PhD Researcher | University of Würzburg | impacts of management 🌳🌲 and (micro)climate🌡on biodiversity
Julia Rothacher
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New paper out @currentbiology.bsky.social! Led by Clara Wild we show that restoring heterogeneity in forests increases bat and bird diversity. 🧪🍁
Interestingly mechanisms differ between taxa 🐦🦇 and diversity facets.
@cofeuniwue.bsky.social @betafor.bsky.social
#Forests: Canopy gaps and deadwood increase diversity of #bats and #birds: New study @currentbiology.bsky.social. Bats benefit from variety between different forest patches, birds react strongly to local enrichment on-site. @betafor.bsky.social @cofeuniwue.bsky.social
➡️ go.uniwue.de/forest-div
📄Out now 📄:
90-year trends in Switzerland show declines in butterfly and saproxylic beetle richness around the mid-20th century, linked to agricultural mechanisation. Some groups have recovered in recent decades, especially warm-adapted species. Specialised and cold-adapted species remained low.🦋🪲
Come work with us and do research in Germany’s only national park in the Alps, iconic Berchtesgaden Nationalpark! We are looking to fill a PostDoc position in vegetation ecology (tinyurl.com/PostDocBerch...) and a PhD position in mountain forest dynamics (tinyurl.com/PhDBerchtesg...).
🏔️New study examined plant–microbe associations in mountain forests across different climatic zones. Plant–microbe associations were more pronounced at low latitudes + intermediate elevations, mediated by abiotic conditions.
@jiayunzou.bsky.social; @sebseibold.bsky.social 👉️ buff.ly/xsZDNG1
🚨 New BE paper on #forest #microclimates!🌲 Across 11 years and 149 plots in Germany, variability was driven mainly by precipitation and outside temperatures -not by low- to medium-intensity timber harvest. #Climate extremes may pose the greatest #biodiversity risk.🌐
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Intact #tropical #forests 🌴🌴 can buffer hot and dry extremes 🌞 by >6°C. When do recovering #secondary forests recover this capability?
New paper Felicity Newell et al. in Agricult Forest Meteorol
#forestecol #restoration #climate @jocotoco.bsky.social
www.reassembly.de/news/how-muc...
Meet #Licinus cassideus — a beetle that hunts snails, loves sun-scorched calcareous grasslands, and hadn't been seen in #Unterfranken since 1955. After being undetected for 71 years, we found it again in its typical habitat. #Carabidae #beetles #biodiversity #fieldwork @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social
Great new paper led by Sophie Horlebein @basicapplecol.bsky.social 📄
We exposed #carrion of 10 different species in a low mountain range ecosystem and monitored who showed up for the feast.🦠🐞🪰🐾
Julia Rothacher
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Rupert Seidl
Felix Neff
Fresh off the press! 📄We find that crop fields and semi-natural grasslands support complementary #biodiversity across #Europe. Semi-natural habitats alone are insufficient to ensure farmland biodiversity - biodiversity-friendly management of crop fields is essential. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reassembly Research Unit
Fabian A. Boetzl
Julia Rothacher
Fabian A. Boetzl
Biodiversity Exploratories
link.springer.com
The microclimatic conditions within forests have great importance for biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Consequently, understanding how management and associated changes in forest structure driv...
Congrats to our PhD student Sophie Horlebein on the publication of her new paper! 🎉
🐭🦊Small and medium-sized carcasses support high landscape-scale diversity and contribute disproportionately to biodiversity conservation.
📃Check it out!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Journal of Ecology
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Wild et al. show in a large-scale experiment that increasing forest structural complexity
enhances bat and bird diversity by separating within- and between-patch contributions
to landscape diversity, ...
