So, @eccb26leiden.bsky.social is over. Great talks, inspiring keynotes, engaging questions, and a very friendly atmosphere. I hope to have the opportunity to take part in another ECCB event in the future. #ECCB26
Dominik Kaim
@dkaim.bsky.social
Geograf. Zawodowo i prywatnie. Geographer. At work and privately.
W tym tygodniu @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social otwiera się na społeczeństwo szeroko, oferując każdemu coś dla ciała i coś dla ducha! Popołudniami i wieczorami zapraszamy na #CopernicusFestival a w sobotę do południa na #TestCoopera!
We have started REDESIGN journey with an online kick-off meeting recently. Highly motivated, diverse and interdisciplinary group with ambitious plans to uncover depopulation impact on biodiversity in Europe! @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social @biodiversa.eu @econovoau.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social
Dense, dark forests in Europe are a modern phenomenon - Europe’s landscapes for 23 Myr were mostly tree- & flower-rich mosaics shaped by large herbivores, not dense #forests, see our new synthesis www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #forests #woodlands #paleoecology #nature #trees #refiorestation
Dense, dark forests in Europe are a modern phenomenon
A new, comprehensive study shows that Europe’s landscapes over the past more than 20 million years have predominantly been a mosaic of grasslands, scrub and woodlands of varying density. A light...
eurekalert.org
So happy to see our project, REDESIGN, on the list! @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social @ncn.gov.pl
Biodiversa+ (European Biodiversity Partnership)@biodiversa.eu · 8mo ago🙌 Thrilled to announce: 35 projects have secured €40M+ under #BiodivTransform! Over 3 years, they’ll tackle links between biodiversity loss, climate & pollution, shaping pathways for a healthier future. 🗓️ Kick-off: 22 Apr 2026 www.biodiversa.eu/2025/12/01/b...
Open Tenure-track Position in our Insitute! career position in compliance with § 99 (5) UG in the field of Environmental History with a focus on longterm socio-ecological research. 🌿 🗓 Application Deadline: January 6 @bokuvienna.bsky.social
Simone Gingrich@simonegingrich.bsky.social · 8mo ago📢 We are hiring! Tenure-track position in environmental history with a focus on long-term socio-ecological research. Exciting opportunity for post-docs working at the interface of environmental history & sustainability sciences. Deadline Jan 6, please spread far and wide! boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da...
Today, on the Vistula River, the one from several hundred years ago, peace and quiet.
Our recent paper in @peerj.bsky.social shows the gradual improvement in bear habitat connectivity due to land use change in the #Carpathians. We found also that up to 40% of the current corridor was stable since mid-19th century. peerj.com/articles/202...
Impact of historical land use change on the brown bear habitat connectivity in the Polish Carpathians
Background Europe has undergone dynamic land use changes in recent decades that have affected the extent, quality, and connectivity of large carnivore habitats. However, the current distribution of la...
peerj.com
Every spring I take a photo of our blooming campus. I think I should add a fall edition too.
Look to the past Our work (see below), together with those of other colleagues, is highlighted in the editorial of the last issue of @natrevbiodiv.nature.com and inspired its cover Thrilled and thankful to see that stuff @ebdonana.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Laetitia Navarro@laenavarro.bsky.social · 11mo agoFresh off the press! Our perspective in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com discusses the wealth of information on biodiversity contained in historical sources, and its integration for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation. A thread on the paper and what led to it: rdcu.be/eEcIt
🚨JOB ALERT🚨 Come work with me in Brno in a new project on how Scots pine & forestry changed societies and environments in the 18th-19th centuries! 🌲🌳 👇Fully funded postdoc position 👇 www.ibot.cas.cz/en/vacancies... Application deadline: 13.11.2025 Please distribute widely! #envhist #histecol
Here is the place where life emerged from water onto land – traces of a tetrapod can be found there. It can be reached from Kraków in just an hour and a half.
The 8th European Congress for Conservation Biology will take place in Leiden, NL! They will explore how #biodiversity can be safeguarded effectively in the long term. First call is open now! Check out: eccb26leiden.eu/calls/ for more info, we are looking forward to your contributions!
Today, late in the afternoon we have officially closed the 8th #ForumCarpaticum. This year in Bratislava at the @comeniusuni.bsky.social . Great event, fantastic speakers and lots of energy around. Hope to meet again in 2027 in another Carpathian country!
Old-growth forests, remote sensing, 19th century forest practices, traditional landscape, large carnivores, LiDAR data, invasive species, palaeoclimate, holocene climate change, grassland change - a short list of topics we touched during #FC2025 @egrabska.bsky.social @simonegingrich.bsky.social
This was definitely one of the most interesting pieces I have ever worked on. The fascinating diversity of perspectives and the wealth of sources made it really unique. Special thanks to @laenavarro.bsky.social and @chikichanka.bsky.social !
Laetitia Navarro@laenavarro.bsky.social · 11mo agoFresh off the press! Our perspective in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com discusses the wealth of information on biodiversity contained in historical sources, and its integration for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation. A thread on the paper and what led to it: rdcu.be/eEcIt
Historical land use changes are useful in predicting current biological plant invasion. Check the Hungarian example - link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Historical and recent land use/land cover changes as a driving force of biological invasion: a Hungarian case study - Biological Invasions
The spread of invasive plant species is influenced by various geographic factors such as the topography, climate, soil and hydrology, but the importance of each factor varies according to the species....
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Wolves and bears as scapegoats in the political struggle Science has been ignored in recent decisions on large carnivore management in Europe. All left to emotions, the pathway to authoritarianism @ec.europa.eu @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Deeply Political and Populist Decisions on Large Carnivores in Europe in Recent Times
Click on the article title to read more.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Last week @g4biodiv.bsky.social team from @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social was taking part in the #XXEGC #grassland #conference in Oulu. Great event and fascinating talks - we hope to take part also next near, showing the project progress!
OK, so we decided not do skip a GeoTdF year, but this stage is so boring that it's begging for some geo-info! We're riding along the North Sea coast towards Dunquerque. But even as recent as 20.000 years ago, there was no coast here! During the last ice age, the Channel was dry!
There is no gender-based discrimination in Polish Road Cycling Championship in media coverage. No media mention either Women or Men medalists... So: Kasia Niewiadoma and Rafał Majka. @wyborcza.pl @rmf24.bsky.social @tvpworld.bsky.social @tvp.info @radiowajedynka.bsky.social @tokfm.bsky.social
WUI matters not only for the wildfires. What is even more interesting, in the Carpathians, past WUI matters much more in carnivore damage prediction than current WUI. Check out our analysis focused on 🐺 and 🐻!
Ambio - A Journal of Environment and Society@ambio-journal.bsky.social · last yr.New publication: Impact of the wildland–urban interface on large carnivore damage in the Polish Carpathians Open access link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Rožmberk is the largest fishpond in the world. It's area is 4.9-6.5 km2, depending on the water level. It is one of the five hundred fish ponds, constructed from the 13th century onwards in Třeboňsko region in South Bohemia.
How the building number and density changed in Poland over the last 50 years? Check out a great paper (and map) lead by Piotr Szubert - doi.org/10.1080/1744...
