Julia Koricheva
@juliakoricheva.bsky.social
Professor of Ecology at Royal Holloway University of London | Forest biodiversity and ecosystem functioning | Plant-herbivore interactions | Methods and applications of meta-analysis in ecology
Crimped Gill fungus (Plicatura crispa) on a birch log
November 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Crimped Gill fungus (Plicatura crispa) on a birch log
Autumn in Windsor Great Park
November 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Autumn in Windsor Great Park
Green islands on beech leaves with Stigmella tityrella mines and galls caused by Hartigiola annulipes
November 1, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Green islands on beech leaves with Stigmella tityrella mines and galls caused by Hartigiola annulipes
📣 Excited to advertise a new @treesdla.bsky.social CASE PhD project exploring the effects of forest diversity on soil fauna with ecoacoustics. Supervised by me, @evolecollab.bsky.social and Carlos Abrahams @soilacoustics.bsky.social. Apply by December 17th! 🌳🌲🐜🎧🎤 www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/nov...
October 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
📣 Excited to advertise a new @treesdla.bsky.social CASE PhD project exploring the effects of forest diversity on soil fauna with ecoacoustics. Supervised by me, @evolecollab.bsky.social and Carlos Abrahams @soilacoustics.bsky.social. Apply by December 17th! 🌳🌲🐜🎧🎤 www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/nov...
Love @royalholloway.bsky.social campus! Short walk around my office building provided sufficient material to demonstrate green islands phenmenon at today's lectures on herbivory simonleather.wordpress.com/tag/green-is...
October 24, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Love @royalholloway.bsky.social campus! Short walk around my office building provided sufficient material to demonstrate green islands phenmenon at today's lectures on herbivory simonleather.wordpress.com/tag/green-is...
PhD applications are now open @treesdla.bsky.social for 2026 intake. Have a look at a project on effects of forest diversity on floral reward production for pollinators that we advertise with @philstevenson.bsky.social. Do apply/get in touch if you are interested! www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/eff...
October 21, 2025 at 11:17 AM
PhD applications are now open @treesdla.bsky.social for 2026 intake. Have a look at a project on effects of forest diversity on floral reward production for pollinators that we advertise with @philstevenson.bsky.social. Do apply/get in touch if you are interested! www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/eff...
Shaggy ink cap aka lawyer's wig (Coprinus comatus) spotted yesterday at Glyndebourne
October 19, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Shaggy ink cap aka lawyer's wig (Coprinus comatus) spotted yesterday at Glyndebourne
🎵 The woods are alive with amazing fungi 🍄🟫 #WildWebsWednesday
October 15, 2025 at 11:25 AM
🎵 The woods are alive with amazing fungi 🍄🟫 #WildWebsWednesday
Wolf's milk (Lycogala epidendrum) #SlimeMoldSunday
October 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Wolf's milk (Lycogala epidendrum) #SlimeMoldSunday
Lovely wild pansy (Viola tricolor) hiding from the winds next to the house wall #wildflowerhour
October 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Lovely wild pansy (Viola tricolor) hiding from the winds next to the house wall #wildflowerhour
It's 1st week of the autumn term, so it's harvest time for field journals from @rhulbiology.bsky.social practical field ecology course. Very much looking forward to reading these and learning what observations and surveys our students have completed over the summer 🐾🐞🌿🍄🟫🐦🐛🦔🕸🫎🔎📈📗
September 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
It's 1st week of the autumn term, so it's harvest time for field journals from @rhulbiology.bsky.social practical field ecology course. Very much looking forward to reading these and learning what observations and surveys our students have completed over the summer 🐾🐞🌿🍄🟫🐦🐛🦔🕸🫎🔎📈📗
Interesting Open Day today at #Wakehurst @rbgkew.bsky.social focusing on science behind multifunctional landscapes with good group discussions both outdoors and indoors
September 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Interesting Open Day today at #Wakehurst @rbgkew.bsky.social focusing on science behind multifunctional landscapes with good group discussions both outdoors and indoors
Impact and insight note from TreE_PlaNat @uktreescapes.bsky.social project is out! Natural colonisation can successfully create structurally diverse woodlands and can be combined with tree planting to reduce the uncertainty of using natural processes alone www.uktreescapes.org/wp-content/u...
September 22, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Impact and insight note from TreE_PlaNat @uktreescapes.bsky.social project is out! Natural colonisation can successfully create structurally diverse woodlands and can be combined with tree planting to reduce the uncertainty of using natural processes alone www.uktreescapes.org/wp-content/u...
