Elia Guariento
@eliaguariento.bsky.social
Ecologist & Entomologist with special interest in biodiversity: 🐜 & 🦋.
Dad of two & PostDoc @euracalpenv.bsky.social and in the @monitant.bsky.social project
Dad of two & PostDoc @euracalpenv.bsky.social and in the @monitant.bsky.social project
Reposted by Elia Guariento
(1) So happy to share our recent work on Finish wood ants 🐜🧬🥳
"Evidence for climate-mediated range expansion of hybrid wood ants"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@helsinki.fi & @uvapress.bsky.social
This integrative project was funded by the Research Council Finland & #MSCA of the European Comission
"Evidence for climate-mediated range expansion of hybrid wood ants"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@helsinki.fi & @uvapress.bsky.social
This integrative project was funded by the Research Council Finland & #MSCA of the European Comission
Evidence for climate-mediated range expansion of hybrid wood ants
Climate change challenges many species. To persist, species can shift ranges, respond plastically, and adapt. Yet, these responses require variation - often limited in natural populations. While hybri...
www.biorxiv.org
September 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
(1) So happy to share our recent work on Finish wood ants 🐜🧬🥳
"Evidence for climate-mediated range expansion of hybrid wood ants"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@helsinki.fi & @uvapress.bsky.social
This integrative project was funded by the Research Council Finland & #MSCA of the European Comission
"Evidence for climate-mediated range expansion of hybrid wood ants"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@helsinki.fi & @uvapress.bsky.social
This integrative project was funded by the Research Council Finland & #MSCA of the European Comission
Dragon and Damselflies communities are not limited by isolation:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Great work by Felix Puff!
📷 of yesterday in the study region with an alpine lake and the Dolomites in the background
@euracalpenv.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Great work by Felix Puff!
📷 of yesterday in the study region with an alpine lake and the Dolomites in the background
@euracalpenv.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Dragon and Damselflies communities are not limited by isolation:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Great work by Felix Puff!
📷 of yesterday in the study region with an alpine lake and the Dolomites in the background
@euracalpenv.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Great work by Felix Puff!
📷 of yesterday in the study region with an alpine lake and the Dolomites in the background
@euracalpenv.bsky.social
Reposted by Elia Guariento
Exciting MonitAnt meeting at the Natural History Museum, Brussels. Great discussions on fieldwork and ant ID, plus a rare glimpse of the museum after hours! 🐜🦖
October 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Exciting MonitAnt meeting at the Natural History Museum, Brussels. Great discussions on fieldwork and ant ID, plus a rare glimpse of the museum after hours! 🐜🦖
Reposted by Elia Guariento
Nature research paper: One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants
go.nature.com/45PYV6d
go.nature.com/45PYV6d
One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature
In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same mother having distinct genomes and morphologies.
go.nature.com
September 5, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Nature research paper: One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants
go.nature.com/45PYV6d
go.nature.com/45PYV6d
New paper out on community ecology of parasitoids and their hosts 🪲🐝🪰🕷️
Great work led by Lisa Obwegs
@euracalpenv.bsky.social @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social @andreashilpold.bsky.social
Great work led by Lisa Obwegs
@euracalpenv.bsky.social @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social @andreashilpold.bsky.social
New #OpenAccess work in #RESAgForestEnt
Exploring #hymenopteran #parasitoid communities & their hosts: comparative study of farmland & semi-natural ecotones with focus on #pentatomoids
doi.org/10.1111/afe.70009
@jordancuff.bsky.social @chrisranger.bsky.social @ukladybirds.bsky.social @wiley.com
Exploring #hymenopteran #parasitoid communities & their hosts: comparative study of farmland & semi-natural ecotones with focus on #pentatomoids
doi.org/10.1111/afe.70009
@jordancuff.bsky.social @chrisranger.bsky.social @ukladybirds.bsky.social @wiley.com
September 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
New paper out on community ecology of parasitoids and their hosts 🪲🐝🪰🕷️
Great work led by Lisa Obwegs
@euracalpenv.bsky.social @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social @andreashilpold.bsky.social
Great work led by Lisa Obwegs
@euracalpenv.bsky.social @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social @andreashilpold.bsky.social
Reposted by Elia Guariento
📢 Wild #bees thrive in biodiverse mountain farms! 🐝🐝
Zanini et al. found that #multidiversity boosts pollination, buffering #climate impacts. 🌤️🌱🐝
Find out more here:
🔎 doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...
@mdainese.bsky.social, @mattande.bsky.social,
@eliaguariento.bsky.social & more
Zanini et al. found that #multidiversity boosts pollination, buffering #climate impacts. 🌤️🌱🐝
Find out more here:
🔎 doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...
