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Reassembly Research Unit
@reassemblynet.bsky.social
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We study the recovery of a rainforest (Chocó, Ecuador). Resistance and resilience of species interaction networks and ecosystem processes. DFG-funded (FOR 5027) www.reassembly.de
[Posts by Nico Blüthgen]
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Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social
Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃
www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...
Ecological synthesis including forest ecosystems, grassland, land use, climate change, time series, stability, ecosystem functioning, biodiversity, species interaction networks
September 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Richtig! Man muss bei solchen Falschbehauptungen immer wieder widersprechen und mit Fakten kontern. Haben wir in ähnlicher Weise auch bei Bauer Willi's Kolumne in BiuZ gemacht zum selben Thema www.biuz.de
(Gruß, Nico B.)
August 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Forest bird communities 🦜recover -- and their choires captured by sound recorders 🎤🎶-- but biodiversity recovery is hampered in agricultural landscapes where tropical forests disappeared!
New study led by @cofeuniwue.bsky.social published in Conservation Letters
www.reassembly.de/news/impover...
August 21, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Pristimantis latidiscus #frogs bury their eggs! Froglets 🐸 from experimentally disturbed egg clutches hatched earlier - potentially to reduce predation risk. New paper by Niklas Fuchs and M.-O. Rödel @roedellab.bsky.social from the Ecuadorian rainforest.
www.reassembly.de/news/scienti...
August 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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What do Blue-bellied Whiptail 🦎lizards eat? And how? Natural history notes on Holcosus bridgesii in 🇪🇨Ecuadorian #rainforest 🌴published in #Herpetological_Review by @roedellab.bsky.social
They feed on earthworms (see picture) and four other diets that are nastier
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August 20, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Poison frogs 🐸 with fly 🪰 parasite? First record of myiasis in a frog in Ecuador by Michelle Vélez, Mónica Guerra @roedellab.bsky.social and others published in the Intern. J. for Parasitology:
www.reassembly.de/news/poison-...
The picture shows a Oophaga sylvatica with four lesions caused by flesh-fly larvae
June 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Playing death: Thin-toed Frogs 🐸🐸

To avoid being eaten by a predator 🐍- or to be stepped on by a researcher 🥾- Leptodactylus rhodomerus displays death-feigning ☠️. ‪Discovered by roedellab.bsky.social‬ www.reassembly.de/news/playing...g/
May 20, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Sample coverage matters: succession of #bird communities along a #chronosequence of a recovering tropical #rainforest.
🦜🕊️🦉🌱🌴
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March 5, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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More than half of the Reassembly team participates at the great #ECTE2025 conference... and warms up for their talks tomorrow at a hot pot restaurant. #tropical #ecology
February 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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#Reassembly of a tropical #rainforest: A new #chronosequence in the #Chocó tested with the #recovery of #ree attributes
Our basic article is now online, with all the information on our study design and exciting results for trees.
www.reassembly.de/posts/basic-...
February 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Tightly snuggling up 🐍❤️🐍 #snake #courtship behaviour of the Chocó endemic Northern Eyelash Boa #Tropidophis boulengeri described for the first time!
@roedellab.bsky.social
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Tropidophis boulengeri copulation. Foto by Moira Wiedebusch.
February 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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... and here are some of the highlights.
December 19, 2024 at 7:50 PM
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Enjoy the #scientific and #adventurous journey through many facets of a #recovering #tropical #rainforest 🌴 🇪🇨 with us:
Our 3️⃣rd NEWSLETTER 📰 is out!!!
#Ecuador #tropical #forest #biodiversity #conservation #networks #animals #plants #recovery
www.reassembly.de/posts/third-...
December 2, 2024 at 8:19 PM
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The sounds of #forest loss: how the #cicada communities’ song patterns change when forests are converted and isolated. New open access paper 🇪🇨 🌴
reassembly.de/news/sounds-di
November 22, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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2 new species of #Caecilians discovered!
➡️Large worm🪱-like subterranean amphibians🐸.
🇪🇨#Chocó rainforest

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November 22, 2024 at 10:57 PM
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Tree-related microhabitats (TreMs) 🌴🌳are important for #biodiversity, and particularly diverse in the #tropics.
A useful new catalogue defined and applied by Ronja Nußer at @eco_FSF & coauthors published in Ecol Indicators, see
reassembly.de/news/trees-hos
November 22, 2024 at 10:56 PM
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➡️Our new🪳🦟🐛🌱🍃SPECIES INTERACTION NETWORK critique & analysis tips! Let's debate & let us know if you disagree! Ask for PDF via nico.bluethgen@web.de
A Critical Evaluation of #Network Approaches for Studying Species #Interactions | Annual Reviews - go.shr.lc/4fph7q0
November 22, 2024 at 10:20 PM