Conservation Biology Göttingen
@consbiogoe.bsky.social
Department of Conservation Biology, University of Göttingen
http://www.uni-goettingen.de/conservation
Biodiversity monitoring | land-use change | human-wildlife interactions
http://www.uni-goettingen.de/conservation
Biodiversity monitoring | land-use change | human-wildlife interactions
New lecture on #citizenscience and #biodiversity this winter semester in Göttingen!
Open to students, but also the general public (exam for students only though😉). Most talks in German. Great line-up of speakers!
Open to students, but also the general public (exam for students only though😉). Most talks in German. Great line-up of speakers!
October 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
New lecture on #citizenscience and #biodiversity this winter semester in Göttingen!
Open to students, but also the general public (exam for students only though😉). Most talks in German. Great line-up of speakers!
Open to students, but also the general public (exam for students only though😉). Most talks in German. Great line-up of speakers!
We had a great time at #gfoe2025 organized by @christianhof.bsky.social and many others. Good feedback on our analyses of historical bird trends across Germany, a project with @dda-avifauna.bsky.social.
#gfoe2025 has started, whohoo! Just enjoyed 2 great talks by @kampjohannes.bsky.social & @felixneff.bsky.social, highlighting the importance of considering longer time periods than just the last 2 decades to understand #biodiversity trends
September 3, 2025 at 11:57 AM
We had a great time at #gfoe2025 organized by @christianhof.bsky.social and many others. Good feedback on our analyses of historical bird trends across Germany, a project with @dda-avifauna.bsky.social.
New paper: 3rd chapter of Anne Graser's PhD thesis now published: How #forest disturbance, post-disturbance management and wild #ungulates affect #moth communities: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@jappliedecology.bsky.social
@jappliedecology.bsky.social
August 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
New paper: 3rd chapter of Anne Graser's PhD thesis now published: How #forest disturbance, post-disturbance management and wild #ungulates affect #moth communities: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@jappliedecology.bsky.social
@jappliedecology.bsky.social
Does the decline of many #bird species also trigger a decline in species identification skills in young people? Are we already witnessing the #extinction of experience? Our new study, led by Talia Härtel, and based on a large questionnaire resurvey, suggests so:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
August 26, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Does the decline of many #bird species also trigger a decline in species identification skills in young people? Are we already witnessing the #extinction of experience? Our new study, led by Talia Härtel, and based on a large questionnaire resurvey, suggests so:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Conservation Biology Göttingen
#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...
@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...
July 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
#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...
@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...
#Bird #surveys: Do we need to rewrite our methodological standards?
#PassiveAcousticMonitoring suggests that expert-based recommendations might lead to under-recording, due to diurnal and seasonal mismatches.
New paper led by David Singer; with 25,000 h audio data: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#PassiveAcousticMonitoring suggests that expert-based recommendations might lead to under-recording, due to diurnal and seasonal mismatches.
New paper led by David Singer; with 25,000 h audio data: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
July 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM
#Bird #surveys: Do we need to rewrite our methodological standards?
#PassiveAcousticMonitoring suggests that expert-based recommendations might lead to under-recording, due to diurnal and seasonal mismatches.
New paper led by David Singer; with 25,000 h audio data: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#PassiveAcousticMonitoring suggests that expert-based recommendations might lead to under-recording, due to diurnal and seasonal mismatches.
New paper led by David Singer; with 25,000 h audio data: 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...
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...
July 7, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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...
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...
Reposted by Conservation Biology Göttingen
Were recent waves of large-scale forest dieback predictable? We say yes! A simple approach to describe temporal disturbance dynamics based on Taylor's Law. Now out in Nature Communications: rdcu.be/euG1A Thanks @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social and @rupertseidl.bsky.social for this great project!
July 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Were recent waves of large-scale forest dieback predictable? We say yes! A simple approach to describe temporal disturbance dynamics based on Taylor's Law. Now out in Nature Communications: rdcu.be/euG1A Thanks @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social and @rupertseidl.bsky.social for this great project!
