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🦋 New paper out! Dry moth specimens retain only 30-40% of their original body mass. We derived correction factors to estimate fresh weight from museum collections. @NotaLepido | Open access nl.pensoft.net/article/181245/ #Lepidoptera #Entomology #Moths @ANDIV1234

Really happy that a moth made it to the cover of @Nature! Thanks to my co-author Gunnar Brehm for this great photo 📸 Find our study on thermal limits in tropical insects in this week's issue: nature.com/nature/volum... @ANDIV1234

🦋 What if we could automatically extract traits from thousands of Lepidoptera specimens? We present LEPY, a Python pipeline for automated extraction of morphological and colour traits from Lepidoptera images! sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #Lepidoptera #Ecology #Python @ANDIV1234

Big effort, exciting results - our paper on the constraints of thermal limits in tropical insects is now out in @Nature! 🦋🐝🪰🪲🦗 @ANDIV1234 nature.com/articles/s4158…

New ANDIV paper published! What determines the insect gut microbiome along a tropical elevation gradient? Check out the exciting results, led by Andrea Pinos! 🧪🧬 frontiersin.org/journals/micro…

New results from the ANDIV project just published in @ESAEcology

It's published! The first paper of my PhD: the effect of Amazonian #coldwaves on #insects and wild #mammals ❄️🌴royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… @ANDIV1234 @Zoo3_Wuerzburg 🧵1/6

This publicly available online talk is a little sneak preview of a paper that is soon going to be published from the ANDIV project, addressing the exciting #coldwaves in the South American #tropics ❄️

First #barcoding results in!

@AbelsAntonia presenting her master's thesis on diptera diversity along the tropical elevation gradient at the AK Diptera meeting, this year at Norderney! Congrats, such nice work 👏🪰

All insect samples (almost 10,000!) collected along the tropical gradient @ANDIV1234 in Peru within a year of intense fieldwork are now on their way to the genetic lab for DNA #barcoding. Probably many of our samples will be new to the database. I'm very excited for the results!

After several years of working with them, I still find the #sphingids beautiful and very fascinating. Here are some #hawkmoths from #Peru, collected as part of the @ANDIV1234 sampling project, and deposited in the Phyletic Museum in Jena, Germany.

Back to the lab! @KL_Holzmann and @pal_biology processing the very diverse Malaise and light trap trap samples from the gradient in Peru 🐝🪰🦟🪲🦗🦋🐜

📢Join @Zoo3_Wuerzburg at @Uni_WUE in our🆕MSc Program "Conservation Biology and Applied Ecology" Topics: biodiversity 🐦‍⬛🦋, ecosystem services 🐝, agroecology 🚜, chemical ecology 🐜, soil ecology 🕷️, effects of land use 🏙️& elevational gradients 🏔️etc. biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/masterbioscien…

We are hiring! Looking for a postdoctoral researcher in ecoacoustic, to explore what soundscapes can (and can't) tell us about ecological health and function

Dung-beetle networks: 🐒🐈Mammal DNA in 🪲beetle gut 💩reveal that nocurnal 🌜#dung #beetles use #jaguar and #puma dung, diurnal 🌞species follow the #monkeys. New paper by @karenpedersen5 & @BeerenVon in @thePeerJ reassembly.de/news/uncover-t…

Only 3 months ago this was what my daily life looked like. Data analysis is exciting, but so was the Peruvian jungle!

Bringing some tropical vibes to Portugal! Team #bees @pal_biology and team #dungbeetles @KL_Holzmann with some first exciting results at #gtoe2024 this week 🐝🪲

12 months of fieldwork of the ANDIV project are successfully completed 🎉 We have lots of exciting data to process... insect samples, camera traps, thermal tolerance data, bioacoustics and climate data... New year - new chapter, from the field to the lab (and office)!