WildCoLab Leiden

🚨 Call for abstracts open 🚨 Check out the session list for the next European Conference of Tropical Ecology in Amsterdam (Feb. 2025)

A big congratulations to our PhD Student Manuela Rueda Trujillo for publishing her first paper. Manuela demonstrates that lianas are increasing at an alarming rate due to global change, which could have serious implications for global carbon sequestration. doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17…

Really happy to see this out now. And big shout out to Inger de Jonge who did an amazing job bringing integrating theory synthesis—multiple trait axis—with extensive field work. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

JOB ALERT @cml_biodiv @UniLeiden Come work in my department and join an institute full of amazing colleagues with cutting edge research. You won’t regret it! Closing beginning of June! universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies/2…

Out now Review by Inger de Jonge, Michiel Veldhuis, Hans Cornelissen, Matty Berg & Han Olff The metamicrobiome: key determinant of the homeostasis of nutrient recycling dlvr.it/ScBGMN

🦒#Didyouknow that today is #WorldGiraffeDay!?🦒 In this article, de Jonge et al. looked at spatiotemporal habitat use of large African herbivores, including giraffe, across a conservation border.🦓🦒🐃 You can find their article at doi.org/10.1111/csp2.1… #conservation #science

Proud day for us....our very own @michielveldhuis delivering his keynote talk at this year's TAWIRI conference on Human Wildlife Coexistence with a message of optimism and possibilities

Great to catch up with our Tanzanian colleagues - and meet new people - for lots of interesting discussions on #humanwildlifecoexistence and #invasivespecies 🌎

We had a wonderful WildCoLab Social last week 💕 taking our international group of PhDs and MSc interns curling!! A first time experience for most and lots of fun #AcademicTwitter

⭐️New Pub!⭐️In our new #OpenAccess paper in @BritishEcolSoc @JEcology, we show that agricultural conversion & afforestation of old-growth savannas in India destroy & degrade native plant communities that do not spontaneously recover on fallowed land. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… 1/n

For the full length video (2.5 mins) go to youtube.com/watch?v=OX-Jup…… Please share! We are raising funds and awareness about our new MOZiMAC project.. Are invasive plants changing our mosquito populations?! Let's find out! #invasiveplants #mosquitoes #ecology

For the full length video (2.5 mins) go to youtube.com/watch?v=OX-Jup… Please share! We are raising funds and awareness about our new MOZiMAC project.. Are invasive plants changing our mosquito populations?! Let's find out!

Great to attend the 16th int. aqu. plant symposium @UAntwerpen this week....the MOZiMAC project was officially kicked off!! We are excited to explore the interaction between Mosquitoes 🦟 and (invasive) Macrophytes 🌿 💦 well be working with @RhodesUniCBC 💚

@Tressia_Chiko up next and gave an awesome presentation on her masters project at @RhodesUniCBC Common Salvinia becomes a stronger competitor when water hyacinth is subject to biocontrol #aquaticplants2023 #invasivespecies #ecology

Fantastic presentation by our MSc student Eva Rekkers... short term recovery of phytoplankton to invasive floating plants control....does removal = recovery?! #aquaticplants2023 #invasivespecies #ecology

summer 📚 pile still needs sorting? into (post/neo)colonial social #housing experiments/political terror/#neoliberal criminalization of lower-classes/North Africa/#ethnography-noir? Look no further! 😆 My book is now also out in paperback & 20% off ✂️ bloomsbury.com/uk/precarious-…

Our awesome PhD candidate Exavery Kigosi @kigosi87 teaching the next generation of Tanzanian conservationists how camera traps work. Final day of our #scicomm workshop....theory into practice! @UniLeiden

@Tressia_Chiko Enjoy!!! And good luck with your presentation if you haven't given it yet!

First day of attending the #ESSA (Entomological Society of Southern Africa) conference in Stellenbosch. It’s been great talks so far and networking!

Day 3 discussing the power of #storytelling for conservation , how important it is if we want to shift the global narrative surrounding African biodiversity #conservation 🇹🇿 and that it is a key tool for earth #optimism! Fantastic ideas, projects & outcomes coming your way 🌍

1/2-way thru our weeklong workshop @grumetifund with delightful Dr. @StrangeInvasive and Megan Hulscher from @UniLeiden sharing storytelling tools for science communication 🧪 with an inspiring group of local 🇹🇿 ecologists and conservationists #AcademicChatter #scicomm #LEGO