Experimental Interaction Ecology
@eisenhauerlab.bsky.social
We explore the dark side of biodiversity. Soils | Biodiversity-ecosystem functioning | Experiments | Global analyses | From the Petri dish to the field
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Reflections from iDiv researchers:
June 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Reflections from iDiv researchers:
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🌈 Celebrating diversity at #iDiv! This week —and every week— iDiv affirms that diversity in all its forms strengthens science, community, and collaboration. 🧬
June 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
🌈 Celebrating diversity at #iDiv! This week —and every week— iDiv affirms that diversity in all its forms strengthens science, community, and collaboration. 🧬
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@lisethouvenot.bsky.social @remoryser.bsky.social @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social @ecolgonzalez.bsky.social @srivastavalab.bsky.social @gqromero.bsky.social @kratina.bsky.social @econetlab.bsky.social
New online! Tailoring interaction network types to answer different ecological questions
Tailoring interaction network types to answer different ecological questions
Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 13 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00056-7This Perspective provides guidance about how to select the most appropriate type of interaction network for different research questions in ecology. Networks can vary according to the extent of node aggregation and the information that links represent; each kind of network formulation has advantages in different contexts.
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June 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Die Forschungsgruppe Experimentelle Interaktionsökologie (@eisenhauerlab.bsky.social) am @idiv-research.bsky.social gehört zu den zehn Gewinnerteams des Preises Bestes Forschungsumfeld 2024. 🎉🥳
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@jungeakademie.bsky.social @volkswagenstiftung.de
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@jungeakademie.bsky.social @volkswagenstiftung.de
iDiv-Forschungsgruppe als „Bestes Forschungsumfeld“ ausgezeichnet
Die Junge Akademie vergibt gemeinsam mit der VolkswagenStiftung erstmals den Preis „Bestes Forschungsumfeld“ an zehn vorbildliche Teams
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June 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Die Forschungsgruppe Experimentelle Interaktionsökologie (@eisenhauerlab.bsky.social) am @idiv-research.bsky.social gehört zu den zehn Gewinnerteams des Preises Bestes Forschungsumfeld 2024. 🎉🥳
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@jungeakademie.bsky.social @volkswagenstiftung.de
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@jungeakademie.bsky.social @volkswagenstiftung.de
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🌱 On #BiodiversityDay, #iDiv researchers reflect on biodiversity — and now we are asking you. What makes biodiversity fascinating?
May 22, 2025 at 8:47 AM
🌱 On #BiodiversityDay, #iDiv researchers reflect on biodiversity — and now we are asking you. What makes biodiversity fascinating?
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Sustainable Land Use Enhances Soil Microbial Respiration Responses to Experimental Heat Stress
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May 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Sustainable Land Use Enhances Soil Microbial Respiration Responses to Experimental Heat Stress
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Excited to share our new study published in JoVE! We explore how plant history and soil history influence the functioning of grassland ecosystems. Have a look!
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JenaTron - An Experimental Approach to Study the Effects of Plant History and Soil History on Grassland Ecosystem Functioning
The global loss of biodiversity has motivated many studies that experimentally vary plant species richness and examine the consequences for ecosystem ...
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May 19, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Excited to share our new study published in JoVE! We explore how plant history and soil history influence the functioning of grassland ecosystems. Have a look!
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📣 New paper out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social 📣
We are delighted to share our latest piece
🚜Sustainable Land Use Enhances Soil Microbial Respiration Responses to Experimental Heat Stress ♨️
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We are delighted to share our latest piece
🚜Sustainable Land Use Enhances Soil Microbial Respiration Responses to Experimental Heat Stress ♨️
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Sustainable Land Use Enhances Soil Microbial Respiration Responses to Experimental Heat Stress
Soil microbes are crucial for healthy ecosystems, but climate change and intensive farming may reduce their functioning. We tested how heat stress affects microbial respiration in soils under differe....
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April 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
📣 New paper out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social 📣
We are delighted to share our latest piece
🚜Sustainable Land Use Enhances Soil Microbial Respiration Responses to Experimental Heat Stress ♨️
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We are delighted to share our latest piece
🚜Sustainable Land Use Enhances Soil Microbial Respiration Responses to Experimental Heat Stress ♨️
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Dear #nematode community,
Does anyone currently have nematodes in culture and would be willing to share or sell some? We are planning different experiments and are also happy to collaborate and share more details.
Does anyone currently have nematodes in culture and would be willing to share or sell some? We are planning different experiments and are also happy to collaborate and share more details.
March 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Dear #nematode community,
Does anyone currently have nematodes in culture and would be willing to share or sell some? We are planning different experiments and are also happy to collaborate and share more details.
Does anyone currently have nematodes in culture and would be willing to share or sell some? We are planning different experiments and are also happy to collaborate and share more details.
