Johannes Kamp
@kampjohannes.bsky.social
Landscape Ecologist and Conservation Scientist. Department of Conservation Biology, University of Göttingen: @consbiogoe.bsky.social
http://www.uni-goettingen.de/conservation
http://www.uni-goettingen.de/conservation
There is currently a lot of debate about #grazing vs. #mowing for #biodiversity - often polarized, with grazing seen as the holy grail and mowing as detrimental. I have long felt that it's not so much about one or the other, but about intensity and system. Well, here is another example:
July 20, 2025 at 9:48 PM
There is currently a lot of debate about #grazing vs. #mowing for #biodiversity - often polarized, with grazing seen as the holy grail and mowing as detrimental. I have long felt that it's not so much about one or the other, but about intensity and system. Well, here is another example:
Update on a new project on revitalizing coppice in Germany, from the Plieninger Lab ⬇️ I'm really looking forward to results from this one.
A warm welcome to our most recent social-ecological interactions group member, Pia Jensen! In this Medium blog post, Pia highlights the potential of traditional forest management (coppice forests) to meet current biodiversity and climate challenges in the forest sector. medium.com/people-natur...
Historical land uses, Community Forests and Local Perspectives
Coppice forests are a disappearing cultural landscape in Europe and Germany, but the importance of these historical forms of forest use is…
medium.com
July 19, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Update on a new project on revitalizing coppice in Germany, from the Plieninger Lab ⬇️ I'm really looking forward to results from this one.
Reposted by Johannes Kamp
#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...
Reposted by Johannes Kamp
#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.
Reposted by Johannes Kamp
Long, exciting feature in @science.org today on land #abandonment, #rewilding and biodiversity by
@dancharles.bsky.social, covering our abandonment research across Europe and Kazakhstan. Based on interviews with Gergana and Johannes + site visit in Bulgaria. Free to read: bsky.app/profile/scie...
@dancharles.bsky.social, covering our abandonment research across Europe and Kazakhstan. Based on interviews with Gergana and Johannes + site visit in Bulgaria. Free to read: bsky.app/profile/scie...
January 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Long, exciting feature in @science.org today on land #abandonment, #rewilding and biodiversity by
@dancharles.bsky.social, covering our abandonment research across Europe and Kazakhstan. Based on interviews with Gergana and Johannes + site visit in Bulgaria. Free to read: bsky.app/profile/scie...
@dancharles.bsky.social, covering our abandonment research across Europe and Kazakhstan. Based on interviews with Gergana and Johannes + site visit in Bulgaria. Free to read: bsky.app/profile/scie...
Working from home before the start of the usual madness next week - window with a view!
January 3, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Working from home before the start of the usual madness next week - window with a view!
First chapter of Anne Graser's PhD thesis now published⬇️
Stay tuned for another one on disturbance and birds using national bird monitoring data, and a third analysis on #moths, disturbance heterogeneity and deer again from the Harz mountains.
Stay tuned for another one on disturbance and birds using national bird monitoring data, and a third analysis on #moths, disturbance heterogeneity and deer again from the Harz mountains.
New paper! Forest disturbance through drought, windthrow, pest outbreaks and fire is increasing in Europe, driven by past planting decisions and climate change. In Germany alone, more than 500,000 ha of mostly Spruce died back in 2018-2022. Led by Anne Graser, we studied biodiversity responses...
December 22, 2024 at 2:23 PM
First chapter of Anne Graser's PhD thesis now published⬇️
Stay tuned for another one on disturbance and birds using national bird monitoring data, and a third analysis on #moths, disturbance heterogeneity and deer again from the Harz mountains.
Stay tuned for another one on disturbance and birds using national bird monitoring data, and a third analysis on #moths, disturbance heterogeneity and deer again from the Harz mountains.
Reposted by Johannes Kamp
Don't miss the next Blumenbach lecture in Göttingen! We are delighted that Jens-Christian Svenning agreed to speak about trophic #rewilding and will provide insights from and for #macroecology, #paleoecology and #conservation.
20 November, 5:15 p.m.
20 November, 5:15 p.m.
November 16, 2024 at 8:06 PM
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Interested in #Sandgrouse, #Bustards or Sociable Lapwings?
Join us for the international conference on Palearctic steppe birds in Spain! Abstract submission closes on 1st November. We will also deliver a keynote on post-Soviet land-use change and steppe birds in Kazakhstan.
Join us for the international conference on Palearctic steppe birds in Spain! Abstract submission closes on 1st November. We will also deliver a keynote on post-Soviet land-use change and steppe birds in Kazakhstan.
October 2, 2024 at 12:14 PM
Interested in #Sandgrouse, #Bustards or Sociable Lapwings?
