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📣 #Forschungsnews: Ein Forschungsteam hat die Samenausbreitung durch fruchtfressende Vogelgemeinschaften in 7 Gebieten Europas untersucht. Als "geflügelte Förster" könnten sie gezielt zu natürlicher Wiederbewaldung beitragen. 🌳🐦‍⬛ 👉 sgn.one/uoa 📷 S. Rösner

Dispersión de semillas por animales frugívoros en bosques europeos y áreas deforestadas Ilustración de Clara Prieto (Scienseed) que sintetiza los resultados de nuestro artículo en PNASNews "Frugivore-mediated seed dispersal in fragmented landscapes..." pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…

Help needed!🙏 If you come across data sets with the year of first record of alien species in a country or any other region, please let me know. It is challenging for me to keep the database up-to-date and any hints for new available data sets would be much appreciated. Thanks!

🇩🇪 Samenausbreitung durch fruchtfressende Tiere innerhalb und außerhalb von europäischen Waldfragmenten

Evolution created tasty, fleshy fruit because frugivorous animals helpfully move seeds to new areas. A study across Europe explores how “seed rain” from birds can move trees from forests to nooks and crannies in the anthropogenic matrix. In PNAS: ow.ly/FK2L50Q1Fyg

The tireless job of birds and other animals dispersing seeds to burned forests saves Portugal over 23 M€/yr. And they even do it much better than we do!! conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Centre for Functional Ecology Departamento de Ciências da Vida - UC Association for Fire Ecology Conservation Letters #seeddispersal #frugivory

‼️ Job alert‼️ Interested in developing a global model to simulate the spread of non-native species? 👇 3-year postdoc position in my group on biodiversity modelling (biological invasions) DM me if you questions. #career #science #jobs #modelling uni-giessen.de/karriere/stell…

Out today in Ecology Letters and OA: 'A quantitative framework for identifying the role of individual species in Nature's Contributions to People' Led by Giovanni Bianco with myself and Matthias Schleuning onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

For a while now, Laura Dee @lauradee.bsky.social and I have been working on a guide to introduce Ecologists to causal inference tools for observational data that has problematic unobserved confounding variables lurking in the background. And now it's up as a preprint! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

A nice week in Frankfurt in which I passed my viva. Lovely people, great fun and good vibes! Thanks SENCKENBERG for creating such a fantastic work environment. I am happy I was part of it! Special thanks go to my supervisors, Eike and Matthias, for making it successful!

Our article is now "free access" 🔓 pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…

Its out! In SERestoration 'A framework for the restoration of seed dispersal and pollination' explores how species reintroductions can restore ecological interactions. Discover our trait-based method for selecting species for targeted reintroductions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/re…

Weather explains inter-annual variability, but not the temporal decline, in insect biomass biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_ecology

EstablishMed is just published! by 晋州 and crew A dataset of transition probabilities for woody plant establishment in the Mediterranean Region ... from 271 studies in 134 spp (80 genera & 39 families) ➡️ ecological research ➡️ restoration onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ge…

💚 Hey awesome botanists, ecologists and evolutionary biologists at #IBC2024🌱 At Ecological Monographs we are looking for your great research! I am at the IBC in Madrid. Get in touch to discuss the potential of your work to be published in ECM!🍃 Jean-Philippe Lessard (he/him/his) Ecological Monographs

1/2 Seeds dispersed by frugivores are temporarily retained inside their guts until they eject them. We show here that plant species differ in their dispersal potential because seed size influences retention times in frugivorous birds. 🔓 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

Thanks to all co-authors including Jörg Albrecht Jenny Hansen [email protected], The Scandinavian Brown Bear Project, DFG public | @[email protected], Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions . Graphical visualisation by @science_visuals.

Which factors determine the dietary specialisation of large omnivores? Some answers can be found in our new paper - expertly led by Anne G. Hertel. See rdcu.be/d1Tvb