Come work with us! 🪲For our new project bAImo we are searching for a PhD researcher combining modelling 💻 with ecological expertise, aiming to improve interdisciplinary approaches to insect monitoring 🔎🐝 please visit tinyurl.com/bAImo-PhDoffer for more details. Looking forward to your application 🦗😊

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

Excited to share that my first PhD chapter just got published in @animalecology.bsky.social! You can check it out here: doi.org/10.1111/1365.... Based on fieldwork in the beautiful Waterberg Biosphere Reserve in South Africa, we show that.. (1/3)

Come and join us! Interesting talks, lively discussions, great speakers! (In German.)

Christmas market and dinner with the lab (and some friends of the lab)❄️

Do #protectedareas work? Some of our research on the topic was featured in Germany's prime news channel yesterday: www.tagesschau.de/wissen/klima... Scientific paper on the topic summarizing research by Femke Pflüger et al. (free access): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Big congratulations to Rodel for defending his PhD thesis with flying colours!

New paper - outcome from Shirko Shokri's PhD thesis: Weather and water abstraction drive changes in waterbird communities of Iranian wetlands: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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!

We had a great time at #gfoe2025 organized by @christianhof.bsky.social and many others. Good feedback on our analyses of historical bird trends across Germany, a project with @dda-avifauna.bsky.social.

New paper: 3rd chapter of Anne Graser's PhD thesis now published: How #forest disturbance, post-disturbance management and wild #ungulates affect #moth communities: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @jappliedecology.bsky.social

Does the decline of many #bird species also trigger a decline in species identification skills in young people? Are we already witnessing the #extinction of experience? Our new study, led by Talia Härtel, and based on a large questionnaire resurvey, suggests so: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#NewPaper led by Brett R. Hankerson, @tkuemmerle.bsky.social @kampjohannes.bsky.social @danielmu11er.bsky.social and Florian Schierhorn out now in Regional Environmental Change @iamo.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#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...

Changes in #grazing patterns explain post-Soviet fire trends on the Eurasian #steppe better than #climate. More empirical evidence that the build up of biomass due to the collapse of livestock systems made Kazakhstan a global #fire hotspot: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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!

Kommenden Samstag: Einblick in die Welt von Spinnern, Spannern und anderen Nachtfaltern - im Alten Botanischen Garten in Göttingen. All welcome! ⬇️ #ScienceNight #NightOfScience #NachtdesWissens

Leaving the #ivorytower behind: Kick-off of our participatory project on 200 years of biodiversity change, involving the people of Göttingen into university research. Participation in #research is important in times of #sciencedenial Funded by the 'pioneer projects' line of @volkswagenstiftung.de

There is a new open position at our Lab!! haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/... #newposition #phd

#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.

Interested in our research? Wanna take part in generating scientific knowledge? We offer a participative community science project on biodiversity change in the Göttingen area this summer (in German) - animals, plants, history and lots of fun! Info below⬇️ Funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de

Interesse, einen Einblick in unsere Forschung zu gewinnen? Wir bieten im Sommer ein partizipatives Projekt zu Änderungen der Biologischen Vielfalt in Göttingen an. Jede und jeder kann mitmachen! ⬇️

Congratulations! With an impressive defense, Anne Graser ended her PhD journey yesterday. She combined remote sensing, citizen science and own fieldwork to study biodiversity responses to forest disturbance, including the die-back of 500,000 ha Spruce in Germany after bark beetle outbreaks.

New paper by MSc student Bent Rech: Large herbivores complement each other in their habitat use, therefore reintroducing more diverse herbivore assemblages likely maximizes desired ecological impacts. See here for full story and contributors: bsky.app/profile/jona...

Check out our new paper, led by Bent Rech: we investigate space use of semi-feral water buffalo, cattle, and horses in a Danish rewilding area. We found that the three species differ markedly in their seasonal habitat selection and responses to resources and infrastructure. doi.org/10.1007/s002...

Now out! Contains a review by us on fire regime changes on the Eurasian steppes following collapse and recovery of livestock systems. royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

Neue Plattform zu #Biodiversität und #CitizenScience live! fokus-vielfalt.de Wir wollen Bürger* und universitäre Wissenschaft vernetzen, Artenkenner* ausbilden und neue Methoden in die Breite tragen. Pressemitteilung: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html... Gefördert von @volkswagenstiftung.de

Our student #moth course runs now for the fifth year - standardized methodology, extremely motivated students and rare species at the famous Kerstlingeröder Feld site. #teammoth #mothsmatter Live updates here as the data gets entered by the participants: observation.org/locations/67...

