Jeppe A. Kristensen
@jeep4x4.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Aarhus University studying effects of rewilding on ecosystem biogeochemistry
In which direction should Arctic herbivory science move in the coming years and decades?🦌🫎🐛🦣?
@icbarrio.bsky.social once again brought us all together to put pen to paper📝 to make a list!
@icbarrio.bsky.social once again brought us all together to put pen to paper📝 to make a list!
🦌 Emerging priorities in Arctic #herbivory research 🦌
Our horizon scan highlights priority areas for Arctic herbivory management and research. Wonderfully led (as always) by @icbarrio.bsky.social and in collaboration with >70 interdisciplinary authors.
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Our horizon scan highlights priority areas for Arctic herbivory management and research. Wonderfully led (as always) by @icbarrio.bsky.social and in collaboration with >70 interdisciplinary authors.
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Emerging priorities in terrestrial herbivory research in the Arctic
Herbivores are an integral part of Arctic terrestrial ecosystems, driving ecosystem functioning and sustaining local livelihoods. In the context of accelerated climate warming and land use changes, un...
cdnsciencepub.com
May 20, 2025 at 1:14 PM
In which direction should Arctic herbivory science move in the coming years and decades?🦌🫎🐛🦣?
@icbarrio.bsky.social once again brought us all together to put pen to paper📝 to make a list!
@icbarrio.bsky.social once again brought us all together to put pen to paper📝 to make a list!
This recent paper by colleagues Szymon Czyżewski and @jcsvenning.bsky.social from @econovoau.bsky.social calls for nothing less than a paradigm shift in the way we should view European forests🌲🌳🌱 w 🐗🫎🐮 as some of the main (missing) players.
Hopefully it will resonate!
phys.org/news/2025-05...
Hopefully it will resonate!
phys.org/news/2025-05...
Europe's forest plants thrive best in light-rich, semi-open woodlands kept open by large herbivores
Before Homo sapiens arrived, Europe's forests were not dense and dark but shaped by open and light-rich woodland landscapes. A new study from Aarhus University shows that most native forest plants are...
phys.org
May 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
This recent paper by colleagues Szymon Czyżewski and @jcsvenning.bsky.social from @econovoau.bsky.social calls for nothing less than a paradigm shift in the way we should view European forests🌲🌳🌱 w 🐗🫎🐮 as some of the main (missing) players.
Hopefully it will resonate!
phys.org/news/2025-05...
Hopefully it will resonate!
phys.org/news/2025-05...
Looking much forward to welcoming @bjenquist.bsky.social later this week in Aarhus when @au.dk brings together decision makers, researchers, NGOs and industry to a discussion of what happens Beyond Carbon Neutrality: matchpoints.au.dk/matchpoints2...
May 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Looking much forward to welcoming @bjenquist.bsky.social later this week in Aarhus when @au.dk brings together decision makers, researchers, NGOs and industry to a discussion of what happens Beyond Carbon Neutrality: matchpoints.au.dk/matchpoints2...
Reposted by Jeppe A. Kristensen
As momentum on biodiversity & climate action faces headwinds, we must continue to step up. I’m excited to speak at Aarhus Uni. MatchPoints Conference this week (May 14–16) on The Metabolic Planet: How Energy & Ecology Shape Climate Solutions @au.dk w @jcsvenning.bsky.social & @jeep4x4.bsky.social 🧪🌐
MatchPoints 2025 - Beyond Climate Neutrality: How do we get the planet back on track?
The climate crisis demands more than emissions reductions. Join MatchPoints 2025 to engage in the discussion on how to get the planet back on track.
matchpoints.au.dk
May 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
As momentum on biodiversity & climate action faces headwinds, we must continue to step up. I’m excited to speak at Aarhus Uni. MatchPoints Conference this week (May 14–16) on The Metabolic Planet: How Energy & Ecology Shape Climate Solutions @au.dk w @jcsvenning.bsky.social & @jeep4x4.bsky.social 🧪🌐
Reposted by Jeppe A. Kristensen
📢We’re hiring an Events and Special Projects Coordinator!
