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Basic and Applied Ecology is the official journal of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (GfÖ, @gfoesoc.bsky.social). It welcomes global contributions advancing ecological research in both theory and practice.
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Basic and Applied Ecology @basicapplecol.bsky.social · Oct 25
Great news! 🌿 The BAAE Best Student Paper Award is now open! We’re honoring remarkable student research with a €500 prize, showcasing future leaders in ecology. 🌟
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👩🏼‍💻 Ein R Paket für freshwater traits. Es umfasst: 1) Initialisierung: Registrierung und Einstellung des API-Schlüssels in der Benutzerumgebung, 2) Datenabruf und -verarbeitung: Suche, Download, Sortierung und Verwendung der Daten 3) Nachbearbeitung, Visualisierung und Berechnung ökologischer Indizes
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🌊🐟 New #BAAE article: Introducing fwtraits, an R package unlocking freshwater ecological parameters from FWE!

Easily access traits for fishes, inverts, plants & algae to power reproducible biodiversity analyses and identify critical habitats. 🌿📊

DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...
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Abbreviations CMWCommunity Weighted MeansEPEcological parametersFWEw w w. freshwaterecology. info database
December 14, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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🌳🪱 New #BAAE article: Urbanization reshapes soil biodiversity in green spaces 🏙️

Soil compaction & pore loss reduce nematode diversity, showing that physical soil changes matter as much as chemical ones for healthy urban ecosystems.

DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...
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December 19, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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🌲🦌 New #BAAE article: Roe deer show non-linear impacts on forest biodiversity in German Black Forest 🌿

Many taxa thrive at low–intermediate densities, supporting the intermediate-disturbance hypothesis and challenging the “deer threat” narrative.

DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...
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Schematic of data collection methods applied on the research plots to assess faunal abundance and diversity, with numbers referencing the corresponding section in the Methods text: camera traps (2.2.1); pitfall traps, flight interception traps and trap nests (2.2.2), bird point counts (2.2.3) and bat loggers (2.2.4). Adapted from ConFoBi schematic in Storch et al., 2020. Effect plots for the effects of roe deer on a subset of taxa showing significant responses. Gray areas display the 95 % confidence intervals. “Ab” indicates abundance, “Div” Shannon diversity. Roe deer abundance on the x-axis is the relative abundance index, i.e., average detections per trapnight.
December 17, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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🌼🐞 New #BAAE article: Coccinellid diversity drives pest control in Brazilian organic farms 🌿

Flowers & non-crop plants boost ladybird abundance, and high species complementarity enhances aphid predation. 🐛🌺

DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...
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December 15, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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🌊🐟 New #BAAE article: Introducing fwtraits, an R package unlocking freshwater ecological parameters from FWE!

Easily access traits for fishes, inverts, plants & algae to power reproducible biodiversity analyses and identify critical habitats. 🌿📊

DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...
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Abbreviations CMWCommunity Weighted MeansEPEcological parametersFWEw w w. freshwaterecology. info database
December 12, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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☕ New #BAAE article: Climate and moisture shape stem & root diseases in Ethiopian coffee

Coffee wilt rises with heat & wet soils, while Armillaria root rot falls with temperature but grows with moisture, key insights for climate-smart management.

DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...
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Overview of the study location and system. The inset in panel a) shows the location of the study area (red rectangle) in Jimma zone in southwestern Ethiopia. The 58 sites (coffee beans) are plotted on the map of the study area. The gray and green background colours represent open and forested areas, respectively. The photos in the bottom right show characteristic damage by the two major coffee fungal diseases: b) the characteristic brown or blue–black discoloured bands that are seen on the exposed wood of a coffee wilt disease infected stem when the bark is scraped off, as caused by Gibberella xylarioides, and (c) the typical black threadlike rhizomorphs in the cracked stem caused by Armillaria root rot (Armillaria mellea) (photos credits: Beyene Zewdie). The effect of local climate, habitat, spatial and management variables on the incidence of coffee wilt disease (caused by Gibberella xylarioides) on Arabica coffee in southwestern Ethiopia in the rainy season of 2019. Shown are the relationships between canopy cover and (a) annual mean soil temperature, (b) annual soil temperature variability and (c) soil moisture, as well as the relationships between coffee wilt disease incidence with (d) annual mean soil temperature, (e) soil moisture, (f) coffee density and (g) shade tree species composition. The black circles represent the proportion of infected coffee shrubs with coffee wilt disease at the site-level, and the blue trend line represents the model-predicted relationship. Shaded areas represent the 95 % confidence interval. Only significant relationships are shown.
December 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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🌳☕ New #BAAE article: Shade-tree diversity shapes bird & bat communities in Ethiopian coffee agroforests 🌿

Richness stays stable across farms, but forest birds decline with higher yields—key insights for sustainable coffee! 🐦

DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...
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Overview of the study system. Panel A shows a regional map with the locations of the 23 study sites marked in red, with an inset of the national map in the top-left with the study area in southwestern Ethiopia marked with a red square. The photos below the regional map illustrate B) herbivory (coffee leaf skeletonizer; Leucoplema dohertyi; photo by Ayco Tack) and examples of the local C) bird (common bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus; photo by Kristoffer Hylander) and D) bat community (Egyptian tomb bat Taphozous perforatus, photo by Jens Rydell). The relationship between coffee yield and a) bird species richness, b) bat species richness, c) bird community composition (axis 1 of an NMDS ordination) and d) bat community composition (axis 1 of an NMDS ordination) across 23 sites in southwestern Ethiopia. Shown are regression slopes with 95% confidence intervals from a GAM model. Solid lines represent a significant relationship (P < 0.05) and dashed lines represent a non-significant relationship (P > 0.05). For statistical details, see Table S5. Bird and bat illustrations by Hannah Burger.
December 10, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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🏆🏆🏆 We are still accepting applications for the BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD! 🏆🏆🏆

Apply now: gfoe.org/en/gfoe-awar...