@mdainese.bsky.social, @mattande.bsky.social,
@eliaguariento.bsky.social & more
Redirecting
doi.org
September 1, 2025 at 10:11 AM
📢 Wild #bees thrive in biodiverse mountain farms! 🐝🐝
Zanini et al. found that #multidiversity boosts pollination, buffering #climate impacts. 🌤️🌱🐝
Find out more here:
🔎 doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...
@mdainese.bsky.social, @mattande.bsky.social,
@eliaguariento.bsky.social & more
Zanini et al. found that #multidiversity boosts pollination, buffering #climate impacts. 🌤️🌱🐝
Find out more here:
🔎 doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...
@mdainese.bsky.social, @mattande.bsky.social,
@eliaguariento.bsky.social & more
New paper out 👇
Artificial ponds do not support the natural functional and taxonomic composition of alpine dragon- and damselfly communities www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@euracalpenv.bsky.social @pro-pink.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
Artificial ponds do not support the natural functional and taxonomic composition of alpine dragon- and damselfly communities www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@euracalpenv.bsky.social @pro-pink.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
July 10, 2025 at 4:29 AM
New paper out 👇
Artificial ponds do not support the natural functional and taxonomic composition of alpine dragon- and damselfly communities www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@euracalpenv.bsky.social @pro-pink.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
Artificial ponds do not support the natural functional and taxonomic composition of alpine dragon- and damselfly communities www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@euracalpenv.bsky.social @pro-pink.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
An specially scenic wood ant nest location.
Discovered while sampling their myrmecophile community 🕷️🪲 along elevation 🏔️
@monitant.bsky.social
@euracalpenv.bsky.social
Discovered while sampling their myrmecophile community 🕷️🪲 along elevation 🏔️
@monitant.bsky.social
@euracalpenv.bsky.social
June 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
An specially scenic wood ant nest location.
Discovered while sampling their myrmecophile community 🕷️🪲 along elevation 🏔️
@monitant.bsky.social
@euracalpenv.bsky.social
Discovered while sampling their myrmecophile community 🕷️🪲 along elevation 🏔️
@monitant.bsky.social
@euracalpenv.bsky.social
Mountaineers come in many shapes, quite some inhabit also alpine soils 🪱🦠🐜🕷️🪲🏔️
Check out the brand new review about what we know and don't know about them 👇
Check out the brand new review about what we know and don't know about them 👇
NOW ONLINE at Biological Reviews!
Global review on "Biodiversity in mountain soils above the treeline" by @nadinepraeg.bsky.social, me, and many great #SoilBiodiversity researcher.
Free read and download at doi.org/10.1111/brv....
Here, a short thread 🧵 (1/4)
#UIBK #EuracResearch #UniGraz #GMBA
Global review on "Biodiversity in mountain soils above the treeline" by @nadinepraeg.bsky.social, me, and many great #SoilBiodiversity researcher.
Free read and download at doi.org/10.1111/brv....
Here, a short thread 🧵 (1/4)
#UIBK #EuracResearch #UniGraz #GMBA
May 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Mountaineers come in many shapes, quite some inhabit also alpine soils 🪱🦠🐜🕷️🪲🏔️
Check out the brand new review about what we know and don't know about them 👇
Check out the brand new review about what we know and don't know about them 👇
Today is #worldbeeday 🐝
Read here about the work we do on #wildbees: www.eurac.edu/en/magazine/...
@euracalpenv.bsky.social
Read here about the work we do on #wildbees: www.eurac.edu/en/magazine/...
@euracalpenv.bsky.social
Think of a bee
Five hundred species of wild bees live in South Tyrol, each different in anatomy, ecology and behavior. Entomologist Lisa Obwegs is studying these diverse populations to assess the impact of human act...
www.eurac.edu
May 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Today is #worldbeeday 🐝
Read here about the work we do on #wildbees: www.eurac.edu/en/magazine/...
@euracalpenv.bsky.social
Read here about the work we do on #wildbees: www.eurac.edu/en/magazine/...
@euracalpenv.bsky.social
We installed camera traps to investigate the use of red wood ant nest mounds by 🐦⬛🦡🦌🐿️
Many thanks to Alberto Masoni!!
@monitant.bsky.social
@euracalpenv.bsky.social
Many thanks to Alberto Masoni!!
@monitant.bsky.social
@euracalpenv.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
We installed camera traps to investigate the use of red wood ant nest mounds by 🐦⬛🦡🦌🐿️
Many thanks to Alberto Masoni!!
@monitant.bsky.social
@euracalpenv.bsky.social
Many thanks to Alberto Masoni!!
