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Martin Jung
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Researcher at @iiasa.ac.at | LA & Fellow @ipbes.net | AE @consbiog.bsky.social | #macroecology | #conservation | #biodiversity | #remotesensing | #systemsthinking | https://www.martinjung.eu/
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This could be a great idea and I think it would be a lot more useful for developing thoughts and improvements, than the typical "review chapter 1".
Conserving biodiversity and water in a human-dominated landscape requires holistic and integrated options, read about our approaches in the @biodiversa.eu INSPIRE project Neusiedl Lake case study to find out more.
www.inspire-biodiversa.com/post/options...
Options for conserving biodiversity and water in a human-dominated landscape
Ongoing climate change and human demands put increasing amounts of pressure on land and water. This is especially true for freshwater ecosystems, such as lakes, wetlands and ponds, which are rapidly d...
www.inspire-biodiversa.com

I invite those interested in the matter to also read Chapter 3 of the Nexus Assessment ( zenodo.org/records/1385... ), which provides a comprehensive overview of future sectoral interactions also for non conservation area related issues.
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How are we going to navigate this challenge? We argue that integrated spatial planning (GBF Target 1) can provide a key way forward to maximize positives and minimizes negatives outcomes.
In the planning for future conservation areas these interlinkages should be explicitly considered.
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We highlight that any expansion of conservation areas can have positive and negative consequences across the Nexus.
These effects are pervasive and vary in magnitude across realms, protection governance types and sectors.
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Happy to see our work in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social outπŸŽ‰
Building on the @ipbes.net Nexus Assessment, we review evidence surrounding the expansion of conservation areas and how they interact with other sectors
(Read for free here authors.elsevier.com/a/1m57vcZ3X3...)
(1/4) πŸ§ͺ #conservation #nexus
authors.elsevier.com
IIASA @iiasa.ac.at Β· 18d
🌍 Interested in the 2026 IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP)? Join our #YSSP26 Application Webinar for Europe & Asia to learn how to prepare a strong application and hear from alumni.
πŸ—“ 19 Nov 2025 | 1-2pm CET
πŸ“© Register by 17 Nov: [email protected]
▢️ iiasa.ac.at/early-career...

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Just learned that you can boost the usefulness of your Google search results massively by adding

-ai

to your query.

You're welcome.

Chapter 3 of the @ipbes.net Nexus assessment, which I have contributed to, has now been openly released.

We assessed the evidence on how future nexus interactions accross the nexus will likely behave under different scenarios.
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
@iiasa.ac.at
IPBES Nexus Assessment: Chapter 3 – Future interactions across the nexus
Chapter 3: Future interactions across the nexus of the Thematic Assessment Report on the Interlinkages among Biodiversity, Water, Food and Health of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Bi...
doi.org

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We're proud to have supported this effort to reassess the butterflies to Europe, but the results are sobering: Mounting risks threaten survival of wild European pollinators – IUCN Red List iucncongress2025.org/newsroom/all...
Mounting risks threaten survival of wild European pollinators – IUCN Red List
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 11 October 2025 (IUCN) – Nearly 100 additional wild bee species in Europe have been classified as threatened in a new assessment for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Sp...
iucncongress2025.org
Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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Earth lost a conservationist and scientist like no other, and I am saddened profoundly by this news. Dr. Jane Goodall changed lives and attitudes about conservation and respect for nature wherever she went. A gifted leader in every way.

www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl... πŸ§ͺ
Jane Goodall, primate expert and conservationist, dies aged 91
Goodall was a pioneer in her field, both as a female scientist in the 1960s and for her work studying the behavior of primates
www.theglobeandmail.com

New spatial-explicit pan-European opportunity cost layers now out from the @naturaconnect.bsky.social project πŸŽ‰

Spencer et al. Opportunity cost estimates for spatial conservation prioritisation across terrestrial Europe. Sci Data 12, 1583 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Opportunity cost estimates for spatial conservation prioritisation across terrestrial Europe - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Opportunity cost estimates for spatial conservation prioritisation across terrestrial Europe
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Shifting the baseline for waterbird and seabird conservation in Europe: risk assessment over one century

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🌍 πŸ§ͺ 🦀 #Ornithology
Shifting the baseline for waterbird and seabird conservation in europe, risk assessment over one century - Biodiversity and Conservation
European waterbird and seabird populations have been threatened by anthropogenic activities for decades. Effective strategies are needed to restore both populations and their habitats. However, the temporal period used to define the state of reference when setting restoration targets requires careful considerations to avoid the risk of shifting baseline. A risk of shifting baseline occurs if a population decreases before the time period used to set a baseline. In Europe, most bird monitoring schemes started after the 1970s, yet significant changes in population trends were already reported earlier in the 20th century. We assessed the risk of shifting baseline for 88 out of 170 waterbird and seabird species breeding in Europe. Building on historical ecology, we reconstructed population trends between 1900 and 2018 from information collected in both historical literature and monitoring scheme reports. Historical trends confirm variations in population trends for several waterbird and seabird species over the period 1900-1970, with 35 decreasing species, 38 fluctuating species, 15 increasing species and 82 species with unknown trends. A high risk of shifting baseline was identified for 28 species, for which restoration targets must consider historical trends spanning at least a century. The risk was low for 12 species, probably low for 41 species, probably high for 7 species and uncertain for 82 species. Our study highlights the crucial role of historical data collected prior to the large-scale implementation of standardized abundance monitoring, as it allows for the identification of appropriate baselines to guide the restoration of waterbird and seabird breeding populations.
link.springer.com

It was a pleasure to visit! And thanks for giving me some small space to highlight our work in @naturaconnect.bsky.social
Just out in PNAS!

