Had an amazing time at FoWiTa in Freiburg 🌲🌳 ✅ new connections ✅ reconnecting to (science) friends ✅ hosted my first session ✅presenting my two core PhD chapters ✅ insightful excursion ✅ new fodder for thoughts Great @edfm-tum.bsky.social representation with @johannesmohr.bsky.social 🚀

Our research in the National Park Berchtesgaden - both in the field and in silico - was reported on by NANO. The segment is in German and starts at minute 7:37 www.zdf.de/play/magazin... @rupertseidl.bsky.social @wernerrammer.bsky.social @christinadollinger.bsky.social

How expensive are natural disturbances for Europes forestry? I'm super excited, that @natclimate.nature.com decided to publish a Research Briefing by @rupertseidl.bsky.social and me related to our recent paper on the cost of disturbances. Check it out here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What makes German forests vulnerable to wind & bark beetles? 🌲💨🪳 👉 Elevation, Norway spruce %, precip. & slope. Will it get worse? 👉 Models predict a slight decrease by 2070 (RCP4.5 & 8.5). Great MSc by Rémie Matta, a wonderful co-supervision with @anastritih.bsky.social 📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

How expensive are 🪲💨🔥?! I can‘t believe it, but my 2nd PhD paper is finally published @natclimate.nature.com! Disturbances lower the economic value of Europes 🌲 by 29%... Climate change will increase it to up to 42%! (Now imagine a company looses 42% of its value…) doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02408-9

Climate change increasingly alters the interactions between forest disturbances. Here we present a framework for quantifying dist. interactions and compile evidence for their impacts. Led by @dudney-joan.bsky.social with @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social & @julieedtree.bsky.social doi.org/10.1146/annu...

A bunch of us went to the 2025 GfÖ conference (@gfoesoc.bsky.social) last week - always great to be able to share our research and connect with old and new collaborators!

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Protected areas safeguard old-growth forests against human land use, but not against the impacts of anthropogenic climate change. Here we show that a climate-mediated increase in disturbances could cause a decline in old-growth forests in a national park in C Europe. doi.org/10.1088/1748...

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...

Hunting strongly affects the habitat selection of red deer, particularly during daylight hours. This suggests that hunting can efficiently control habitat use, and underscores the value of protected areas w/o hunting to conserve the behavior of ungulates. Led by J. Eggers doi.org/10.1002/wlb3...

Several small reserves hold more beetle, spider and bird species than a single large reserve of the same size in Central Europe, with habitat heterogeneity being an important driver. First PhD paper by Anne Huber (not on Bsky), w/ @sebseibold.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

Come work with us! We are looking to fill a PhD (mountain forest management) and PostDoc position (forest adaptive capacity, w/ @juditlecinadiaz.bsky.social). We'd be happy to have you as part of our dynamic team! PhD: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0... PostDoc: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...

Small protected areas are often more easy to install than large ones, but they have a high proportion of their area close to the boundary. Are there boundary effects for important indicators of biodiversity? Find out more here: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi.... First PhD paper of Aikio Erhardt (not on Bsky).

As the mean rate of forest disturbance is increasing, so does its temporal variance. Proof that Taylor's law also applies to disturbance ecology, and a warning of more severe future extremes. Paper led by @corneliussenf.bsky.social w/ @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Canopy disturbances affect insect diversity via increased light availability and deadwood, but the effects of these two drivers on taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity differ. New insights from a replicated experiment, led by @juliarothacher.bsky.social @betafor.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/1365...

