Our first analysis and paper on rainforest reassembly focuses on ants. During his PhD thesis, Phil Hoenle collected and identified a total of 283 ant species from litter, ground and tree trunks in 61 plots. The diversity was relatively high even in the agricultural sites, but ant community composition and …
While part of the team already disappeared in the djungle, some of us just had a first inspiring meeting across different subprojects on how to connect theory and empiry when it comes to mutualistic network assembly. Our theoreticists from SP1 kicked off the meeting with an input presentation about their …
Four snapshots from a wildlife camera campaign across our study plots performed by the Team Fabrikschleichach. A puma (Puma concolor), jaguar (Panthera onca), tayra (Eira barbara) and an ozelot (Leopardus pardalis) walked through the forest plots in November 2021.
Dung beetles are important secondary seed dispersers of mammal-dispersed plants in tropical forests – in our study site and worldwide. Beetles often bury the seeds that are included inside dung piles into the ground – if they are not too large in relation to the beetle. Beetles clean large seeds …
[in German only] Hessen-Schafft-Wissen hat kürzlich zwei Podcasts veröffentlicht – einen, in dem Nico Blüthgen über die Faszination und Relevanz von Regenwäldern spricht und das Projekt in Ecuador vorstellt (hier), und einen weiteren, in dem Nina Farwig den Zusammenhang zwischen Biodiversität und Ökosystemfunktionen erklärt (hier).
This 10-min video shows the hypotheses behind, and implementation of, the perturbation – recovery experiment.
Fundación Jocotoco is currently building a new research station – the Chocó Lab – in the Canandé rainforest reserve in Ecuador, thanks to a generous donation. The Research Unit Reassembly and TU Darmstadt are supporting the lab and scientific equipment. See News from Jocotoco and a short video.
Atikel in der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung am 21. Juli 2021 von Hildegard Kaulen. Können komplexe Ökosysteme sich wieder regenerieren? Forscher schreiben am Drehbuch für den Wiederaufbau der von Menschenhand zerstörten Natur. Nur für FAZ-Abonnenten lesbar: LINK.
A very enjoyable article about our research unit just appeared in TU Darmstadt’s hoch3 journal, written by journalist Hildegard Kaulen. Also in German language here. And our most poisonous frog made it on the title page.
