Happy to welcome three visitors this autumn! Elisa Jordan is a MSc student from Germany. Wengang Zhang is a PhD student from China working on #darkdiversity of #alienspecies. Gerard Martínez Devesa is a PhD student from Spain working on #darkdiversity of #arthropods in deadwood microhabitats.

Using dark diversity to disentangle the effects of protection and habitat quality on species diversity across the Mediterranean Sea
* A new paper in Biol Cons by Tal Gavriel, Jonathan Belmaker and others www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The first paper from #darkdivnet is out now! Huge thank you to all our >200 co-authors who helped to reveal dark diversity in different parts of the world! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We're very proud of our workgroup member @e-beccari.bsky.social who received her PhD degree last week! Thank you to the opponent @biogeokreft.bsky.social who helped to lead an interesting discussion, and to Eleonora's supervisor @cpcarmona.bsky.social

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Our workgroup members Juni and Blanca had a successful expedition to Ghana where they sampled plant above- and below-ground traits for #TraitDivNet

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