Reassembly Research Unit

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We study the recovery of a rainforest (Chocó, Ecuador). Resistance and resilience of species interaction networks and ecosystem processes. DFG-funded (FOR 5027) www.reassembly.de [Posts by Nico Blüthgen]

Nature conservation e.g. by NGO Fundacion Jocotoco, can help to bend the curve of biodiversity decline. The graph shows how large parts of the diversity comes back due to natural regeneraion of a rainforest. It illustrates the main finding of our study published in Nature: Protection restores 90% of species diversity in 30 years.

Pale billed aracari (Pteroglossus erythropygius) - one of the important fruit dispersing birds.

BE20 - Emerging Topics in Long-Term and Large-Scale Biodiversity Research

Tropical rainforests are structurally complex

The new Bothrocophias pitviper found in the Tesoro reserve. Foto by Mark-Oliver Rödel.

Title page of REASSEMBLY Newsletter #4

Ecological synthesis including forest ecosystems, grassland, land use, climate change, time series, stability, ecosystem functioning, biodiversity, species interaction networks

The picture shows a Oophaga sylvatica with four lesions caused by flesh-fly larvae

Tropidophis boulengeri copulation. Foto by Moira Wiedebusch.