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Kirsten Krüger @kirstenkrueger.bsky.social · 2d

If it is not yet on your bucket list, put it on!

📋Dance on a „Cat Empire“ concert ✅

Kirsten Krüger @kirstenkrueger.bsky.social · 6d

Had an amazing time at FoWiTa in Freiburg 🌲🌳

✅ new connections
✅ reconnecting to (science) friends
✅ hosted my first session
✅presenting my two core PhD chapters
✅ insightful excursion
✅ new fodder for thoughts

Great @edfm-tum.bsky.social representation with @johannesmohr.bsky.social 🚀

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Ecosystem Dynamics and Forest Management Group @edfm-tum.bsky.social · 7d

Our research in the National Park Berchtesgaden - both in the field and in silico - was reported on by NANO.
The segment is in German and starts at minute 7:37

www.zdf.de/play/magazin...

@rupertseidl.bsky.social @wernerrammer.bsky.social @christinadollinger.bsky.social

Overtourism und Klimakrise: Alpen unter Druck

NANO vom 25.09.: Skipisten oberhalb der Waldgrenzen können Lawinen auslösen. Die Bergidylle gerät aus dem Gleichgewicht. Können die Alpen dem Klimawandel trotzen?

www.zdf.de

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Johannes S. Mohr @johannesmohr.bsky.social · 20d

How expensive are 🪲💨🔥?! I can‘t believe it, but my 2nd PhD paper is finally published @natclimate.nature.com! Disturbances lower the economic value of Europes 🌲 by 29%... Climate change will increase it to up to 42%! (Now imagine a company looses 42% of its value…) doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02408-9

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Kirsten Krüger @kirstenkrueger.bsky.social · 26d

How big must it be? The SLOSS debate (large vs. many small reserves for biodiversity protection) is ongoing, and Anne Huber’s first (fantastic!) PhD paper sheds new light.

Spoiler: many small reserves work well in Central European temperate forests

📝https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111403

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Kirsten Krüger @kirstenkrueger.bsky.social · Sep 8

The fantastic Christina in action - loved your talk and it got me thinking again - thanks 💚

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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · Sep 4

We keep growing!
Are you excited about remote sensing and mountain forests? Then consider applying to this PhD position, supported by the TUM Center for Forest Management in the Alps! More details at: portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissens...

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Kirsten Krüger @kirstenkrueger.bsky.social · Sep 5

GfÖ 2025 is over and it was a blast! Strong @edfm-tum.bsky.social representation + friends!
I go home with some great ideas and insights 💡 - special thanks to the organizing team for the great food, communication and program #gfoe2025

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Kirsten Krüger @kirstenkrueger.bsky.social · Sep 4

Fantastic and insightful talk from Isabell Lanzrein from the chair of Forest and Agroforest Systems (TUM) at #gfoe2025 about beech neighborhood species mixture on drought susceptibility 🪾☀️

She dropped my favorite cartoon of the week 🌲💚 🌳

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Kirsten Krüger @kirstenkrueger.bsky.social · Aug 20

Extremly interesting paper by the fantastic @lucialayr.bsky.social , who disentangeled the future effects and contributions of climate change and distrubances on boreal forest features!

Spoiler, it seems they have the potential to offset each other
🔥🪲↔️🌡️

👉 doi.org/10.5194/bg-2...

Disentangling future effects of climate change and forest disturbance on vegetation composition and land surface properties of the boreal forest

Abstract. Forest disturbances can cause shifts in boreal vegetation cover from predominantly evergreen to deciduous trees or non-forest dominance. This, in turn, impacts land surface properties and, p...

doi.org

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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · Aug 14

We have a #Tansley review out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by Becky Banbury Morgan in which we put forward a new framework that aims to explain how and why edge effects on forest structure vary across ecosystems and through time

📜 doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Graphical illustration of the four key stages of edge evolution following edge creation.

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Kirsten Krüger @kirstenkrueger.bsky.social · Aug 12

Aspiration of the week:

Doing good science 💻

xkcd.com/3101/

Good Science

xkcd.com

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Kirsten Krüger @kirstenkrueger.bsky.social · Aug 11

Love the name! 😊

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Kirsten Krüger @kirstenkrueger.bsky.social · Aug 11

AND maybe it surprises people, but there are so many more amazing ecosystems types out there next to forests, which are incredible important to livlihoods and ecosystem functioning 🌿🌊🌼🏜️🏝️🏔️

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Kirsten Krüger @kirstenkrueger.bsky.social · Aug 11

Important statement paper!

We should see trees and forests for what they are: diverse ecosystems with a range of services they provide - not simply as carbon storage hubs and sinks.

Caroline Lehmann @caroaceae.bsky.social · Aug 1

Limited carbon sequestration potential from global ecosystem restoration - our paper was born of collective frustration around continual conflation of restoration + reforestation, invariably misrepresenting open ecosystems in global models of ecosystem C storage potential.

Limited carbon sequestration potential from global ecosystem restoration - Nature Geoscience

The maximum carbon sequestration potential from global terrestrial ecosystem restoration efforts until 2100 is 96.9 Gt, which is equivalent to 3.7–12.0% of anthropogenic emissions until then, accordin...

www.nature.com

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Kirsten Krüger @kirstenkrueger.bsky.social · Aug 11

"The wood of living trees is colonized by substantial, seemingly adapted and specialized communities. These communities [...], may play significant roles in influencing tree health [...]"

-> I would be very intersted in how much this is a factor for whole forest populations' health!

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Kirsten Krüger @kirstenkrueger.bsky.social · Aug 11

The Wood microbiom:

I tend to look at trees from the outside 🌳🛰️, happy that others do it from the inside! 🪵🔎

Fascinating study!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A diverse and distinct microbiome inside living trees - Nature

Microbiome analyses of living trees show that a single tree can host approximately one trillion bacteria, with microbial communities distinctly partitioned between heartwood and sapwood and with minim...

www.nature.com

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Kirsten Krüger @kirstenkrueger.bsky.social · Aug 4

Interested in working with a fun and inspiring team? We are looking for a new PhD (mountain forest management) and PostDoc (forest adaptive capacity, w/ @juditlecinadiaz.bsky.social)

Comes along with:
🧗🏻‍♀️ mountain/ sport buddies
🙃 good + bad jokes
☕️👬amazing social time
💭 great ideas and conversations

Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · Jul 24

Come work with us! We are looking to fill a PhD (mountain forest management) and PostDoc position (forest adaptive capacity, w/ @juditlecinadiaz.bsky.social). We'd be happy to have you as part of our dynamic team!

PhD: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...

PostDoc: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...

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Kirsten Krüger @kirstenkrueger.bsky.social · Jul 22

Congrats Lisa, that was an amazing defense and a joy to watch you (and to start my collection of favorite defense quotes 😉)!

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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · May 27

So excited to finally share our new paper charting the global spectrum of tree crown architecture, out today at @natcomms.nature.com ‬🧪🌐

Paper link 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A brief thread of what we found 🧵

Schematic diagram showing the major axes of tree crown architecture

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Kirsten Krüger @kirstenkrueger.bsky.social · Jun 30

Evening coding session in a 33 degree hot office - special measures need to be taken ☕️🧊

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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · Jun 23

The fantastic first image released by @esa.int Biomass satellite.

In glorious false colour to represent its P-band radar imaging, capable of penetrating even the highest biomass forests in the Amazon and Congo.

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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · Jun 14

So proud of Beibei Zhang for leading this paper in @newphyt.bsky.social showing how soils & topography shape variation in canopy dynamics across tropical forest landscapes 🌳🔃🌐

Link to 📃: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A short 🧵