Just out in PNAS! We used multi-taxon data to model virtual forest landscapes. Forest withdrawn from timber harvesting are needed in a much higher share than they currently are in Europe, and extensive forests contribute less than expected to multi-taxon diversity. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Trends in indirect drivers have an effect on both direct drivers and nexus elements. -IPBES #NexusAssessment Report Want to know more? Check the Summary for Policymakers already available in English: https://www.ipbes.net/nexus/media-release

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!

Extremely happy to announce that @iiasa.ac.at will host the first author meeting of the @ipbes.net Spatial Planning and Connectivity assessment. iiasa.ac.at/news/sep-202...

EXPOSED: Google's £33 million contract to push Israeli propaganda in the UK Google's has run 39 Israeli government-paid-for ads on its platforms in the UK alone, trying to discredit reports on the Zionist's genocide in Gaza www.thecanary.co/global/world...

Fresh 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

Small article out on projecting European potential natural vegetation types. Code and data available, and maybe useful for some :) doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

#IALE2025 is about to kickoff. Looking forward to learn more about the current state of the science. If you are there, don't miss my talk on Friday 😀

Yikes - the land surrounding the Cerne Abbas Giant is up for sale! Lot 1 is top-quality chalk downland bursting with wildflowers & butterflies - orchids, skippers… going for £950k. It absolutely needs to be preserved. Hope the NT or similar can buy wdcdn.co/media/pdf/0f... wdcdn.co/media/pdf/0f...

📖Published📖 Authors introduce GECOT, an open-source command line tool for solving budget-constrained multispecies landscape connectivity optimization problems when measuring landscape connectivity with the probability of connectivity indicator 👇 buff.ly/uWrazth

Shannon's H, Simpson's D, and Pielou's J are useless in ecology. Fitting data with a compound abundance distribution based on the geometric series is a better way to quantify variation – and to estimate species richness. New paper in Ecology Letters. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Another assessment in line with our previous work emphasising the need to distinguish management when mapping forest cover, loss and gain www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Also just out: Our new review in @ecography.bsky.social on how ecological models tend to incorporate land use. Reviewing and benchmarking ecological modelling practices in the context of land use doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

Systematic conservation planning (SCP) has been established as key approach to identify where conservation efforts are to be prioritized. But how can they be assessed, compared or interrogated 🧐 Here we present ODPSCP, a new open protocol for the intercomparison of SCP doi.org/10.1111/csp2... (1)

Can Nature & People Thrive Together? 🌍🧑‍🌾🌽🌎🌴🐬🌏🚵‍♀️🍄🌐👍 An Aspirational Approach to Planetary Futures @nature.com.web.brid.gy www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interesting new paper on European conservation targets and land-use conflicts Land of opportunities: aligning organic farming and conservation targets in Europe doi.org/10.1080/0964...

In a new interdisciplinary Nature Climate Change Perspective paper, led by me, @lisgilmore and Rachael Shwom, we offer a critical perspective on #climate and social “tipping points.” 🎁: rdcu.be/d2gBC 🧵

#ScienceDiplomats: IIASA is looking for a strategic thinker with Scientific & Diplomatic expertise to lead our partnerships, diplomacy, strategic communications, & support leadership in developing a new #Science #Diplomacy Center. iiasa.ac.at/employment/j...

Academic and still reviewing papers? Reed this post and consider again if you hear about a journal named 'Discover XXX' asking for your help...

