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Biogeography Berlin
@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
A glimpse of fall from the Romanian Carpathians, where Gabri Retez is studying how European bison contribute to seed dispersal. The study is funded by National Geographic Society.

#fieldwork #romania #bison #biogeography #research #study #NationalGeographicSociety #Europe #huberlin #carpathians
November 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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On this 🌍 World Science Day for Peace and Development, let’s remember that science is instrumental to #TransformativeChange.

Science is capable of redirecting development towards regenerative practices aligned with nature-positive goals. 🏡🧪

📚 https://www.ipbes.net/transformative-change-assessment
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Congrats to Hendrik Bluhm on an excellent defense & passing with flying colors for his PhD on understanding potential recovery pathways of large herbivores in human-dominated landscapes.
#phd #defense #biogeography #largeherbivors #recovery
November 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
On our Lab Retreat we had quite a tight schedule...
Day one was all about workshops, presentations, discussions and talks!
On the second day we hiked through the beautiful, autumnally Harz - spearing some energy for the third day: walking through coniferous forests in the fog...
#labretreat #team
October 30, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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...
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,…
relationalthinkingblog.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Some #behindthescenes from our lab retreat to start the week ;)
When a biogeography team is on the road, a biogeography team is taking photos...aaand we spare no effort
#labretreat #photos #harz
@tkuemmerle.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 8:31 AM
The team spent three amazing days in the beautiful, autumnal #Harz during this year’s #labretreat.
Workshops, hikes, talks, discussions, cooking sessions, board games, quizzes, laughter, progress and a whole lot of photos -> be ready for some behind-the-scenes-posts and photo dumps!
#teambuilding
October 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Reminder to take a look at the new paper by Hugo Cabral and colleagues: Diversity Loss and Homogenization in Snake Communities in a Deforestation Hotspot -> out now in Diversity and Distributions.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

#newpaper #snakes #chaco #deforestation #diversityloss
October 22, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Happy to share that Melina Faingerch is visiting the Lab again!!!
Looking forward to your stay ;)
#visitor #scientist
October 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
New Paper by @ranjmurali.bsky.social and colleagues:
"Understanding multiple pathways of the impacts of socio-economic shocks on large carnivores" out now in People and Nature
-> besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#newpaper #socio-economic #shocks #carnivores
October 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Deforestation leads to an erosion of snake diversity in the #GranChaco. Paper led by Hugo Cabral just out in @consbiog.bsky.social 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #Chaco #herptiles @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu #TropicalDryForests
October 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
@camillabrunet.bsky.social is a conservation-behavior #scientist interested in wildlife management, #conservation, movement and spatial #ecology. She will start her #phd studies, where she will investigate how changes in agricultural land use can influence the behavior of large mammals.
#newmember
October 8, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Great to have Meredith visit us today! Working with her and Ricardo Torres on the paleoecology of the fantastic #macrauchenia, according to Darwin the `strangest animal ever discovered`!
October 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Dr. Meredith Root Bernstein, a translational ecologist from the Natural History Museum Paris came to visit us today!! Very insightful and a lot of fun ;)
@tkuemmerle.bsky.social
#visiting #ecology #biogeography #science
October 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Today is #worldhabitatday!
At our Conservation Biogeography Lab at @humboldtuni.bsky.social with @tkuemmerle.bsky.social we research conservation, land-use, human-wildlife conflict of different habitats around the world - and so much more !!
check it out:
biogeo.pages.cms.hu-berlin.de/website/
Conservation Biogeography Lab
Research at the Conservation Biogeography Lab in Berlin
biogeo.pages.cms.hu-berlin.de
October 6, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Reminder, that this amazing paper by Melina Faingerch is out in Ecology and Society!!
"Capturing the multidimensionality of land-use agents in a deforestation hotspot" -> ecologyandsociety.org/vol30/iss3/a...

#newpaper #Chaco #LandUse #Deforestation #biogeography #conservation
October 6, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Very happy & proud to share that @alfredoromero.bsky.social will be joining the European Conference of Tropical Ecology 2026 as a Keynote Speaker!!
@soctropecol.bsky.social
23 to 27 February 2026, University of Passau!
gtoe2026-passau.de/index.html

#ECTE2026 #conservation #ecology #speaker
October 3, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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This #IDAFLW, let’s not forget: healthy & sustainable diets are not only about what we eat but also about preventing food waste. 🌍

Choosing local and seasonal foods helps on both fronts by cutting emissions and reducing waste, contributing to more resilient food systems. 🍎🥦
September 29, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Look at this beautiful Puma with these beautiful flowers 🤩!
A photo of our camera trap in Uturungo, Argentina.

#wildcamera #cameratrap #puma #argentina #biogeography #research
September 30, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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GOOD NEWS: The ozone layer is on track for full recovery by 2050, the UN reports.

This is proof that when world leaders listen to scientists, and take swift action, we can literally HEAL our planet.

So if we fixed the ozone hole, why can't we do the same for climate change?

#WorldOzoneDay 🌍
September 16, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Last weekend @alfredoromero.bsky.social and Marie Pratzer were invited to talk at the #LongNightofClimate in Berlin. They had a lot of fun and enjoyed this inspiring, interesting and important event!
Film: "Bolivia Burning"
look at some more information here: www.langenachtdesklimas.de

#LNDK #BTS
September 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Putting medium-sized farmers on the map to move beyond the agribusiness vs. smallholder dichotomy. New paper led by Melina Faingerch & Matias Mastrangelo out in Ecology & Society identifying key groups of land-use actors in the Chaco 👉 ecologyandsociety.org/vol30/iss3/a... @biogeoberlin.bsky.social
Ecology & Society: Capturing the multidimensionality of land-use agents in a deforestation hotspot
Given increasing recognition that strategies to transition to sustainable land use should be context specific, structuring the diversity of land-use agents is important. This is particularly so for th...
ecologyandsociety.org
September 18, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Quantifying the impacts of agricultural expansion on the livelihoods of Indigenous communities in #DryChaco.
New paper out by @maria-vallejos.bsky.social, Ana Laura Álvarez, @o-delgiorgio.bsky.social & @tkuemmerle.bsky.social in AMBIO!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#newpaper #biogeography
September 17, 2025 at 11:09 AM
@o-delgiorgio.bsky.social did her final oral examination for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy of Geography at McGill University on Tuesday. She talked about revealing land control dynamics in emerging agricultural frontiers!
September 12, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Bolivia must prioritize biodiversity | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Bolivia must prioritize biodiversity
www.science.org
September 12, 2025 at 5:54 AM