See our recent commentary on the 1st Hong Kong eDNA workshop, hosted at The University of Hong Kong and supported by Croucher Foundation. Includes an overview of the workshop, online resources and discussion from the participants and organizers on how to start eDNA research. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Join our lab! Funded PhD Position in forest restoration in Hong Kong. Check out details here: louiseashton.net/newsandupdates

Forests harbour most of Earth’s terrestrial biodiversity.🌳

The conservation of the world’s biodiversity is thus utterly dependent on the way in which we interact with and use the world’s forests. 🐌

Via FAO Forestry

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Why do we need to protect our #soils & soil nutrition?

Simply put: nutrient-deficient soils produce nutrient-deficient plants.... which ultimately lead to people suffering from nutrient deficiencies.

#Soils4Nutrition

Via Food and Agriculture Organization

Excited to share our new publication to address the contentious role of lignin in the decomposition of litter and soil organic matter.
nature.com/articles/s4146…

We are hiring a three year postdoc to understand tropical insect dynamics through time. Please share!
louiseashton.net/newsandupdates…

Brilliant demonstration of how soil organisms decompose, fertilize & recycle.

No soil #biodiversity and …the system stops (and so soil health by the way!)

via @WWF_SpecEnvoy

Our new paper 'Heat tolerance variation reveals vulnerability of tropical herbivore–parasitoid interactions to climate change' is out! Led by Cheng Wenda with Juan Diego Gaitan Espitia 🇨🇴🇭🇰, Jaiber Solano-Iguaran, Akihiro Nakamura and Bartosz Marek Majcher

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el…

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Looking for a PhD? Love forests and field work? Come and work with me & Tommaso Jucker at University of Bristol Biological Sciences, co-supervised by Paul Eggleton & Tom Rhys Bishop and supported by a CASE partnership with the Woodland Trust🌳

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Deadline: 9th of Jan 2023

Meta-analysis is formal & explicit -- don’t get fooled by incomplete applications for synthesizing research

But how do you separate the wheat from chaff?

Here’s a 10min YouTube video of the 3 defining features of a high-quality meta-analysis 💪

youtu.be/3XkC_jetn-U

We need to integrate microbial diversity into our concept and practice of biodiversity conservation and restoration.
Read our Perspectives in Nature Microbiology: nature.com/articles/s4156…

Climate change is GREAT for termites! Wait what is this? | First Dog on the Moon theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Termite sensitivity to temperature affects global wood decay rates science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Our new paper “Clarifying the evidence for microbial- and plant-derived soil organic matter, and the path toward a more quantitative understanding” is out now in GCB! w/ Stuart Grandy Noah Sokol Jessica Ernakovich (she/her/hers) Soil Biogeochemistry at UNIL (Keiluweit Lab) Rich Smith & seritafrey

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gc…

Our “counting ant” paper finally come out! Very proud to be a part of it! Guess how many ants living in the planet? 20,000,000,000,000,000!! Their biomass is higher than wild birds and mammals combined!

HKU Careers - Career Opportunities jobs.hku.hk/en/job/516259/…

An interesting finding. In the presence of water, solar radiation contributes to breaking down the complex structure of lignin for subsequent enzymatic degradation by microorganisms. We call it the photopriming effect which may occurs in grasslands or forests with sparse canopy.