GunnarKeppel.bsky.social
@gunnarkeppel.bsky.social
Environmental biologist at the University of South Australia passionate about biodiversity, conservation, and ecology. I live and work on Kaurna land in Adelaide, Australia.
@chloebentze.bsky.social presenting on widespread #dieback of red stringybark #eucalypt trees in the Clare Valley at #ESA2025
November 24, 2025 at 1:04 AM
@chloebentze.bsky.social presenting on widespread #dieback of red stringybark #eucalypt trees in the Clare Valley at #ESA2025
December 12, 2024 at 7:24 AM
Our stringybark #eucalypt dieback team after a successful symposium on #dieback at the conference of the @ecolsocaus.bsky.social - with Chloe Bentze and Donna Fitzgerald
December 12, 2024 at 3:20 AM
Our stringybark #eucalypt dieback team after a successful symposium on #dieback at the conference of the @ecolsocaus.bsky.social - with Chloe Bentze and Donna Fitzgerald
April Highlights: workshop with leaders in research and stewardship of forests from Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji and New Caledonia to establish a Melanesian Observatory (MELANOBS). It was great catching up with colleagues and friends.
May 3, 2024 at 10:42 PM
April Highlights: workshop with leaders in research and stewardship of forests from Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji and New Caledonia to establish a Melanesian Observatory (MELANOBS). It was great catching up with colleagues and friends.
April Highlights: PhD candidate Chloe Bentze presenting with Donna Fitzgerald and me on the dieback of stringybark eucalypt trees during a visit to Brendan Choat and Belinda Medlyn lab groups at the Hawkesbury Institute of the Environment
April 29, 2024 at 12:21 PM
April Highlights: PhD candidate Chloe Bentze presenting with Donna Fitzgerald and me on the dieback of stringybark eucalypt trees during a visit to Brendan Choat and Belinda Medlyn lab groups at the Hawkesbury Institute of the Environment
Once they were giants.... Chloe Bentze is finding very few old growth stringybark eucalypt stands with big trees in her fieldwork on dieback in South Australia. Almost all stands were logged 60-100+ years ago
March 17, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Once they were giants.... Chloe Bentze is finding very few old growth stringybark eucalypt stands with big trees in her fieldwork on dieback in South Australia. Almost all stands were logged 60-100+ years ago
Relocated my keep cup from the Island Biology conference in Hawaii some 10 years ago. The Conference led to wonderful collaborations with Holger Kreft, @julianschrader.bsky.social, Patrick Weigelt and many others....
March 17, 2024 at 9:45 PM
Relocated my keep cup from the Island Biology conference in Hawaii some 10 years ago. The Conference led to wonderful collaborations with Holger Kreft, @julianschrader.bsky.social, Patrick Weigelt and many others....
Helping University of South Australia PhD student Chloe Bentze to collect data on dieback in eucalypt stringybark trees in the Fleurieu Peninsula of South Australia with Donna Fitzgerald and Michael Eguagie
February 19, 2024 at 7:19 PM
Helping University of South Australia PhD student Chloe Bentze to collect data on dieback in eucalypt stringybark trees in the Fleurieu Peninsula of South Australia with Donna Fitzgerald and Michael Eguagie
Our Biodiversity Group meetings @UniSA are back. PhD candidate Donna Fitzgerald talking about all the exciting plants she saw in Western Australia, including the amazing Hakea victoria
February 15, 2024 at 12:19 PM
Our Biodiversity Group meetings @UniSA are back. PhD candidate Donna Fitzgerald talking about all the exciting plants she saw in Western Australia, including the amazing Hakea victoria
Recovery of forests from cyclones/ hurricanes/ typhoons and #fire takes time and invasive species can be a problem: a case study from the Pacific. doi.org/10.2984/77.2.6
February 5, 2024 at 12:11 PM
Recovery of forests from cyclones/ hurricanes/ typhoons and #fire takes time and invasive species can be a problem: a case study from the Pacific. doi.org/10.2984/77.2.6