Our BETA-FOR family is growing. 😊 Apart from the core members also many associated PhDs and PostDocs joined our recent workshop in the #Steigerwaldzentrum. Exciting collaborations (and a soil sampling campaign) ahead!✨️🎉 #biodiversity #research #ecosystemfunctioning

Anne Chao's sample-completeness-based standardization method for #betadiversity made it to the cover of Ecological Monographs with a foto of the beautiful Cerambyx scopolii.🪲 May this beetle bring us luck...and new insights for our beta-diversity experiment.

A #DFG research group led by JMU has developed a statistical method that makes it possible to analyse the relationship between #biodiversity within and between #ecosystems and the #multifunctionality of entire landscapes. (Simon Thorn/JMU) ▶️uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-ev…

The first paper of our PhD student Bronwyn Dyson just got published in Forest Ecology and Management!🥳 She investigated how different forest #management practices as present on our BETA-FOR patches affect tinder #fungus (F. fomentarius) occupancy. 🍄 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Fieldwork on BETA-FOR patches in the Bavarian Forest region and great insights into our project included! 🧑‍🔬🌳🌲 #internship #biodiversity #forestecology

📢 We will chair a session at this years #Gfoe2024 #conference on "Beta diversity and beta ecosystem functioning". If you are working on a topic relevant to this session, please submit an abstract before May 10th! #BEF #ecology #betadiversity GfÖ Kerstin Pierick

The next #BETAFOR field season is coming! In our rapid assessment patches we investigate the #biodiversity responses to our experimental treatments over time. ⏳️🐞🌳 Insect traps and Frontier Labs sound recorders of SP9 Field Station Fabrikschleichach are out already!

Soil sampling campaign completed! Jürgen Gulder and his team finished all BETA-FOR sites 💪

Great talk of our PhD student johanna_asch Zoology III Würzburg today at IUFRO conference providing first insights on the effects of our #BETAFOR experiment on decomposition processes! 🍂 #IUFRO2024

The assessment of #predation rates on artificial caterpillars on our #BETAFOR rapid assessment patches continues. 🐛 This years special task of our master student: Find the perpetrators! 👀🔍

Our PhD students Clàudia Massó and Patric Kacic are currently presenting their BETA-FOR reseach Bialowieza Ecology Conference.🐝🛰 Really great to be part of this conference in such an amazing location!🌳🌳 #bialowiezaforest #BETAFOR