Global Change Ecology group @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social

PhD position opening in community and biogeography PhD Position in Community Ecology & Biogeography, Montreal, Canada Our research group at Concordia University investigates the forces enabling the maintenance, and governing the distribution, of biol...

Our research group has an open PhD position! Please share widely!

Possible topics include:

Determinants of range limits

Assembly of ecological networks (eg,
plant-pollinator)

The role of soil arthropods (eg, ants) in carbon storage

Details:
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"Too little was done too late”: New commentary with PIK director Johan Rockström warns of rising planetary risks after a missed decade of action. Climate & biosphere pressures keep increasing, but stabilising the Earth system is still within reach.
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

Before it ended, at our GCERetreat2025 our amazing IT-data-programming wizard Steven Hill gave a great overview on the important topics of data and code management.

A fantastic GCERetreat2025 came to end. Amazing talks from all our global change ecology research themes (thermal, macro- & above-belowground interaction ecology) productive exchange about joint research and teaching, group development, career options and many other topics. To be repeated soon!

GCERetreat2025: Amazing insights into his new research on thermorgulatory behaviour of #dragonflies and on how to model this from a biophysical perspective were presented by our postdoc Roberto Novella Fernandez

Hendrik Mohr, also PhD student with @maltejochum.bsky.social, gave us at the GCERetreat2025 some insights into his impressive review work on the multiple global change impacts on above-belowground interactions

During our GCERetreat2025 Ayushi, PhD student in @maltejochum.bsky.social‘s Above-belowground interaction ecology group presented an update about her PhD work on energy fluxes in ecological communities.

Last program day of our GCERetreat2025 has started. Our MSc student @kc-gehrig.bsky.social shows cool (or hot?) results from his thesis project on behavioural responses of butterflies to temperature variation. Great work, highlighting the importance of behaviour in climate change impact studies

#PhD position!

I’m looking for a PhD Student (1+3 years) to model insect populations using statistical models + deep learning at #TheoreticalEcology, Regensburg (Germany).

Join our team - please RT!

Details: karriere.uni-regensburg.de/tg7w9

#Insects #Ecology #DeepLearning #Ecology #Monitoring

Yesterday at our GCERetreat2025 our postdoc @esme-ashe.bsky.social presented her impressive data collection as well as first models and findings on butterfly thermoregulation and thermal tolerance. Many more cool results coming up!

GCERetreat2025: Our MSc student Katrin Fuest presented ideas and first fieldwork reports from her thesis. She studies thermoregulation of forest #butterflies in relation to habitat structure and microclimate. Well done Katrin!

The Global Change Ecology crowd listening to Rasmus Jensen introducing his PhD research.

A field path and some trees in the foreground with a mountain range in the background

At our @globalchangeeco.bsky.social retreat to Austria, we are both taking in the beautiful surrounding landscape and discussing the latest research advancements of the team members. Here, Rasmus Dam Jensen presents our #MultiCrossBEF project as part of @bexplo.bsky.social
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A wonderful morning in the Austrian Alps, our next GCERetreat2025 day has started, and Rasmus Dam Jensen gives an overview of the MultiCrossBEF project @bexplo.bsky.social and some first results on the Earthworm subproject

GCERetreat2025: Congrats to our @ekengelhardt.bsky.social on her new project bAImo (Bavarian AI for insect monitoring), funded by bayklif2.0. Cool research at the interface of modelling, macroecology & conservation science coming up! With @maximilianpichler.bsky.social & @cofeuniwue.bsky.social

GCERetreat2025: Our MSc student Lars Landgraf presents his ideas and first analyses for his thesis project on how landscape heterogeneity influences distribution and trends of biodiversity in Bavaria

Retreat time! In the great setting of the Austrian Alps we just started our group retreat to discuss science, new ideas & how to further develop our @globalchangeeco.bsky.social ecosystem. Here @christianzehner.bsky.social is kicking off the program with his project on occurrence sampling biases.

Another MSc thesis update was recently presented by our student Nicolas Willems. He studies the variation of colour lightness, body size and other traits of #grasshoppers along an elevational gradient in the Bavarian Alps. Well done!! We look forward to the results…

Earthworm invasion reduces above-belowground biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality Global change alters abiotic and biotic conditions across the globe with unprecedented consequences for the functional integrity of affected ecosystems. However, most studies addressing global-change ...

Check out our brand-new preprint on how #earthworm 🪱 #invasion alters forest #multidiversity and #multifunctionality. Very rewarding collaboration with Olga Ferlian @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social @idiv-research.bsky.social.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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⏰ Reminder! The BAAE Best Student Paper Award honors top student research in ecology 🌿

🏆 Presented at the GfÖ conference 2026!!

Nominate your candidates now !!!!
gfoe.org/de/gfoe-prei...

Herzliche Einladung zu einem Vortrag, den ich demnächst im heimatlichen Westerwald halten darf!

Come be our colleague!
@ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social @globalchangeeco.bsky.social

Looking for a PhD / researcher position on #arthropods in #urban green spaces? Our colleague @nadja-simons.bsky.social @cofeuniwue.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de has a 3 year position advertised here:
www.uni-wuerzburg.de/karriere/sin...

Another impressive thesis update talk by our MSc student Mara Kuschke: advised by @esme-ashe.bsky.social she studies how #thermoregulation of #grasshoppers varies with elevation in the Bavarian Alps. Great work, Mara!

Only few days left to apply for the full professorship in Functional Ecology at @unituebingen.bsky.social. We are looking for a female colleague to join our institute. Come and join us! Lots of opportunities for collaboration in a beautiful work place!

Last week our MSc student Karl Gehrig gave an update about his MSc thesis on how #butterflies change their #behaviour depending on their thermal preferences preferences. His work is supervised by @esme-ashe.bsky.social who leads our research theme of #thermalecology. Well done, Karl!

Professor Ulrich Hammes. (Picture: Carlos Agius)

We warmly welcome Professor @uhammes.bsky.social as the new Head of the Department of #Botany I at our university! He is investigating the proteins that help #plant #hormones reach their sites of action. We wish him every success in his research and teaching!
➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...

We are happy and proud to host Mariana Prokupuk from the Ukrainian National Academy of Science as a guest researcher at our chair. With a Coimbra scholarship she studies ecological niches and traits of invasive aquatic plants. Welcome again, Mariana! www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/gce/news/...

Thanks for a great talk on her PhD project by @anamaria-bu.bsky.social in our @globalchangeeco.bsky.social seminar. Check out her recent paper on the influence of island isolation on dispersal traits of bird communities on #islands globally: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#Energiewende zwischen Kontinuität und Neustart - freue mich auf interessante Perspektiven und interdisziplinären Austausch aus Recht, Ökonomie und Politik zu einem Schlüsselbereich des globalen Wandels bei der Tagung der Stiftung Umweltenergierecht stiftung-umweltenergierecht.de

Unsere Mitglieder Sanja Bauer Mikulović und Niki Kilbertus und haben einen ERC Starting Grant gewonnen! 🧠💥
Wir gratulieren herzlich zu diesem großartigen Erfolg! 👏
🔗 erc.europa.eu/news-events/news/erc-2025-starting-grants-results
#ERC #Wissenschaft #Forschung