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Henriette Christel
@henriettechristel.bsky.social
Working at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) 🎈
Interested in biodiveristy-ecosystem functioning relationships and tree-soil interactions 🌳🌳
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PhD's log:

How to finish writing your thesis

1. Open the Word doc
2. Procrastinate for 3 months with a new hobby
3. Write a paragraph of the introduction
4. Procrastinate for 3 months with a new hobby
5. Stress finish everything in 3 weeks
September 24, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Latin America’s feline species are losing their habitat and becoming trapped in small patches. Researchers say biological corridors are vital for their conservation. 🐆

Read more w/ @mongabay.com : https://news.mongabay.com/2025/01/conservation-corridors-provide-hope-for-latin-americas-felines/
September 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Don't miss this talk at the GFÖ conference this year 💯
📊 Anne Chao & Pia Bradler, presenting the iNEXT framework, rooted in Alan Turing’s concept of sample coverage, as a powerful statistical tool for standardizing biodiversity data and enabling meaningful comparisons across ecosystems.
#Gfoe2025
August 30, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Think I have a better chance of seeing the Northern lights at this point 😅
July 31, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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🌳 Tree placement matters! A new study shows forests with diverse, non-clustered species boost biomass (+11%), nutrient cycling and decomposition.

🛠️ Line planting = sweet spot between ecology and management. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

www.idiv.de/the-right-mi...
The right mix and planting pattern of trees enhance forest productivity and services
By modelling different planting design strategies and species mixtures, researchers offer insights for sustainable forest management, reforestation, and climate change mitigation in a new paper.
www.idiv.de
July 9, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Proud to be part of a group that won a prize for the "best research environment 2024" 🎉🎉🎉
🏆 Die 10 Gewinnerteams des Preises „Bestes #Forschungsumfeld 2024“ stehen fest! Aus fast 300 Bewerbungen wurden sie aus einer beeindruckenden Shortlist per Los gezogen. Wir gratulieren gemeinsam mit der @volkswagenstiftung.de! 🎉
Wer gewonnen hat? 👉 www.diejungeakademie.de/de/presse/be...
June 11, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Nominiert für die 10 besten Forschungsumfelder 2024 ist die Arbeitsgruppe „Experimentelle #Interaktionsökologie“ (eisenhauerlab.bsky.social) am German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (@idiv-research.bsky.social). 🌱
Mehr zum Team:
👉 www.diejungeakademie.de/de/projekte/...
May 15, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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🌴🌳 Tree species richness increases climate buffering 🌡️🥵

I am so happy to share our latest piece, now published in Ecology Letters!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Tree Diversity Increases Forest Temperature Buffering via Enhancing Canopy Density and Structural Diversity
Making use of 6 years of microclimate measurements in a large-scale tree diversity experiment covering a species richness gradient ranging from 1 to 24 tree species, we demonstrate that tree species ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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One for lab meeting!
Congratulations 🍾
Our newest research in @nature.com

We built a robot (!) to track plant-fungal trade networks. By following half a million fungal highways & nutrient flows within them, we discovered how plants & fungi build hyper-efficient supply chains

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📹 @sasaspacal.bsky.social
February 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Boreal forests have been experiencing both gains and losses in recent decades. Liu et al show that boreal forest resilience is more sensitive to forest cover losses than to gains, indicating that functional declines due to forest loss outpace improvements following forest recovery.

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Asymmetric sensitivity of boreal forest resilience to forest gain and loss
Nature Ecology & Evolution - Boreal forests have been experiencing both gains and losses in recent decades. Here, the authors show that boreal forest resilience is more sensitive to forest...
rdcu.be
January 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Very excited to share my new paper, just out in Nature Reviews Biodiversity

Global change refugia could shelter species from multiple threats

@natrevbiodiv.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Global change refugia could shelter species from multiple threats - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Locations that are relatively insulated from the effects of climate change (so-called climate change refugia) might be similarly insulated from a range of other anthropogenic stressors. The degree of ...
www.nature.com
January 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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New study led by Ana Elizabeth Bonato Asato published in @journalofecology.bsky.social 🌱🪱

Plant diversity increases above- and below-ground ecosystem functioning and their phenological synchrony, but effects on traits vary across seasons.

doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Seasonal shifts in plant diversity effects on above‐ground–below‐ground phenological synchrony
Plant diversity modulates above-ground–below-ground interdependence through intricate phenological dynamics, with the degree of synchrony fluctuating in response to the varying combination of process....
doi.org
January 7, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Hi Bluesky 👋🏼 I want to use the new year to introduce myself a bit ☺️ I am an ecologist in progress 📚 interested in biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships as well as tree-soil interactions on small scales 🌳🪱
January 7, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Are there underrated ways to save the world as a research lab?
Read this week's newsletter and decide for yourself.... :)

open.substack.com/pub/matthias...
Underrated ways to save the world as a research lab
Some thoughts about running a lab
open.substack.com
December 12, 2024 at 10:10 AM