Daniel Müller

Grazing Fire Changes in grazing patterns explain post-Soviet fire trends on the Eurasian steppe better than climate

Very nice storymap on our paper on fire and grazing in Kazakhstan --> storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/fc91...

Plain language summary: What happens to large carnivores when human societies experience shocks? By Ranjini Murali, Altynai Adabaeva, Sixto Angulo, Rosario Arispe, Matthias Baumann, Arash Ghoddousi, Amirhossein Khaleghi Hamidi, Martin Jansen, Leili Khalatbari, Igor Khorozyan, Oswaldo Maillard,…

Check out @ranjmurali.bsky.social's new paper "Understanding multiple pathways of the impacts ofsocio-economic shocks on large carnivores" in plain language!
relationalthinkingblog.com/2025/09/18/p...

Exciting vacancy at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen: Professorship of Farm Management in the Digital Transformation

uni-goettingen.de/en/701219.html

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ZMO is pleased to announce 1 PhD Position on Traditional Courts and State Law in Central Asia.

This is one of 17 fully-funded PhD positions in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network “Sociology of Authoritarian Law. Insights from Central Asia” (SOCIAL-DN).

www.zmo.de/fileadmin/Ka...

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GLP land system science experts published our 8️⃣ policy principles for sustainable & just land systems.

Following these principles from agenda setting to formulation to implementation can help improve land policy.

@glp-earth.bsky.social @royalsociety.org
@camunigeography.bsky.social

Open Letter by scientists to the Council:
"Climate Neutrality Is Europe’s Greatest Economic Opportunity”.
Ahead of the European Council meeting on 23.10.2025,
2,178 scientists urge EU Heads of States & Governments to take ambitious decisions for the 2040 targets.
zenodo.org/records/1739...

Global goal of zero deforestation by 2030 is severely off track Global deforestation hasn’t slowed in any significant way in the four years since 127 countries pledged to halt and reverse forest loss and degradation by 2030. The newly published 2025 Forest…

Global deforestation hasn’t slowed in any significant way in the four years since 127 countries pledged to halt and reverse forest loss and degradation by 2030.

The newly published 2025 Forest Declaration Assessment shows that nations are 63% off track from meeting their zero-deforestation target.

Asuper interesting read on #Russia’s grain “diplomacy” in sub-saharan Africa

New GLP ECN webinar!
Storytelling for science communication & land systems transformation

📅 Sept 30, 2025 | ⏰ 10 AM ET
with Dr. Nicholas Magliocca (Univ. of Alabama)

Come learn how storytelling can power science & transformation.
👉 Register here: umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🦋 The Land System Group is now on Bluesky!
We're excited to share some interesting insights from our research group at IAMO. Keep up to date by following us.

My colleague, Patrick Meyfroidt, has 3 PhD positions and 2 Postdoc positions as part of a new ERC grant on 'land use, sustainability, and democratic backsliding'. Hoping to reach Canadian candidates through this post.

landsystems-lab.earth/news/25-07-3...
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Snow water equivalent estimates and climate oscillation indices that were used as predictors

Inclusion of #ENSO & #NAO climate indices enhances prediction accuracy and reduces uncertainty of seasonal discharge when incorporated into snowpack data, especially at longer lead times. @gfz.bsky.social @iamo.bsky.social

Machine-learning workflow of the ensemble-based forecast approach

Our new study combines snow-water equivalent data with #climate teleconnections in an ensemble-stacking workflow to improve seasonal #streamflow forecasts in #CentralAsia at various lead times: hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/...

Researchers value null results, but struggle to publish them Survey finds that fear of reputational harm and a lack of support and publication platforms are among respondents’ key concerns.

Scientists overwhelmingly recognize the value of sharing null results, but rarely publish them in the research literature

go.nature.com/450KElr

credits: Johannes Kamp

#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...

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...

🌿 Join Our Team as Postdoctoral Researcher in Regional Climate Downscaling at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL in Switzerland and lead the development of regional, highresolution climate scenarios for Armenia. @wslresearch.bsky.social @wsl-dme.bsky.social apply.refline.ch/273855/1747/...

The data cover 19 EU countries with up to 17 years of annual data. It includes detailed crop codes, farm identifiers, and organic cultivation status—crucial for analysing land-use changes and farming practices

Field and farm-level data on agricultural land use for the European Union - Scientific Data Scientific Data - Field and farm-level data on agricultural land use for the European Union

A comprehensive field- and farm-level land-use dataset from the Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS) is now available: doi.org/10.1038/s415... #OpenData #EUAgri #LandUse #SustainableFarming

Land of opportunities: aligning organic farming and conservation targets in Europe In the face of growing environmental challenges, the European Green Deal sets ambitious targets for 2030, including strictly protecting 10% of the EU’s land area and expanding organic farming to 25...

Interesting new paper on European conservation targets and land-use conflicts

Land of opportunities: aligning organic farming and conservation targets in Europe
doi.org/10.1080/0964...

@glp-earth.bsky.social

Congratulations to Future Earth community member Zia Mehrabi, one of three international winners of the 2025 Frontiers Planet Prize!

He was recognized for research showing how agricultural diversification can benefit both human and environmental health. He'll receive $1M to scale up his work. 🌱🌍

The researchers contacted the authors of the original studies -- 156 of them.

And you know how many were willing to share data?

14% of them.

If we're going to address replication issues, it has to start with sharing data.

In it, we bring up four main hurdles we and other women around us have faced through the early stages of our careers, and outline several (of many other) actions that we see as necessary for achieving gender equity in academia.

(Nice synthesis of our piece here: www.fu-berlin.de/en/presse/in...)

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

pages.cms.hu-berlin.de/biogeo/websi...

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
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
@matthiasbaumann.bsky.social
@tkuemmerle.bsky.social
@yannlepolain.bsky.social

‼️ Last chance to register ‼️

Registration for the IAMO Forum 2025 is open until June 1!

➡️ Register now:

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Actual and projected climatic treeline positions. Left: North-Western Carpathians (High Tatras); right: Southern Carpathians (Făgăraș)

We used the mean temperature of the warmest quarter from 23 global climate models to project areas above the climatic treeline for several SSPs. In the high-emissions scenario, the climatic treeline almost entirely disappears in about 50 years.

Depending on future climate projections, the climatic envelope for alpine ecosystems is expected to decrease to 410–515 km2 by 2040, 100–320 km2 by 2060, and 15–290 km2 by 2080 (3)

We identified the climatic treeline on high-resolution sat imagery, then correlated these with the location of the treeline. The mean temperature of the warmest quarter correlated most with treeline location. The current total area of the climatic envelope for alpine ecosystems is ~1,370 km2 (2)