Experimental Interaction Ecology

Reflections from iDiv researchers:

🌈 Celebrating diversity at #iDiv! This week —and every week— iDiv affirms that diversity in all its forms strengthens science, community, and collaboration. 🧬

@lisethouvenot.bsky.social @remoryser.bsky.social @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social @ecolgonzalez.bsky.social @srivastavalab.bsky.social @gqromero.bsky.social @kratina.bsky.social @econetlab.bsky.social

iDiv-Forschungsgruppe als „Bestes Forschungsumfeld“ ausgezeichnet Die Junge Akademie vergibt gemeinsam mit der VolkswagenStiftung erstmals den Preis „Bestes Forschungsumfeld“ an zehn vorbildliche Teams

Die Forschungsgruppe Experimentelle Interaktionsökologie (@eisenhauerlab.bsky.social) am @idiv-research.bsky.social gehört zu den zehn Gewinnerteams des Preises Bestes Forschungsumfeld 2024. 🎉🥳

Mehr dazu hier: www.idiv.de/de/idiv-fors...

@jungeakademie.bsky.social @volkswagenstiftung.de

🌱 On #BiodiversityDay, #iDiv researchers reflect on biodiversity — and now we are asking you. What makes biodiversity fascinating?

Sustainable Land Use Enhances Soil Microbial Respiration Responses to Experimental Heat Stress

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@remybeugnon.bsky.social @msoil.bsky.social @stpdms.bsky.social @lisethouvenot.bsky.social @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social

JenaTron - An Experimental Approach to Study the Effects of Plant History and Soil History on Grassland Ecosystem Functioning The global loss of biodiversity has motivated many studies that experimentally vary plant species richness and examine the consequences for ecosystem ...

Excited to share our new study published in JoVE! We explore how plant history and soil history influence the functioning of grassland ecosystems. Have a look!
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Sustainable Land Use Enhances Soil Microbial Respiration Responses to Experimental Heat Stress Soil microbes are crucial for healthy ecosystems, but climate change and intensive farming may reduce their functioning. We tested how heat stress affects microbial respiration in soils under differe....

📣 New paper out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social 📣

We are delighted to share our latest piece

🚜Sustainable Land Use Enhances Soil Microbial Respiration Responses to Experimental Heat Stress ♨️

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

Dear #nematode community,
Does anyone currently have nematodes in culture and would be willing to share or sell some? We are planning different experiments and are also happy to collaborate and share more details.

📣GSBI Speaks is back tomorrow! Join us to learn about remote sensing and sensing to measure soil biodiversity 📸🎥🐛🐜🦠🪱

Feb. 21, 2025, 9:00 MST, 11:00 EST, 16:00 GMT, 17:00 CET

Register 👇

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Congratulations to our engaged colleagues. Very well deserved!!!!

So important! Thank you so much! We all know it is not easy! @lisethouvenot.bsky.social

Congratulations to our team Translating Soil Biodiversity for winning the University of Leipzig's Transfer Prize! 🏆🎓
Their work brings soil biodiversity research to young minds by creating and translating engaging articles for Frontiers for Young Minds—a platform where kids review science! 🌱🦠

Plant phylogeny, traits and fungal community composition as drivers of plant–soil feedbacks Our results suggest that plant traits and phylogenetic relatedness are poor predictors of plant–soil feedbacks (PSFs) among temperate grassland plant species. Hence, despite known effects of these fa...

Wow, so nice to see this work out, led by Chris Sweeney! he shows, in a massive experiment, that plant traits and phylogenetic relatedness are poor predictors of plant–soil feedbacks. In @journalofecology.bsky.social

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

Our new @pnas.org paper shows a previously unrecognized mechanism by which climate warming reduces beech growth: more frequent seed production depletes tree resources, causing a 28% decline in radial growth.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Funded by @ncngovpl.bsky.social

@drpeterdietrich.bsky.social whenever you and we have a free slot, it would be great if you can present this in our seminar!

Third and final week of practicum with @unileipzig.bsky.social students.

Using the GCEF facilities and our soil respiration lab, we are testing how land use and future climate affect soil microbial activity response to heat waves! 🥵

/w @msoil.bsky.social & @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social

Good evening Bluesky! This is the official account for Soil BON Global. We are a global soil monitoring project in it's 4th year looking to grow the community of researchers across the globe to share their sampling, publications, & training experiences from the project. Stay tuned!

We are looking for more collaborators who want to run a BugNet site in their region. If you are interested, join our online info event. Please re-skeet, and help us to reach community ecologists, and those interested in plant- herbivore and plant-pathogen interactions around the world! 👇

Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d/x)

📢JOB❗❗❗ The Research Training Group on the Economics of Connected Natural Commons: Atmosphere and Biodiversity (ECO-N), funded by the DFG is looking for a synthesis postdoc at Leipzig University. Come and work with us in a great team:
uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/e...

Linking effect traits of soil fauna to processes of organic matter transformation Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

‼️Recently published in
@funecology.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/1365...

We developed a conceptual framework for linking effect traits of #soil #fauna to the transformation of #SOM (including a section on #POM #MAOM😀)

with
@eisenhauerlab.bsky.social et al

This was a great collaborative project, including @joanabergmann.bsky.social, @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social, @a-h-b.bsky.social and many other great co-authors who are not (yet) on BlueSky!

Thank you to all our hard-working reviewers, staff, and authors who have made 2024 a wonderful year at Soil Organisms ✨🪱

We look forward to seeing you all in 2025!! ✨⏳✨

@eisenhauerlab.bsky.social @antoncollembola.bsky.social @sgn.one

With contribution of our microclimate guy @remybeugnon.bsky.social

NEW RESEARCH
Long-Term Soil Warming Drives Different Belowground Responses in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal and Ectomycorrhizal Trees

📄 https://buff.ly/41r4NAO
#HarvardForest #carbon #roots

Diana Wall was a mentor to many early-career researchers. Her work ethic & big thinking influenced many. Read more & learn about the NEW #TheWallReview

@eisenhauerlab.bsky.social @antoncollembola.bsky.social @s0il0rgmatters.bsky.social @thegsbi.bsky.social

soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO...

Soil is made from minerals, organic matter, air, water - and living organisms. Soil is teeming with life, and it supports life. We couldn't live without it! But we are losing soil faster than it’s being formed.

Stand up for soil this #WorldSoilDay 👇
soilassociation.co/3mp90Rb

The latest issue of Soil Organisms is out! Read it here:
soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO...

Global decoupling of functional and phylogenetic diversity in plant communities - Nature Ecology & Evolution Functional diversity and phylogenetic diversity are expected to be positively correlated. Here the authors show that the covariation between these metrics in vascular plant communities around the worl...

🌳 New findings 🌳

Phylogenetic diversity cannot be used as a proxy for functional diversity in vascular plant communities 🌲🌳🌴🌵🌱🍀🌾🌼 We used the #sPlot database & found a pronounced decoupling between phylogenetic & functional diversity ⬇️

🧪🌐🌏🍁

@natureecoevo.bsky.social
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