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Researching land-use change & how it impacts biodiversity at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Seeking to support biodiversity conservation. Posts by @tkuemmerle.bsky.social & team (check out our starterpack). hu.berlin/biogeo

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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Congrats to Jamie on defending his PhD: Livestock, land and the conditions of multispecies coexistence in the South American Dry Diagonal. Sadly, this also means goodbye for us – but more great research is surely to come at ICTA in Barcelona! #phd #defense #biogeography @icta-uab.bsky.social
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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is the perfect weekend read! Check it out: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Integrating local habitat structure and landscape heterogeneity is essential to conserve multitaxonomic biodiversity in European primary forests
Our results demonstrate that the drivers of primary forest biodiversity are largely context-dependent; therefore, conservation strategies based on single biodiversity indicators or individual structu....
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IPBES @ipbes.net · 10/10/2026
This #WorldMentalHealthDay, let's make some space for nature.🌿 Nature is essential for physical, emotional and mental health and well-being, as more biodiverse environments, and access to them, facilitate recovery from stress, depression & other health-related conditions. ❤️‍🩹 —IPBES #NexusAssessment
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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Some of our research focuses on exactly these consequences! Take a look here: biogeo.pages.cms.hu-berlin.de/website/publ... biogeo.pages.cms.hu-berlin.de/website/publ... biogeo.pages.cms.hu-berlin.de/website/publ...
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Uncovering patterns of cattle intensification across South America's dry diagonal | Conservation Biogeography Lab
Where cattle production expands into natural ecosystems, it typically leads to stark social–ecological impacts, including greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity losses, and ecosystem degradation. This...
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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
On Sep 29 2026, we celebrated International Day of Awareness of FLW! An important day to remember our privileges that give us food everyday and maybe reflect on the consequences of these privileges. www.fao.org/platform-foo...
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International Day of Awareness of FLW
International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, FAO and UNEP
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Tobias Kuemmerle @tkuemmerle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Protecting tropical forests is more cost-effective for biodiversity and climate than restoration | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Protecting tropical forests is more cost-effective for biodiversity and climate than restoration
Halting deforestation and promoting restoration are at the core of strategies to confront the biodiversity and climate crises in tropical forests. Avoiding forest disturbances is also critically impor...
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Society for Tropical Ecology @soctropecol.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🌿 The call for scientific sessions is now open for ECTE 2027! 🌿 📅 Deadline: 15 October 2026 (Please note that the deadline may be subject to change.) 💻 Submit your proposal through our online platform: www.conftool.net/ecte2027/
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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Opportunistic observations can make demographic assessments of elusive carnivores more accurate and provide information on long-lived individuals. Take a look! -> doi.org/10.1111/jzo....
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Integrating Systematic and Opportunistic Camera Trap Data to Monitor Eurasian Lynx Demography
By analysing 4201 Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) photographs collected over 14 monitoring seasons, we assess the potential and limitations of integrating systematic and opportunistic camera trap data. Our....
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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
They assessed the potential of integrating systematic and opportunistic data to monitor Eurasian lynx in Croatia, identifying 225 individuals and providing population estimates consistent with spatial capture-recapture studies.
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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
How can citizen science improve carnivore monitoring? Check out this new research by @francescobini.bsky.social, Ira Topličanec, Magda Sindičić and Tomislav Gomerčić, to find out! doi.org/10.1111/jzo....
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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Our visitor family is growing and growing!! Very happy Matías Morales became a part of it. We are looking forward to working, discussing and learning with him! #visitors #research #huberlin #biogeography
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Tobias Kuemmerle @tkuemmerle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Two wild Przewalski’s horse foals born in Kazakhstan after 200 years
Two Przewalski’s horse foals were born in a reintroduction center in the grasslands of central Kazakhstan in late August. They are reportedly the first wild horses born on Kazakh soil in more than 200...
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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
...and when talking about wildfires, this article comes to mind: a great piece about climate change, small scale mitigation and gender!
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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
On September 7th we celebrated the 7th international Day of Clean Air for blue skies! After a summer full of wildfires and their horrible aftermath, we have to appreciate our clean air and the blue skies even more and do everything to keep them clean and blue. www.ccacoalition.org/events/7th-i...
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7th International Day of Clean Air for blue skies
The eighth International Day of Clean Air for blue skies takes place on 7 September 2026.
