Rupert Seidl

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...

Big congrats Lisa, very well done!

Wonderful to have the great @akkym.bsky.social visiting the lab at the moment! Great fun to show Akira our ongoing research in Berchtesgaden National Park, and really cool to discuss ideas for continuing our fruitful collaboration!

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).

Taylor’s law predicts unprecedented pulses of forest disturbance under global change - Nature Communications Large pulses of disturbance have been observed globally in response to climate change. Using Taylor’s Law, the authors show that those pulses were not unpredictable but expected given a strong scaling...

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...

Indeed! Its quite a steep and rocky slope, so head protection is a good thing, particularly with a group of 20ish students!

Teaching a field-based class is a great way to discuss current challenges of forest management with students! Also a wonderful opportunity to connect with and learn from practitioners!

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...

In the field this week, surveying post-disturbance forest development in Berchtesgaden National Park together with David Liebler (not on Bsky). Great deadwood mikado and diverse post-disturbance tree regeneration - curious what the data will tell us! Funded by @erc.europa.eu

Diving into the history of Berchtesgaden National Park via a treasure trove of archival data. Curious as to how the storied past of the landscape determines its present state and future trajectory! Looking forward to working on this with @simonegingrich.bsky.social!

The increasing role of drought as an inciting factor of bark beetle outbreaks can cause large-scale transformation of Central European forests - Landscape Ecology Context Historically, large-scale outbreaks of the European spruce bark beetle were initiated mainly by windthrows. However, after 2018, a severe drought triggered the hitherto largest bark beetle out...

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...

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Hi @bingbongromcom.bsky.social and @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social, this is indeed an interesting question! Brian is right that we here have a wind & beetle regime, so effects on resilience differ from fire-driven regimes in US. We will in fact look at this in Kirstens next paper - so stay tuned!

Setting aside areas for conservation does not increase disturbances in temperate forests We found no evidence that setting aside forests for biodiversity conservation amplifies disturbances in temperate forests of Central Europe. Conversely, we found that strict forest reserves had lower....

Sorry, seems like the doi is not registered yet. Here's the journal like: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We conclude that considerations of disturbance should not hinder the incorporation of reserves into the matrix of managed forests in C Europe. Great first PhD paper by @kirstenkrueger.bsky.social, with @corneliussenf.bsky.social and J. Hagge, in @jappliedecology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/1365...

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...

Don’t miss our next online tree mortality seminar by Kauane Bordin on: “The role of disturbance in shaping demographic trade-offs in temperate trees”

1st April
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Happy International Day of Forests y'all! May the Forest be with you!

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...

Important work by @lauradee.bsky.social et al. on the disturbance impacts on ecosystem services in a changing climate.

Paleorecords Reveal Biological Mechanisms Crucial for Reliable Species Range Shift Projections Amid Rapid Climate Change Climate change has created an urgent need for reliable projections of species distributions. By hindcasting forest tree range shifts across Europe over the last 12,000 years, we show that process-exp...

Interesting work by van der Meersch et al. out in Ecology Letters, nicely illustrating that process-based models are more robust than correlative models for predicting species distributions under novel climatic conditions doi.org/10.1111/ele....

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Gentle reminder: The next seminar of the International Tree Mortality Network @treemortality.bsky.social featuring the great @dudney-joan.bsky.social is on for tomorrow! Tune in if you're interested in tree mortality in general, and disturbance interactions in particular!

Thanks for your response. This relates to Ockhams razor (re the highlighted paper), positing that models should be as simple as possible. Sometimes, indeed even simple models are able to explain complex patterns (think CAs and Conways game of life), but simultaneously complex models can be useful!

Is Ockham’s razor losing its edge? New perspectives on the principle of model parsimony | PNAS The preference for simple explanations, known as the parsimony principle, has long guided the development of scientific theories, hypotheses, and m...

Important piece on the role of Ockham's razor in the modern world of scientific modeling in @pnas.org. Conclusion: Complex models can be quite useful, and parsimony and complexity can complement each other in helping us to gain new insights!
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Great work combining the latest empirical insights on microclimate with cutting edge simulation modeling, made possible by a wonderful team led by K. Braziunas w/ @wernerrammer.bsky.social, P. de Frenne, @jdiazcalafat.bsky.social, P.O. Hedwall, @corneliussenf.bsky.social, D. Thom & F. Zellweger

Microclimate temperature effects propagate across scales in forest ecosystems - Landscape Ecology Context Forest canopies shape subcanopy environments, affecting biodiversity and ecosystem processes. Empirical forest microclimate studies are often restricted to local scales and short-term effects,...

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/...

Sparse subalpine forest recovery pathways, plant communities, and carbon stocks 34 years after stand‐replacing fire Changing global climate and wildfire regimes are threatening forest resilience (i.e., the ability to recover from disturbance). Yet distinguishing areas of “no” versus “slow” postfire forest recovery...

Interesting work by @nathankiel.bsky.social and @monicagturner.bsky.social on lock-in of forest development (or the lack thereof) 34 yearas after large, stand-replacing fire esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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/