Dr. rer.nat., ecologist, postdoc @Zoo3_Wuerzburg, biodiversity, pest control & landscapes🦋🐞, tiger beetles, curator @iNaturalist, japanophile 🌸, views my own
Würzburg, Germany
Joined October 2016
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Fabian A. Boetzl retweeted
The informal poll results are in, & as I feared, most people are running ANOVAs in #R with functions that can give highly misleading (or flat out wrong) results. Follow along to see why using anova() and aov() is usually inadvisable & why you should be using car::Anova() 🧵
Fabian A. Boetzl retweeted
Gardens reduce hunger gaps for farmland pollinators! 🏡🐝 In early spring & late summer rural gardens produce 50-95% of farmland nectar, throwing pollinators a crucial lifeline. More in our @royalsociety paper with @nicktew95 and Jane Memmott: doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.15… and in🧵👇
Fabian A. Boetzl retweeted
Temperate alley-cropping agroforestry improves pest control potential by promoting spider abundance & functional diversity
Suggests that alley-cropping agroforestry may be an important management strategy to develop more sustainable agricultural systems
doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14…
Very excited that the @webofscience has flagged our paper on #carabid beetle within-field distance functions published earlier this year as highly cited! 🪲🌱🌽
Writing this paper was a long process and I am immensely grateful to all the wonderful people involved! Original thread here: xitter.cf/fboetzl/status/1745062…
After more than five years of work, it is my great pleasure to announce that our synthesis on #carabid within-field distribution is now published in Proceedings B! #pestcontrol #agroecology #TeamBeetle @RSocPublishing
doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.23…
Fabian A. Boetzl retweeted
New & #OpenAccess in @ESAApplications: On European farms, small mobile ground beetles boost pest control & crop yield, but reducing land-use intensity to help the beetles may do more harm than good for yields
doi.org/10.1002/eap.3035
With #OpenData & code in @datadryad
ALT Proposed causal relationships between local land-use intensity, the percentage of arable land in the landscape, the functional diversity of ground beetles and crop yield as well as relationships between functional diversity, pest control (measured as the percentage of removed aphids), and crop yield. Marginal R²-values (R²m) indicate the variation explained by fixed effects, conditional R²-values (R²c)indicate the variation explained by fixed and random effects (country identity). Blue arrows indicate positive, red arrows negative correlations and the strength of arrows corresponds to standardized path coefficients; (- - - = ns, *** p < 0.001)
Fabian A. Boetzl retweeted
An absolutely bonkers stat from this Nature article on Nobel Prize winners.
"702 out of 736 researchers who have won science and economics prizes up to 2023 are part of the same academic family"
nature.com/immersive/d41586-…
In our latest paper published today, we assess activity windows and habitat choices for reproduction and overwintering in #fleabeetle pests of SOSR in #Sweden and point towards possibilities for sustainable pest regulation @_SLU doi.org/10.1111/afe.12659
This is the third paper in a series – we also investigated landscape-scale predictors of flea beetle damage in SOSR (doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14…) and linked dispersing flea beetles to crop damage in the subsequent season (doi.org/10.1111/afe.12596).
Fabian A. Boetzl retweeted
This #PeerReviewWeek we're sending a massive thank you to everyone who has taken the time to review with us over the past year! 📑
#PeerReview is a crucial step in helping us to publish quality research 🌺 @PeerRevWeek
You can view the full list here: bit.ly/4dnoQmj
Fabian A. Boetzl retweeted
Interesting and unsettling: sclerotized parts of male insect genitalia can change significantly with adult age. Taxonomists tend to think of these parts as fixed from adult emergence.
The diving beetle Agabus lotti syn. nov. must be regarded as a junior synonym of A. uliginosus, this study argues.
#DNAbarcoding #beetles #entomology @zszcsabai @unibt @unilodz @BalatonScience
doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1212…
Fabian A. Boetzl retweeted
The tiger beetle diversity of China is studied, with nine new records from Guangxi and four new records from Hainan: doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1210…
@fboetzl #taxonomy #beetles #Coleoptera
Fabian A. Boetzl retweeted
Applications for our 2025 Associate Editor Mentoring Scheme have just opened! 🌱
If you're an #ECR based in the Global South looking to learn more about the peer review process, then this voluntary two-year position could be for you 📑
Find out more 👇appliedecologistsblog.com/20…
Fabian A. Boetzl retweeted
➡️Our new🪳🦟🐛🌱🍃SPECIES INTERACTION NETWORK critique & analysis tips! Let's debate & let us know if you disagree! Ask for PDF via [email protected]
A Critical Evaluation of #Network Approaches for Studying Species #Interactions | Annual Reviews - go.shr.lc/4fph7q0
In a new #OpenAccesspublication in @ZooKeys_Journal, we expand the knowledge on the #tigerbeetlefauna of China with 8 new species reported for the country #entomology zookeys.pensoft.net/article/…
Apart from providing beneficial #weedregulation, many seed-consuming #carabids can also harm crops – we unearthed evidence for 72 species acting as crop pests and highlight the need to understand role switching for reliable #ecosystemservice provision. doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2024.…
ALT Top left: The strawberry seed beetle, Harpalus rufipes, feeding on a strawberry; bottom left: The corn ground beetle, Zabrus tenebrioides, feeding on ripening wheat seeds; Right: Interactions between carabid genera (left; with number of species indicated in parentheses) acting as pests on crops (right) found in the literature review.
Fabian A. Boetzl retweeted
Thrilled to share our new article with my amazing colleagues: "Birds & bats outperform ants in top-down regulation of arthropods across strata of a Japanese temperate forest." 🦇🐦📜
Challenging fieldwork, but a big accomplishment!
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Cool initiative, but maybe not so helpful to choose the most prominent carabid crop pest to advertise for it here ...
Rothamsted creates beneficial carabid beetle guide aafarmer.co.uk/agronomy/roth…