Ivy is in flower in my garden and is attracting clouds of ivy bees and other visitors
September 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Ivy is in flower in my garden and is attracting clouds of ivy bees and other visitors
Our new #TreeDivNet paper led by Hernán Serrano-León is out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social! Using data from 9 forest diversity experiments across Europe, we showed that tree diversity effects on tree growth responses strengthened during consecutive drought years dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
September 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Our new #TreeDivNet paper led by Hernán Serrano-León is out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social! Using data from 9 forest diversity experiments across Europe, we showed that tree diversity effects on tree growth responses strengthened during consecutive drought years dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
Some of the lovely wildflowers I enjoyed seeing this week in Triglav National Park, Slovenia: alpine thistle, silver thistle, fringe-flowered gentian, willow gentian, purple cyclamen, woolly thistle, yellow-flowered monkshood and branched monkshood #wildflowerhour
September 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Some of the lovely wildflowers I enjoyed seeing this week in Triglav National Park, Slovenia: alpine thistle, silver thistle, fringe-flowered gentian, willow gentian, purple cyclamen, woolly thistle, yellow-flowered monkshood and branched monkshood #wildflowerhour
Aliens on Chobham Common - purple pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea) and yellow pitcher plant (Sarracenia flava). These carnivorous plants are native to North America and have been introduced to Chobham Common decades ago
August 30, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Aliens on Chobham Common - purple pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea) and yellow pitcher plant (Sarracenia flava). These carnivorous plants are native to North America and have been introduced to Chobham Common decades ago
Marsh gentians (Gentiana pneumonanthe) seen in good numbers at both Chobham Common in Surrey and Bartley Heath in Hampshire this weekend 💙 #GentianFamily #wildflowerhour
August 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Marsh gentians (Gentiana pneumonanthe) seen in good numbers at both Chobham Common in Surrey and Bartley Heath in Hampshire this weekend 💙 #GentianFamily #wildflowerhour
Lovely exhibition "Naturalists' notebooks" @linneansociety.bsky.social. Notebooks by Carl Linnaeus and Alfred Russel Wallace are on display as well as more contemporary ones by @sandyknapp.bsky.social and @timbirkhead.bsky.social. Loved doodles by Carl Linneaus the Younger! 😃
August 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Lovely exhibition "Naturalists' notebooks" @linneansociety.bsky.social. Notebooks by Carl Linnaeus and Alfred Russel Wallace are on display as well as more contemporary ones by @sandyknapp.bsky.social and @timbirkhead.bsky.social. Loved doodles by Carl Linneaus the Younger! 😃
Beautiful Carline thistles (Carlina vulgaris), Martin Down National Nature Reserve #DaisyFamily #widlflowerhour
August 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Beautiful Carline thistles (Carlina vulgaris), Martin Down National Nature Reserve #DaisyFamily #widlflowerhour
Hemp agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum) with Scotney Castle in the background #DaisyFamily #wildflowerhour
August 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Hemp agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum) with Scotney Castle in the background #DaisyFamily #wildflowerhour
Central florets of wild carrot (Daucus carota) flowers are often dark purple, but why? Turns out they can act as an insect mimic and may attract pollinators to the flower (doi.org/10.1111/j.14...) as well as reduce parasitisation by the gall midges (doi.org/10.1111/j.14...) #wildflowerhour
August 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Central florets of wild carrot (Daucus carota) flowers are often dark purple, but why? Turns out they can act as an insect mimic and may attract pollinators to the flower (doi.org/10.1111/j.14...) as well as reduce parasitisation by the gall midges (doi.org/10.1111/j.14...) #wildflowerhour
Nice day at Martin Down National Nature Reserve this week with @naturetrek.bsky.social. Lots of chalk hill blue butterflies and some Adonis blue as well
August 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Nice day at Martin Down National Nature Reserve this week with @naturetrek.bsky.social. Lots of chalk hill blue butterflies and some Adonis blue as well
Few weeks left to apply for a fully funded PhD studentship in my lab @rhulbiology.bsky.social as part of new EU project Trees4Adapt
🌲🌳 Fieldwork in forest diversity experiments in Finland www.sataforestdiversity.org
📆 Apply by Sept 8th, start date - Jan 2026
👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🍁🌍🧪
🌲🌳 Fieldwork in forest diversity experiments in Finland www.sataforestdiversity.org
📆 Apply by Sept 8th, start date - Jan 2026
👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🍁🌍🧪
August 11, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Few weeks left to apply for a fully funded PhD studentship in my lab @rhulbiology.bsky.social as part of new EU project Trees4Adapt
🌲🌳 Fieldwork in forest diversity experiments in Finland www.sataforestdiversity.org
📆 Apply by Sept 8th, start date - Jan 2026
👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🍁🌍🧪
🌲🌳 Fieldwork in forest diversity experiments in Finland www.sataforestdiversity.org
📆 Apply by Sept 8th, start date - Jan 2026
👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🍁🌍🧪
I never paid close attention to the flowers of dark mullein, but they are quite something! Yellow petals, purple filaments with dense hairs and orange anthers #wildlfowerhour
August 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I never paid close attention to the flowers of dark mullein, but they are quite something! Yellow petals, purple filaments with dense hairs and orange anthers #wildlfowerhour