This is a brilliant opportunity for someone who is passionate about Nature Recovery and wants to work with a team that really makes a difference! 🌳 We have some exciting events in the pipeline that you could lead! Deadline 11th April!
This is a brilliant opportunity for someone who is passionate about Nature Recovery and wants to work with a team that really makes a difference! 🌳 We have some exciting events in the pipeline that you could lead! Deadline 11th April!
April 8, 2025 at 11:48 AM
📢We’re hiring an Events and Special Projects Coordinator!
This is a brilliant opportunity for someone who is passionate about Nature Recovery and wants to work with a team that really makes a difference! 🌳 We have some exciting events in the pipeline that you could lead! Deadline 11th April!
This is a brilliant opportunity for someone who is passionate about Nature Recovery and wants to work with a team that really makes a difference! 🌳 We have some exciting events in the pipeline that you could lead! Deadline 11th April!
Reposted by Jeppe A. Kristensen
Are you interested in boldly reimagining how we can finance #naturerecovery at scale, beyond mainstream market mechanisms?
We are advertising a one-year postdoctoral researcher at
@naturerecovery.bsky.social at Oxford. Closing date April 30th
tinyurl.com/muebaf86
@oxfordgeography.bsky.social
We are advertising a one-year postdoctoral researcher at
@naturerecovery.bsky.social at Oxford. Closing date April 30th
tinyurl.com/muebaf86
@oxfordgeography.bsky.social
April 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Are you interested in boldly reimagining how we can finance #naturerecovery at scale, beyond mainstream market mechanisms?
We are advertising a one-year postdoctoral researcher at
@naturerecovery.bsky.social at Oxford. Closing date April 30th
tinyurl.com/muebaf86
@oxfordgeography.bsky.social
We are advertising a one-year postdoctoral researcher at
@naturerecovery.bsky.social at Oxford. Closing date April 30th
tinyurl.com/muebaf86
@oxfordgeography.bsky.social
#Biomass🌳 demands create perverse incentives around the world 🌎
A recent study from PIK showed how biomass production beyond the current agricultural area will sacrifice other #planetary #boundaries, such as #biodiversity: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...
A recent study from PIK showed how biomass production beyond the current agricultural area will sacrifice other #planetary #boundaries, such as #biodiversity: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...
World's largest deforestation project fells forests for bioethanol fuel, sugar and rice in Indonesia
Indonesia plans to clear forests about the size of Belgium to produce sugarcane-derived bioethanol, rice and other food crops, potentially displacing Indigenous groups who rely on the land to survive
abcnews.go.com
April 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
#Biomass🌳 demands create perverse incentives around the world 🌎
A recent study from PIK showed how biomass production beyond the current agricultural area will sacrifice other #planetary #boundaries, such as #biodiversity: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...
A recent study from PIK showed how biomass production beyond the current agricultural area will sacrifice other #planetary #boundaries, such as #biodiversity: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...
Reposted by Jeppe A. Kristensen
Forest restoration is booming but biodiversity isn’t
Forest restoration is booming but biodiversity isn’t
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay’s founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives, and story summaries. Global efforts to restore forests are gathering pace, driven…
news.mongabay.com
April 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Forest restoration is booming but biodiversity isn’t
Reposted by Jeppe A. Kristensen
Two new positions (PhD and 3y postdoc) at GEUS studying ancient landslides in Denmark. Funded by @carlsbergfondet.dk
Come work with me!
www.jobindex.dk/jobannonce/r...
www.jobindex.dk/jobannonce/r...
Come work with me!
www.jobindex.dk/jobannonce/r...
www.jobindex.dk/jobannonce/r...
February 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Two new positions (PhD and 3y postdoc) at GEUS studying ancient landslides in Denmark. Funded by @carlsbergfondet.dk
Come work with me!
www.jobindex.dk/jobannonce/r...
www.jobindex.dk/jobannonce/r...
Come work with me!
www.jobindex.dk/jobannonce/r...
www.jobindex.dk/jobannonce/r...
