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Sergio Rasmann @serasmann

Ecologist studying the stunning diversity of biotic interactions between plants and other organisms and the environment

Joined December 2015
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Critical Scientists Switzerland@CriticScienceCH
4 Jul 2025
📱New book: Towards Convivial Sciences (Ed. CSS) A critical inquiry into dominant scientific paradigms. Bringing together #decolonial, #feminist & #ecological perspectives, we explore more democratic, humble & plural ways of knowing. 📖 doi.org/10.14512/97839872645
 #ConvivialScience
Cover of the book “Towards Convivial Sciences: Uniting Strands of Critical Inquiry”. Editors: Ephraim Pörtner, Tamara Lebrecht, and Critical Scientists Switzerland.

ALT Cover of the book “Towards Convivial Sciences: Uniting Strands of Critical Inquiry”. Editors: Ephraim Pörtner, Tamara Lebrecht, and Critical Scientists Switzerland.
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In @eLife: Connecting the dots: Managing species interaction networks to mitigate the impacts of global change doi.org/10.7554/eLife.98899

Connecting the dots: Managing species interaction networks to mitigate the impacts of global change

Ecological network management provides key mechanistic knowledge on ecosystem degradation that links species- to ecosystem-level responses to global change, and emerging technological tools offer the...

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Pengjuan Zu@PengjuanZ
8 Nov 2024
🎉Thrilled to announce my tenure-track position at University of Neuchatel (Switzerland), inheriting the lab of Prof. Ted Turlings. 2 PhD positions available on #ChemicalEcology and #Sustainable #agriculture đŸŒœđŸ«›đŸđŸ›đŸž Job details: informationecology.github.io

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I am pleased to share a series of novel hypotheses concerning chemically mediated plant-plant interactions science.org/doi/10.1126/scie


Exposing belowground plant communication

Root exudation could be harnessed for ecological and applied research

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Leaf metabolic traits reveal hidden dimensions of plant form and function | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/scia


Leaf metabolic traits reveal hidden dimensions of plant form and function

Leaf metabolic traits describe additional dimensions of plant life-history variation that expand the functional trait concept.

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Clara Zemp@ClaraZemp
14 Jun 2023
Hearing about regenerative #palmoil, here is our science-based evidence that oil palm agroforestry is promising : Zemp et al. Nature 618, 316–321 (2023) doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-0
 @Kamal_Seth @RSPOtweets @WWF_ID

Tree islands enhance biodiversity and functioning in oil palm landscapes

Nature - A large-scale, five-year study in Indonesia finds that enriching oil palm-dominated landscapes with patches of trees bolsters biodiversity and ecosystem functioning without impairing oil...

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Pour les rhinocĂ©ros noirs, c’est «les cornes ou la vie» ⁊@blackrhino_ecol⁩ lematin.ch/story/pour-les-rh

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Reductions in home-range size and social interactions among dehorned black rhinoceroses (Diceros bicornis) | PNAS . great work @vannessa_duthe ! pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pn

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Rhinos’ Horns Were Cut to Thwart Poachers. After, They Didn’t Go Out Much. nytimes.com/2023/06/12/clima


Rhinos’ Horns Were Cut to Thwart Poachers. After, They Didn’t Go Out Much. (Published 2023)

New research shows a conservation strategy can disrupt the animals’ social networks.

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Cutting off rhino horns to prevent poaching makes them homebodies | Science | AAAS science.org/content/article/


Cutting off rhino horns to prevent poaching makes them homebodies

The practice may protect rhinos, but it changes behavior and could have long-term consequences

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During the diversification of plants, entire families lost association with AMF. We here show genus-level decline in mycorrhizal colonization and chemical defense responsiveness to mycorrhization. @vandeHeijdenLab, @CrowtherLab, @NinaRonsted cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S

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GO GREEN
@ECOWARRIORSS
4 Mar 2023
Main stream media never cover the real price of economic growth and so called progress What humans are doing to other species They are also doing to themselves - the only difference is time x.com/LicypriyaK/status/1632


Licypriya Kangujam
@LicypriyaK
4 Mar 2023
A message from Indonesia, a female, almost hairless #orangutan with her baby in their new mining ‘habitat’. 😱
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Mike Hudema
@MikeHudema
22 May 2023
This is what the world will look like over the next 100 years...if we fail to act. We have no time for business as usual. No time to waste, no planet B. #ActOnClimate #climateemergency #climate #energy #tech #solar #wind #GreenNewDeal
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Thomas Crowther@TWCrowther
20 Apr 2023
Great new article from Susan Cook-Patton. Revitalizing the planet is about rebuilding local biodiversity and human well-being across the globe, and there are wonderful climate benefits that result if we achieve these things. #GenerationRestoration forbes.com/sites/worldeconom

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Emmanuel Defossez@ManuDefossez
6 Apr 2023
#PhDposition in eco-metabolomics at the University of NeuchĂątel! Explore the metabolome of thousands of plant species across botanical gardens and the Swiss Alps to uncover the ecological and evolutionary mechanisms governing phytochemical diversity. #dbgi #emi
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Clara Zemp@ClaraZemp
3 Apr 2023
Please RT @UniNeuchatel @soctropecol @theATBC @Restor_eco @ConservDrones @ConservationOrg @BES_Tropical @ForNaLab @biodiversityCH @BioGeoMacro
Clara Zemp@ClaraZemp
3 Apr 2023
We offer a #PhD position in #tropical #forest #ecology and restoration at the University of NeuchĂątel, Switzerland. You will conduct field work in several sites in the tropics (South America, Africa, Southeast Asia), using a drone and terrestrial Lidar. Apply until 01/05
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One hundred important questions facing plant science: an international perspective nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/

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Environmental friendly approach to pest management: Silicon Nanodots Increase Plant Resistance against Herbivores by Simultaneously Activating Physical and Chemical Defenses pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs


Silicon Nanodots Increase Plant Resistance against Herbivores by Simultaneously Activating Physical...

Nanosilicon applications have been shown to increase plant defenses against both abiotic and biotic stresses. Silicon quantum nanodots (Si NDs), a form of nanosilicon, possess excellent biological...

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L‐DOPA a neurotransmitter precursor functions as a plant pheromone for belowground anti‐herbivory communication - Cascone - Ecology Letters - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/


L‐DOPA functions as a plant pheromone for belowground anti‐herbivory communication

Using bioassay-guided fractionation, we isolated and identified the non-protein amino acid L-DOPA, released from roots of Acyrtosiphon pisum aphid-infested Vicia faba plants, as the most active...

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