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patrickgoymer.bsky.social
This study describes the mesocosm that Chang Liu is also using to probe the effect of invasive earthworms on soil microbial communities: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #canvas25
Invasive earthworms unlock arctic plant nitrogen limitation - Nature Communications
Arctic plant growth is predominantly nitrogen limited, where the slow nitrogen turnover in the soil is commonly attributed to the cold arctic climate. Here the authors show that the arctic plant-soil ...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:42 PM
melaniebergma18.bsky.social
🌿New mesocosm study shows that #microplastics could threaten the capacity of eelgrass (Zostera marina) to sequester carbon by reducing plant growth, altering microbial communities and accelerating organic matter turnover.
#plastic
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Microplastics threaten seagrass carbon sinks through microbial changes
Seagrass beds are key blue carbon ecosystems but their capacity to sequester carbon is threatened by microplastic (MP) pollution in the marine environ…
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November 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
lmcampbell.bsky.social
Next week is the Fall Convocation -- always a great time of noting milestones and celebrating achievements!

This year, it will be Enobong Udoh from our team who will be walking the stage for her @smuscience.bsky.social MSc degree. 🥳🎓
A woman wearing waders standing in a wetland full of pickerelweed with purple blooms. She is standing over a small black-mesh mesocosm, measuring plants inside the mesocosm. She is looking at the camera with a smile, although obviously still focused on her task. A woman with a big smile inside the study room next to the ENVS classroom. There is a whiteboard with a calendar and to-do lists behind her. On the table in front is a cake with "MASTER ENOBONG" decorated on the top which Enobong is about to cut. There are plates, forks and napkins arrayed around her, ready for a lab celebration. Enobong behind a podium, about to give a conference talk. Next to her is a giant projection showing her title slide "Using macrophytes to evaluate the efficacy of an in-situ risk management strategy for wetland sediments impacted by historical gold mines". This is at the @ecotoxcan.ca meeting in Victoria BC last October 2025.
November 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
courtneyherms.bsky.social
New modular mesocosm system for easy growth and harvest of plants from @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social group
November 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
profcolinbean.bsky.social
Effects of freezing duration and speed on environmental DNA (eDNA) degradation in water samples: a controlled mesocosm study. Hydrobiologia (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s107...
Effects of freezing duration and speed on environmental DNA (eDNA) degradation in water samples: a controlled mesocosm study - Hydrobiologia
The study of environmental DNA (eDNA) is a powerful tool for detecting and monitoring aquatic species, but sample preservation methods can critically affect analytical outcomes. Here, we examined the ...
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October 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
phytopathology.bsky.social
Anaerobic soil disinfestation (ASD) shows promise as a safer alternative to fumigants for managing Fusarium oxysporum in strawberries. James Littrell et al. showed that ASD effectiveness depends on amendment composition and soil texture: https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-12-24-0423-R
Fig. 8. Three-dimensional surface of the effect of soil clay percentage and soil pH on the soil concentration of Mn2+ and Fe2+ in soil mesocosm studies.
October 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Where, when, and how FAIR do data from aquatic mesocosm experiments get published? | BioScience | Oxford Academic https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/75/10/820/8209815?login=false
October 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
isacbrander.bsky.social
Time does really fly. Here's an example of how the mesocosm plants serve as an indicator of seasonal changes.
October 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM
stresseddaphnia.bsky.social
More moments from the Community & Stress Ecology workshop at the University of South Bohemia! 🌿
Great energy from participants, insightful presentations, and a sunny group visit to the mesocosm platform.
#ClimateChange #StressEcology #EarlyCareerResearchers #Networking
Stella - exploring the effects of warming on terrestrial food webs Thu-Huong presenting her research on the effects of fragmentation and heatwaves on planktonic metacommunities. Workshop participants visiting the mesocosm platform—field-based ecology in action. Final group photo—thank you all for a fantastic two days of science and connection!
October 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
embrcspain.bsky.social
📣 Pablo Serret presented at the @iriscc.bsky.social Annual Meeting 2025 the progress made by @embrc-eu.bsky.social  in developing a #Mesocosm Experimental Tool to Support Design, Optimization and Evaluation of Ocean CO₂ Removal #CDR Technologies.
October 23, 2025 at 8:51 AM
majailiczg.bsky.social
SS082 Mesocosm-based approaches for tackling grand challenges in aquatic ecosystems

With @aquacosm-ecr.bsky.social members Cihelio Alves Amorim, Anna Schmidt, Gabriela Ágreda-López and Gülce Yalcin
October 20, 2025 at 9:50 AM
aquacosm-ecr.bsky.social
Share your research with us!

