Pia Bradler

💐 Today, on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we celebrate the remarkable contributions women make across STEM disciplines. 💚
#WomenInScience

We have two PhD positions available in our working group! BETA-FOR + DIVERSA 🌿🌱🌳🍃 Also check out our lab website tinyurl.com/45b88d52

4 PhD positions and 2 Postdoc positions (respective place of work in the text) in forest [...] Julius-Maximilians University Würzburg (JMU) and its partner Universities Georg-August-University of Göttingen (GAUG), Leipzig University (UL), University of Bayreuth (UB), Universität Bremen (UB), Un...

4 PhD and 2 Postdoc positions @betafor.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/5452zukw

All about forest BEF research in a beta-diversity experiment 🌳🍃🐜. While I have roughly a year left on my contract, there’s already a call for the next PhD student working on understorey vegetation in BETA-FOR🌱. Happy to chat!

4 PhD positions and 2 Postdoc positions (respective place of work in the text) in forest [...] Julius-Maximilians University Würzburg (JMU) and its partner Universities Georg-August-University of Göttingen (GAUG), Leipzig University (UL), University of Bayreuth (UB), Universität Bremen (UB), Un...

We are happy to announce that we will continue investigating interesting topics around forest management and biodiversity!
If you like to work in an interdisciplinary team and are interested in forest ecology, please have a look at our exciting new opportunities:
www.greenjobs.de/stellenanzei...

We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher!🌲 🌳 🌍

📍Interested in boreal and temperate forest productivity and respiration?
💻 Like to work with large datasets, remote sensing and models?
🏔️ Love an alpine setting in a small town?

Come and join us at KIT!

Application details: t1p.de/qctj7

Ecological Forecasting, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Ob Bachelor-, Master-, Lehramt- oder Jura-Studium: An der Uni Bayreuth findest du sicher den passenden Studiengang.

"Ecological Forecasting" - the new Master of Science study program at the University of Bayreuth www.uni-bayreuth.de/en/master/ec...

I am interested in working with an artist on a graphic novel on soil and/ or global environmental change. The lab would have money to fund this.

Do you know of any graphic artists that would be interested?

Two positions in arthropod ecology in our institute, come work with us at Leuphana! 🪲🕷️🦗🐜

Experimental enhancement of structural heterogeneity in forest landscapes promotes multidimensional hoverfly diversity Our results provide the first experimental evidence that enhancing structural heterogeneity at the landscape scale can restore multidimensional hoverfly diversity in temperate forests. They underscor...

Happy to share that our paper is out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social 😄

Experimentally increasing structural heterogeneity in forest landscapes (deadwood + canopy gaps) boosts taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of hoverflies 🪰🌳

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Intraspecific and intraindividual trait variability decrease with tree richness in a subtropical tree biodiversity experiment - Nature Communications In forests, trait expression is influenced by tree-tree interactions. Castro Sánchez-Bermejo et al. show how phenotypic variability of tree species decreases with tree diversity and contributes import...

In trees, intraspecific and intraindividual leaf trait variability decrease along a gradient of tree species richness and are an important part of functional diversity in forest stands,
Our new paper is already out in @natcomms.nature.com

doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Want to know more about it? 🧵

Calling on all forest disturbance experts: Please consider contributing to our study on global forest disturbance change, and help resolve the nuances of changing forest disturbance regimes. More details and survey here: www.lss.ls.tum.de/edfm/disturb...

Seedling growing in the forest

University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...

Hydro‐Functional Traits and Their Dissimilarity to the Neighbourhood Buffer Tree Growth Against the 2018–2020 Central European Drought Climate change is putting forests at risk. Our research shows that a tree's water-use strategy largely determines its growth across years: whereas one strategy performs better in normal years, the ot....

Over 2,600🌳 #trees during the 2018–2020 #drought :
• Traits disadvantageous in normal years became beneficial under drought
• Trees grew better with neighbours whose hydro-functional traits differed from their own
🗞️Paper out now @globalchangebio.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Light and ungulate browsing interact in shaping future woody plant diversity through natural regeneration Our results provide strong evidence that in the current context of increasing tree mortality and subsequent light availability, roe deer act as a keystone species. It is crucial to implement browsing....

