Cassy Vogel

Solar parks provide heterogeneous habitats for winter‐active ground‐dwelling predatory arthropods Forest provides stable temperature and high humidity, harbouring mainly forest-associated winter-active ground-dwelling predatory arthropods. Grassland and abandoned farmland experience extreme temp...

#Publication: Led by Tomáš and Robi, with Niki and Marci, our paper in Ecological Entomology, "Solar parks provide heterogeneous habitats for winter-active predatory arthropods". doi.org/10.1111/een....

Very excited to share our latest paper: We investigated landscape-scale predictors of #insect pest damage to #sugarbeet showing that the species’ ecology is determining their responses making unified approaches difficult #agroecology #pestcontrol www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Quote: "It is very hard to interpret big data in ecology in meaningful ways if you do not know anything about who the organisms are and what they do in the environment."
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Arctic fox on Bylot Island (Nunavut, Canada). Picture by Louis-Pierre Ouellet.

We publish in Ecology 30 years of Arctic wildlife monitoring on Bylot Island (Nunavut, Canada)! Our long-term dataset tracks 35 species across 400 km² of tundra, providing rare insights into community dynamics, food webs, and climate responses. Open data for all at bitly.cx/OnOI2 🌍🦊🦉🦑 🧪🌿🌐

3 vermoorde vrouwen afgelopen week kennelijk niet om het leven gebracht door een asielzoeker Er zijn in iets meer dan een week tijd weer drie vrouwen in huiselijke sfeer vermoord.

3 vermoorde vrouwen afgelopen week kennelijk niet om het leven gebracht door een asielzoeker - 'Dan hadden we het wel gehoord'

A round black beetle with two prominent red spots rests on a brown branch against a dark background.

Entomologist 1: Hmm, what should we name this one?

Entomologist 2: Well, its red spots make it look as though it’s been stabbed. Twice.

Entomologist 1: Perfect, we’ll call it the twice-stabbed lady beetle.

Is het nog wel verstandig om mannen ’s nachts alleen te laten fietsen?

Is het nog wel verstandig om mannen ’s nachts alleen te laten fietsen?

📣 🪲 Check out this paper led by @tperrot.bsky.social, which provides a clear demonstration that the intensive use of pesticides can be more detrimental than beneficial for crop production due to their negative impacts on natural pest control.

The photo was taken underwater. It shows a partially uncovered mosaic on the ground of the sea and a fish swimming above it.

For #MosaicMonday this fantastic photo of a mosaic (and a lovely fish 🐟) that was discovered in the submerged ruins of #Roman Baiae.

Photo: Parco Archeologico Campi Flegrei

Graphical abstract Drukker et al. (2025): A classification system of different roof types is presented to improve consistency in green roof research. Landscape and green roof characteristics influence ecosystem development, but can be further explained by ecological concepts, like neutral and niche theory. Network analysis is a useful tool to understand deterministic processes like soil–plant–insect interactions and further analyse ecosystem development on green roofs

New publication: The development of #insectdiversity and #ecosystemcomplexity on #greenroofs: A review.
#biodiversity #urbanecology
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Congratulations!

Thrilled to share our article in Journal for Nature Conservation on Potential impacts of climate change on the geographic distribution of Dionysia diapensiifolia Boiss., a rare and endemic species in Iran: Implications for conservation.

Full text :
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Al Overview Willem Dafoe is not in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, but he has appeared in other Star Wars films, including The Last Temptation of Christ (1988).

I honestly can’t believe there are still any AI skeptics out there. This tech is obviously revolutionary

Just a crab getting a ride from a jellyfish 🦀🪼

Crop yields are not greater outside centers of origin Scientists have long posited that crops achieve higher yields outside their centers of origin by escaping pests and pathogens. However, this assumptio…

🌾 New PhD chapter OneEarth @cp-oneearth.bsky.social

For decades, crops were thought to yield better outside their centers of origin by escaping native pests and diseases.

Using AI and remote sensing, we found no yield advantages for crops outside origins.

