touch with the joy of fieldwork" nature Yes, indeed!!! nature.com/articles/d4158…

"As scientists, we strongly oppose policy choices that accelerate avoidable crises." Science associations & networks across Europe express grave concern to #EU decision-makers about rollback on #GreenDeal. Open letter➡️ zenodo.org/records/113734… w/ GfÖ EuropeForNature

Updated metrics for Web Ecology! web-ecology.net/about/journal_…

Towards spatial predictions of disease transmission risk: classical scrapie spill-over from domestic small ruminants to wild cervids. Free download: we.copernicus.org/articles/24/47… BIOPOLIS-CIBIO

Great work by Paloma Díaz-Martínez & César Plaza leading this study, which is another great output from the European Research Council (ERC) funded BIODESERT global dryland survey. To learn more about the characteristics of this field survey check this Web Ecology paper we.copernicus.org/articles/22/75…

"El éxito de iniciativas de ciencia abierta de verdad (diamante) dependerá de la credibilidad que les demos los científicos y del crédito que les otorguen las agencias que financian la investigación" theconversation.com/intentando-mej… Creamos en Ecosistemas_AEET, Web Ecology, etc...

Amazing work by Nicolas Gross and Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet leading this work, which is another great output from the European Research Council (ERC) funded BIODESERT global survey (for more details about this survey check this Web Ecology paper we.copernicus.org/articles/22/75…)

📣📣📣(1/6) Happy to announce a new paper out with Mar Sobral and Miguel on the geography of terrestrial mammal diets🌱🪲 🫐🌽🥩 and fully available in Web Ecology: we.copernicus.org/articles/24/71… USC Mammal Research Institute PAS

Environmental DNA in different media reveals distribution characteristics and assembly mechanisms of fish assemblages in a complex river–lake system. Free DiamondOA download: we.copernicus.org/articles/24/59…