So what actually happened when the dinosaurs died?🦕
Using simple ecological rules*, we explore how the interplay between ecosystem engineering, seed size and light environment can explain temporal patterns of animal and seed sizes from the fossil record🌳🐘🐀🌱
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Using simple ecological rules*, we explore how the interplay between ecosystem engineering, seed size and light environment can explain temporal patterns of animal and seed sizes from the fossil record🌳🐘🐀🌱
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Ecosystem engineers alter the evolution of seed size by impacting fertility and the understory light environment
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 17, 2025 at 11:10 AM
So what actually happened when the dinosaurs died?🦕
Using simple ecological rules*, we explore how the interplay between ecosystem engineering, seed size and light environment can explain temporal patterns of animal and seed sizes from the fossil record🌳🐘🐀🌱
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Using simple ecological rules*, we explore how the interplay between ecosystem engineering, seed size and light environment can explain temporal patterns of animal and seed sizes from the fossil record🌳🐘🐀🌱
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Help Denmark Buy California – Because Why Not?
Buy it from Trump, the bigliest crowdsourcing ever
denmarkification.com
February 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
An important shout from Spence and colleagues at @harvard.edu
It feels double-relevant in times when the Arctic is hot but Arctic geopolitics is hotter, and the people at the centre of it all are not always treated as they should be🇬🇱
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
It feels double-relevant in times when the Arctic is hot but Arctic geopolitics is hotter, and the people at the centre of it all are not always treated as they should be🇬🇱
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Arctic research cooperation in a turbulent world
Rapid Arctic change requires multifaceted approaches with Arctic peoples at the forefront
www.science.org
February 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
An important shout from Spence and colleagues at @harvard.edu
It feels double-relevant in times when the Arctic is hot but Arctic geopolitics is hotter, and the people at the centre of it all are not always treated as they should be🇬🇱
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
It feels double-relevant in times when the Arctic is hot but Arctic geopolitics is hotter, and the people at the centre of it all are not always treated as they should be🇬🇱
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Another testament to how important it is to have realistic expectations to how much climate mitigation trees can deliver on decadal timescales.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Natural tree colonisation of organo‐mineral soils does not provide a net carbon capture benefit at decadal timescales
Sparse natural colonisation of carbon-rich soils by low biomass trees might not result in net ecosystem carbon gains at decadal timescales, and instead lead to unforeseen soil carbon losses. Soil car...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Another testament to how important it is to have realistic expectations to how much climate mitigation trees can deliver on decadal timescales.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Jeppe A. Kristensen
A few more days to apply! Together with @jcsvenning.bsky.social and as part of @econovoau.bsky.social we're offering this fab 2-yr postdoc position: international.au.dk/about/profil...
2-yr postdoc on human macroecology in a functional trait perspective Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Department of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University
international.au.dk
January 28, 2025 at 7:36 AM
A few more days to apply! Together with @jcsvenning.bsky.social and as part of @econovoau.bsky.social we're offering this fab 2-yr postdoc position: international.au.dk/about/profil...
Two really exciting opportunities to work with great people in a truly amazing setting in the northern Swedish boreal🔥🌲🌍
Two exciting 3-year postdoc positions, on above-/belowground linkages and microbial community structure and genomics, working with one of the best ecologists in the world on the famous islands in northern Sweden! Deadline April 1 #ecology #postdocposition #umeauniversity
January 27, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Two really exciting opportunities to work with great people in a truly amazing setting in the northern Swedish boreal🔥🌲🌍
Reposted by Jeppe A. Kristensen
Looking to explore High Arctic carbon dynamics?
🚨 We're offering a PhD opportunity at #Zackenberg Research Station! Dive into 25 years of #GEM and #ICOS data, conduct fieldwork, and study Arctic ecosystems under climate change. 🌍
🔗 Share or Apply now: tinyurl.com/Zackenberg
#ArcticResearch #PhDLife
🚨 We're offering a PhD opportunity at #Zackenberg Research Station! Dive into 25 years of #GEM and #ICOS data, conduct fieldwork, and study Arctic ecosystems under climate change. 🌍
🔗 Share or Apply now: tinyurl.com/Zackenberg
#ArcticResearch #PhDLife
January 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Looking to explore High Arctic carbon dynamics?