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📣GSBI Speaks is back tomorrow! Join us to learn about remote sensing and sensing to measure soil biodiversity 📸🎥🐛🐜🦠🪱
Feb. 21, 2025, 9:00 MST, 11:00 EST, 16:00 GMT, 17:00 CET
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February 20, 2025 at 10:09 AM
📣GSBI Speaks is back tomorrow! Join us to learn about remote sensing and sensing to measure soil biodiversity 📸🎥🐛🐜🦠🪱
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Congratulations to our engaged colleagues. Very well deserved!!!!
We had an incredible award ceremony in Munich, hosted and organized by Volkshochschule München and the Grüter Stiftung, in collaboration with Naturkundemuseum Bayern/Biotopia. So glad Amelie from our team could join the celebration as well! 😊
February 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Congratulations to our engaged colleagues. Very well deserved!!!!
So important! Thank you so much! We all know it is not easy! @lisethouvenot.bsky.social
Co-coordinator Lise Thouvenot @lisethouvenot.bsky.social takes point on all MTAs and lab protocols used in Soil BON! Her work is VITAL to the progress & success of the campaign by making sure samples enter the country legally & abide by soil provider country regulations WE 💚 LISE!
February 4, 2025 at 11:43 AM
So important! Thank you so much! We all know it is not easy! @lisethouvenot.bsky.social
My new substack newsletter explains the fundamental trade-off in experiments in ecology and environmental sciences: you can either have mechanistic resolution or realism, but not both in the same experiment.
#ecology #environment #science
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#ecology #environment #science
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Why you can't have it all in experiments in ecology
The trade-off between realism and mechanistic resolution, and why this is important.
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January 30, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Congratulations to our team Translating Soil Biodiversity for winning the University of Leipzig's Transfer Prize! 🏆🎓
Their work brings soil biodiversity research to young minds by creating and translating engaging articles for Frontiers for Young Minds—a platform where kids review science! 🌱🦠
Their work brings soil biodiversity research to young minds by creating and translating engaging articles for Frontiers for Young Minds—a platform where kids review science! 🌱🦠
January 30, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Congratulations to our team Translating Soil Biodiversity for winning the University of Leipzig's Transfer Prize! 🏆🎓
Their work brings soil biodiversity research to young minds by creating and translating engaging articles for Frontiers for Young Minds—a platform where kids review science! 🌱🦠
Their work brings soil biodiversity research to young minds by creating and translating engaging articles for Frontiers for Young Minds—a platform where kids review science! 🌱🦠
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Wow, so nice to see this work out, led by Chris Sweeney! he shows, in a massive experiment, that plant traits and phylogenetic relatedness are poor predictors of plant–soil feedbacks. In @journalofecology.bsky.social
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Plant phylogeny, traits and fungal community composition as drivers of plant–soil feedbacks
Our results suggest that plant traits and phylogenetic relatedness are poor predictors of plant–soil feedbacks (PSFs) among temperate grassland plant species. Hence, despite known effects of these fa...
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January 16, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Wow, so nice to see this work out, led by Chris Sweeney! he shows, in a massive experiment, that plant traits and phylogenetic relatedness are poor predictors of plant–soil feedbacks. In @journalofecology.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Our new @pnas.org paper shows a previously unrecognized mechanism by which climate warming reduces beech growth: more frequent seed production depletes tree resources, causing a 28% decline in radial growth.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Funded by @ncngovpl.bsky.social
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Funded by @ncngovpl.bsky.social
January 28, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Our new @pnas.org paper shows a previously unrecognized mechanism by which climate warming reduces beech growth: more frequent seed production depletes tree resources, causing a 28% decline in radial growth.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Funded by @ncngovpl.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Funded by @ncngovpl.bsky.social
@drpeterdietrich.bsky.social whenever you and we have a free slot, it would be great if you can present this in our seminar!
This looks like a great option when nondestructive biomass measurements are required, e.g., in mesocosm experiments.
Preprint alert!🚨 You want biomass data without clipping the vegetation? Use your smartphone for a 3D scan! In our manuscript you get instructions & a complete Jupyter notebook for immediate use! doi.org/10.32942/X2T... 🪴+📱=💚 #biodiversity #ecology #globalchange #photogrammetry
January 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
@drpeterdietrich.bsky.social whenever you and we have a free slot, it would be great if you can present this in our seminar!
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Third and final week of practicum with @unileipzig.bsky.social students.
Using the GCEF facilities and our soil respiration lab, we are testing how land use and future climate affect soil microbial activity response to heat waves! 🥵
/w @msoil.bsky.social & @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social
Using the GCEF facilities and our soil respiration lab, we are testing how land use and future climate affect soil microbial activity response to heat waves! 🥵
/w @msoil.bsky.social & @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social
January 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Third and final week of practicum with @unileipzig.bsky.social students.
