News
NEW PUBLICATION : Species-specific dung characteristics and selective grazing jointly affect plant diversity in an experimental grassland community
Xingzhao Sun, Judith Sitters, Leonardo H. Teixeira, Martin J. Wassen & Harry Olde Venterink Mammalian herbivores play a pivotal role in nutrient cycling and plant community composition.
NEW PUBLICATION : Impact of native community diversity and plant-soil feedbacks on invasiveness in experimental temperate grasslands varies among invasive species
E. P. Goossens, V. Minden, H. Olde Venterink Plant-soil feedbacks (PSFs) are a key mechanism regulating species dynamics in plant communities, typically negative due to the buildup of species-specific pathogens.
NEW PUBLICATION : Effects of DNA-demethylation on the expression of plastic and transgenerational responses to nitrogen availability in annual plant species
Vanessa Minden, Conchita Alonso, Harry Olde Venterink, Koen J. F. Verhoeven The parental environment can influence the phenotype of the offspring generation. Such parental environmental effects may be transmitted via epigenetic modifications, such as DNA methylation.
NEW PUBLICATION : Urban warming alters body size in Neotropical geometrid moths: Divergent patterns at community and intraspecific scales
Diana Ontaneda-Jiménez, Fernando P. Gaona, Thomas Merckx, Konrad Fiedler, Adrián Escudero, Carlos Iván Espinosa 1. Urbanization is a global phenomenon inducing rapid and permanent land-use changes.
NEW PUBLICATION : Population history shapes urban evolutionary dynamics: distinct genetic structure across urban and rural Europe in two lepidopterans
Sami M. Kivelä, Kyung Min Lee, George C. Adamidis, Simona Bonelli, Frederik Hendrickx, Peter Huemer, Tomas Kadlec, Tuomas Kankaanpää, Guillaume Minard, Matthew E.
Plants in danger (with video in Dutch)
If you want a lush garden full of vibrant plants and flowers, you might think it's just a matter of planting them and waiting for the rain. Or... do your plants also need a little fertilizer now and then? And can you actually give them too much?
Eos Blogs: Stag beetles in the city have a different way of impressing each other.
Male stag beetles living in urban areas are often smaller than their forest-dwelling counterparts. Yet, even the smaller males can be successful. Elias Beck is determined to find out why. Read the article (in Dutch) here.
Events
Practical info27/08/2024 - 15:00 - 27/08/2024 - 17:00PhD Defense of Xingzhao Sun: Investigating the Ecological Impact of Herbivore Dung on Plant Diversity
On August 27, Xingzhao Sun will defend her PhD thesis titled "Impact of Herbivore Dung Quantity, Quality, and Grazing Activities on Plant Growth and Competition".