Kommenden Samstag: Einblick in die Welt von Spinnern, Spannern und anderen Nachtfaltern - im Alten Botanischen Garten in Göttingen. All welcome!
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#ScienceNight #NightOfScience #NachtdesWissens
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#ScienceNight #NightOfScience #NachtdesWissens
June 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Kommenden Samstag: Einblick in die Welt von Spinnern, Spannern und anderen Nachtfaltern - im Alten Botanischen Garten in Göttingen. All welcome!
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#ScienceNight #NightOfScience #NachtdesWissens
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#ScienceNight #NightOfScience #NachtdesWissens
Leaving the #ivorytower behind: Kick-off of our participatory project on 200 years of biodiversity change, involving the people of Göttingen into university research. Participation in #research is important in times of #sciencedenial
Funded by the 'pioneer projects' line of @volkswagenstiftung.de
Funded by the 'pioneer projects' line of @volkswagenstiftung.de
June 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Leaving the #ivorytower behind: Kick-off of our participatory project on 200 years of biodiversity change, involving the people of Göttingen into university research. Participation in #research is important in times of #sciencedenial
Funded by the 'pioneer projects' line of @volkswagenstiftung.de
Funded by the 'pioneer projects' line of @volkswagenstiftung.de
Reposted by Conservation Biology Göttingen
There is a new open position at our Lab!!
haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/...
#newposition #phd
haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/...
#newposition #phd
June 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
There is a new open position at our Lab!!
haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/...
#newposition #phd
haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/...
#newposition #phd
#Fieldwork update from our PyroDiv project (uni-goettingen.de/en/690609.html): A Kazakh-German field team is now collecting data on the Great Steppe to reveal the impact of fire legacies and grazing on biodiversity. Great collab between @acbk.bsky.social @consbiogoe.bsky.social and @uni-muenster.de.
June 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
#Fieldwork update from our PyroDiv project (uni-goettingen.de/en/690609.html): A Kazakh-German field team is now collecting data on the Great Steppe to reveal the impact of fire legacies and grazing on biodiversity. Great collab between @acbk.bsky.social @consbiogoe.bsky.social and @uni-muenster.de.
Interested in our research? Wanna take part in generating scientific knowledge? We offer a participative community science project on biodiversity change in the Göttingen area this summer (in German) - animals, plants, history and lots of fun! Info below⬇️
Funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de
Funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de
May 10, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Interested in our research? Wanna take part in generating scientific knowledge? We offer a participative community science project on biodiversity change in the Göttingen area this summer (in German) - animals, plants, history and lots of fun! Info below⬇️
Funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de
Funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de
Interesse, einen Einblick in unsere Forschung zu gewinnen?
Wir bieten im Sommer ein partizipatives Projekt zu Änderungen der Biologischen Vielfalt in Göttingen an. Jede und jeder kann mitmachen! ⬇️
Wir bieten im Sommer ein partizipatives Projekt zu Änderungen der Biologischen Vielfalt in Göttingen an. Jede und jeder kann mitmachen! ⬇️
May 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Interesse, einen Einblick in unsere Forschung zu gewinnen?
Wir bieten im Sommer ein partizipatives Projekt zu Änderungen der Biologischen Vielfalt in Göttingen an. Jede und jeder kann mitmachen! ⬇️
Wir bieten im Sommer ein partizipatives Projekt zu Änderungen der Biologischen Vielfalt in Göttingen an. Jede und jeder kann mitmachen! ⬇️
Congratulations! With an impressive defense, Anne Graser ended her PhD journey yesterday.
She combined remote sensing, citizen science and own fieldwork to study biodiversity responses to forest disturbance, including the die-back of 500,000 ha Spruce in Germany after bark beetle outbreaks.
She combined remote sensing, citizen science and own fieldwork to study biodiversity responses to forest disturbance, including the die-back of 500,000 ha Spruce in Germany after bark beetle outbreaks.
April 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Congratulations! With an impressive defense, Anne Graser ended her PhD journey yesterday.