🚨 We're offering a PhD opportunity at #Zackenberg Research Station! Dive into 25 years of #GEM and #ICOS data, conduct fieldwork, and study Arctic ecosystems under climate change. 🌍
🔗 Share or Apply now: tinyurl.com/Zackenberg
#ArcticResearch #PhDLife
🚨 We're offering a PhD opportunity at #Zackenberg Research Station! Dive into 25 years of #GEM and #ICOS data, conduct fieldwork, and study Arctic ecosystems under climate change. 🌍
🔗 Share or Apply now: tinyurl.com/Zackenberg
#ArcticResearch #PhDLife
Great paper by @annvirkk.bsky.social and colleagues confirming that #wildfires are a really important and growing factor in #Northern #carbon budgets - offsetting the sink capacity🌍🌲🔥
#noplacefortreeplanting
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#noplacefortreeplanting
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake - Nature Climate Change
How the carbon stocks of the Arctic–Boreal Zone change with warming is not well understood. Here the authors show that wildfires and large regional differences in net carbon fluxes offset the overall ...
www.nature.com
January 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Great paper by @annvirkk.bsky.social and colleagues confirming that #wildfires are a really important and growing factor in #Northern #carbon budgets - offsetting the sink capacity🌍🌲🔥
#noplacefortreeplanting
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#noplacefortreeplanting
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Delighted to see the first abstracts have been submitted to our session. Already some exciting titles!!🦫🐛🦬
The deadline is approaching (2 days to go) so please forward to people interested in the role of animals in the Earth system🌎
See u at #EGU25!
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
The deadline is approaching (2 days to go) so please forward to people interested in the role of animals in the Earth system🌎
See u at #EGU25!
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
January 13, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Delighted to see the first abstracts have been submitted to our session. Already some exciting titles!!🦫🐛🦬
The deadline is approaching (2 days to go) so please forward to people interested in the role of animals in the Earth system🌎
See u at #EGU25!
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
The deadline is approaching (2 days to go) so please forward to people interested in the role of animals in the Earth system🌎
See u at #EGU25!
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
A shift from >60% towards 30-50% tree-cover projected in the boreal region in the coming decades.🔥
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Opportunity for additional tree-planting? 🌲
Nope!: theconversation.com/in-the-arcti...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Opportunity for additional tree-planting? 🌲
Nope!: theconversation.com/in-the-arcti...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
January 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM
A shift from >60% towards 30-50% tree-cover projected in the boreal region in the coming decades.🔥
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Opportunity for additional tree-planting? 🌲
Nope!: theconversation.com/in-the-arcti...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Opportunity for additional tree-planting? 🌲
Nope!: theconversation.com/in-the-arcti...
Are you still unsure where to join the discussion with people in #biogeoscience on how #animals affect the #Earth system?🦬
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
See you in Vienna at #EGU2025!
Submission deadline is 15th Jan, 1300 CET
@eurogeosciences.bsky.social
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
See you in Vienna at #EGU2025!
Submission deadline is 15th Jan, 1300 CET
@eurogeosciences.bsky.social
January 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Are you still unsure where to join the discussion with people in #biogeoscience on how #animals affect the #Earth system?🦬
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
See you in Vienna at #EGU2025!
Submission deadline is 15th Jan, 1300 CET
@eurogeosciences.bsky.social
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
See you in Vienna at #EGU2025!
Submission deadline is 15th Jan, 1300 CET
@eurogeosciences.bsky.social
"We may fool ourselves, but not the Earth system"🌍
A great piece in @theconversation.com about why tree-planting at high Northern latitudes will do more harm to #climatechange than good while also threatening the unique #Arctic #biodiversity🦌🌿
theconversation.com/in-the-arcti...