Interesting new indicator similar to the Red List Index, the Green Status Index of Species Recovery (GSI) A global indicator of species recovery doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

New paper and data led by @martacimatti.bsky.social and contributing to the @naturaconnect.bsky.social project out! The Accelerating Exposure of European Protected Areas to Climate Change doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Provocative read? I think terminology and acknowledging what we don't know is key here... Questioning the Sixth Mass Extinction doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

NaturaConnect's Piero Visconti and @martinjung.eu‬ (IIASA), contributed to the Science for Policy Report on the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030. Their contribution focuses on how biodiversity indicators can more effectively track the link to increased protection efforts. Read more: buff.ly/wOYHswl

Our new work on the impact of #conservation and management actions on bird populations within European protected areas is out. 🦆🦅 One finding being that management actions targeting habitats might help species more adjusting to impacts of climate change. doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

Integrated spatial planning is used to identify where restoration, conservation and production across Europe could maximize benefits to species conservation and climate mitigation under changing needs for food, bioenergy and timber to 2030 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our new work led by @milliechapman.bsky.social on the NRR is out in @natureecoevo.bsky.social 🎉 Integrated spatial planning can identify opportunities for restoration, while considering future land demand and burden sharing. Paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415... @iiasa.ac.at @naturaconnect.bsky.social

Our new work led by @milliechapman.bsky.social on the NRR is out in @natureecoevo.bsky.social 🎉 Integrated spatial planning can identify opportunities for restoration, while considering future land demand and burden sharing. Paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415... @iiasa.ac.at @naturaconnect.bsky.social

So happy to share our Review paper A well-connected Earth: The science and conservation of organismal movement @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

there has been something of a fox development 🦊🦊🦊

This USGS program includes, amongst others, the Climate Adaptation Science Centers and the Ecosystems' Land Change Science Program www.science.org/content/arti...

🦍 Conservation is not just about saving nature. It’s about building futures. Emmanuel de Merode, Director of Virunga National Park, delivered a powerful lecture at IIASA that reminded us what's possible—even in the most fragile regions of the world. 📺 Watch and read more 👉 iiasa.ac.at/congolecture

If you are interested in more upcoming datasets like these, follow the @naturaconnect.bsky.social account 😀 In the pipeline: Openly available data on conservation opportunity costs, current and future distributions of species and habitats, ecosystems, protection priority maps and much more...

We are recruiting a first stage researcher to model connectivity and map corridors between biodiversity-rich forests in Europe. The selected research will be part of our @upm.es team in the @safenet-eu.bsky.social project (Horizon Europe). Applications until 25/4. ℹ️ web.upm.es/hrs4r/es/hrs...

A few (a minority) of dog owners did not like our paper: From emails today "Stay the fuck in your shit hole country!" & "[you] deserve immediate dismissal from faux grifter jobs as “scientists,” [and] work for the local poop patrol as that is what they are good at shoveling" shorturl.at/MQ5I6

Damn, the SEDAC centre more or less shut down (data still accessible through NASA). Including many critical datasets such as gridded human population data and so forth. www.ciesin.columbia.edu/content/data

Important article highlighting issues of an often forgotten area. #freshwater #biodiversity Rapid decline of Caspian Sea level threatens ecosystem integrity, biodiversity protection, and human infrastructure. doi.org/10.1038/s432...

New #NaturaConnect data paper on defining FRVs for mammals out @globalmammal.bsky.social ! Quite useful for baseline setting and #conservation-planning. "Conservation targets for European terrestrial mammals using the favourable conservation status concept." doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Read our new review led by the fantastic Tin Buenafe on climate smart systematic conservation planning! A major contribution!

It's here. Pit in stomach feeling. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Exciting overshoot conference coming up at IIASA ⬇️

Check this out — American stocks were on par with global stocks up until late January — and have now dropped terribly since then Gosh I wonder what happened in late January?

Cutting a highway through primary #Amazon rainforest to host climate summit #COP30. Deforestation, carbon loss, land grabs, and biodiversity loss accelerate...ignored. But hey, at least there will be great speeches on sustainability. #DeforestationForClimate #IndigenousRightsIgnored #Greenwashing

Crazy times when stock markets and financial investors are proclaimed as 'Radical Left Lunatics'. Was this what Marx meant to say when workers should unite 😅

My #punkscience manifesto (1-8) 🧪 Feel free to share if this resonates #science

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

Great to be part of this exciting new project! With @iiasa.ac.at we are contributing with socio-economic and conservation assessments across Europe!