Category: BugNet experimental study

We are happy to announce that BugNet is now on Bluesky! Please feel free to tag us in your posts (@bugnet.bsky.social) and we will be happy to re-skeet them. As hate speech and misinformation is dominating X (former twitter) now, we archived our account there and won’t be active on X anymore.

Learn more about the warming add-on.

Learn more about the Nematode add-on that is online now!

Learn more about our Allometry add-on that is online now!

Dear experimental BugNet-Collaborators, as announced, we do have a new addon-protocol for you: The Tea-Bag decomposition Addon, led by BugNet PhD student Sidonie Loïez from Norway.  In principle, we ask you to burry tea-bags of green and roiboos tea in your experimental plots, and weigh them before and after 90 days. The protocol is very…

As announced, we would like to have a short zoom meeting to discuss the planned tea-bag decomposition meeting led by Sidonie, and also to think about other ideas to better understand consumer removal on soil functions. If you are interested to participate in this meeting you are very welcome to fill out this doodle. We…

As beer traps for collecting molluscs seem to be almost too efficient and might attract molluscs from far away, we decided to simplify the mollusc survey add-on and will only use shelter traps for collecting molluscs (thanks Harald Auge and Martin Schädler for sharing your concerns and giving valuable recommendations!). This means for you all,…

Our Master student Eva finalized a protocol on how to survey mollusc in the BugNet plots. Our preliminary results suggest that the presence of pathogens and also insects might affect molluscs and vice versa. With this mollusc survey add-on we aim to shed some light on such potential interactive effects. It’s a quick add-on and…

A new page with frequently asked questions about the experimental study is now online. We will update it continuously. If you think that some questions are missing or the answers given should be revised, we would be grateful for your feedback! Yo can find the new page here and in the page navigation menu under…

One of our BugNet collaborators from Germany, Lotte Korell, has an open PhD position available at the Department of Community Ecology at the UFZ in Halle. The potential PhD candidate will experimentally investigate the effects of plant species immigration and climate niches on grassland communities under global change by setting up a seed addition experiment…