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New publication: Food availability influences adult body mass variability and reproductive traits in a #spider. #falsewidow #fecundityschedule #reproduction #eggsac
doi.org/10.1007/s004...
Figure 1 in Dong et al. (2025): "Fecundity schedules (mean number of spiderlings per female produced in each consecutive egg sac) of female Steatoda grossa spiders fed constantly with late instar cricket nymphs (red boxes) or intermittently with mid instar cricket nymphs (blue boxes). Boxes represent the interquartile range (IQR) of the data with the top and bottom edges of the box indicating the first and third quartiles. Black lines inside boxes represent the median. The whiskers extend from the box to the minimum and maximum values within a certain range, and data points beyond whiskers are considered outliers"
November 7, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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New publication: #Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity. #climatechange #grassland #shrubland
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Figure 1 in Ohlert et al. (2025): "Overview of the IDE: geographic locations, drought treatments, and effects on aboveground productivity."
October 29, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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New publication: Sustainable intensification: time to question the goal of ever-increasing agricultural production. #sustainablelanduse #agriculture
doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...
Figure 1 in Moinet et al. (2025): "Left panel: locations of the 45 grassland fields (green circles) and 37 cropland fields (blue circles). Right panel: distribution of the fields according to their textural classes on the International Society of Soil Science texture classification system."
October 29, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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New publication: Best Practices for Optimization of #Phytoplankton Analysis in Natural Waters Using CytoSense #FlowCytometers.
doi.org/10.1002/cyto...
Figure 5 in Gallot et al. (2025): "Effect on the pulse shape of a diatom when PMT saturation by red photons generates a plateau at around 3300 mV (CS-2015-68). Trigger level was set to FLR 25 mV and PMT voltage to “Medium”."
October 29, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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New publication: Adult survival has a stronger role than productivity in the annual population change of European #songbirds. #biodiversity #populationchange #passerines
doi.org/10.1007/s004...
Figure 1 in Nousiainen et al. (2025): "Map of the spatial distribution of the constant effort ringing sites (CES) chosen for the analysis, colored by the ringing scheme. Acronyms of countries belonging to the same scheme are listed. The three schemes of Spain are separated with letters A, B, and C. CZE = Czechia, DEU = Germany, ESP A = Spain Aranzadi, ESP B = Spain, ESP C = Spain Catalonia, FIN = Finland, GBR = Britain, IRL = Republic of Ireland, HUN = Hungary, ITA = Italy, NLD = Netherlands, SWE = Sweden"
October 29, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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New publication: The Bug-Network (BugNet): A Global Experimental Network Testing the Effects of #Invertebrate Herbivores and Fungal Pathogens on #PlantCommunities and Ecosystem Function in Open Ecosystems. #biodiversity
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
Figure 1 in Kempel et al. (2025): "(A) Location of the current 36 BugNet experimental sites worldwide, and in (B) Europe. (C) Whittaker biome plot of site locations, showing the mean annual temperature (°C) and mean annual precipitation (cm) for all experimental sites. Climate data are taken from CHELSA and represent the average over 1980–2010 (Karger et al. 2017). The Whittaker biome plot was plotted using the plotbiomes package in R (Stefan and Levin 2018)."
October 29, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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New publication: Greater influence of #eukaryotes on #carbondegradation potentials than #prokaryotes along an elevation gradient. #climatechange #soil
doi.org/10.1016/j.pe...
Figure 3 in Huang et al. (2025): "Co-occurrence network graphs of microbial taxa (at the genus level) at sampling sites with different vegetation types along an elevation gradient. Each node signifies a genus, colors of the nodes indicate different phyla, while phyla with relative abundance < 1 % are merged as “others” and are shown in grey. The size of each node is proportional to the number of edges (degree). A red edge indicates a positive interaction between two individual nodes, while a blue edge indicates a negative interaction."
October 29, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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New publication: Long-Term #Euxinia Restricts Microbial #Methane Removal in Eutrophic Coastal Basins. #coastalecosystems
doi.org/10.1021/acs....
Graphical abstract Venetz et al. (2025).
October 29, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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New publication: Community Assembly of Cladoceran #Zooplankton in Relation to #Pond Age and the Establishment of #Macrophytes and #Fish. #communitycomposition #biodiversity
doi.org/10.1111/fwb....
