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📢 New publication about the relationship of heterogeneity and biodiversity of #forest fauna! 🦋 Analysis of different heterogeneity factors like #deadwood and forest stands reveals positive impacts on #diversity and redundancy of various #animal groups. sciencedirect.com/science/articl….

Next years annual meeting of @GfoeSoc the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland will be TU München in Freising! The call for session proposals is now open @ gfoe-conference.de/index.php?cat=…. Would be great to see you all in Freising in September!

Very nice work showing how the forest floor vegetation may change in a heterogeneous mountain landscape under climate change

Open PhD position at Forest Zoology TU Dresden! Spruce in Central Europe is seriously impacted by disturbances/climate change. We study how different management options for converting these forests affect biodiversity. Apply until Mar 13th tu-dresden.de/stellenausschr…

Here, Neyret et al. use data from 150 grassland sites to identify a coordinated slow-fast strategy response at a community level to land use intensification across above- and belowground taxa. Margot Neyret Pete Manning Biodiversity Exploratories Research Senckenberg Research nature.com/articles/s4146…

Great synthesis paper led by Margot Neyret about slow and fast strategies across taxa and up to ecosystems now published. Another example for the strength of collaborative projects such as the Biodiversity Exploratories Biodiversity Exploratories Research

Nice result from our collaboration with the Kunming Institute of Botany: relationships between tree diversity (TD, PD, FD) and productivity along elevation gradients in the European Alps and Yulong Mt in Yunnan. Well done Jiayun Zou! Stay tuned for more elevation-gradient work

More insects on the cover!

We set up the first plot pair of the European Research Council (ERC) project BIOCOMP studying biodiversity of decomposers and wood decomposition rates in managed and natural forests along global climate gradients. Can't wait to see the results!

Great lab retreat today at Saxonian Switzerland National Park! Discussing science in beautiful scenery

... and here with a nice summary graphic, showing why #rainforest #birds don't come easy 🌱🦜🎶🎵🌴🐦‍⬛

A great collaborative project studying global biodiversity patterns of fungi via airborne spore sampling: led by Nerea Abrego and Otso Ovaskainen, we found strong effects of temp; diversity of most- not all- groups followed a latitudinal diversity gradient nature.com/articles/s4158…

Two weeks of exciting field work at Shiretoko National Park with AkiraSMori, Ecosystem Dynamics and Forest Management TU Munich and Field Station Fabrikschleichach to study forest structure and biodiversity in relation to forest dynamics as well as for the BIOCOMP project on global decomposer diversity. Thanks to all for the support!

In this paper, Sebastian Seibold, @_tobiasrichter and co-authors investigated the #AlpineBirds community using #bioacustic audio recorders and #RemoteSensing across vegetation and elevation gradients doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13…

We are hiring a postdoc who will study bacterial biogeography from local to global scale. If you want to join our group in the Institute of Microbiology, Prague and explore with us this topic, look here: mbucas.cz/wp-content/upl…

The article uses comprehensive data from the Biodiversity Exploratories Research platform to show that the joint goals are best achieved in stands of larger trees, and that pine forests are poor for both biodiversity and carbon

Nice work led by Chao Guo, Hans Cornelissen & Yan En-Rong showing that phenological and morphological traits of termites influence wood decomposition rates and that trait complementarity of the two dominant species lead to overall faster decomposition. doi.org/10.1111/ele.70…

I have started to migrate to bsky. You can find me there @sebseibold.bsky.social