What makes leaf litter attractive to decomposers? 🍂
As Christian Wirth noted at ARBOfun last week, nutrient resorption varies among tree species - leaving litter feeders with a diverse buffet to choose from. #TreeDi-MultiTroph conference #Ecology #SoilLife #Biodiversity

We are just starting our @treedi.bsky.social and #MultiTroph joint conference. 😊. Stay turned 🎄🌲🌳🎄🌳🌲

The start of a hopefully successful week of collaboration and research exchange 🔥 at our joint conference of #TreeDi 🌳and #MultiTroph 🐜🪲🕷 at the #idiv, Leipzig.

This position can also contribute to #Multitroph 😊

Michael Staab, our ant expert in #Multitroph, a @dfg.de research unit, is now a full professor in the nice environment of the @leuphana.bsky.social 🍁 🐛🐜🐜👍

Host-parasitoid networks are structured by tree species richness, tree phylogenetic diversity, and canopy cover. New study led by our Chinese partners #MultiTroph published in elife.bsky.social

Lots of interests in our long-term trap nest data presented by the the great @entomassi.bsky.social showing when, after forest planting, tree diversity become a dominant factor for wasp abundance and their parasitoids #ecte2025 #MultiTroph

We have new internship and bachelor/master's positions open in the MultiTroph (www.multitroph.com) research team @uni-freiburg.de !

Join us in #subtropical south-east China 🇨🇳 to study cavity-nesting bee and wasp multi-trophic interaction networks in subtropical forests 🐝🌳

🚨 @UniFreiburg sucht Verstärkung für ihr Team:
🐝Technische Assistenz (Elternzeitvertretung) - perfekt zum Reinschnuppern
🐝Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in (Elternzeitvertretung) – Lehre & Mitarbeit im Projekt @WildPoshProject
🐝Praktikum in China @MultiTroph
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