Meet one of the most gifted natural history illustrators in Germany, @fminifera.bsky.social - amazingly detailed and realistic #moth drawings from one of our study sites.⬇️ smartwork.bigcartel.com

Congratulations to Tejas Bhagwat on successfully defending his PhD with excellent results! Inspiring work on land-use change and birds in the Central Asian #flyway, through the annual cycle, skillfully combining remote sensing, fieldwork and stats.

Fellow Ecologists, The #gfoe2025 @gfoesoc.bsky.social call for papers has just been published. Please submit your abstracts for exciting talks and engaging posters to present in Würzburg in September! gfoe-conference.de/index.php?ca... @uni-wuerzburg.de @globalchangeeco.bsky.social

REGISTRATION OPEN Online registration is now open and the call for abstracts for oral presentations and posters has been published for the 54th Annual Meeting of the #Ecological Society of #Germany, #Austria and #Switzerland. HOW TO SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT: www.gfoe-conference.de/index.php?ca...

Back from the international conference on steppe birds in Spain, organized by @giaeavesteparias.bsky.social ! A great week of talks and exchange....

Successful kick-off in Göttingen: In Climate Future Lab DIVERSA (zkfn.de/en/diversa/), an interdisciplinary consortium will study forest disturbance triggered by climate change to shed light on drivers, and to increase forest adaptability. We will focus on large-scale biodiversity analyses.

Talk in Göttingen about our BBioDiv project on Citizen Science and Biodiversity, by Florian Goedecke⬇️

New paper with involvement of our @rodelnguimdo.bsky.social: Great apes' occurrence in peri-urban areas of Cameroon (with chimpanzees and people collecting resources from the same trees...): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Just published: A mini-review on post- #fire vegetation trajectories in #Arctic #tundra, co-authored with a team of international researchers @jandt-or.bsky.social 🌿🔥Link to the paper: doi.org/10.1111/1365...

🦬European #bison are Europe’s largest surviving herbivore – but would there be space for large bison populations in Central Europe? New paper addressing this question led by Hendrik Bluhm 👉 just out in Biological Conservation! doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... @humboldtuni.bsky.social #megafauna #rewilding

New paper! Various ways to construct multi-species indicators result in similar trends of forest #birds, but geographical fine-tuning means better representation of the regional bird community. Led by Enya O'Reilly, incl. the German Common Bird Monitoring data of www.dda-web.de. #PECBMS #EBCC

New paper! India's #agriculture-#savanna mosaics are changing: less traditional crops, more sugarcane. Led by @tejasconsbio.bsky.social, we studied implications for birds - those resident in India, but also steppe birds arriving from Kazakhstan such as Pallid Harrier and Sociable Lapwing.

With first sites being now resurveyed, we have just added another 50+ sites especially in Southern Germany: www.dda-web.de/monitoring/h... (+ more to follow!)

New paper! Despite being a global #wolf stronghold, little is known about human-wolf co-existence in #Kazakhstan 's traditional, low-input grazing systems with global biodiversity value. Led by Alyona Koshkina from @acbk.bsky.social and Svitlana Kudrenko, we present results...

Brief interruption in my/our doom scrolling/posting to share a paper I'm really proud of that has taken almost a decade with the very patient @exconomist.bsky.social @katehelmstedt.bsky.social P. Reich, S. Polasky & K. Boersma www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/n

New project! Ever wondered about shifting #baselines in #conservation? Thought about quantifying historical biodiversity losses? We launched a nationwide #resurvey of historical bird surveys in Germany. Together with www.dda-web.de, we have...

Neues Projekt! Veränderungen der #Biodiversität sind oft gut dokumentiert - aber selten für Zeiträume vor 1990. Ein Einblick in #historische Entwicklungen wird aber immer wichtiger: "shifting baselines" führen dazu, dass wir vergessen wie häufig Goldammer und Star in den 1960er Jahren waren...

Forest #disturbance and #biodiversity, part 2: Led by Anne Graser, we combined a large #citizenscience data set curated by www.dda-web.de and the European Disturbance map by @eoem-tum.bsky.social to predict...

Thrilled to share our newly published paper and my first first-author paper. We used hunting sign data from long-term monitoring in the Ebo forest, Littoral-Cameroon, to explore the spatiotemporal patterns of hunting activities. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper from Rodel's fast progressing PhD now out in @consbiog.bsky.social! Shotgun cartridges & wire snares reveal patterns of human hunting activity in the unprotected Ebo forest in Cameroon. Long-term approach with data from 2008-2023. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Want to explore datasets related to our papers? Check out the data section on our website hu.berlin/biogeo. We will try to constantly update and add new datasets. If you are looking for one, contact us so that we can give it priority!

Prospective students: We offer a new teaching module for the Bachelor Biodiv in Göttingen: 'Know your species! Biodiversity recording in a digital citizen-science era.' Species identification skills and knowledge about their natural history...