Matthias Baumann

Tropical dry woodland loss in India since 1880 and its relation to current megafauna distributions Tropical dry woodlands provide ecosystem services to hundreds of millions of people and support high biodiversity. Despite their importance, many dry woodlands are under high and rising human pressur...

A Century of Loss: Long-Term #DryWoodland Decline and Its Implications for India’s #Megafauna

Our latest paper, along with @matthiasbaumann.bsky.social, @arashghoddousi.bsky.social, @tkuemmerle.bsky.social and others is now out!

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Pasture and agricultural expansion in Gran Chaco drive biodiversity loss: Study A recent study has identified how cattle pasture and agricultural expansion, driven by global demand for beef and soy, is causing biodiversity loss in the Gran Chaco region of Argentina and Paraguay. ...

Our study on biodiversity loss embodied in trade is featured in @mongabay.com tinyurl.com/2edpu626 . Unfortunately, we at @biogeoberlin.bsky.social could not contribute to this news piece. Glad, though, that @nature.org calls the study 'very timely'
Link to the study: tinyurl.com/3xubzpbe

Madison, Wisconsin, is the best.

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One more week to apply to this exciting PhD position! come join the Conservation Biogeography group at Humboldt-University Berlin (hu.berlin/Biogeography) .@biogeoberlin.bsky.social

Das 15. (!) Land in Europa ohne Kohle. Wir sind dann in 13 Jahren dran.
Aber Deutschland hat angeblich Klimaschutz „überbetont“.

Exciting PhD position to work on large mammals and land use in Europe with the @biogeoberlin.bsky.social lab at @humboldtuni.bsky.social

‘On a knife edge’ – hot dry spring threatens arable harvest Analysis suggests the harvest could be one of the worst in records stretching back to the 1980s.

Climate change reduces farming efficiency, which leads to more land use to grow enough food, which leads to more emissions, and so on and so forth...

Major paper coming out on this feedback loop in a couple of days from the University of Minnesota, @projectdrawdown.bsky.social, and others!

🐄🐂 Putting landless cattle on the map! 🐄🐂
New paper in Env. Research Letters on mapping cattle intensification from space - across South America's dry diagonal doi.org/10.1088/1748... @erc.europa.eu @matthiasbaumann.bsky.social @pedrofernandez91.bsky.social #SystemShift @biogeoberlin.bsky.social

Attributing deforestation-driven biodiversity decline in the Gran Chaco to agricultural commodity supply chains Agricultural expansion is one of the principal drivers of biodiversity loss globally. Attributing biodiversity loss to domestically consumed versus in…

Sorry for posting the wrong link, here is the correct one:
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We traced how soy and beef production in Argentina and Paraguay impact mammal diversity—and who’s driving it. Spoiler: It’s not just exports. Read the paper: shorturl.at/bpPEH

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Putting land claiming on the map reveals that the footprint of agricultural frontiers extends far into seemingly ‘intact’ forests.
New paper by @o-delgiorgio.bsky.social in PNAS @pnas.org
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What Happens When People Don’t Understand How AI Works Despite what tech CEOs might say, large language models are not smart in any recognizably human sense of the word.

This is a really good article about how AI works. And, more importantly, how it doesn’t….

www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

New PhD position on large mammals and land-use change in Europe | Conservation Biogeography Lab We are excited to invite applications for a new PhD position on large mammals and land-use change in Europe. Join us at the Conservation and Biogeography Lab at Humboldt University Berlin!

Come join us at the Conservation Biogeography Lab @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social and carry out work on megafauna in Europe

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There is a new open position at our Lab!!
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#newposition #phd

#EnvironmentDay | A new research paper has linked the Gran Chaco #biodiversity decline to the domestic & foreign demand for soy & beef. Our researcher, Michael Lathuillière, contributed to the article, which assessed the decline due to domestic & international trade of Argentine soy & Paraguay beef⬇️

Project Meeting at @leuphana.bsky.social in our #dfg project on ecosystem restoration in #rwanda

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🚨 Überraschung: Deutschland verfehlt seine #Klimaziele. Der neue Bericht des Expertenrats für Klimafragen zeigt klar: Deutschland steuert auf eine krachende Kollision mit den Klimazielen zu. Und das in einem Jahr, in dem uns ein neuer #Hitzesommer droht. 🧵 (1/4)

Kaa- Iya in Bolivia, the largest protected area in the Gran Chaco - a global deforestation hotspot.

The positive impact of protected areas can extend well beyond their boundaries! #conservation 👇🧵

New paper in Biological Conservation, led by Pablo Yair Huais (Univ. Cordoba 🇦🇷) analyzing PA effectiveness in the #Chaco, including leakage and blocking effects outside PAs.
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Wolf wieder einfacher abzuschießen: Artenschutz ja, aber nicht vor der eigenen Tür Das EU-Parlament beschließt, dass Wölfe in der Europäischen Union leichter abgeschossen werden können. Dabei leisten die einen Beitrag zur Natur.

Wolf wieder einfacher abzuschießen: Artenschutz ja, aber nicht vor der eigenen Tür taz.de/Wolf-wieder-...

Can Germany rein in its academic bullying problem? Researchers and administrators are exploring ways to restructure a rigid hierarchy that can breed power abuses.

Proud to be part of the Geography Department that changes its structure to to address power problems in Prof-Student relationships @humboldtuni.bsky.social
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Corn ethanol is a bad idea.

You could retire 97% of it back to nature, out the remaining 3% in solar, and come out even.

Manche Menschen träumen ja davon, eine CO2-Aufnahme durch Wälder gegenzurechnen, um die fossilen Emissionen weniger reduzieren zu müssen.
Bad News: seit Jahren sind die deutschen Wälder zur CO2-Quelle geworden, so schlecht geht es ihnen im Klimawandel. Und nicht nur bei uns.

Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted

Scary! Germany and Europe more than ever needed to stand up and fund and support climate scientists and climate research!

Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Dürre in Deutschland: Deutscher Städtetag ruft schon im Frühling zum Wassersparen auf Neue Daten zeigen: In Deutschland war es zuletzt so warm und so trocken wie selten. Der Deutsche Bauernverband und der Deutsche Städtetag sehen noch keinen Grund für größere Sorgen. Bei der grünen Bun...

„Die globale Erhitzung ist DAS Problem“, schrieb er. „Das wird leider nicht begriffen. Sonst wären die Entscheidungen und Handlungen anders.“ Terli fuhr fort: „Das fliegt uns um die Ohren. Mit Sicherheit! Physik gilt für alle. Ausnahmslos!“

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Seit einiger Zeit lobbyiert die Tourismus- und Flug-Lobby gegen höhere Flugabgaben. Ein Lobby-Erfolg: Die Luftverkehrssteuer soll sinken.

Das ZDF gibt das einfach so weiter, ohne Klimaeinordnung. Klimaschutz wird für Billigflüge geopfert.

Und morgen wieder: Wo ist denn das Wasser im Bodensee?!

A leaked document reveals a PR campaign fuelled attacks on the 2019 EAT-Lancet report, which called for cutting red meat by 50% for health and climate. Scientists faced intense backlash. “I’ve never been attacked in so many ways,” said our Director Line Gordon. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Congrats to @tejasconsbio.bsky.social for defending his PhD. You can call him now Dr. Bhagwat

Mit Dorothee Bär kann übrigens eine Person Forschungsministerin werden, die noch 2017 den Einfluss des Menschen auf den Klimawandel anzweifelte.

Nur, damit wir das nicht vergessen...

Considering land use complexity and overlap is critical for sustainability planning. New paper led by Marie Pratzer - out in OneEarth:

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