Fire ants use tools They've been observed covering inaccessible surfaces with particles to facilitate food search & transportation. In this case, they covered a double-sided tape with glass gravel [full paper: buff.ly/3zw8fMj] [📹 Horace Zeng]

1 wing flap from 15 moth species

Wonderful Monday to finish a big experiment and start a new one! This time, our objective is to study the role of #chemodiversity on the balance of bottom-up and top-down control of herbivores through a predator assay! @chemodiversity @RobinHeinenNL Annika Neuhaus Terrestrial Ecology

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The second day of our conference "Synthesis: Ecology and Evolution of Intraspecific @chemodiversity of Plants" started with a discussion on how phytochemical diversity varies across elevation gradients and how it affects tri-trophic interactions :)

Interesting workshop on Science communication and public engagement by EUSEA - European Science Engagement Association "Excellence today is about more than groundbreaking discoveries. It includes openness, transparency, and the co-production of knowledge" Thanks to @chemodiversity

It's the time of the year when the plants of our @chemodiversity experiment are harvested. We're at the @jena_experiment! halfway now 🥳... Thank Annika Neuhaus, Karla Pintado, Bea, and Leonardo for the help, and thank @RobinHeinenNL and Terrestrial Ecology for the invaluable support!

Our new paper on the biology and ecology of parasitoid wasps of predatory arthropods is now online in Annual Review of Entomology! annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114…

Our group leader Wolfgang Weisser will be giving a talk on long-term biodiversity monitoring on the 28th Nov at Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogota.

What a fun website— follow the water path’s downstream anywhere in the world: river-runner-global.samlearner.com/?fbclid=IwAR3P…

This is what a break looks like! #BlueMonday

La celebración de lo inhumano, la cosificación, la humillación, la venganza. Ninguna víctima será reparada, ninguno de ellos saldrá convertido en mejor persona. La sociedad creerá que el problema está resuelto, pero no: el daño durará muchos años.

Amigos ya está publicado el mapa interactivo del arbolado urbano de Bogotá! 🌳🌳🌳 Pueden utilizar distintos filtros para tener información detallada sobre cada uno de los 1.5M de árboles de la ciudad. bogodata.com.co/arbolado/ ¿Qué especies encontraron en su barrio?

Inter- and intraspec. variation in 🌸&☘️ metabolites correlates with variation in epiphytic bacterial communities – supporting the notion that plants chemically shape their microbiome. @pagageno Alexander Keller Caroline Müller Biodiversity Exploratories Research Philipps-Universität Biology Uni Marburg doi.org/10.1111/1462-2…

Come check out our Poster at 52nd GfÖ Annual Meeting 2023. #GfO2023 - via #Whova event app

We are hiring! For our work in the @chemodiversity Research Unit, we seek a motivated PhD candidate with an interest in plant chemical ecology, as a driver of below- and aboveground communities. Are you - or do you know a good candidate? More info: lss.ls.tum.de/toek/stellenau… RT=♥️