And here we are at the last day (😒) of our symposium, with Noga and Massimo concluding the series of subproject reports, and Georg holding a workshop on quantitative statistics! 🌱🦟🐜
Many thanks also to Arong Luo, Zhi-Shu Xiao and Huijie Qiao for their insightful talks on plant-pollinator-parassitoid networks, seed-animal interactions and ecological processes simulations!
And once more, our deepest gratitude to Prof. Zhu Chao-Dong for hosting this meeting!πŸ™πŸ»πŸ«±πŸ»β€πŸ«²πŸΌπŸ™πŸ»
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Second day of Symposium, second day of subproject reports: Georg (z2), Haikuo (sp2) and Mareike (sp3) were the protagonists of the day, followed by the Keynote talk of our Mercator Fellow Christina Grozinger on plant-insect interactions πŸπŸ›πŸ

But it was also a highly interactive day, with a visit at the museum of zoology of the Institute, and workshops on DNA barcoding and statistics lead by Douglas Chesters and Michael StaabπŸ§ͺπŸ“ˆπŸ“Š

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On day 1, Finn, Matteo and Joshua reported they progresses on z1, sp1 and sp 6 🐜🐜🐜
The meeting was then enriched by talks by Tobias Proß, Yi Li, Xiao-Yu Shi, Ming-Qiang Wang.
And special thanks to JΓΆrg Albrecht of the Senkenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre for his insightful Keynote speech on natural history collections! πŸ«±πŸ»β€πŸ«²πŸΌπŸ™πŸ»
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A great opportunity for German and Chinese MultiTroph researchers to meet all together in Beijing at the 2024 MultiTroph Symposium! πŸ«±πŸ»β€πŸ«²πŸΌπŸ«±πŸ»β€πŸ«²πŸΌ
Many thanks to Prof. Zhu Chao-Dong for hosting us at the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences! πŸ™πŸ»πŸ™πŸ»
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Symposium of the #MultiTroph project starting in Beijing today! #biodiversity, #subtropical #forest, #insects, #multitrophic #interactions, #ecosystemfunction, www.multitroph.com, www.bef-china.com, @multitroph
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symposium is starting with Finn Rehling showing that decomposition is slowed down when ants are present as they protect the carrion from other insects.
Reporting back from the first field season of #MultiTroph, #BEFChina! Fantastic data and beautiful pictures of #insects, #multitrophicinteractions, #arthropods, #forest #biodiversity, #ecosystemfunctioning, #foodwebs. Well done, PhD students!
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MultiTroph DFG Project

MultiTroph is a multi-disciplinary project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) that started in October 2022.

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Finally we begin! 🀩 First steps in China for our multitropher pioneers! πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ In Beijing to greet the Chinese partners, then at the research sites of Xingangshan... trying not to get lost in the first excursions in our BEF forest! 🧭
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According to our own kickoff survey, we will have published about 19 papers by December 2026... Let's see how this news will age πŸ˜œπŸ€“
Follow us on our journey!
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A few last steps before starting the field work! Visa application: submitted! βœ…οΈπŸ‡¨πŸ‡³
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