Using the GCEF facilities and our soil respiration lab, we are testing how land use and future climate affect soil microbial activity response to heat waves! 🥵
/w @msoil.bsky.social & @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social
Using the GCEF facilities and our soil respiration lab, we are testing how land use and future climate affect soil microbial activity response to heat waves! 🥵
/w @msoil.bsky.social & @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social
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Good evening Bluesky! This is the official account for Soil BON Global. We are a global soil monitoring project in it's 4th year looking to grow the community of researchers across the globe to share their sampling, publications, & training experiences from the project. Stay tuned!
January 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Good evening Bluesky! This is the official account for Soil BON Global. We are a global soil monitoring project in it's 4th year looking to grow the community of researchers across the globe to share their sampling, publications, & training experiences from the project. Stay tuned!
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We are looking for more collaborators who want to run a BugNet site in their region. If you are interested, join our online info event. Please re-skeet, and help us to reach community ecologists, and those interested in plant- herbivore and plant-pathogen interactions around the world! 👇
Want to join or learn more about BugNet? Join our BugNet info meeting with
@annekempel.bsky.social
online on Wednesday, January 29th 2025 at 9am CET or 3pm CET. Register here for the info meeting: www.bug-net.org 🌱 🌐
@annekempel.bsky.social
online on Wednesday, January 29th 2025 at 9am CET or 3pm CET. Register here for the info meeting: www.bug-net.org 🌱 🌐
January 17, 2025 at 11:26 AM
We are looking for more collaborators who want to run a BugNet site in their region. If you are interested, join our online info event. Please re-skeet, and help us to reach community ecologists, and those interested in plant- herbivore and plant-pathogen interactions around the world! 👇
📢JOB❗❗❗ The Research Training Group on the Economics of Connected Natural Commons: Atmosphere and Biodiversity (ECO-N), funded by the DFG is looking for a synthesis postdoc at Leipzig University. Come and work with us in a great team:
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Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d/x)
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January 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
📢JOB❗❗❗ The Research Training Group on the Economics of Connected Natural Commons: Atmosphere and Biodiversity (ECO-N), funded by the DFG is looking for a synthesis postdoc at Leipzig University. Come and work with us in a great team:
uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/e...
uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/e...
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‼️Recently published in
@funecology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
We developed a conceptual framework for linking effect traits of #soil #fauna to the transformation of #SOM (including a section on #POM #MAOM😀)
with
@eisenhauerlab.bsky.social et al
@funecology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
We developed a conceptual framework for linking effect traits of #soil #fauna to the transformation of #SOM (including a section on #POM #MAOM😀)
with
@eisenhauerlab.bsky.social et al
Linking effect traits of soil fauna to processes of organic matter transformation
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
doi.org
January 6, 2025 at 8:41 AM
‼️Recently published in
@funecology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
We developed a conceptual framework for linking effect traits of #soil #fauna to the transformation of #SOM (including a section on #POM #MAOM😀)
with
@eisenhauerlab.bsky.social et al
@funecology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
We developed a conceptual framework for linking effect traits of #soil #fauna to the transformation of #SOM (including a section on #POM #MAOM😀)
with
@eisenhauerlab.bsky.social et al
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This was a great collaborative project, including @joanabergmann.bsky.social, @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social, @a-h-b.bsky.social and many other great co-authors who are not (yet) on BlueSky!
January 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This was a great collaborative project, including @joanabergmann.bsky.social, @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social, @a-h-b.bsky.social and many other great co-authors who are not (yet) on BlueSky!
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Thank you to all our hard-working reviewers, staff, and authors who have made 2024 a wonderful year at Soil Organisms ✨🪱
We look forward to seeing you all in 2025!! ✨⏳✨
@eisenhauerlab.bsky.social @antoncollembola.bsky.social @sgn.one
We look forward to seeing you all in 2025!! ✨⏳✨
@eisenhauerlab.bsky.social @antoncollembola.bsky.social @sgn.one
December 23, 2024 at 4:36 AM
Thank you to all our hard-working reviewers, staff, and authors who have made 2024 a wonderful year at Soil Organisms ✨🪱
We look forward to seeing you all in 2025!! ✨⏳✨
@eisenhauerlab.bsky.social @antoncollembola.bsky.social @sgn.one
We look forward to seeing you all in 2025!! ✨⏳✨
@eisenhauerlab.bsky.social @antoncollembola.bsky.social @sgn.one
With contribution of our microclimate guy @remybeugnon.bsky.social
This paper outlines 10 practical guidelines for ground-based terrestrial #microclimate research, emphasizing standardization and best practices from study design to data analysis. Nice piece of work! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Ten practical guidelines for microclimate research in terrestrial ecosystems
Most biodiversity dynamics and ecosystem processes on land take place in microclimates that are decoupled from the climate as measured by standardised weather stations in open, unshaded locations....
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December 17, 2024 at 8:58 AM
With contribution of our microclimate guy @remybeugnon.bsky.social