Join us for the international conference on Palearctic steppe birds in Spain! Abstract submission closes on 1st November. We will also deliver a keynote on post-Soviet land-use change and steppe birds in Kazakhstan.
Join us for the international conference on Palearctic steppe birds in Spain! Abstract submission closes on 1st November. We will also deliver a keynote on post-Soviet land-use change and steppe birds in Kazakhstan.
Reposted by Johannes Kamp
Do our #ProtectedAreas work? New #openaccess paper on the effectiveness of the EU Special Protection Area (SPA) network for target species in Germany, led by Femke Pflüger: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Joint project with www.dda-web.de and www.bfn.de
Joint project with www.dda-web.de and www.bfn.de
October 7, 2024 at 1:10 PM
Do our #ProtectedAreas work? New #openaccess paper on the effectiveness of the EU Special Protection Area (SPA) network for target species in Germany, led by Femke Pflüger: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Joint project with www.dda-web.de and www.bfn.de
Joint project with www.dda-web.de and www.bfn.de
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Interested in #butterflies, #moths, #ecosystem functioning and global change? Tired of one-year contracts?
Join our lab for a Post-Doc position of up to 6 years in a large interdisciplinary project: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/278452
Join our lab for a Post-Doc position of up to 6 years in a large interdisciplinary project: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/278452
October 7, 2024 at 1:11 PM
Interested in #butterflies, #moths, #ecosystem functioning and global change? Tired of one-year contracts?
Join our lab for a Post-Doc position of up to 6 years in a large interdisciplinary project: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/278452
Join our lab for a Post-Doc position of up to 6 years in a large interdisciplinary project: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/278452
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Hot of the press: Germany's first comprehensive biodiversity assessment. We have contributed text and expertise on birds (with dda-web.de) and forest conservation.
September 30, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Hot of the press: Germany's first comprehensive biodiversity assessment. We have contributed text and expertise on birds (with dda-web.de) and forest conservation.
Reposted by Johannes Kamp
Don't miss the next Blumenbach lecture in Göttingen! We are delighted that Jens-Christian Svenning agreed to speak about trophic #rewilding and will provide insights from and for #macroecology, #paleoecology and #conservation.
20 November, 5:15 p.m.
20 November, 5:15 p.m.
October 2, 2024 at 6:58 AM
Don't miss the next Blumenbach lecture in Göttingen! We are delighted that Jens-Christian Svenning agreed to speak about trophic #rewilding and will provide insights from and for #macroecology, #paleoecology and #conservation.
20 November, 5:15 p.m.
20 November, 5:15 p.m.
Our lab is growing - anyone interested in joining us for an exciting project on biodiversity and citizen science?
Open position in our lab! Are you interested in citizen Science and biodiversity? Job at the nexus of data analysis, teaching and SciComm: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/188355
Come work with us and forum-wissen.de, biodivmuseum.de and dda-web.de. German language skills needed. Please repost.
Come work with us and forum-wissen.de, biodivmuseum.de and dda-web.de. German language skills needed. Please repost.
January 30, 2024 at 10:16 AM
Our lab is growing - anyone interested in joining us for an exciting project on biodiversity and citizen science?
Reposted by Johannes Kamp
New(ish) paper from Tejas' PhD out in Glob Change Biol: Changes in grazing systems have made the steppes of Kazakhstan a global fire hotspot - and that has strong effects on bird abundance and distribution:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Great collab again with @biogeoberlin.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Great collab again with @biogeoberlin.bsky.social
January 25, 2024 at 1:49 PM
New(ish) paper from Tejas' PhD out in Glob Change Biol: Changes in grazing systems have made the steppes of Kazakhstan a global fire hotspot - and that has strong effects on bird abundance and distribution:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Great collab again with @biogeoberlin.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Great collab again with @biogeoberlin.bsky.social
Call for papers!
Conservation of Palaearctic steppes and semi-natural grasslands: challenges and solutions
Special issue in Biological Conservation: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/biol...
Coordinated by Orsolya Valkó, Jürgen Dengler, @leonardoancillo and me
Conservation of Palaearctic steppes and semi-natural grasslands: challenges and solutions
Special issue in Biological Conservation: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/biol...
Coordinated by Orsolya Valkó, Jürgen Dengler, @leonardoancillo and me
January 26, 2024 at 9:29 AM
Call for papers!
Conservation of Palaearctic steppes and semi-natural grasslands: challenges and solutions
Special issue in Biological Conservation: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/biol...
Coordinated by Orsolya Valkó, Jürgen Dengler, @leonardoancillo and me
Conservation of Palaearctic steppes and semi-natural grasslands: challenges and solutions
Special issue in Biological Conservation: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/biol...
Coordinated by Orsolya Valkó, Jürgen Dengler, @leonardoancillo and me