New paper by @albavianasoto.bsky.social and @corneliussenf.bsky.social on forest reburns in southern Europe, published in Glob. Ecol. and Biogeography🌲🔥 Highlight: 30.1% of burned forest area experiencing multiple fire events since 1985. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Prof. Cornelius Senf @corneliussenf.bsky.social has been appointed to the Landsat Science Team! ✨🛰️🌲 The members of the team are among the world's leading Earth Observation researchers and contribute directly to the strategic development of the Landsat program. More: shorturl.at/NMLAy

New paper in collaboration with Thomas Knoke's group and led by Reyhaneh Farahani: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... We incorporate extreme disturbance events into and economic assessment and show that extreme disturbances can lead to significant economic losses.

New paper out! We mapped forest recovery and its drivers in the Alps using multi-decadal fractional cover maps 🛰 and ecologically-informed recovery indicators 🌲.

We’re thrilled to be part of SafeNet, a Europe-wide effort to tackle biodiversity loss and boost forest resilience 🌳🌲 Watch the project video to learn more! SafeNet project website: safenet-project.eu

Our postdoc @albavianasoto.bsky.social took part in a new ForestChats podcast talking about forest disturbance in Europe - where, when and why it happens. Tune in if you want to learn more about our work! 🔊 www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD1n...

New paper by Wout Cherlet of @qforestlab.bsky.social with very valuable insights into tree instance segmentation including one of our intensive measurement sites in #Berchtesgaden National Park 🌳✂️🌲 Co-authored by @hanzlan.bsky.social and @corneliussenf.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.is...

A new paper by @lisa-mandl.bsky.social! By linking satellite time series with ground inventories (contributed by >50 coauthors across Europe), Lisa quantified the scale-sensitivity of landscape effects on forest recovery, showing the importance of landscape context. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🌲 The European Forest Disturbance Atlas by ForestPaths is now on Forest Information Systems for Europe! Using Landsat data (1985–2023), the maps track fires, storms, bark beetles & harvesting across 38 countries — open-source & updated annually. 🔗 Explore more: forestpaths.eu/news/forestp...

A new study by Mohr et al. (including our very own Prof. Senf) shows that forest disturbance costs in Europe could more than double under future climate scenarios, underlining the importance of adaptation in forestry. More details: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We keep growing! Are you excited about remote sensing and mountain forests? Then consider applying to this PhD position, supported by the TUM Center for Forest Management in the Alps! More details at: portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissens...

Can we map species richness across taxonomic groups from space? Promising results for fungi, plants, insects and birds in a mountain forest landscape, obtained by @corneliussenf.bsky.social et al. by combining different sensors (EnMAP, Sentinel-1/2). doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

We had to change our summer retreat plans due to bad weather but Munichs technical museum was a great alternative. They even have a stuffed spy pigeon on display!

We warmly congratulate @lisa-mandl.bsky.social on her successful PhD defence! In accordance with tradition, Lisa is wearing a special hand-made hat 🎓, illustrating her research and PhD journey, and signifying her transformation into Dr. Mandl😉

Were recent waves of large-scale forest dieback predictable? We say yes! A simple approach to describe temporal disturbance dynamics based on Taylor's Law. Now out in Nature Communications: rdcu.be/euG1A Thanks @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social and @rupertseidl.bsky.social for this great project!

Our new perspective on the use (& misuse) of what we're calling virtual forests (rather than digital twins!), for forest change from space, led by @kimcalders.bsky.social w many great colleagues 🔭 🧪🔬 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Greetings from the #LPS in Vienna! Tomorrow's the last and the hottest (at least for us) day at the conference: a talk by @albavianasoto.bsky.social and posters by a lot of PhD students! Do not miss the chance to connect ;)

We will be in Vienna for the entire next week, attending the Living Planet Symposium! Below is an overview of our talks and posters:🧵 #LPS25

🎓 Come work with us! We are offering a new PhD position in our lab! You will study the impacts of forest disturbance and fragmentation on microclimate and forest regeneration, together with @katjakowalski.bsky.social. Applicants from diverse backgrounds encouraged! shorturl.at/RT4uk Please RT!

This year, we have only a small - but mighty - presence at the @egu.eu annual conference. Come spark some tree-mendous ideas with our doctoral researcher Brittany Engle @englebritt.bsky.social who will present results of her work on mapping lightning-ignited boreal wildfires! ⚡️🔥🌲

📣In our new paper we analyzed the impact of #Landsat and #Sentinel-2 🛰️ #satellite data density and SMA endmembers on trends in #grasslands ground cover: - for monthly composites data density is irrelevant - correct endmember definitions are critical‼️ Check out the full paper tinyurl.com/wha6pzax

Natural disturbances are often invoked as an argument against creating new forest reserves. But are reserves more affected by disturbances than managed forests? For C Europe the answer is no, in fact reserves have lower disturbance rate & severity than managed forests! doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Strengthening European Forest Monitoring with Earth Observation! 🌍 Led by Prof. Martin Herold, 77 EO experts signed an open letter to the European Commission to consider wider implementation of Earth Observation data for the reevaluation of the Forest Monitoring Law. 🌳🛰️ Read here: shorturl.at/Kst5t

And just another example of using our European disturbance dataset. Susanne Suvanto @ssuvanto.bsky.social analysed forest harvesting regimes in Europe and assessed the importance of socioeconomic factors and disturbances for harvest intensity. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🎥 Our postdoc Alba Viana-Soto @albavianasoto.bsky.social talked about the development of innovative Earth observation tools for monitoring forest disturbances as part of the ForestPaths project @forestpaths.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGKN...

Together with a lot of colleagues, we show how to make in-situ monitoring networks more efficient, and how remote sensing 🛰️ and modeling can be used to complement them.

Another example of how our European forest disturbance data can be integrated in conservation research: colleagues from @au.dk (Aarhus Uni) mapped high conservation value forests in Denmark and analysed the rates of disturbance therein (very low!): conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

TUM is looking for a new tenure track Professor on Transformative Landscape Governance, bridging between landscape planning, social sciences and quantitative land system science. Open to early-career candidates, female applicants especially encouraged! Details: portal.mytum.de/jobs/profess...

Happy to share our new paper on soil-specific unmixing of croplands in Germany led by Felix Lobert. We adapted @katjakowalski.bsky.social’s approach using #Landsat and #Sentinel-2 🛰️ to account for soil variability using a soil reflectance composite developed at @thuenen.de EO: tinyurl.com/5n92ae5z

🎥 How do we study forests using satellite and laser data? Here's a overview by our Prof. Cornelius Senf (@corneliussenf.bsky.social) in a short video produced by @daadworldwide.bsky.social (with English subs): www.youtube.com/watch?si=KPm...

In a new paper, Anne Graser from University of Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social used our European disturbance map to understand disturbance and post-disturbance management impact on bird communities in Central Europe: doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Welcome to the new BlueSky page of our group! Follow for updates on our research in many collaborative projects examining forest structure, disturbance and recovery - with the main focus on European temperate forests and a new direction exploring the Eurasian boreal biome!