Anna Bucharova
@annabucharova.bsky.social
Conservation Biology Prof at the University Marburg, Germany.
Restoration ecology, rapid adaptation, botany
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Restoration ecology, rapid adaptation, botany
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Assessing limits of sustainable seed harvest in wild plant populations. How many seeds can we harvest in a wild population without causing damage? A massive modeling effort, with @robsalgo.bsky.social @bossdorf.bsky.social @plantevoeco.bsky.social
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New study out in Ecology Letters 🌱🐑!
Using long-term Åland monitoring data, we found that herbivory increases plant diversity across scales and flips the diversity–area relationship: a positive relationship is found in grazed sites while a negative one in ungrazed sites.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Using long-term Åland monitoring data, we found that herbivory increases plant diversity across scales and flips the diversity–area relationship: a positive relationship is found in grazed sites while a negative one in ungrazed sites.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Herbivory Modifies the Role of Spatial Processes in a Grassland Plant Metacommunity
We empirically examined how mammalian herbivory interacts with habitat size and connectivity to affect plant diversity in a natural grassland metacommunity. We found that herbivory increased plant di...
doi.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
New study out in Ecology Letters 🌱🐑!
Using long-term Åland monitoring data, we found that herbivory increases plant diversity across scales and flips the diversity–area relationship: a positive relationship is found in grazed sites while a negative one in ungrazed sites.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Using long-term Åland monitoring data, we found that herbivory increases plant diversity across scales and flips the diversity–area relationship: a positive relationship is found in grazed sites while a negative one in ungrazed sites.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ele....
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To the paper: doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Non‐Native Plants Attain Native Levels of Microherbivory Richness With Time and Range Expansion
Drawing on a continental database of over 120,000 plant–microherbivore interactions, we demonstrate that non-native plants in Europe are not excluded from food webs indefinitely. With increasing resi...
doi.org
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
To the paper: doi.org/10.1111/ele....
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Our new paper in Ecology Letters, led by Jan Divíšek, shows that non-invasive alien plant species that successfully establish within local plant communities tend to resemble the resident native species. In contrast, invasive alien species usually differ from native plants.
doi.org/10.1111/ele....
doi.org/10.1111/ele....
November 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Our new paper in Ecology Letters, led by Jan Divíšek, shows that non-invasive alien plant species that successfully establish within local plant communities tend to resemble the resident native species. In contrast, invasive alien species usually differ from native plants.
doi.org/10.1111/ele....
doi.org/10.1111/ele....
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📣CALL FOR PAPERS!
Upcoming SPECIAL ISSUE: Evolution at species range edges
Guest Edited by Shengman Liu, John Pannell and Sophie Karrenberg
More information here: academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/ca...
Upcoming SPECIAL ISSUE: Evolution at species range edges
Guest Edited by Shengman Liu, John Pannell and Sophie Karrenberg
More information here: academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/ca...
October 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
📣CALL FOR PAPERS!
Upcoming SPECIAL ISSUE: Evolution at species range edges
Guest Edited by Shengman Liu, John Pannell and Sophie Karrenberg
More information here: academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/ca...
Upcoming SPECIAL ISSUE: Evolution at species range edges
Guest Edited by Shengman Liu, John Pannell and Sophie Karrenberg
More information here: academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/ca...
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i am offering a post-doc position in my brand-new project TreeGD that will investigate genomic diversity of trees species in switzerland, with a special focus on gene conservation units, rare species (but not only), and seeds stands.
apply.refline.ch/273855/1782/...
apply.refline.ch/273855/1782/...
Postdoktorand/-in in ökologischer Genomik 80% (w/m/d)
Die Forschungseinheit Biodiversität und Naturschutzbiologie untersucht die Vielfalt des Lebens, von der genetischen Diversität bis zur Arten- und Lebensraumvielfalt sowie ihre Interaktionen. Das für m...
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November 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM
i am offering a post-doc position in my brand-new project TreeGD that will investigate genomic diversity of trees species in switzerland, with a special focus on gene conservation units, rare species (but not only), and seeds stands.
apply.refline.ch/273855/1782/...
apply.refline.ch/273855/1782/...
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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...
@gfoesoc.bsky.social
Across 174 European studies, both pathways reduced diversity — while restoration & extensive management help recover ecological value. 🌾
DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...
@gfoesoc.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🌿🪶 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...
@gfoesoc.bsky.social
Across 174 European studies, both pathways reduced diversity — while restoration & extensive management help recover ecological value. 🌾
DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...