If you would like to promote your recently published (in the last year) paper or pre-print with us, we invite you to contact us so that we can advertise these in our upcoming newsletter (mesocosm based-research, aquatic science, R package/Python library).
October 18, 2025 at 9:46 AM
aquacosm-ecr.bsky.social
We invite you to submit abstracts from your mesocosm-based research to the Session SS082: Mesocosm-based approaches to tackling grand challenges in aquatic ecosystems

Possible Formats: Standard Oral, Lightning Talk, Poster

www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-202...
Session List - ASLO
Session List Please see the session formats page for details on possible presentation formats. Jump to: Education and Policy Sessions | Amplifying Voices | Contributed Sessions Scientific Sessions SS0...
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October 18, 2025 at 9:29 AM
markinchina.bsky.social
Happy #FieldworkFriday from our SUSTech students who are busy in Dapeng running large-scale incubations to look at the side-effects of Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement on marine ecosystems 🌊
Sunset over a series of mesocosm experiments Sunset over Dapeng, Shenzhen, China Collecting seawater samples from incubation experiments
October 17, 2025 at 2:49 AM
drchaoborus.bsky.social
Ha!!! Apparently Apple doesn’t know “mesocosm” and I don’t know how to proofread
October 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
jevbio.bsky.social
Mesocosm experiments and lab-based digestive assays reveal that selection on digestive physiology can buffer organisms against putative costs of predator avoidance, demonstrating how trait networks can decouple growth from predation risk in complex ecological systems:

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
Cheating death: selection on digestive physiology overcomes expected growth costs of antipredator defences
Abstract. Organisms often face a fundamental trade-off between growth and predator avoidance, where traits that enhance growth—such as higher activity rate
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October 2, 2025 at 10:12 AM
markklwong.bsky.social
Do you like functional traits, competition, mesocosm experiments, ants and rigorous fieldwork in unusual tropical systems?

Then you might like this new paper - the last from my DPhil at Oxford- in Functional Ecology:

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Functional trait dissimilarity drives arboreal ant community assembly while competitive trait hierarchies shape colony performance in experimental mesocosms
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 29, 2025 at 10:22 AM
abalosaurus.bsky.social
These colour changes may let juveniles avoid costly aggression or courting from adult males, while sparing adults wasted effort on non-competitors/immature mates. As lizards grow, greater colour differentiation may aid recognition and help stabilize social networks.
Adult Podarcis muralis lizards rest on top a log during a mesocosm experiment.
September 29, 2025 at 8:42 AM
setac-glb.bsky.social
Das Karriere Speed Dating auf der #Umwelt2025 war ein voller Erfolg! 🤗
Vielen Dank an: @umweltbundesamt.bsky.social , Ramboll, Oekotoxzentrum / Centre Ecotox, Landesamt für Umwelt Bayern, Mesocosm GmbH, Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde, Fraunhofer IME & ITEM für die Teilnahme und Mitgestaltung!
September 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
unibe.ch
Der #Klimawandel & damit verbundene #Hitzeextreme stellt die Natur vor Herausforderungen. Bisher blieb weitgehend unerforscht, ob & welche «ökologischen Schulden» für Organismen entstehen. Das untersucht das Hasli Outdoor Mesocosm Experiment: youtu.be/BzSsLOlE4XI.
#unibern #HOME
Wie wirkt sich der Klimawandel auf die Biodiversität aus? Das Hasli Outdoor Mesocosm Experiment
YouTube video by Universität Bern
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September 25, 2025 at 9:05 AM
dmovie-collect.bsky.social
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皆様に、いつも通り残酷無情なシOタ搾精ショー――『Mesocosm』をお届けいたします！
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September 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
dmovie-collect.bsky.social
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皆様に、いつも通り残酷無情なシOタ搾精ショー――『Mesocosm』をお届けいたします！
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September 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
dmovie-collect.bsky.social
https://www.dlsite.com/maniax... / 【ランキング18位】《榭肉祭》:Mesocosm [非人造]
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皆様に、いつも通り残酷無情なシOタ搾精ショー――『Mesocosm』をお届けいたします！
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September 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
aquacosm-ecr.bsky.social
🎙️ Sign up for our next free online workshop with Dr. Cristina Charette to learn the basics of #SEM and how to apply it to #mesocosm studies.

🗓️ Sept 26, 16:00 - 17:30 CET
🔗Register: forms.gle/rQgwamMaUvmL...
📩 Zoom link sent to registrants before the event.
September 20, 2025 at 8:13 AM
dmovie-collect.bsky.social
https://www.dlsite.com/maniax... / 【ランキング17位】《榭肉祭》:Mesocosm [非人造]
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皆様に、いつも通り残酷無情なシOタ搾精ショー――『Mesocosm』をお届けいたします！
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September 20, 2025 at 8:07 AM