She combined remote sensing, citizen science and own fieldwork to study biodiversity responses to forest disturbance, including the die-back of 500,000 ha Spruce in Germany after bark beetle outbreaks.
She combined remote sensing, citizen science and own fieldwork to study biodiversity responses to forest disturbance, including the die-back of 500,000 ha Spruce in Germany after bark beetle outbreaks.
New paper by MSc student Bent Rech:
Large herbivores complement each other in their habitat use, therefore reintroducing more diverse herbivore assemblages likely maximizes desired ecological impacts.
See here for full story and contributors: bsky.app/profile/jona...
Large herbivores complement each other in their habitat use, therefore reintroducing more diverse herbivore assemblages likely maximizes desired ecological impacts.
See here for full story and contributors: bsky.app/profile/jona...
April 29, 2025 at 9:39 AM
New paper by MSc student Bent Rech:
Large herbivores complement each other in their habitat use, therefore reintroducing more diverse herbivore assemblages likely maximizes desired ecological impacts.
See here for full story and contributors: bsky.app/profile/jona...
Large herbivores complement each other in their habitat use, therefore reintroducing more diverse herbivore assemblages likely maximizes desired ecological impacts.
See here for full story and contributors: bsky.app/profile/jona...
Reposted by Conservation Biology Göttingen
Check out our new paper, led by Bent Rech: we investigate space use of semi-feral water buffalo, cattle, and horses in a Danish rewilding area. We found that the three species differ markedly in their seasonal habitat selection and responses to resources and infrastructure.
doi.org/10.1007/s002...
doi.org/10.1007/s002...
April 29, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Check out our new paper, led by Bent Rech: we investigate space use of semi-feral water buffalo, cattle, and horses in a Danish rewilding area. We found that the three species differ markedly in their seasonal habitat selection and responses to resources and infrastructure.
doi.org/10.1007/s002...
doi.org/10.1007/s002...
Now out! Contains a review by us on fire regime changes on the Eurasian steppes following collapse and recovery of livestock systems.
royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
New thematic issue of Phil. Trans. Roy Soc B is coming very soon! Stay tuned @royalsociety.org
Novel wildfire regimes under climate change and human influences: impacts, ecosystem responses and feedbacks
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Novel wildfire regimes under climate change and human influences: impacts, ecosystem responses and feedbacks
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April 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Now out! Contains a review by us on fire regime changes on the Eurasian steppes following collapse and recovery of livestock systems.
royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
Neue Plattform zu #Biodiversität und #CitizenScience live!
fokus-vielfalt.de
Wir wollen Bürger* und universitäre Wissenschaft vernetzen, Artenkenner* ausbilden und neue Methoden in die Breite tragen. Pressemitteilung: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html...
Gefördert von @volkswagenstiftung.de
fokus-vielfalt.de
Wir wollen Bürger* und universitäre Wissenschaft vernetzen, Artenkenner* ausbilden und neue Methoden in die Breite tragen. Pressemitteilung: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html...
Gefördert von @volkswagenstiftung.de
April 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Neue Plattform zu #Biodiversität und #CitizenScience live!
fokus-vielfalt.de
Wir wollen Bürger* und universitäre Wissenschaft vernetzen, Artenkenner* ausbilden und neue Methoden in die Breite tragen. Pressemitteilung: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html...
Gefördert von @volkswagenstiftung.de
fokus-vielfalt.de
Wir wollen Bürger* und universitäre Wissenschaft vernetzen, Artenkenner* ausbilden und neue Methoden in die Breite tragen. Pressemitteilung: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html...
Gefördert von @volkswagenstiftung.de
Our student #moth course runs now for the fifth year - standardized methodology, extremely motivated students and rare species at the famous Kerstlingeröder Feld site.
#teammoth #mothsmatter
Live updates here as the data gets entered by the participants: observation.org/locations/67...
#teammoth #mothsmatter
Live updates here as the data gets entered by the participants: observation.org/locations/67...
April 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Our student #moth course runs now for the fifth year - standardized methodology, extremely motivated students and rare species at the famous Kerstlingeröder Feld site.
