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
Do #protectedareas work? Some of our research on the topic was featured in Germany's prime news channel yesterday:
www.tagesschau.de/wissen/klima...
Scientific paper on the topic summarizing research by Femke Pflüger et al. (free access): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.tagesschau.de/wissen/klima...
Scientific paper on the topic summarizing research by Femke Pflüger et al. (free access): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Artenschutzkonferenz: Die Crux mit den Schutzgebieten
Die Welt-Artenschutzkonferenz setzt sich für bedrohte Arten ein. Ein Ziel des Übereinkommens für die biologische Vielfalt: 30 Prozent der weltweiten Landesfläche soll unter Schutz. Wie weit ist Deutsc...
www.tagesschau.de
December 6, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Do #protectedareas work? Some of our research on the topic was featured in Germany's prime news channel yesterday:
www.tagesschau.de/wissen/klima...
Scientific paper on the topic summarizing research by Femke Pflüger et al. (free access): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.tagesschau.de/wissen/klima...
Scientific paper on the topic summarizing research by Femke Pflüger et al. (free access): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Big congratulations to Rodel for defending his PhD thesis with flying colours!
Thrilled to share that I defended my PhD thesis last Friday after 2.5 years at @consbiogoe.bsky.social, @uni-goettingen.de. Very grateful for all the support received during this journey from my supervisor @matthiaswaltert.bsky.social, thesis committee members, colleagues, friends and family.
November 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Big congratulations to Rodel for defending his PhD thesis with flying colours!
New paper - outcome from Shirko Shokri's PhD thesis: Weather and water abstraction drive changes in waterbird communities of Iranian wetlands: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
New paper - outcome from Shirko Shokri's PhD thesis: Weather and water abstraction drive changes in waterbird communities of Iranian wetlands: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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.