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Felix Neff
@felixneff.bsky.social
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Community #ecologist studying #insects under #globalchange, with a special focus on #landuse and #climatechange.

Based at #Agroscope in Switzerland

Hobby #macro photographer

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bexplo.bsky.social
Interested in nocturnal #moths?
☑️ Check our new BE-Paper in @oikosjournal.bsky.social:
#Land-use intensification reduced trait & phylogenetic beta #diversity - mainly in common moths. Rare #forest species responded differently. Body size ↓, wing load & darkness ↑.

🔗 doi.org/10.1002/oik.... 🌐
July 30, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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respublications.bsky.social
The #EditorsChoice article for the issue discusses how #moth communities are shaped by season, weather, elevation, and landscape composition
doi.org/10.1111/icad.12835

#Biodiversity #InsectCommunities
@felixneff.bsky.social @agroscope.bsky.social @vogelwarte.bsky.social

Photo credit: Felix Neff
Photo credit: Felix Neff.
July 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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merinrejichacko.bsky.social
Thrilled to announce the publication of the trophiCH database: a multi-trophic, species-level #metaweb for #Switzerland🇨🇭

Out now in #ScientificData 📃 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Want to explore the dataset? 🔍 webapps.wsl.ch/trophiCH/

#OpenData #Ecology #FoodWebs 🌐

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July 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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merinrejichacko.bsky.social
🚨 Hot off the press! We show that species loss from key habitats (like wetlands) accelerates secondary extinction in regional multi-habitat food webs. Also, we show the importance of common species to regional food web robustness. doi.org/10.1038/s420...
#Ecology #FoodWebs #Biodiversity #Metaweb
Species loss in key habitats accelerates regional food web disruption - Communications Biology
Simulating extinctions across regional food webs reveals that losing species from one habitat— especially wetlands—can cascade to others, accelerating multi-habitat food web collapse, highlighting the...
doi.org
July 3, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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respublications.bsky.social
A new article in #RESInsectConsDiv shows moth communities are shaped by season, weather, elevation & landscape composition - a dataset of unusually large spatial & temporal extent

Read the article now🔽
doi.org/10.1111/icad.12835

@felixneff.bsky.social @agroscope.bsky.social @vogelwarte.bsky.social
Graphical abstract of: Moth communities are shaped by season, weather, elevation, and landscape composition
June 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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tjalamont.bsky.social
Please enjoy this ridiculously cute butterfly, which was about the size of my pinkie fingernail. It's in the butterfly family called metalmarks (Riodinidae). Males, like these, have reduced front legs and perch using only the rear 4 (females can use all 6). Sarota acantus; Costa Rica 🐙🌿 #insects
A macro photo, front three-quarter view, of a little butterfly perched on a green leaf. The butterfly has pale green eyes with black speckles, legs covered in thick yellow fuzzy hair, and orange wings sprinkled with metallic light blue patches. It is very cute. A macro photo, side view, of a little butterfly perched on a green leaf. The butterfly has pale green eyes with black speckles, legs covered in thick yellow fuzzy hair, and orange wings sprinkled with metallic light blue bands and patches. It is very cute.
June 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
felixneff.bsky.social
#newPaper published about how moth communities vary with #season, #weather, #elevation, and #landscape composition

Based on an incredible dataset collected by Ladislaus Rezbanyai-Reser over 50 years in #Switzerland

doi.org/10.1111/icad...

#moths #Lepidoptera #insects #phenology #temperature
Four graphs showing the relationship between abundance on the y axis and (i) day of the year (bimodal), (ii) temperature (positive), (iii) elevation (positive) and (iv) proportion of forests (positive). Sketches of five moths on the left side.
May 5, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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florianaltermatt.bsky.social
Our study ‘The #global #human impact on #biodiversity’ is out in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌍🌐🐟🌿🪲