A great piece in @theconversation.com about why tree-planting at high Northern latitudes will do more harm to #climatechange than good while also threatening the unique #Arctic #biodiversity🦌🌿
theconversation.com/in-the-arcti...
In the Arctic, planting more trees actually makes the world warmer
Tree planting can help address the climate and biodiversity crises – but only in the right circumstances.
theconversation.com
January 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
"We may fool ourselves, but not the Earth system"🌍
A great piece in @theconversation.com about why tree-planting at high Northern latitudes will do more harm to #climatechange than good while also threatening the unique #Arctic #biodiversity🦌🌿
theconversation.com/in-the-arcti...
A great piece in @theconversation.com about why tree-planting at high Northern latitudes will do more harm to #climatechange than good while also threatening the unique #Arctic #biodiversity🦌🌿
theconversation.com/in-the-arcti...
A fine yet worrying piece about the threads to the mighty musk with some familiar faces, including @nmschmidt.bsky.social from @aarhusuni.bsky.social and the excellent KISS station manager Chris Sørensen 🦬❄️🌿
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
They lived through the ice age. Can the mighty musk ox survive the heat?
Rising temperatures are pushing these Arctic mammals ever farther into Greenland’s north. But eventually there will be nowhere left for them to go
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2024 at 8:07 AM
A fine yet worrying piece about the threads to the mighty musk with some familiar faces, including @nmschmidt.bsky.social from @aarhusuni.bsky.social and the excellent KISS station manager Chris Sørensen 🦬❄️🌿
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Extremely thrilled to see that the Novo Nordisk Foundation have now included biodiversity and ecosystem science in their strategic research area🌿🦌😃
We need very good people to apply for this exciting position - it's important!
apply.workable.com/j/29C682EBEE...
We need very good people to apply for this exciting position - it's important!
apply.workable.com/j/29C682EBEE...
Scientific Manager in Biodiversity and Ecosystem Science - Novo Nordisk Foundation
Scientific Manager in Biodiversity and Ecosystem ScienceThe Novo Nordisk Foundation is seeking a Scientific Manager with a background in biodiversity, landscape ecology, environmental- or ecosystem sc...
apply.workable.com
December 20, 2024 at 8:55 PM
Extremely thrilled to see that the Novo Nordisk Foundation have now included biodiversity and ecosystem science in their strategic research area🌿🦌😃
We need very good people to apply for this exciting position - it's important!
apply.workable.com/j/29C682EBEE...
We need very good people to apply for this exciting position - it's important!
apply.workable.com/j/29C682EBEE...
Reposted by Jeppe A. Kristensen
The #Arctic flora and fauna are not only responding to #climate change - they also modulate the way ecosystems feed back to the climate system. Read more about how here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/env... @beestfloris.bsky.social @larsholst.bsky.social @jeep4x4.bsky.social @nordborn.bsky.social
December 20, 2024 at 8:11 AM
The #Arctic flora and fauna are not only responding to #climate change - they also modulate the way ecosystems feed back to the climate system. Read more about how here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/env... @beestfloris.bsky.social @larsholst.bsky.social @jeep4x4.bsky.social @nordborn.bsky.social
Understanding and predicting #climatechange is all about the #Earth's #energybalance, right?🌎
Correct! But someone has to do all the hard work...
#Plants and #microbes are doing their part, but we often overlook the important role of #animals as moderators🐛🦌
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
Correct! But someone has to do all the hard work...
#Plants and #microbes are doing their part, but we often overlook the important role of #animals as moderators🐛🦌
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
Frontiers | Highlighting the role of biota in feedback loops from tundra ecosystems to the atmosphere
www.frontiersin.org
December 20, 2024 at 8:14 AM
Understanding and predicting #climatechange is all about the #Earth's #energybalance, right?🌎
Correct! But someone has to do all the hard work...
#Plants and #microbes are doing their part, but we often overlook the important role of #animals as moderators🐛🦌
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
Correct! But someone has to do all the hard work...
#Plants and #microbes are doing their part, but we often overlook the important role of #animals as moderators🐛🦌
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...