Figure 1 in Peso et al. (2025): "Illustration showing different non-mutually exclusive trajectories of community assembly in new habitats: (1) coexistence of early and later arriving species (nestedness), (2) replacement of early by later arriving species (turnover), (3) early species dominance leading to priority effects, and (4) community changes due to environmental change and colonisation by other organism groups. Real-life scenarios may involve a mix of these trajectories."
October 29, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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New publication: #Wastewater remediation of #pharmaceuticals with ozone and granular active carbon: a risk-driven approach.
doi.org/10.1039/D5EW...
Wastewater remediation of pharmaceuticals with ozone and granular active carbon: a risk-driven approach
This study aimed to investigate the removal efficiency of (psycho)pharmaceuticals by ozonation and granular active carbon (GAC) in wastewater effluent, using risk as the metric for adequate removal in...
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October 29, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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New publication: A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of #neophobia, by @utkurhan.bsky.social @keesvanoers.bsky.social and others. #ManyBirdsProject #birds #animalmigration
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Figure 6: Examples of objects used.
October 29, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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PhD candidate #vacancy alert:

Insect species that overwinter as eggs are particularly vulnerable to climate change. We are looking for a PhD candidate to collect more data to predict whether these insects can adapt to climate change.

Read the vacancy on our website: nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...
PhD Seasonal Timing of Egg Overwintering Insects under Climate Change
Climate change is exerting strong selection on wild populations, with many species showing shifts in the seasonal timing of development. One particularly vulnerable group are insect species that overw...
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October 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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New publication: Multi-year water level drawdown and #wildlife grazing drive #wetland vegetation succession. #waterlevelmanagement #Oostvaardersplassen
doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
Graphical abstract Bouma et al. (2026).
October 17, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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New publication: Heterogeneous microcosm mazes affect reproduction and survival in a wingless #hyperparasitoid #wasp. #parasitoidwasp
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
Figure 3 in Shi et al. (2025): "The survival probability of Gelis agilis females was studied in microcosmos arenas that differed in complexity, and in which provisioning of food and cocoons was (a) temporally or (b) spatially separated. In single dish arenas with 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16 compartments, respectively (a), provisioning of food and cocoons was alternated every 48 h. In two-dish arenas with 1, 4 or 9 compartments, respectively, connected by a tube (b), food was offered in one dish and cocoons in the other. In the two-dish arenas, food and cocoons were replaced every 48 h, but were both provided simultaneously. The dotted lines depict median survival, and the coloured shaded areas represent the 95% confidence interval for the survival curves. The number of replicates is 10 per arena type in (a) and 30 in (b). In (b), the arrows on the x-axis represent the median longevity of females provided only with food and no hosts (experiment 2.2)."
October 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Ga nog snel op safari in eigen tuin. Tot 31 oktober kun je je waarnemingen nog doorgeven voor de #Bodemdierendagen 2025. Doe mee: bodemdierendagen.nl/nl/doe-mee
Liever je handen schoon houden? Schrijf een elfje, zet het #bodemleven op die manier in de spotlight! bodemdierendagen.nl/nl/elfjes
October 14, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Het is steeds minder #donker 's nachts. Voor mensen voelt het misschien veilig, maar wat voor effecten heeft dat #licht 's nachts op de #natuur? Het NIOO doet hier sinds 2012 #onderzoek naar. Lees verder over wat dit #kunstlicht doet met #nachtdieren: nioo.knaw.nl/nl/nieuws/na... #lichtvervuiling
Natuur in het licht – waarom het donker belangrijk is
Sinds 2012 wordt er bij het Nederlands Instituut voor Ecologie (NIOO-KNAW) onderzoek gedaan naar het effect van nachtelijk kunstlicht op onze natuurlijke omgeving. Voor dit onderzoek – Licht op Natuur...
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October 14, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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New publication: Historical #insecticide applications for the treatment of #forest #insect pests from 1968 to 2017, in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, by @jbburant.bsky.social and others. #pestmanagement
doi.org/10.1186/s135...
Figure 3 in Heartz et al. (2025): "Scanned version of the 1985 operations map showing treatment polygons for Cape George, Nova Scotia. This map was used by the operations team to assign aircraft; clear polygons are fixed-wing assigned areas, yellow is helicopter assigned area"
October 10, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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New publication: Living Together Apart: Quantitative Perspectives on the Costs and Benefits of a Multipartite Genome Organization in #Viruses, by @marcellejohnsonphd.bsky.social @diekeboezen.bsky.social and others. #multipartitevirus #plantvirus
doi.org/10.3390/v170...