@monitant.bsky.social
@euracalpenv.bsky.social
New butterfly sampling season started today 🦋
May 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
New butterfly sampling season started today 🦋
It took some failed surveys before we finally spotted what we think is the caterpillar of the 🦋 endemic to dry alpine valleys: Kretania trappi
@euracalpenv.bsky.social
@europebutterfly.bsky.social
@euracalpenv.bsky.social
@europebutterfly.bsky.social
May 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
It took some failed surveys before we finally spotted what we think is the caterpillar of the 🦋 endemic to dry alpine valleys: Kretania trappi
@euracalpenv.bsky.social
@europebutterfly.bsky.social
@euracalpenv.bsky.social
@europebutterfly.bsky.social
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📢1 PhD position (3 yrs) @UniTrento on acoustic environments in mountains 🎶🏔️In collaboration with @EuracResearch & @UCL IEDE (London) – part of the “Soundscape for All” project, funded by HEAD-Genuit-Stiftung. Stay tuned & reach out if interested!
#PhDposition #Soundscape #Bioacoustics #Mountains
#PhDposition #Soundscape #Bioacoustics #Mountains
April 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
📢1 PhD position (3 yrs) @UniTrento on acoustic environments in mountains 🎶🏔️In collaboration with @EuracResearch & @UCL IEDE (London) – part of the “Soundscape for All” project, funded by HEAD-Genuit-Stiftung. Stay tuned & reach out if interested!
#PhDposition #Soundscape #Bioacoustics #Mountains
#PhDposition #Soundscape #Bioacoustics #Mountains
What a team 💪
We are going continental with wood 🐜 research 🧐
We are going continental with wood 🐜 research 🧐
Over the past four days, the MonitAnt team has been meeting in Germany for a really productive workshop, even with new faces. A lot was discussed and prepared and now we are ready for another successful field season in 2025!
Can you guess what we wanted to show in the last picture? 🐜
Can you guess what we wanted to show in the last picture? 🐜
April 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
What a team 💪
We are going continental with wood 🐜 research 🧐
We are going continental with wood 🐜 research 🧐
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Happy to see that a small article Elia Nalini (from @euracalpenv.bsky.social ) and I wrote for the myrmecological news blog is now finally published! 🐜 We present our @monitant.bsky.social project and also our Citizen Science approach. 🔎
blog.myrmecologicalnews.org/2025/04/09/m...
blog.myrmecologicalnews.org/2025/04/09/m...
MonitAnt: European-level monitoring strategy for mound-building Formica ants
Formica rufa workers engaged in food sharing (trophallaxis) (© Elia Nalini) In the popular imagination, when we think about environmentally impactful ants, the first images that come to mind are of...
blog.myrmecologicalnews.org
April 9, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Happy to see that a small article Elia Nalini (from @euracalpenv.bsky.social ) and I wrote for the myrmecological news blog is now finally published! 🐜 We present our @monitant.bsky.social project and also our Citizen Science approach. 🔎
blog.myrmecologicalnews.org/2025/04/09/m...
blog.myrmecologicalnews.org/2025/04/09/m...
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It's published!
The largest research work I've ever undertaken:
Lords of the flies: dipteran migrants are diverse, abundant & ecologically important
Published in Biological Reviews: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks so much to co-authors @koralwotton.bsky.social & Myles Menz
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The largest research work I've ever undertaken:
Lords of the flies: dipteran migrants are diverse, abundant & ecologically important
Published in Biological Reviews: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks so much to co-authors @koralwotton.bsky.social & Myles Menz
1/x
April 2, 2025 at 6:39 AM
It's published!
The largest research work I've ever undertaken:
Lords of the flies: dipteran migrants are diverse, abundant & ecologically important
Published in Biological Reviews: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks so much to co-authors @koralwotton.bsky.social & Myles Menz
1/x
The largest research work I've ever undertaken:
Lords of the flies: dipteran migrants are diverse, abundant & ecologically important
Published in Biological Reviews: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks so much to co-authors @koralwotton.bsky.social & Myles Menz
1/x
Have a look at this beautiful outreach project using the #wildbees collected by PhD Student Lisa Obwegs 🐝
beehold.eurac.edu/en
If you want to know more 👉 www.eurac.edu/en/magazine/...
beehold.eurac.edu/en
If you want to know more 👉 www.eurac.edu/en/magazine/...
BEEhold - South Tyrol’s wild bees: biodiversity on display
The BEEhold project celebrates the diversity and importance of South Tyrol’s wild bees.
beehold.eurac.edu
March 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Have a look at this beautiful outreach project using the #wildbees collected by PhD Student Lisa Obwegs 🐝
beehold.eurac.edu/en
If you want to know more 👉 www.eurac.edu/en/magazine/...
beehold.eurac.edu/en
If you want to know more 👉 www.eurac.edu/en/magazine/...
