A small plant of Draba aizoides with bright yellow flowers growing on a limestone rock. Snow covered mountains in the background.
A small plant of Draba aizoides with bright yellow flowers growing on a limestone rock. Snow covered mountains in the background.
As the snow melts, the first flowers appear on the sun-warmed rocks. Spring has arrived to the mountains ποΈπΌ
π± Do plants compete even in Antarctica?
Huisman et al. found the dominant moss Sanionia uncinata grows faster when paired with other mosses, while neighbouring species decline. Even harsh Antarctic environments include strong plant interactions.
Next position advertised by our cluster: We are searching for a Lab Manager running the single cell-sequencing lab at Heidelberg University.
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"Oxymitra incrassata, a thallose liverwort, seen today in the same place where I found it about 20 years ago, near Begur. #liverworts #bryophytes"
Kick-off meeting of our GreenRobust cluster of excellence last week. Exciting times ahead for plant sciences by bringing together an extraordinary bunch of enthusiastic scientists and human beings!
Questions about the group and campus life? - feel free to reach out via DM. I joined the group a couple of months ago and am happy to share my experiences so far.
10/10 would recommend
#PhDPosition in Ecological #DataScience in our group. For details, see www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet... #MachineLearning #AI #DeepLearning #Statistics #Ecology #AcademicJobs
New paper online today. In it, we advocate for biodiversity in the increasingly modernized agricultural world. Smart farming could be a wonderful tool to alleviate pressure from agro-ecosystems, but, as we argue here, this will only happen if biodiversity becomes an explicit target.
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Reboulia hemispherica (Hemisphaeric Liverwort) on the Keuper red sandstone outcrops in-between Bromsberrow and Chasend hill yesterday, I found this exceedingly strong Colony of this lovely thallus Liverwort a few years back whilst searching for Tortula Vahiliana @bbsbryology.bsky.social
www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html...
Hidden insect diversity in grass shoots threatened by mowing
And today we have a link: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
A plant forms a flat, low mat on the soil. It has fleshy green lobes that repeatedly fork, creating a small, coral-like rosette.
Crystalwort (Riccia sp.). WaiΔkea, Hilo, HawaiΚ»i.
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Every hat I own has moss and twigs stuck to it
Clump of white four-petal flowers
Oenothera deltoides, the Birdcage Evening Primrose, blooming now in Anza-Borrego #nativeplants
Rhodobryum huillense (Welw. & Duby) Touw
Venezuela, Andes, Merida, surrounding Laguna Coromoto, Upper cloud forest, on rotten stump, 2550 m, leg M. LΓΌth 3313
Looks a bit like R. grandifolium, but plants and leaves are much smaller.
As promised - here is more information on our Assistent/Associtate Professor position in Plant Biochemistry @lbvpam.bsky.social - please share.
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Where will novel fire regimes threaten birds? Our paper in @natcomms.nature.com shows that most bird diversity hotspots facing future high-sev fire occur in places that historically burned at low severity - a critical mismatch. These are the spots to focus restoration.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Postdoctoral position in Forest Genetics at @uni-freiburg.de with a focus on local adaptation and/or stress reaction of trees. The position combines research and teaching (4 SWS), and offers the opportunity to develop an independent research profile (4+ years).
That must be this βbubbleβ thing we are all part of
Forests are reorganizing in their composition and structure in response to climate change - will they be able to maintain their carbon?
Turns out: yes - they even sequestered more carbon than resilient forests!
New paper out in Global Biogeochemical Cycles ππ @agu.org dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...
Sphagnum moss stained black
Sphagnum moss stained black
Very emo Sphagnum on site today. Must have heard the rumours of a new my chemical romance album this year and (as Iβve been considering) dyed its hair black like itβs 2008 again. Caused by deposition of organic C and humic acids when peaty water evaporates as far as I know #MireChemicalRomance
How wonderful that you revived the blogging, Robin. Another ~1000 posts of yours would not (only) be a gift to AI companies improving their models, but to the people that relate with you and get excited about your personal growth. I for sure would appreciate one bird picture a day π€
Did you know? Insects eat plants as medicine. #OpenAccess
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Less than one month left to apply for this WIFORCE #PhDposition on soil food webs in Swedish forests. We welcome applicants from all walks of life π and from all corners of the worldπ Deadline: 10 February 2026!
In our last ecology colloquium for this semester, today 4:15 pm @mhanusch.bsky.social provides "Insights into community assembly and biotic interactions".
Feel free to join this presentation via Zoom:
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π£ PhD position at Leuphana University (Germany) π³ππͺ΄
Join the DIVERSA project on climate change effects on forest ecosystems. Fieldwork, laser scanning, experiments & data analysis in an international ecology team.
Apply by 20 Feb 2026 πhttps://tinyurl.com/3ac4fewx
#Ecology #Biodiversity #Traits
Grimmia austrofunalis MΓΌll. Hal.
Andes, Merida, sourrounding of Laguna Coromoto, Subparamos, on open rock, gneis, 3000 m, leg 2001 M. LΓΌth 3302
Stem without central strand, costal cells mostly uniform, hydroids lacking, big and somewhat glossy plants
Tell me five classes you took in college:
- Sociology
- Classical archeology
- Underwater ecology
- Bat bioacoustics
- Geology and geomorphology
I was fortunate to study at universities that allowed students to individually craft their own curricula with few constraints or mandatory courses