Figure 3 in Johnson et al. (2025): "Virus gene-product-sharing model"
October 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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New publication: A global #database of #soil microbial phospholipid fatty #acids and #enzyme activities. #microbialcommunities
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Figure 1 in Van Galen et al. (2025): "The PLFA and enzyme activity database contains 12,258 samples from 3,743 locations. The purple colour gradient shows the degree to which climatic space is represented by the samples (scale of 0 to 1, see Technical Validation section). Grey regions do not have sufficient climate data available to evaluate climatic representation. The histogram and donut plots show number of samples (in parentheses) from the PLFA (blue) and enzyme (red) datasets collected in different years, from different continents, from different biomes43, and within different categories of maximum sample depth. Only large segments of donut plots are labelled. Temp. = temperate."
October 9, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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New publication: A versatile model of #nutrientretention in relation to #ecosystem state in #shallowlakes: GPLake-R. #coexistence #eutrophication #lakes
doi.org/10.1016/j.wa...
Graphical abstract Van Wijk et al. (2026).
October 9, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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New publication: Metagenome-based identification of functional traits of the black soldier fly gut microbiome associated with larval performance, by @raaijmakersjm.bsky.social and others. #biodiversity #foodwaste #insectgut
doi.org/10.1186/s128...
Figure 7 in IJdema et al. (2025): "Overview of the biosynthetic gene clusters and Gene Cluster Families. The ovals in the figure represent the contigs extracted from the metagenomics dataset that were identified as secondary metabolite gene clusters (or biosynthetic gene clusters, BGCs) by antiSMASH. The taxonomic identification of each BGC based on a similarity search in GenBank is provided. Next, BGCs from the metagenomics dataset and BGCs from the MIBiG reference database (shown as grey arrowheads) with similar functionalities were clustered together in a network of gene cluster families (GCFs). A total of 16 GCFs were identified and classified per category (non-ribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS). Ribosomally Synthesised and Post-translationally Modified Peptides (RiPPs). polyketide synthases (PKS) or hybrids between these groups) or placed in the “Other” category. BGCs that belonged to the same GCF are outlined in green. Six GCFs that were of interest in this study were numbered in the figure. The colour of the oval indicates whether the BGCs that were part of the GCF were significantly more present in the black soldier fly metagenome of larvae reared on chicken feed- (CF-LM. blue) or supermarket food waste- (SFW-LM) diet (red)"
October 7, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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New publication: #Legume integration into #rice cropping systems buffers #topsoil functional potential against #microbialdiversity loss, by @eikokuramae.bsky.social and others. #croprotation #sustainableagriculture #subsoil
doi.org/10.1016/j.ej...
Figure 8 in Zhang et al. (2025): "Partial least squares path modeling for abundance of genes associated with C degradation and denitrification at the 0–20 cm and 40–60 cm depths. Red and blue arrows indicate positive and negative effects, respectively. The values on the arrows are the path coefficients for the inner model. ∗, ∗∗, and ∗∗∗ indicate significant effects at the 0.05, 0.01, and 0.001 probability levels, respectively."
October 7, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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De bodemdierendagen duren nog tot en met woensdag 8 oktober. Doe de komende dagen ook mee en draag bij aan de kennis over de biodiversiteit in de Nederlandse bodem!

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October 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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New publication: Bio-organic #fertilizer amendment helps suppress #tomato bacterial #wiltdisease by improving aggregation and enhancing the pathogen inhibition capacity within micro-aggregates, by @eikokuramae.bsky.social and others. #fertilizeramendment #soilstructure
doi.org/10.1007/s003...
Figure 1 in Dong et al. (2025): "a) The disease incidences of fields amended with different fertilizers in previous cropping cycles and experimental design of field experiment. b) Experimental design of pot experiment. DI: disease incidence of tomato bacterial wilt disease. BF: bio-organic fertilizer, CF: chemical fertilizer"
October 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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New publication: Predicting #rhizosphere-competence-related catabolic gene clusters in plant-associated #bacteria with rhizoSMASH, by @raaijmakersjm.bsky.social and others. #microbiome #biodiversity
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Figure 1 in Li et al. (2025): "Development of rhizoSMASH"
October 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM