¡Nuestro cuarto boletín en su versión en español está disponible! En este número reflexionamos sobre los cuatro años de la primera etapa del proyecto, lo que también marca el cierre de varios proyectos así como la última contribución al boletín de varios de nuestros miembro. Los invitamos a leerlo para …
Gunnar Brehm and collaborators have published the first systematic inventory of 330 species of tiger and lichen moths (subfamily Arctiinae, family Erebidae) from the Ecuadorian Chocó. They combined field sampling, DNA barcoding, and phylogenetic analyses to assess species diversity, taxonomic knowledge, and evolutionary relationships. Their results show that only approximately …
In a new contribution, Ugo Diniz and collaborators reveal that tiger moths, often overlooked in pollination research, play a key role as floral visitors. These moths, a highly diverse and abundant group, visit many different plant species, especially those from pioneer plant groups. Even after 40 years of natural forest …
Our Last Reassembly newsletter is now out. It marks the end of the first phase of the project. Many thanks to all the PhD researchers and postdoctoral fellows who contributed chapters. This year, we conclude the first phase of the project and share what we have learned over the past …
Measuring proboscis length is an essential trait in pollination studies because it influences a bee’s efficiency as a pollinator. However, Frühholz and colleagues showed that existing allometric models developed mainly for temperate species often lack accuracy when applied to tropical bees, leading to under- or overestimation of proboscis length. They …
Ugo Diniz and collaborators investigated the recovery of abundance and diversity in Megalopta, a genus of nocturnal bees, and how these bees respond to the availability of floral resources across a forest regeneration chronosequence. They found that even after 38 years of forest recovery, Megalopta communities had not fully returned …
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Botanical Institute, Kiel University Start: beginning of 2026 Duration: 48 months Tropical rainforests host an extraordinary diversity in trees and herbivorous insects but so far it is still poorly understood how tree-insect-interactions change as forests recover from disturbance. This PhD project investigates tree-herbivore interactions along a tropical …
The University of Bayreuth is a research-oriented university with internationally competitive, interdisciplinary focus areas in research and teaching. Within the Faculty of Biology, Chemistry & Earth Sciences at the University of Bayreuth, the research group Population Ecology, Prof. Dr. Heike Feldhaar, is currently seeking to appoint a Research assistant (PhD …
Institute of Botany, Ulm University Start: beginning of 2026 Duration: 48 months Are you passionate about tropical forest research? Are you curious about plant-soil interactions and ecosystem function? Do you have a good understanding of experimental research and experience of tropical fieldwork? If you’ve just answered ‘yes’ to these …