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November 18, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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🌸🐝 New #BAAE article: Floral richness shapes plant–pollinator networks in urban agroecosystems 🌆

Higher floral richness boosts pollinator diversity but alters network structure, reshaping urban ecosystem services. 🌼

DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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International Spring School: #Bioacoustics & Species Recognition using AI 🐝🐦🦗

Join us March 23–27, 2026!
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September 19, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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📢 The new programme for our Ecology Seminar is out!

It features a diverse lineup of early career researchers sharing insights on #Agroecology every week 🐝🚜🐦

🗓️ Wednesdays at 10:15 CET
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Programm of Ecology Seminar
October 24, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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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 !!!!
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November 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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🌾 New in #BAAE:

Reduction of land use increases invertebrate abundance in grasslands.

Cutting mowing intensity boosted invertebrate numbers by up to 99% over 3 years, showing how land-use reduction supports insects & ecosystem functions. 🌿

DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...
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Fig. 1. Overview on study design and hypothesis. A) Across three regions of Germany, land-use reduction experiments were established. Depicted for the Schwäbische Alb region, black squares show location of experiments, light green indicates grasslands, and dark green forests (with white being agriculture and settlements). B) Per region, land use at 15 grasslands each (total n = 45) was experimentally reduced within a matrix that also comprised the control plot. C, D) We expected that the experimental reduction of land use increases the abundance (and also diversity) of arthropods and that the increase is larger in less-intensively used grasslands. Maps are from OpenStreetMap (OpenStreetMap Contributors 2022) and arthropod silhouettes from phylopic.org (available under a CC0 1.0 license). Fig. 3. Treatment effects of experimental land-use reduction on arthropod abundance A) decreased in both sampling years when reduction plots were in a more frequently mown matrix. In turn, treatment effects became larger B) when the matrix had been fertilized more. One year after establishment of the experiment, C) treatment effects on abundance increased with mowing height of the reduced land-use plot; after three years, D) treatment effects were larger if reduced land-use and control plot had not been mown at the same day. Points are partial residuals of log-response ratios between treatment and control plots. Regression lines (95 % CI as shaded polygons) indicate the predictions of averaged linear mixed-effects models. Dashed horizontal lines mark null. Mowing and fertilization are averaged over the respective three years before sampling. The x-axis in B) is on a square-root scale.
November 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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🌿📖 New #BAAE article: Collectomics in plant biodiversity research

By merging herbaria, #Museomics & data science, researchers trace biodiversity change through time — shaping future conservation strategies. 🌎

📖 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2025.07.002
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Schematic display of an herbarium specimen and its use as an Extended Specimen.
November 4, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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🎉 Exciting news: The BAAE Best Student Paper Award is here! @basicapplecol.bsky.social will recognize remarkable student research with a €500 prize, highlighting emerging ecological scholars. 🌿 The award will be presented yearly at the GfÖ conference. 🌟

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October 24, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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📢Check out our latest BE-publication on #invertebrate 🐞abundance in #grasslands 🌱 published in @basicapplecol.bsky.social.

Reducing land use (single late #mowing) increased #insects by +41% after 1 yr and +99% after 3 yrs.
Species diversity, however, remained unchanged.

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September 30, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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🌿🪶 New Review in #BAAE: Abandonment & intensification impact biodiversity in marginal grasslands.

Across 174 European studies, both pathways reduced diversity — while restoration & extensive management help recover ecological value. 🌾

DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...
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Geographical distribution of observations from studies included in the final analysis. Circle size is scaled for visualization purposes to improve visibility of overlapping data points, and does not encode any quantitive information. The center of each circle corresponds to the coordinates of the reseach area of the included studies. Probabilities of observing an increase or no change in biodiversity upon conservation of extensively managed grasslands, and of observing an increase in biodiversity after restoration of previously abandoned or intensively used agriculturally marginal grasslands. Numbers indicate sample sizes. Raw data are overlaid as jittered points to show the distribution of observed outcomes that informed the model.
November 2, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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🍇🌿 Special Issue in #BAAE:

Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services in European Vineyards
From pollinators to pest control, eight new studies show how #NatureBasedSolutions can make European viticulture more sustainable and climate-resilient. 🌍

DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...
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Explanatory and response variables tested in the special issue studies. Inter-row vegetation established by sowing of a regional seed mixture in eastern Germany containing 38 wild plant species in the 3rd year of development.
October 31, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Great news! 🌿 The BAAE Best Student Paper Award is now open! We’re honoring remarkable student research with a €500 prize, showcasing future leaders in ecology. 🌟
Know someone who deserves it? Nominate your perfect candidate today! 🏆

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October 25, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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Keynote Speakers for #Gfoe2025!

We're thrilled to announce our seven exceptional keynote speakers who will be sharing their groundbreaking research and insights at this year's conference.

Get ready to be inspired by experts who are shaping the future of #Ecology and environmental science.
August 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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May 22, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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🕷️💧 New Review in #BAAE on #FoodWebEcology & #RiparianManagement

Middendorf et al. synthesize global evidence on aquatic prey contributions to riparian arthropod predator diets. Web-building spiders top the list, but free hunters & beetles benefit too

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May 22, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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🌍🌲 New Review in #BAAE: Ecological assessment for resilient forests under #GlobalChange

Huth et al. synthesized 35 scientific statements on 7 core topics, highlighting key findings and gaps to guide #ForestManagement & #ClimateAdaptation in Europe

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May 20, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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