Spring is coming to the Alps 🐜
@monitant.bsky.social
@monitant.bsky.social
March 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Spring is coming to the Alps 🐜
@monitant.bsky.social
@monitant.bsky.social
Reposted by Elia Guariento
Our researchers @msteinwandter.bsky.social, @chiarapaniccia.bsky.social & @eliaguariento.bsky.social have found three specimens of the Eurasian pygmy shrew in South Tyrol at over 3,000 meters a.s.l.. This #discovery marks a European #record! 🏆
📰:
eurac.edu/de/press/eur...
Foto: Giacomo Gaudenzi
📰:
eurac.edu/de/press/eur...
Foto: Giacomo Gaudenzi
February 28, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Our researchers @msteinwandter.bsky.social, @chiarapaniccia.bsky.social & @eliaguariento.bsky.social have found three specimens of the Eurasian pygmy shrew in South Tyrol at over 3,000 meters a.s.l.. This #discovery marks a European #record! 🏆
📰:
eurac.edu/de/press/eur...
Foto: Giacomo Gaudenzi
📰:
eurac.edu/de/press/eur...
Foto: Giacomo Gaudenzi
Reposted by Elia Guariento
NEW EUROPEAN RECORD 🎉
We found Pygmy Shrews (Sorex minutus) in the high #alpine (3,300 m a.s.l. !) in #SouthTyrol #Italy, 780 metres higher than known before 🐁
Short note in #Hystrix (w/ @chiarapaniccia.bsky.social @eliaguariento.bsky.social of @euracalpenv.bsky.social)
📄 doi.org/10.4404/hyst...
We found Pygmy Shrews (Sorex minutus) in the high #alpine (3,300 m a.s.l. !) in #SouthTyrol #Italy, 780 metres higher than known before 🐁
Short note in #Hystrix (w/ @chiarapaniccia.bsky.social @eliaguariento.bsky.social of @euracalpenv.bsky.social)
📄 doi.org/10.4404/hyst...
February 26, 2025 at 9:12 AM
NEW EUROPEAN RECORD 🎉
We found Pygmy Shrews (Sorex minutus) in the high #alpine (3,300 m a.s.l. !) in #SouthTyrol #Italy, 780 metres higher than known before 🐁
Short note in #Hystrix (w/ @chiarapaniccia.bsky.social @eliaguariento.bsky.social of @euracalpenv.bsky.social)
📄 doi.org/10.4404/hyst...
We found Pygmy Shrews (Sorex minutus) in the high #alpine (3,300 m a.s.l. !) in #SouthTyrol #Italy, 780 metres higher than known before 🐁
Short note in #Hystrix (w/ @chiarapaniccia.bsky.social @eliaguariento.bsky.social of @euracalpenv.bsky.social)
📄 doi.org/10.4404/hyst...
Reposted by Elia Guariento
Interested in doing a PhD on #insect #migration or #conservation at @monashuniversity.bsky.social i in #Melbourne, #Australia? If so, please feel free to email me. For international students, the application deadline is late March. shawanchowdhury.com/join-us/
Join Us!
Opportunities We are seeking PhD students in citizen science, insect conservation, or citizen science. We expect candidates to have some experience in fieldwork and ecological modelling and at leas…
shawanchowdhury.com
February 24, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Interested in doing a PhD on #insect #migration or #conservation at @monashuniversity.bsky.social i in #Melbourne, #Australia? If so, please feel free to email me. For international students, the application deadline is late March. shawanchowdhury.com/join-us/
Today Alberto visited our lab! Lots of wood 🐜 research planed 💪
@monitant.bsky.social
@monitant.bsky.social
February 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Today Alberto visited our lab! Lots of wood 🐜 research planed 💪
@monitant.bsky.social
@monitant.bsky.social
Tracking pieces of the local Biodiversity Crisis (South Tyrol):
1. Drastic loss of traditional extensive meadow orchards 🍎 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
2. Intensive apple orchards host a fraction of biodiversity 🌳 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
1. Drastic loss of traditional extensive meadow orchards 🍎 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
2. Intensive apple orchards host a fraction of biodiversity 🌳 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Tracking pieces of the local Biodiversity Crisis (South Tyrol):
1. Drastic loss of traditional extensive meadow orchards 🍎 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
2. Intensive apple orchards host a fraction of biodiversity 🌳 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
1. Drastic loss of traditional extensive meadow orchards 🍎 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
2. Intensive apple orchards host a fraction of biodiversity 🌳 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Elia Guariento
So happy to see my 2n thesis chapter published in Diversity and Distributions 🥳🥳 How does local climate influence ecological communities? Answer: #Thermophilisation caused by #colonisation and local #extinction of mountain butterflies 🦋 #ClimateChange #Refugia Small thread below⬇️
January 16, 2025 at 10:33 AM
So happy to see my 2n thesis chapter published in Diversity and Distributions 🥳🥳 How does local climate influence ecological communities? Answer: #Thermophilisation caused by #colonisation and local #extinction of mountain butterflies 🦋 #ClimateChange #Refugia Small thread below⬇️