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Phenology changes for the Japanese cherry tree (Prunus jamasakura) in Kyoto. Left: Day of the year of the flowering peak for the period between 812 and 2024. Right: Relation between March mean air temperature (°C) in Kyoto and the day of the year of the Japanese cherry tree peak flowering for the period between 1890 and 2024. https://jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2025/06/11/134-years-of-climate-warming-effects/

Climate warming is not a recent phenomenon; it has had detectable impacts on plants for at least 134 years!

The onset of phenological plant response to climate warming @newphyt.bsky.social
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🧪🌎🌿🌐🌳 🍁 #PlantBiology @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @csic.es

Is dit echt?! 😨

Scientists have been publishing climate models since ~1970.

A good way to evaluate their skill is to compare what they expected to happen in the years after the model was published to observed climate changes.

It turns out most models were pretty spot-on:

Graphic full of data illustrating the inefficiencies of cars

A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people.

Sound efficient?

HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social

Had fun presenting my poster about the effects of climate and forest structure on dung beetles at #EGU2025. Thanks to everyone in the Forest Floor session for showing so much interest in my somewhat different research topic! 🌲🪲 @betafor.bsky.social

Maybe don't mention that to the authors when you ask them for their papers though... 😉

If I can't access the paper anywhere online (i.e., through my institution or researchgate etc), I often just email the corresponding/lead author and ask them if they can share a PDF of their study. Nobody I have asked has ever refused, I guess most people are happy someone cares about their work!😊

An der Technischen #Universität #Ilmenau wurden gestern Abend acht Menschen durch Gummigeschosse verletzt. Die Betroffenen stammen aus Pakistan, Indien, China, Bangladesch und Deutschland. (Quelle InSüdthüringen.de). #Rassismus liegt als Tatmotiv nahe u. muss dringend in die Ermittlungen einfließen.

A large dusty pink, tulip sprouts out of the ground. It has one large, wide green leaf with textured ridges on it.

A large dusty pink, tulip sprouts out of the ground. It has one large, wide green leaf with textured ridges on it.

Tulipa regelii — a tulip species native to southeast Kazakhstan — only grows in dry, rocky areas of select mountain ranges & typically flowers in April (this one was photographed April 2nd).

📷 alexanderdubynin on iNaturalist
📍 Kazakhstan
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#ObservationOfTheDay

📣 We are offering 2 PhD thesis projects @inrae-save.bsky.social with Gaëtane Le Provost, Brice Giffard & my self.

1/2# Impacts of land-use change on biodiversity and ecosystem services adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...

Graphical abstract of a scientific paper showing drawings of a helicopter fertilizing a forest, a harvester cutting down a tree and a tree stump next to a pine sapling with ectomycorrhizal fungi on its roots. In a 2 panel figure data on the organic layer carbon stock in fertilized and unfertilized forests is shown. In the left panel right after clearcutting, where there is a larger carbon stock in the previously fertilized clearcuts. In the right panel 4-13 years after clearcutting, when there is no longer a significant difference in soil organic layer carbon stocks.

New paper out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social ! We studied carry-over effects of nitrogen fertilization in Swedish production forests. 🌲🧪🌍
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From Sweden to Switzerland 🇨🇭 - I am a PostDoc at Agroscope in Zürich now! 🗻 Happy to continue working with wild pollinators 🐝, but now more in an agricultural context in the new Agri4Pol project @agri4pol.eu

Front on view of a tiny black wasp with red eyes drinking from a droplet on the edge of a green leaf. The little guy has tiny white hairs appressed over the face, and fancy serrated antennae.

Side on view of a small black wasp with red eyes drinking from a droplet on the edge of a leaf.

A little Eurytoma solenozospheriae drinking from the edge of a blueberry leaf. This was reared from a gall of Hemadas nubilipennis.

EXCEPTIONAL WARMTH IN SCANDINAVIA

>21C in Sweden and >19C in Finland in the Helsinki area,totally unprecedented for this time of the year,up to 4C above the early April records

Note that thousands kilometers South,many Italian stations at sea level haven't touched 20C in 2025

OK we all get that this is literally impossible though, right? Europe and Canada do not have the resources to absorb 75% of US scientists and btw getting jobs in these places was already competitive for the people who live there.