How do forest disturbance, post-disturbance succession and temperature variability affect #moth and #butterfly diversity? Led by Imran Khaliq, we fitted 20,000 species distribution models to #CitizenScience data from across Germany and predicted responses: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Ready to start your own lab? Interested in #GlobalChange,#Biodiversity and #Ecosystem#Resilience? Join us in Göttingen - we are looking for a (female) Junior Research Group Leader in #EcologicalNovelty. Attractive conditions, see euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/415857 - please share widely if you can!

New lecture on #citizenscience and #biodiversity this winter semester in Göttingen! Open to students, but also the general public (exam for students only though😉). Most talks in German. Great line-up of speakers!

Come work with us! #PhD position on #ecosystem and #biodiversity effects of large #herbivores on the Eurasian steppes now announced: www.euraxess.de/jobs/395512 Nice combination of fieldwork and meta-analysis, co-supervised by @jonastrepel.bsky.social and ejlundgren.github.io

There is currently a lot of debate about #grazing vs. #mowing for #biodiversity - often polarized, with grazing seen as the holy grail and mowing as detrimental. I have long felt that it's not so much about one or the other, but about intensity and system. Well, here is another example:

Update on a new project on revitalizing coppice in Germany, from the Plieninger Lab ⬇️ I'm really looking forward to results from this one.

Tobias Plieninger@plieningerlab.bsky.social · last yr.

A warm welcome to our most recent social-ecological interactions group member, Pia Jensen! In this Medium blog post, Pia highlights the potential of traditional forest management (coppice forests) to meet current biodiversity and climate challenges in the forest sector. medium.com/people-natur...

#Bird #surveys: Do we need to rewrite our methodological standards? #PassiveAcousticMonitoring suggests that expert-based recommendations might lead to under-recording, due to diurnal and seasonal mismatches. New paper led by David Singer; with 25,000 h audio data: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#Fieldwork update from our PyroDiv project (uni-goettingen.de/en/690609.html): A Kazakh-German field team is now collecting data on the Great Steppe to reveal the impact of fire legacies and grazing on biodiversity. Great collab between @acbk.bsky.social @consbiogoe.bsky.social and @uni-muenster.de.

Long, exciting feature in @science.org today on land #abandonment, #rewilding and biodiversity by @dancharles.bsky.social, covering our abandonment research across Europe and Kazakhstan. Based on interviews with Gergana and Johannes + site visit in Bulgaria. Free to read: bsky.app/profile/scie...

Working from home before the start of the usual madness next week - window with a view!

First chapter of Anne Graser's PhD thesis now published⬇️ Stay tuned for another one on disturbance and birds using national bird monitoring data, and a third analysis on #moths, disturbance heterogeneity and deer again from the Harz mountains.

Conservation Biology Göttingen@consbiogoe.bsky.social · 2y ago

New paper! Forest disturbance through drought, windthrow, pest outbreaks and fire is increasing in Europe, driven by past planting decisions and climate change. In Germany alone, more than 500,000 ha of mostly Spruce died back in 2018-2022. Led by Anne Graser, we studied biodiversity responses...

Looking forward to visiting 🦣🌿🌐 #macroecology #paleoecology #rewilding #restoration

Conservation Biology Göttingen@consbiogoe.bsky.social · 2y ago

Don't miss the next Blumenbach lecture in Göttingen! We are delighted that Jens-Christian Svenning agreed to speak about trophic #rewilding and will provide insights from and for #macroecology, #paleoecology and #conservation. 20 November, 5:15 p.m.

Interested in #Sandgrouse, #Bustards or Sociable Lapwings? Join us for the international conference on Palearctic steppe birds in Spain! Abstract submission closes on 1st November. We will also deliver a keynote on post-Soviet land-use change and steppe birds in Kazakhstan.

Do our #ProtectedAreas work? New #openaccess paper on the effectiveness of the EU Special Protection Area (SPA) network for target species in Germany, led by Femke Pflüger: sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Joint project with www.dda-web.de and www.bfn.de

Interested in #butterflies, #moths, #ecosystem functioning and global change? Tired of one-year contracts? Join our lab for a Post-Doc position of up to 6 years in a large interdisciplinary project: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/278452

Hot of the press: Germany's first comprehensive biodiversity assessment. We have contributed text and expertise on birds (with dda-web.de) and forest conservation.

Don't miss the next Blumenbach lecture in Göttingen! We are delighted that Jens-Christian Svenning agreed to speak about trophic #rewilding and will provide insights from and for #macroecology, #paleoecology and #conservation. 20 November, 5:15 p.m.

Our lab is growing - anyone interested in joining us for an exciting project on biodiversity and citizen science?

Conservation Biology Göttingen@consbiogoe.bsky.social · 3y ago

Open position in our lab! Are you interested in citizen Science and biodiversity? Job at the nexus of data analysis, teaching and SciComm: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/188355 Come work with us and forum-wissen.de, biodivmuseum.de and dda-web.de. German language skills needed. Please repost.

New(ish) paper from Tejas' PhD out in Glob Change Biol: Changes in grazing systems have made the steppes of Kazakhstan a global fire hotspot - and that has strong effects on bird abundance and distribution: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Great collab again with @biogeoberlin.bsky.social

Call for papers! Conservation of Palaearctic steppes and semi-natural grasslands: challenges and solutions Special issue in Biological Conservation: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/biol... Coordinated by Orsolya Valkó, Jürgen Dengler, @leonardoancillo and me