Peter Dietrich

Happy that one of this year's 23 doctoral students is one of us. We will be investigating whether more diverse forests can defend themselves better?! (research on the effects of tree diversity on secondary metabolites in Germany and globally). Stay tuned 🥳

02.07.2025 21:40 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Excited to see our paper now published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social ! 🎉
doi.org/10.1111/2041...

19.06.2025 07:18 — 👍 33    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 1

All in the name of science — even if it means crawling through the undergrowth! Together with @alex-sternberg.bsky.social (PhD student 👌) and an amazing team of helpers, we’re currently sampling at the IDENT site in Sardinia. Stay tuned for more updates! 🌲🌲🦠🍄‍🟫🪱🌲🌳

16.05.2025 19:19 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Linking plant diversity–productivity relationships to plant functional traits of dominant species and changes in soil properties in 15‐year‐old experimental grasslands We sampled 15-year-old plant communities of a biodiversity experiment (Jena Experiment) and tested whether and how changes in plant functional traits and soil properties over time and along the plant....

Fun achievement today: the unofficial fifth chapter of my PhD thesis is among the top 10% of most-read papers in @ecol-evol.bsky.social in 2023. It's great to know that the things one does are of interest to others!
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

16.04.2025 18:46 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Last week was an outstanding one for us: Lina submitted her PhD thesis and Pablo @castretis.bsky.social defended his thesis excellently. This was the first PhD defence in our beautifully renovated lecture hall in the Botanical Garden. Congratulations to you both! You did a fantastic job! 🥳🎉🥂

10.03.2025 12:16 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

This week we identified fungal fruiting bodies from the #MyDiv tree diversity experiment, and found an impressive richness. One of our highlights is Dissoderma odoratum growing as a parasite on a Hebeloma mesophaeum fruiting body. Very rare and endangered! Nature is an incredible thing! #MLU

08.02.2025 08:47 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes, I would love to!

28.01.2025 12:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Preprint alert!🚨 You want biomass data without clipping the vegetation? Use your smartphone for a 3D scan! In our manuscript you get instructions & a complete Jupyter notebook for immediate use! doi.org/10.32942/X2T... 🪴+📱=💚 #biodiversity #ecology #globalchange #photogrammetry

07.12.2024 13:31 — 👍 67    🔁 20    💬 3    📌 7

Plant diversity and community age stabilize ecosystem multifunctionality Biodiversity and community age are known to stabilize ecosystem functioning, but this knowledge is almost exclusively based on analyses of single ecosystem functions. Here, we tested whether biodiver...

Biodiversity stabilizes productivity. Check ☑️ Biodiversity also increases ecosystem multifunctionality. Check ☑️ But does biodiversity also increase the stability of multifunctionality? Spoiler: yes! Our study in Global Change Biology: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

26.11.2024 20:55 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0