We used multi-taxon data to model virtual forest landscapes.

Forest withdrawn from timber harvesting are needed in a much higher share than they currently are in Europe, and extensive forests contribute less than expected to multi-taxon diversity.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Sustainable forest planning: Assessing biodiversity effects of Triad zoning based on empirical data and virtual landscapes | PNAS
The Triad framework seeks to balance the economic and ecological functions in forested landscapes by combining intensively, extensively, and unmana...
www.pnas.org
IPBES @ipbes.net Β· Sep 18
Trends in indirect drivers have an effect on both direct drivers and nexus elements.
-IPBES #NexusAssessment Report

Want to know more? Check the Summary for Policymakers already available in English: https://www.ipbes.net/nexus/media-release
The 8th European Congress for Conservation Biology will take place in Leiden, NL! They will explore how #biodiversity can be safeguarded effectively in the long term. First call is open now! Check out: eccb26leiden.eu/calls/ for more info, we are looking forward to your contributions!

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Extremely happy to announce that @iiasa.ac.at will host the first author meeting of the @ipbes.net Spatial Planning and Connectivity assessment.
iiasa.ac.at/news/sep-202...
IIASA to host first author meeting of IPBES Spatial Planning and Connectivity Assessment
IIASA will host the first author meeting of the upcoming Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Spatial Planning and Connectivity Assessment in Laxenb...
iiasa.ac.at
Fresh off the press! Our perspective in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com discusses the wealth of information on biodiversity contained in historical sources, and its integration for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation. A thread on the paper and what led to it:
rdcu.be/eEcIt
EXPOSED: Google's Β£33 million contract to push Israeli propaganda in the UK

Google's has run 39 Israeli government-paid-for ads on its platforms in the UK alone, trying to discredit reports on the Zionist's genocide in Gaza
www.thecanary.co/global/world...
EXPOSED: Google's Β£33 million contract to push Israeli propaganda in the UK
Google's has run 39 Israel government-bought ads on its platforms in the UK alone, trying to discredit reports on the genocide in Gaza
www.thecanary.co

Small article out on projecting European potential natural vegetation types. Code and data available, and maybe useful for some :)
doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
Redirecting
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#IALE2025 is about to kickoff. Looking forward to learn more about the current state of the science. If you are there, don't miss my talk on Friday πŸ˜€
Yikes - the land surrounding the Cerne Abbas Giant is up for sale!

Lot 1 is top-quality chalk downland bursting with wildflowers & butterflies - orchids, skippers… going for Β£950k. It absolutely needs to be preserved. Hope the NT or similar can buy

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πŸ“–PublishedπŸ“–

Authors introduce GECOT, an open-source command line tool for solving budget-constrained multispecies landscape connectivity optimization problems when measuring landscape connectivity with the probability of connectivity indicator πŸ‘‡

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Shannon's H, Simpson's D, and Pielou's J are useless in ecology. Fitting data with a compound abundance distribution based on the geometric series is a better way to quantify variation – and to estimate species richness. New paper in Ecology Letters.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
What's up #conservation bluesky! 🦀 Tired of bad/sad/mad tipping points? Want to hear about some positive tipping points? Join us at the Lovejoy Symposium this Thursday! worldwildlife.org/lovejoy2024 Fully virtual for the first time ever, so you can join from anywhere in the 🌍! #conservationscience
2024 Lovejoy Symposium | Pages | WWF
www.worldwildlife.org

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Happy to start tweeting in Bluesky by announcing that we have just started a new Horizon Europe project SafeNet we’re coordinating at Luke with my dear colleague Jukka Forsman and me. Aiming at improving biodiversity and protecting old-growth forests of Europe. Regards from the kick-off @luke.fi

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New #NaturaConnect data paper on defining FRVs for mammals out @globalmammal.bsky.social !
Quite useful for baseline setting and #conservation-planning.

"Conservation targets for European terrestrial mammals using the favourable conservation status concept." doi.org/10.1038/s415...
2030 conservation targets for European terrestrial mammals using the favourable conservation status concept - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - 2030 conservation targets for European terrestrial mammals using the favourable conservation status concept
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An Aspirational Approach to Planetary Futures @nature.com.web.brid.gy
www.nature.com/articles/s41...