The Ecological Mind: ecology, research, creativity
Matthias C. RilligIdeas and thoughts about ecology, soil, biodiversity, environment, global change. One of the goals to generate opportunities for creativity and collaboration. So if you find a post interesting, let me know and contribute!
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Has environmental research on microplastics reached saturation?
Has research on microplastic in soil reached saturation, and what does this even mean? (Pic: M. Rillig)
I started working on microplastic in soils and terrestrial ecosystems in 2012, where the starting point was the first opinion paper on...
Extreme heat events and soil-borne antibiotic resistance genes
How does antibiotic resistance in soil respond to extreme climatic events? (Pic: one of the figures in Xu et al. 2026, PNAS)
Heat events have certainly been a major topic this year, at least in Europe. Using an existing dataset, collected...
Under-estimating mycorrhizal effects on plant nutrition: nutrient concentration vs uptake
AM fungal effects on nutrient uptake and concentration under drought and non-drought conditions (Picture taken from Liu et al. 2026 Functional Ecology; https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.70434)
Many studies on the effects of arbuscular myco...
AI agency as a new force in global environmental change
Artificial agency and global change: how can they be linked (Pic: M. Rillig)
I have written several times on this newsletter on how AI could influence the way we do science or how the environment could be affected, but earlier this summer...
Fostering creative output from lab meetings
How can lab meetings foster new ideas? (Pic: M. Rillig)
I am very interested in how to make labs more creative in general, and I have written about this before here on substack, and also, based on that substack post, in a peer-reviewed pap...
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Professor of ecology at Freie Universität Berlin. Works on and writes about soil ecology, biodiversity, global environmental change, and fungi. New ideas, creativity in ecological research. Book author. Highly cited researcher.
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