New paper out 🌱📄: More light in canopy gaps 🌤️ does not offset the loss of tree diversity caused by roe deer browsing 🦌.
In paired exclosure experiments, roe deer browsing cut tree diversity by half🌳.
Read it here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Browsing by roe deer poses a serious problem, particularly for young and low-growing trees. (Image: Vanell / AdobeStock)

Deer browsing limits forest diversity – even in the light. New study in @jappliedecology.bsky.social by Würzburg ecologists and others: Even sunny canopy gaps cannot offset the impact of roe deer on forest regeneration. 🦌🌳☀️
➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...

Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾

Würdigung für jahrelanges Engagement Prof. Dr. Heike Feldhaar hat die Bayerische Staatsmedaille für herausragende Verdienste um die Umwelt erhalten.

🌿👏 Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Heike Feldhaar, BayCEER, and University of Bayreuth, on receiving the Bavarian State Medal for outstanding services to the environment!

ubtaktuell.uni-bayreuth.de/umweltmedail...

#BayCEER #UniBayreuth #Ecology #Insects #Sustainability

Global Homogenisation of Plant Communities Along Mountain Roads by Non‐Native Species Despite Mixed Effects at Smaller Scales Aim Mountain ecosystems are experiencing increased invasion of non-native plants. These increases in non-native species put mountains at risk of biotic homogenisation and a reduction of biodiversity.....

Happy this paper is published!

Testing for biotic homogenization of plant communities through the addition of non-native species along mountain roads across multiple spatial scales

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Our #BETAFOR PhDs had an amazing time presenting their research at last week’s #gfoe2025 at @uni-wuerzburg.de! 🌟 Full of fresh ideas and inspiring discussions, it’s back to daily life. 💻✨
@claudiki.bsky.social @piambr.bsky.social @johannaasch.bsky.social @juliarothacher.bsky.social

Anne Chao and @piambr.bsky.social, the 100% perfect dialogue duo at #gfoe2025! ✨
Thank you for sharing statistical insights on sample coverage and it's standardization in the first @gfoesoc.bsky.social keynote session using #BETAFOR data.🌳🌱
@uni-wuerzburg.de @cofeuniwue.bsky.social

REGISTRATION OPEN

Online registration is now open and the call for abstracts for oral presentations and posters has been published for the 54th Annual Meeting of the #Ecological Society of #Germany, #Austria and #Switzerland.

HOW TO SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT:
www.gfoe-conference.de/index.php?ca...

Logo of the 2025 Annual Meeting of the GfÖ in Würzburg, Germany.

Fellow Ecologists,
The #gfoe2025 @gfoesoc.bsky.social call for papers has just been published. Please submit your abstracts for exciting talks and engaging posters to present in Würzburg in September!
gfoe-conference.de/index.php?ca...
@uni-wuerzburg.de @globalchangeeco.bsky.social

Behind every great woman in science, there’s another great woman in science To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, six award-winning female scientists highlight women who have inspired them by pushing innovative research and creating opportunities for others.

Six award-winning female scientists told Nature about the women who have inspired them by pushing innovative research and creating opportunities for others. #WomenInStem 🧪

Hey Young Modellers in Ecology out there 👋🌳

Register now for this year’s YoMos workshop:
www.yomos.org/next-workshop 📑
Deadline: 15.03.2025

See you!

Go belowground! 2025 The Department of Experimental and Functional Morphology, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences organize the 7th edition of PhD course of functional ecology „Go belowground!“ 1…

Seventh edition of Go_Belowground course on practical assessment of moprhological and anatomical traits on belowground organs and their importancy: Go belowground! 2025 klimesovajitka.wordpress.com/go-belowgrou...

Plant Functional Traits Course alumni Join the conversation

We have taught the science & methods of functional traits using #OpenScience on 7 courses (so far) to ~180 different students from 86 institutions & 30 countries. One of the most rewarding efforts I have been a part of. #PFTC alumni? ping @hilaryrosed.bsky.social to be added go.bsky.app/4T8pBZr

Europe's hot dry summer of 2022

(Logo) UK land surface model, JULES

🚨 PhD: "Forests on the edge: examining vegetation recovery following climate extremes" at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social with myself, Lina Mercado (Exeter) and Eddy Robertson (UK Met Office). I would REALLY love to find a student for this, please share widely (thanks)

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The slender-billed curlew is declared extinct This is the first mainland European bird declared extinct in 500 years.

The first mainland European bird to go extinct in 500 years.