#WernerRammer visited @luke.fi last month to help advance the #iLand model for #SafeNet🌲 Inspired by a seaside sauna & concert, Werner implemented updates on the deadwood submodel: key biodiversity indicator. Joint publication in making 👀 @edfm-tum.bsky.social #ForestResearch #Biodiversity

As climate change modulates the processes in ecosystems, we need to confront process-based models with these new realities, and adapt them if necessary. We've done this in a new study focusing on bark beetle outbreaks, led by Agnish Das and @thlasny.bsky.social: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Two inspiring days of discussions to better understand forests' adaptive capacity to disturbances! 🌳🔥🪲💨 Grateful for the inspiring group, the motivation, and the ideas we exchanged! Thanks to @dfg.de for funding and to @edfm-tum.bsky.social for being part of the journey. Excited for what's ahead! 🚀

📢New study on forest-grassland ecotone expansion in the Eastern #Alps! 🌲 Using the iLand model💻, we explore how land-use abandonment & #climatechange impact #forests, disturbances & species shifts. 🔗 @marco-mina.bsky.social @edfm-tum.bsky.social @wernerrammer.bsky.social @unibz.bsky.social

Setting forests aside doesn’t stir up more trouble—in fact, it calms the chaos 🌳 Happy to see my first PhD chapter out! 📝 Setting aside forests for biodiversity conservation does NOT amplify disturbances in temperate forests of Central Europe. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Hotter drought synchronizes bark beetle outbreaks across large spatial scales. New insights from a massive pheromone trap network in C Europe (more than 60 Mill. beetles caught!), led by Maria Potterf. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#SmartForest2025 started with a full house and a fantastic key note of @rupertseidl.bsky.social! Looking forward to all the discussions in the next days

We are excited to host this year's Smart Forest conference #SmartForest2025 Over the next two days 150+ forest experts and practitioners will discuss new smart technologies and tools to support forest sciences and management We're looking forward to a lively exchange of ideas - see you in Freising!

PhD position at the University Freiburg with @anastritih.bsky.social

iLand is the first forest landscape model to explicitly simulate forest microclimate. Why? Because microclimate effects propagate across scales and influence important processes such as decomposition, regeneration and bark beetle development. Read more in Braziunas et al. doi.org/10.1007/s109...

Towards a global understanding of tree mortality. Important perspective led by the great @corneliussenf.bsky.social with contributions of 113 experts from around the world, facilitated through the Intl. Tree Mortality Network @treemortality.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Mark your calendars for the next seminar of the Intl. Tree Mortality Network @treemortality.bsky.social: On Feb 18, the wonderful @dudney-joan.bsky.social will tackle the exiting topic of disturbance interactions under climate change. More info and registration here: www.tree-mortality.net/seminars/

We are hiring! We're looking to fill a PostDoc position on social-ecological systems. Are you excited about the spatio-temporal dynamics of coupled human and natural mountain systems? Then come join us, and work in a wonderful & diverse team + beautiful environment! www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...

We are hiring a professor (assistant/associate) for Transformative Landscape Governance at @tumuenchen.bsky.social. If you're working on landscape planning under global change from a social-ecological perspective, we'd be happy to hear from you!

Our very own Fabian Fischer was selected as @commsearth.bsky.social's Outstanding Reviewer of 2025! Peer review plays an essential part in good science, so we're grateful to Fabian for contributing his time and expertise. www.nature.com/commsenv/ref...

Our lab recently took a trip to Kloster Raitenhaslach for our yearly lab retreat and the opportunity to visit the Stadtwald Traunstein where the TUM maintains longstanding research plots 🌳🌲

Harvest in northern temperate forests has reduced carbon turnover time by 32% compared to their natural state. Based on a new approach to estimate large scale natural disturbance regimes in the LPJ-GUESS model. With Cornelius Senf & @rupertseidl.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Come join us for the next seminar of the International Tree Mortality Network! Paloma Ruiz Benito will be talking about "Forest dynamics under global change: temporal perspectives with observational approaches". Talk's today, 12/3, 16:00 CET - abstract and link here: www.tree-mortality.net/seminars/

Does the effect of forest development on biodiversity vary with elevation? New insights across bacteria, fungi, plants, arthropods, and vertebrates from #BerchtesgadenNationalPark www.nature.com/articles/s42...