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Group retreat

Last week we set out to Aschaffenburg for our lab group retreat: 2.5 days of great discussions on how to quantify socio-ecological systems, nice hikes in the countryside, and visits on the last day. Lots of fun, and plenty of new project ideas for the coming months and years!

New paper!

The paper 'Assessing the impact of grassland management on landscape multifunctionality', led by Margot, is out in Ecosystem Services. It goes with a fun app where you can investigate optimal landscape compositions based on your own service priorities: https://neyret.shinyapps.io/landscape_composition_for_multifunctionality/

M. Neyret, [...] & Manning (2021). Assessing the impact of grassland management on landscape multifunctionality. Ecosystem Services, 52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2021.101366.

Welcome Katja

Katja Springer is joining the team for her Bachelor internship and thesis. She will be looking at the relationship between biodiversity and carbon storage in the Biodiversity Exploratories. Welcome Katja!

New paper out

Congratulations to Daijun Liu. His work on ecosystem multifunctionality in heathland ecosystems, and the functional space concept, done as part of a lab visit, has now been published in New Phytologist. Open access link here: https://t.co/oQ8QPCpl6n?amp=1

Summer fieldwork

This summer Gaëtane, Lari and Margot - along with two student helpers, Sophia and Franka - spent 6 weeks in the forests of the Biodiversity Exploratories collecting data for the BEF-Up 2 project. The objective was to quantify forest structure and biodiversity in the areas surrounding Exploratories plot. Some hard work, some rain, but lots of fun too!

Welcome to Neema, Dickson and Koggani!

Neema Robert Kinabo, Dickson Mauki and Koggani Koggani are joining us at Senckenberg to start their PhD projects as part of the Kili-SES project. We're looking forward to working with you!

Paper alert

Congrats to Gaëtane on her new paper, just published in Nature Communications:

Le Provost, G., [...] & Manning, P. Contrasting responses of above- and belowground diversity to multiple components of land-use intensity. Nat Commun 12, 3918 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23931-1

Welcome Eugenia and Giovanni

Eugenia Delgano and Giovanni Bianco recently joined the Kili project to start their PhDs. They will work on Nature Contributions to People in the social-ecological system of Mt. Kilimanjaro, focusing respectively on cultural and regulating NCPs. Welcome!

New paper out!

Congratulations to Theo on his new paper:

Linders T., Schaffner U., Alamirew T., Allan E., Choge S.K., Eschen R., Shiferaw H. & Manning P. Stakeholder priorities determine the impact of an alien tree invasion on ecosystem multifunctionality. People and Nature (2021)

Welcome Lari

We welcome Andrea Larissa Boesing who has joined us a postdoctoral researcher within the BEF-Up 2 project of the Biodiversity Exploratories. To find out more about Lari check her profile under the People tab. We look forward to working with you Lari!

BES meeting

We participated to the BES Festival of Ecology in December 2020. Here you can watch some of the talks we prepared for the conference!

Sophie's talk: Socio-cultural values consistently explain ecosystem service demand patterns across rural Germany

Gaëtane's talk: The supply of multiple ecosystem services requires biodiversity across spatial scales

Margot's talk: Decreasing landscape land-use intensity provides higher and more equitable ecosystem services provision

New paper!

Congratulations to Gaëtane on her new paper:

Le Provost, G., Badenhausser, I., Violle, C. et al. Grassland-to-crop conversion in agricultural landscapes has lasting impact on the trait diversity of bees. Landscape Ecology (2020).

New paper out!

Congrats to Malte Jochum & co-authors for the new paper "The results of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic" published in Nature Ecology and Evolution!

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