ANDIV

Studying insects and their microbiomes in the Peruvian Andes

[National Geographic España @NatGeoEsp]

🗣 Kim Lea Holzmann, bióloga tropical: “Los insectos han perdido su capacidad para adaptarse al cambio climático” https://t.co/S8fwgiUjZi

[Yenny Correa-Carmona 🦋 @DaphnisLin]

🦋 New paper out!

Dry moth specimens retain only 30-40% of their original body mass. We derived correction factors to estimate fresh weight from museum collections.

@NotaLepido | Open access
https://t.co/M80SxIzVV6

#Lepidoptera #Entomology #Moths
@ANDIV1234

[Kim Lea Holzmann @KL_Holzmann]

Really happy that a moth made it to the cover of @Nature! Thanks to my co-author Gunnar Brehm for this great photo 📸
Find our study on thermal limits in tropical insects in this week's issue:
https://t.co/R1m4vEI0l0...

@ANDIV1234

[Yenny Correa-Carmona 🦋 @DaphnisLin]

🦋 What if we could automatically extract traits from thousands of Lepidoptera specimens?

We present LEPY, a Python pipeline for automated extraction of morphological and colour traits from Lepidoptera images!

https://t.co/EkXXttHcjl

#Lepidoptera #Ecology #Python @ANDIV1234

[Kim Lea Holzmann @KL_Holzmann]

Big effort, exciting results - our paper on the constraints of thermal limits in tropical insects is now out in @Nature! 🦋🐝🪰🪲🦗 @ANDIV1234

https://t.co/aWoyktD1ci

[ANDIV @ANDIV1234]

New ANDIV paper published! What determines the insect gut microbiome along a tropical elevation gradient? Check out the exciting results, led by Andrea Pinos! 🧪🧬
https://t.co/8g9Ix8Dm1i

[ANDIV @ANDIV1234]

New results from the ANDIV project just published in @ESAEcology

[Kim Lea Holzmann @KL_Holzmann]

Second PhD paper published!
Curious about mammal diversity patterns and their drivers along a tropical elevation gradient? 🐆🌳
https://t.co/ddm2uul2Gz 🧵1

[Kim Lea Holzmann @KL_Holzmann]

It's published! The first paper of my PhD: the effect of Amazonian #coldwaves on #insects and wild #mammals ❄️🌴https://t.co/BlEm8Fyj4s
@ANDIV1234
@Zoo3_Wuerzburg
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[ANDIV @ANDIV1234]

This publicly available online talk is a little sneak preview of a paper that is soon going to be published from the ANDIV project, addressing the exciting #coldwaves in the South American #tropics ❄️

[Kim Lea Holzmann @KL_Holzmann]

Are you curious what happens to animals if an extreme cold wave ("Friaje") hits the Amazon rainforest? Check out my talk at the Ecology and Evolution seminars @cassyniapp from @RSocPublishing
https://t.co/r268283vdL

[ANDIV @ANDIV1234]

First #barcoding results in!

[Kim Lea Holzmann @KL_Holzmann]

Exciting office times! We got back the sequences from all our tropical insect samples, from which many will be undescribed species. Had to learn how to handle that kind of data and how to create a phylogeny, but finally we got there - Aren't trees beautiful?! 🧬

[ANDIV @ANDIV1234]

@AbelsAntonia presenting her master's thesis on diptera diversity along the tropical elevation gradient at the AK Diptera meeting, this year at Norderney! Congrats, such nice work 👏🪰

[Kim Lea Holzmann @KL_Holzmann]

All insect samples (almost 10,000!) collected along the tropical gradient @ANDIV1234 in Peru within a year of intense fieldwork are now on their way to the genetic lab for DNA #barcoding. Probably many of our samples will be new to the database. I'm very excited for the results!

[Yenny Correa-Carmona 🦋 @DaphnisLin]

After several years of working with them, I still find the #sphingids beautiful and very fascinating. Here are some #hawkmoths from #Peru, collected as part of the @ANDIV1234 sampling project, and deposited in the Phyletic Museum in Jena, Germany.

[ANDIV @ANDIV1234]

Back to the lab! @KL_Holzmann and @pal_biology processing the very diverse Malaise and light trap trap samples from the gradient in Peru 🐝🪰🦟🪲🦗🦋🐜

[Zoology III Würzburg @Zoo3_Wuerzburg]

📢Join @Zoo3_Wuerzburg at @Uni_WUE in our🆕MSc Program "Conservation Biology and Applied Ecology"
Topics: biodiversity 🐦‍⬛🦋, ecosystem services 🐝, agroecology 🚜, chemical ecology 🐜, soil ecology 🕷️, effects of land use 🏙️& elevational gradients 🏔️etc.
https://t.co/JWPD7YO4np

[Yadvinder Malhi @ymalhi]

We are hiring! Looking for a postdoctoral researcher in ecoacoustic, to explore what soundscapes can (and can't) tell us about ecological health and function

[REASSEMBLY Research Unit reassemblynet.bsky.social @ReassemblyNet]

Dung-beetle networks: 🐒🐈Mammal DNA in 🪲beetle gut 💩reveal that nocurnal 🌜#dung #beetles use #jaguar and #puma dung, diurnal 🌞species follow the #monkeys. New paper by @karenpedersen5 & @BeerenVon in @thePeerJ
https://t.co/JABm5Bh3Me

[Kim Lea Holzmann @KL_Holzmann]

Only 3 months ago this was what my daily life looked like. Data analysis is exciting, but so was the Peruvian jungle!

[ANDIV @ANDIV1234]

Bringing some tropical vibes to Portugal! Team #bees @pal_biology and team #dungbeetles @KL_Holzmann with some first exciting results at #gtoe2024 this week 🐝🪲