@gfoesoc.bsky.social
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We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs
September 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs
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Urbanised landscape and microhabitat differences can influence flowering phenology and synchrony in an annual herb 🌿🌏 🧪
Findings revealed that populations in urban sites exhibited earlier flowering onset and longer flowering duration compared to rural locations 🏢 👇
Read here: buff.ly/VWtG2kW
Findings revealed that populations in urban sites exhibited earlier flowering onset and longer flowering duration compared to rural locations 🏢 👇
Read here: buff.ly/VWtG2kW
October 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Urbanised landscape and microhabitat differences can influence flowering phenology and synchrony in an annual herb 🌿🌏 🧪
Findings revealed that populations in urban sites exhibited earlier flowering onset and longer flowering duration compared to rural locations 🏢 👇
Read here: buff.ly/VWtG2kW
Findings revealed that populations in urban sites exhibited earlier flowering onset and longer flowering duration compared to rural locations 🏢 👇
Read here: buff.ly/VWtG2kW
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JOB ALERT! Do you also love large ecological experiments? Become coordinator of our big new geo-biosphere experiment in @terra-cluster.org. 7-year position! Follow link for details.
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Stellenangebote: Universität Hohenheim
Aktuelle Stellenangebote der Universität Hohenheim.
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October 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
JOB ALERT! Do you also love large ecological experiments? Become coordinator of our big new geo-biosphere experiment in @terra-cluster.org. 7-year position! Follow link for details.
@gfoesoc.bsky.social
@britishecologicalsociety.org
@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
@uslter.bsky.social
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A gentle reminder that for this journal (and many others) the EIC and Managing Editor don't have any authority or rights over what the publisher charges or how they configure their emails. That's not a complaint, simply a reminder that queries about those have to be sent to the publishing company.
October 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
A gentle reminder that for this journal (and many others) the EIC and Managing Editor don't have any authority or rights over what the publisher charges or how they configure their emails. That's not a complaint, simply a reminder that queries about those have to be sent to the publishing company.
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New paper out on the dangers of using patterns across spatial climate gradients to predict what will happen with changing climate. That includes species distribution modeling. Space-for-time substitution can be misleading in sign, not just the magnitude of effects.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reconsidering space-for-time substitution in climate change ecology - Nature Climate Change
Ecologists often leverage patterns observed across spatial climate gradients to predict the impacts of climate change (space-for-time substitution). We highlight evidence that this can be misleading n...
www.nature.com
July 31, 2025 at 4:04 AM
New paper out on the dangers of using patterns across spatial climate gradients to predict what will happen with changing climate. That includes species distribution modeling. Space-for-time substitution can be misleading in sign, not just the magnitude of effects.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Excited to share that the second paper of my PhD is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🍈🦜🍒🐒🍊🐿️
We show that the functional diversity of seed-dispersal interactions in tropical forests takes circa 20 years to recover after deforestation.
You can read it here: www.cell.com/current-biol...
We show that the functional diversity of seed-dispersal interactions in tropical forests takes circa 20 years to recover after deforestation.
You can read it here: www.cell.com/current-biol...
Delayed recovery of seed-dispersal interactions after deforestation
Landim et al. show that seed-dispersal interactions require about two decades to functionally
recover in tropical forests in Ecuador, but the recovery time of seed-dispersal functions
is delayed in pa...
www.cell.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Excited to share that the second paper of my PhD is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🍈🦜🍒🐒🍊🐿️
We show that the functional diversity of seed-dispersal interactions in tropical forests takes circa 20 years to recover after deforestation.
You can read it here: www.cell.com/current-biol...
We show that the functional diversity of seed-dispersal interactions in tropical forests takes circa 20 years to recover after deforestation.
You can read it here: www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Red devil spiders from the Canary Islands have a genome half the size of mainland counterparts - Pisarenco, @jrozasub.bsky.social et al. show how purifying selection against slightly deleterious DNA and TE insertions is the primary mechanism.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf206
#evobio #molbio #TEsky
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf206
#evobio #molbio #TEsky
How Did Evolution Halve Genome Size During an Oceanic Island Colonization?
Abstract. Red devil spiders of the genus Dysdera colonized the Canary Islands and underwent an extraordinary diversification. Notably, their genomes are ne
doi.org
September 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Red devil spiders from the Canary Islands have a genome half the size of mainland counterparts - Pisarenco, @jrozasub.bsky.social et al. show how purifying selection against slightly deleterious DNA and TE insertions is the primary mechanism.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf206
#evobio #molbio #TEsky
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf206
#evobio #molbio #TEsky
On the way to the office
October 1, 2025 at 6:46 AM
On the way to the office
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Excited to share our paper on grassland establishment 7 yrs after native #AMF inoculation—showing AMF result in higher diversity + prairie spread into old fields—was selected Editor’s Choice by @femsjournals.bsky.social.🦠🌎
I’ll discuss next week at #SER2025 Denver ! academic.oup.com/femsle/artic...
I’ll discuss next week at #SER2025 Denver ! academic.oup.com/femsle/artic...
