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MultiTroph Mar 23, 2024

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!🙏🏻🫱🏻‍🫲🏼🙏🏻
#MultiTroph #IOZCAS #Biodiversity

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MultiTroph Mar 22, 2024

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 🐝🐛🐝

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 Staab🧪📈📊

#Multitroph #IOZCAS #biodiversity #statistics #DNA

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MultiTroph Mar 21, 2024

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 Jörg Albrecht of the Senkenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre for his insightful Keynote speech on natural history collections! 🫱🏻‍🫲🏼🙏🏻
#MultiTroph #BEFChina #IOZCAS #biodiversity

MultiTroph Mar 21, 2024

A great opportunity for German and Chinese MultiTroph researchers to meet all together in Beijing at the 2024 MultiTroph Symposium! 🫱🏻‍🫲🏼🫱🏻‍🫲🏼
Many thanks to Prof. Zhu Chao-Dong for hosting us at the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences! 🙏🏻🙏🏻
#MultiTroph #IOZCAS #BEFChina #Beijing

Jana Petermann Mar 20, 2024

Symposium of the #MultiTroph project starting in Beijing today! #biodiversity, #subtropical #forest, #insects, #multitrophic #interactions, #ecosystemfunction, www.multitroph.com, www.bef-china.com, @multitroph

Alexandra-Maria Klein Mar 20, 2024

Our #MultiTroph
symposium is starting with Finn Rehling showing that decomposition is slowed down when ants are present as they protect the carrion from other insects.

Jana Petermann Nov 15, 2023

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!
@multitroph, @naturealexk
https://multitroph.com/, https://bef-china.com/

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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MultiTroph May 23, 2023

Finally we begin! 🤩 First steps in China for our multitropher pioneers! 🇨🇳 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! 🧭
#MultiTroph #BEFChina #IOZCAS #fieldwork #biodiversity

MultiTroph Apr 27, 2023

According to our own kickoff survey, we will have published about 19 papers by December 2026... Let's see how this news will age 😜🤓
Follow us on our journey!
#MultiTroph #ecologicalnetworks #biodiversity #ecosystemfunctioning #BEFChina

MultiTroph Apr 25, 2023

A few last steps before starting the field work! Visa application: submitted! ✅️🇨🇳
#MultiTroph #BEFChina #fieldwork #China