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Recently, the ANDIV team joined the 20th anniversary ABERG meeting, discussing biodiversity on a tropical elevational gradient and the severe impacts of climate change. Justin Catanoso greatly summarized our thoughts, ideas and conclusions: news.mongabay.com/2023/07/what-w…

Our third (and final!) field season in Peru has started! We already finished sampling the mid-elevations, now continuing in the lowlands and afterwards the high Andes. Let's hope for lots of amazing bugs! 🪲🦟🐝🦋

New addition for this season: studying the overwhelming diversity of #Diptera (Brachycera) and their thermal tolerances along our tropical elevational gradient with Antonia Abels!

Elevational gradient fieldwork is exciting! For ANDIV we are moving back and forth between very hot rainforest and very cold Puna - sometimes within a day! This allows us to study the effect of climate without the need of a laboratory or extensive traveling along latitudes

Finished the last insect sampling session at our highest station at over 3600 m elevation ANDIV! I will definitely miss the views - What an incredible landscape with incredible organisms, such as the high-elevation tarantulas (Hapalotremus sp.)

20 years of extensive research from ABERG along the elevational gradient, where we now investigate insect diversity, produced highly important results - with trees shifting upslope due to climate change other organisms are also likely to be impacted.

12 months of fieldwork of the ANDIV project are successfully completed 🎉 We have lots of exciting data to process... insect samples, camera traps, thermal tolerance data, bioacoustics and climate data... New year - new chapter, from the field to the lab (and office)!

Bringing some tropical vibes to Portugal! Team #bees Pedro Alonso and team #dungbeetles Kim Lea Holzmann with some first exciting results at #gtoe2024 this week 🐝🪲

Dung-beetle networks: 🐒🐈Mammal DNA in 🪲beetle gut 💩reveal that nocurnal 🌜#dung #beetles use #jaguar and #puma dung, diurnal 🌞species follow the #monkeys. New paper by beetleChaser & Christoph von Beeren in PeerJ Publishing reassembly.de/news/uncover-t…

Only 3 months ago this was what my daily life looked like. Data analysis is exciting, but so was the Peruvian jungle!

We are hiring! Looking for a postdoctoral researcher in ecoacoustic, to explore what soundscapes can (and can't) tell us about ecological health and function

📢Join Zoology III Würzburg at Universität Würzburg #UniWürzburg in our🆕MSc Program "Conservation Biology and Applied Ecology" Topics: biodiversity 🐦‍⬛🦋, ecosystem services 🐝, agroecology 🚜, chemical ecology 🐜, soil ecology 🕷️, effects of land use 🏙️& elevational gradients 🏔️etc. biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/masterbioscien…

Back to the lab! Kim Lea Holzmann and Pedro Alonso processing the very diverse Malaise and light trap trap samples from the gradient in Peru 🐝🪰🦟🪲🦗🦋🐜

After several years of working with them, I still find the #sphingids beautiful and very fascinating. Here are some #hawkmoths from #Peru, collected as part of the ANDIV sampling project, and deposited in the Phyletic Museum in Jena, Germany.

All insect samples (almost 10,000!) collected along the tropical gradient ANDIV in Peru within a year of intense fieldwork are now on their way to the genetic lab for DNA #barcoding. Probably many of our samples will be new to the database. I'm very excited for the results!

First #barcoding results in!

This publicly available online talk is a little sneak preview of a paper that is soon going to be published from the ANDIV project, addressing the exciting #coldwaves in the South American #tropics ❄️

It's published! The first paper of my PhD: the effect of Amazonian #coldwaves on #insects and wild #mammals ❄️🌴royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… ANDIV Zoology III Würzburg 🧵1/6

New results from the ANDIV project just published in Ecology