@biogeoberlin.bsky.social
Researching land-use change & how it impacts biodiversity at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Seeking to support biodiversity conservation. Posts by @tkuemmerle.bsky.social & team (check out our starterpack). hu.berlin/biogeo
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Our study highlights the importance of protecting large-continuous patches of forests within a biodiversity-friendly agricultural matrix, in which silvopastures play a major role.
#chaco #conservation #biogeograhpy #research #forest #paper #new
check it out:
tinyurl.com/2nh7kjkj
We use forest structure indicators in a Bayesian framework to understand the impacts of deforestation beyond its area. We did this for the Chaco: we found stunning edge effects of >700m with reductions of up to 41% in our structure indicators & 92.3 million tons of so far unquantified AGB losses.
Edge effects from deforestation in the Chaco!
-> New paper out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social with Seba Torrella
& @matthiasbaumann.bsky.social Marie Pratzer @aguiarse86.bsky.social @mariapiquerr.bsky.social Ruben Ginzburg Gregorio Gavier Pizarro @tkuemmerle.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2nh7kjkj
Last week, @tkuemmerle.bsky.social, @camillabrunet.bsky.social and @francescobini.bsky.social went to the Natural History Museum of Berlin with our biogeography seminar students to check out their amazing collection!
#naturkundemuseum #excursion #seminar #teaching #huberlin
Last week we bid farewell to Prof. Dr. Bernhard Nitz, an institution of our department! In his colloquium he talked about his 70 years at HU, highlighting changes of the Geography Department from 1945 to 1990. We want to thank him for his important research and for being an incredible inspiration!
Because agribusinesses mainly expand onto land already used by smallholders, securing smallholders’ land rights can both support livelihoods and protect forests and biodiversity.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Using data from nearly 1 million km² across two major deforestation hotspots, we show that forests are lost more slowly where forest-dwelling smallholders are present – even as agriculture expands.
Tropical deforestation is one of the greatest challenges for global sustainability. Diverse actors (smallholders, Indigenous communities, agribusinesses) make decisions that determine whether forests persist or disappear. How interactions & competition among actors influence the forests is unclear.
Commodity frontiers expand more slowly into tropical forests where forest smallholders are present – new paper out in PNAS led by Marie Pratzer
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Agriculture-driven edge effects in a deforestation hotspot
👉new paper in Global Change Biology, led by Sebastian Torella
doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70737
@biogeoberlin.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu #SystemShift
Today we got to listen to an amazing talk by Bowy den Braber about the Marie Curie project and the Hohenheim research.
Very insightful and interesting!!
#guest #presentation #hu #biogeography #research
#Bolivia has added nearly a million hectares to its protected areas over the last several months, an effort by local governments to link Indigenous territories with nearby national parks and strengthen #ecological connectivity.
Thursday's SystemShift workshop brought together the many perspectives and experiences within our group. We mapped current work and explored future ideas. Next, we will align on priorities for the remaining project period. A valuable step forward for the project.
#systemshift #biogeo #research
There are so many perks of working in an international lab - the best one obviously being sweets as souvenirs from all over the world!!
@geolacerda.bsky.social @aguiarse86.bsky.social
#sweets #labwork #academia #international #souvenirs #biogeography #huberlin
Our findings highlight the need for #birdtracking and monitoring outside breeding ranges, ideally supported by remote sensing based #land-use land cover change monitoring. This could help understand specific environmental change drivers of species decline across the entire migratory range.
We mapped changes in habitat suitability for sociable lapwing through the annual cycle over the past three decades. Our maps indicated an overall increase in suitable habitat through the annual cycle i.e. – breeding, stop-over and winter ranges.
#biogeography #ornithology
Don't forget to check out this great new paper by Tejas Bhagwat and colleagues in the Journal of Ornithology:
Increased habitat, shrinking population: Trends in the Sociable lapwing habitat suitability through the annual cycle
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#newpaper
Look at this great picture of this beautiful snow leopard taken by the UNEP Vanishing Treasures project (Tajikistan)!
Check out @arashghoddousi.bsky.social and colleagues' paper in @ambio-journal.bsky.social for more information link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#snowleopard #tajikistan #biogeo
Great collab (as usual!) with @tkuemmerle.bsky.social @biogeoberlin.bsky.social and @acbk.bsky.social, see here for a nice paper summary by Tobias: bsky.app/profile/tkue...
Increasing habitat suitability for the critically endangered Sociable Lapwing over the past 30 years - across its range!
Paper by Tejas Bhagwat out in the Journal of Ornithology: doi.org/10.1007/s103...
@biogeoberlin.bsky.social @consbiogoe.bsky.social
#Conservation #MigratoryBirds
A little #game to get into the #weekend spirit: how many guests of this #Chiquitania party do you count?
#biogeography #cameratrap #wildcamera #animals
Happy new year everyone!!
We are looking forward to a year full of new research, insights, and events. Check out our website biogeo.pages.cms.hu-berlin.de/website/ to stay tuned in 2026 or recap what has happened in 2025 ;)
#newyear #twentysix #recap
Our goal is to carry out #cutting‑edge and relevant #research on land use and impacts on biodiversity which often concerns regions far away from Berlin. We aim to minimize the #environmentalimpact of our work with different strategies! Take a look at them and at the 2025 travel #emissions here:
Climate change impacts on the potential for coexistence between snow leopards and people in Central Asia's mountains - new paper out, led by @arashghoddousi.bsky.social in @ambio-journal.bsky.social @biogeoberlin.bsky.social
Greetings from the Institute's Christmas party last Friday!
Wishing you all a happy holiday!!
Our findings suggest to assess carefully where to reintroduce bison in the context of resources availability and potential with conflicts (i.e., croplands are highly available), rather than in specific habitat types.
#paper #bison #habitat #coservation #europe #biogeography #hu
Using the largest European bison dataset to date, we show that bison are generalists that adapt habitat use to availability. In modern landscapes, they also use croplands as resources, despite increased human presence.
How much do we know about the ecology of a species that went nearly extinct?
For many extirpated species what we observe today reflects only a fragment of their historical range, thus our ecological expectations are drawn from a truncated version of the reality