🍄 Fungi to the rescue! Native AMF inoculation helps prairie restoration 🌱 by boosting native plant diversity and kicking weeds to the curb (even 7 years later). A long-term win for restoration ecology. 📄https://buff.ly/Uyl6f78 #FEMSMicrobiolLett #Mycorrhiza #Microbiology
September 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Excited to share our paper on grassland establishment 7 yrs after native #AMF inoculation—showing AMF result in higher diversity + prairie spread into old fields—was selected Editor’s Choice by @femsjournals.bsky.social.🦠🌎
I’ll discuss next week at #SER2025 Denver ! academic.oup.com/femsle/artic...
I’ll discuss next week at #SER2025 Denver ! academic.oup.com/femsle/artic...
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📢🦋 Our paper ‘Global selection on insect antipredator coloration’ is out and featured on the cover of @science.org
We ran a huge experiment to find out how ecological context favours camouflage and warning colouration as antipredator strategies. 1/6
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We ran a huge experiment to find out how ecological context favours camouflage and warning colouration as antipredator strategies. 1/6
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
September 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
📢🦋 Our paper ‘Global selection on insect antipredator coloration’ is out and featured on the cover of @science.org
We ran a huge experiment to find out how ecological context favours camouflage and warning colouration as antipredator strategies. 1/6
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We ran a huge experiment to find out how ecological context favours camouflage and warning colouration as antipredator strategies. 1/6
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Job Alert! We're hiring a BIOINFORMATICIAN / NGS SPECIALIST to support our new Molecular Biodiversity Lab in the @terra-cluster.org at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Like the idea to use your skills for understanding biodiversity? To work on diverse questions in a wonderful place? Apply!
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September 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Job Alert! We're hiring a BIOINFORMATICIAN / NGS SPECIALIST to support our new Molecular Biodiversity Lab in the @terra-cluster.org at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Like the idea to use your skills for understanding biodiversity? To work on diverse questions in a wonderful place? Apply!
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Very interesting read:
Historical and experimental evidence that inherent properties are overweighted in early scientific explanation | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Historical and experimental evidence that inherent properties are overweighted in early scientific explanation | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Historical and experimental evidence that inherent properties are overweighted in early scientific explanation | PNAS
Scientific explanation is one of the most sophisticated forms of human reasoning.
Nevertheless, here we hypothesize that scientific explanation is ...
www.pnas.org
September 22, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Very interesting read:
Historical and experimental evidence that inherent properties are overweighted in early scientific explanation | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Historical and experimental evidence that inherent properties are overweighted in early scientific explanation | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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"Why do queen bumblebees emerge from hibernation during weekends?"
I love this framing about bias in hobbyist-collected data.
I love this framing about bias in hobbyist-collected data.
Why do queen bumblebees emerge from hibernation during weekends? - Apidologie
Climate-driven shifts in bumblebee emergence and flowering time can disrupt plant reproduction and affect pollinator health. To study such mismatches, accurate phenological data is crucial but challen...
link.springer.com
September 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
"Why do queen bumblebees emerge from hibernation during weekends?"
I love this framing about bias in hobbyist-collected data.
I love this framing about bias in hobbyist-collected data.
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Now published in @newphyt.bsky.social, @1pantunes.bsky.social and I review evidence for the "Novel Weapons Hypothesis" and the role of allelopathy during invasion. Bottom line: there is very good reason to be skeptical.
dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph....
dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph....
September 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Now published in @newphyt.bsky.social, @1pantunes.bsky.social and I review evidence for the "Novel Weapons Hypothesis" and the role of allelopathy during invasion. Bottom line: there is very good reason to be skeptical.
dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph....
dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph....
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Microbial conservation is essential for sustaining ecosystem functions and services! We propose a conceptual framework and a roadmap for microbial conservation: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Microbial conservation is essential for sustaining ecosystem functions and services | PNAS
Microbial conservation is essential for sustaining ecosystem functions and services
www.pnas.org
September 18, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Microbial conservation is essential for sustaining ecosystem functions and services! We propose a conceptual framework and a roadmap for microbial conservation: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage.
When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig.
Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?
When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig.
Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?
September 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage.
When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig.
Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?
When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig.
Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?
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🏔️New study from the #Ödenwinkel glacier forefield! 3D-laser scans show that vegetation structural complexity uniquely captures competition between vascular plants and bryophytes. 🌱🌿 Structure, not cover, richness, or traits, drives the interactions @mhanusch.bsky.social 👇
buff.ly/bYgl6LD
buff.ly/bYgl6LD
September 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🏔️New study from the #Ödenwinkel glacier forefield! 3D-laser scans show that vegetation structural complexity uniquely captures competition between vascular plants and bryophytes. 🌱🌿 Structure, not cover, richness, or traits, drives the interactions @mhanusch.bsky.social 👇
buff.ly/bYgl6LD
buff.ly/bYgl6LD