#teammoth #mothsmatter
Live updates here as the data gets entered by the participants: observation.org/locations/67...
#teammoth #mothsmatter
Live updates here as the data gets entered by the participants: observation.org/locations/67...
Meet one of the most gifted natural history illustrators in Germany, @fminifera.bsky.social - amazingly detailed and realistic #moth drawings from one of our study sites.⬇️
smartwork.bigcartel.com
smartwork.bigcartel.com
This project took almost all Winter to finish and now finally the printed cards arrived. Nocturnal butterflies of the Kerstlingeröder Feld. A hot topic in Göttingen, students love the course by @consbiogoe.bsky.social. Great to see this passion arise in the next generation of biologists!
April 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Meet one of the most gifted natural history illustrators in Germany, @fminifera.bsky.social - amazingly detailed and realistic #moth drawings from one of our study sites.⬇️
smartwork.bigcartel.com
smartwork.bigcartel.com
Congratulations to Tejas Bhagwat on successfully defending his PhD with excellent results! Inspiring work on land-use change and birds in the Central Asian #flyway, through the annual cycle, skillfully combining remote sensing, fieldwork and stats.
April 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Congratulations to Tejas Bhagwat on successfully defending his PhD with excellent results! Inspiring work on land-use change and birds in the Central Asian #flyway, through the annual cycle, skillfully combining remote sensing, fieldwork and stats.
Reposted by Conservation Biology Göttingen
Fellow Ecologists,
The #gfoe2025 @gfoesoc.bsky.social call for papers has just been published. Please submit your abstracts for exciting talks and engaging posters to present in Würzburg in September!
gfoe-conference.de/index.php?ca...
@uni-wuerzburg.de @globalchangeeco.bsky.social
The #gfoe2025 @gfoesoc.bsky.social call for papers has just been published. Please submit your abstracts for exciting talks and engaging posters to present in Würzburg in September!
gfoe-conference.de/index.php?ca...
@uni-wuerzburg.de @globalchangeeco.bsky.social
April 2, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Fellow Ecologists,
The #gfoe2025 @gfoesoc.bsky.social call for papers has just been published. Please submit your abstracts for exciting talks and engaging posters to present in Würzburg in September!
gfoe-conference.de/index.php?ca...
@uni-wuerzburg.de @globalchangeeco.bsky.social
The #gfoe2025 @gfoesoc.bsky.social call for papers has just been published. Please submit your abstracts for exciting talks and engaging posters to present in Würzburg in September!
gfoe-conference.de/index.php?ca...
@uni-wuerzburg.de @globalchangeeco.bsky.social
Reposted by Conservation Biology Göttingen
REGISTRATION OPEN
Online registration is now open and the call for abstracts for oral presentations and posters has been published for the 54th Annual Meeting of the #Ecological Society of #Germany, #Austria and #Switzerland.
HOW TO SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT:
www.gfoe-conference.de/index.php?ca...
Online registration is now open and the call for abstracts for oral presentations and posters has been published for the 54th Annual Meeting of the #Ecological Society of #Germany, #Austria and #Switzerland.
HOW TO SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT:
www.gfoe-conference.de/index.php?ca...
April 3, 2025 at 7:19 AM
REGISTRATION OPEN
Online registration is now open and the call for abstracts for oral presentations and posters has been published for the 54th Annual Meeting of the #Ecological Society of #Germany, #Austria and #Switzerland.
HOW TO SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT:
www.gfoe-conference.de/index.php?ca...
Online registration is now open and the call for abstracts for oral presentations and posters has been published for the 54th Annual Meeting of the #Ecological Society of #Germany, #Austria and #Switzerland.
HOW TO SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT:
www.gfoe-conference.de/index.php?ca...
Back from the international conference on steppe birds in Spain, organized by @giaeavesteparias.bsky.social ! A great week of talks and exchange....
April 3, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Back from the international conference on steppe birds in Spain, organized by @giaeavesteparias.bsky.social ! A great week of talks and exchange....