Unprecedented synthesis of >2000 studies led by @francoiskeck.bsky.social shows humans are not only shrinking species numbers—but reshaping entire communities across the planet.
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March 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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erictopol.bsky.social
New @science.org
The disappearance of butterflies at a "catastrophic rate" in the United States
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
March 6, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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domigross.bsky.social
Radio SRF streicht die Sendungen/Podcasts „Trend“ und das Wissenschaftsmagazin. Noch weniger Hintergrund zu Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft - doch genau das, was die Demokratie im Kampf gegen die Irrationalität der internationalen Fascho-Oligarchie braucht.
February 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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froeltho.bsky.social
Es kam sehr überraschend: Am Donnerstag fiel der Entscheid der SRF aus Spargründen das "Wissenschaftsmagazin" zu streichen. Zusammen mit anderen Forschern (u.a. @erichfischer.bsky.social @florianaltermatt.bsky.social) habe ich meine Bedenken geäussert www.srf.ch/audio/wissen...
Das Ende des Wissenschaftsmagazins
Das SRF-Wissenschaftsmagazin soll auf Ende Jahr eingestellt werden. Wir fragen nach: Warum dieser Entscheid? Und wie sind die Reaktionen aus der Wissenschaft? Zudem: Wie uns künstliche Intelligenz umg...
www.srf.ch
February 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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gkalinkat.bsky.social
Zwei neue Fischarten 🐟 in Schweizer 🇨🇭 Gewässern entdeckt

www.uniaktuell.unibe.ch/2025/zwei_ne... 🧪

(also available in EN www.uniaktuell.unibe.ch/2025/two_new...) #biodiversity
Zwei neue Fischarten in Schweizer Gewässern entdeckt
Die Bevölkerung kann per Umfrage mitentscheiden, wie zwei Fischarten heissen sollen, die Bárbara Calegari und ihre Kolleginnen und Kollegen entdeckt haben. Im Interview erklärt die Biologin, wo sie le...
www.uniaktuell.unibe.ch
January 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
felixneff.bsky.social
New paper about how effects of #land-use intensity on community stability are mediated by #functional traits in managed #grasslands and #forest. Based on lots of field data on both #plants and #arthropods 🌱🌳🦋🐞🕷️📈

#insects #ecology @bexplo.bsky.social

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Graphical representation of the hypothesized causal flow analysed in the study. in hypothesis 1, functional community features (represented as green boxes) mediate the effect of land-use intensity on acknowledged stability drivers within trophic levels. in hypothesis 2, functional traits of the lower trophic level mediate the effects of land-use intensity by influencing stability drivers both directly and indirectly through changes in the functional composition/diversity of higher trophic levels
January 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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jappliedecology.bsky.social
Insect communities in windthrows peaked at the very beginning of two study decades and then slowly declined 🪲

Salvage-logging affected species composition, thus a mosaic of logged and unlogged windthrows best promotes biodiversity 🌲🌏 🧪

🔗 https://buff.ly/40ysYwz
January 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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colognaviktoria.bsky.social
Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳

With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5
January 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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jebyrnes.bsky.social
OK, here is a very rough draft of a tutorial for #Bayesian #SEM using #brms for #rstats. It needs work, polish, has a lot of questions in it, and I need to add a references section. But, I think a lot of folk will find this useful, so.... jebyrnes.github.io/bayesian_sem... (use issues for comments!)
Full Luxury Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling with brms
jebyrnes.github.io
December 21, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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jonlen.bsky.social
Everything you ever wanted to know to get started on #microclimate is compiled there ⬇️ in 🔟 guidelines 🤓 Unpack each 1️⃣ to select the right variable, the most relevant spatiotemporal scale, the best sampling design & to tailor your analyses to your study question

🧪🌐🍁

shorturl.at/VYP8f
December 17, 2024 at 5:50 PM
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rahmstorf.bsky.social
More than 90% of fossil fuel emissions occurred since my parents were born.
Over 80% since I was born.
Over 30% since my children were born.

And well over 50% since the world agreed at the Rio Earth Summit to prevent dangerous climate change. And I thought: „At last!“
December 13, 2024 at 6:22 PM
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cscherber.bsky.social
Insect apocalypse? No! Intercropping can be a solution: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Multispecies crop mixtures increase insect biodiversity in an intercropping experiment
In an agricultural field intercropping experiment, we manipulated crop diversity (0–3 crop species) and the input of agrochemicals. We found that insect biodiversity increases with crop diversity and...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 12, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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ibartomeus.bsky.social
[new paper] You probably suspected that loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants, but here we quantify it: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants
Nature Ecology & Evolution - A meta-analysis finds that decreasing diversity of pollinator species has a negative affect on multiple measures of plant reproductive success, with wild plant...
www.nature.com
December 11, 2024 at 8:49 PM