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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We love summer and autumn time because it is visitors time! Last week Gregorio Pizarro joined our lab - we cannot wait to work with him! #visitors #huberlin #biogeography #lab
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 03/09/2026
Soundscapes of ancient forests are made possible through reconstructions of the sound-producing structures of insects from the Jurassic period. These ancient relatives of today’s katydids lived in what is now Inner Mongolia, China. In PNAS: ow.ly/xee550ZISxP
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Joachim Mergeay @jmergeay.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We calculated the effective size of the Scandinavian wolf population every year since its founding from the entire pedigree. Why? Because we could. But also because this population is vulnerable, and policy keeps pushing for lower and lower conservation targets 1/ #consgen
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The effective size of the Scandinavian wolf population is too small for both short- and long-term conservation - Heredity
Heredity - The effective size of the Scandinavian wolf population is too small for both short- and long-term conservation
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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Apart from all of these permanent team changes, we have two old new visitors visiting us! Belén Ávila and Melina Faingerch are back to collaborate and discuss with us, exchange ideas and advance our research!
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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Fortunately, we also have some good news! Bowy den Braber joined us as a postdoctoral scientist and Francisco Lopes became part of our team as a PhD scientist. We are very much looking forward to working with them!
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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Sadly, we had to say goodbye to Gabriele Retez and Julia Martínez Pardo last week. We had such an amazing time having them on our team with cutting-edge research, great discussions, insights and lovely conversations! Excited to see what's next for them and can't wait for them to visit us!
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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The department of Geography is looking for a Doctoral Researcher to join Mahmood Soofi's group this fall! So even though you would not be joining our amazing lab, it is more than worth a look and the application (open until 15.09)! Check it out: www.hu-berlin.de/en/universit... #job #huberlin
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Making sure you're not a bot!
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Tobias Kuemmerle @tkuemmerle.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Excellent policy brief by Lyla O'Brien and @marlind.bsky.social on our paper on priority actions to better protect and restore old-growth forests in Europe 👉 efi.int/publication/... @efieuropeanforest.bsky.social, @biogeoberlin.bsky.social
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How can we conserve primary and old-growth forests through the EU Nature Restoration Regulation?
The EU Nature Restoration Regulation could help conserve Europe's last primary and old-growth forests.
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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It is hard to deal with the #mentalload & mental stress because of #climatechange, environmental hazards around the globe and the extinction of species. Especially if these topics are - on top of private & public discussions - also part of your work. Look at this @ipbes.net post to see how to cope!
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Jonathan Tonkin @jdtonkin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Déjà vu? This paper of ours in 2019 could be describing what’s happening across Europe right now. (See the highlighted text.) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The simplest environmental solutions are often the best. They’re proven. They’re ready now. They can help us avert disaster. So why do many prefer complicated, high-tech, faraway gadgets instead? globalecoguy.medium.com/occams-razor...
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Occam’s Razor for the Planet
The simplest environmental solutions are often the best. They’re proven. They’re available now. And they can help us avert disaster. So…
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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Some good news to start the week? Take a look at this article: news.mongabay.com/2026/08/amaz...
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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Right on time for that is the open access to Marie Pratzer & colleagues' paper about the expansion of commodity frontiers, first published in February - among other things, it reflects Indigenous Peoples' role in halting deforestation in South America. Check it out: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
On Monday was #IndigenousPeoplesDay - a day to appreciate, celebrate and remember!
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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Our results can help target coexistence measures before conflicts escalate. They also show an important trade-off: regulating bison numbers to reduce conflict could strongly limit population recovery and range expansion. #EuropeanBison #Rewilding #Megafauna #HumanWildlifeConflict
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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
We combined #spatialconflictindicators with an individual-based population model to map where conflict hotspots with agriculture, forestry and traffic may emerge as European bison recover across #CentralEurope – and where low-conflict “coldspots” remain that could support restoration.
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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This paper came out a month ago, and is worth every mention & read!! Go check it out: Where can European bison thrive - and where could conflicts grow? 🦬 -> new paper led by Hendrik Bluhm, with @tkuemmerle.bsky.social & colleagues out in Journal of Applied Ecology -> doi.org/10.1111/1365...
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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
With Jamie’s @skybluejamie.bsky.social quotes & Iván’s detailed explanation about the investigation, it gives a great overview of the original paper: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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Expanding livestock frontiers and their implications for jaguar conservation in South America’s dry diagonal
Expanding livestock frontiers and their implications for jaguar conservation in South America’s dry diagonal, Burton, Jamie, Baumann, Matthias, Fernández, Pedro David, Martínez-Pardo, Julia, Pacheco, Pablo, Romero-Muñoz, Alfredo, Kuemmerle, Tobias
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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Check out this amazing article by Iván Paredes Tamayo published in @mongabay.com (in Spanish) about the research by @skybluejamie.bsky.social & collegeues!! es.mongabay.com/2026/08/tres...
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Tres tipos de ganadería avanzan sobre el hábitat del jaguar en el bosque seco de Sudamérica | ESTUDIO
Tres tipos de ganadería avanzan sobre el hábitat del jaguar en el bosque seco de Sudamérica, así lo revela un estudio.
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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This week working with the camera trap pictures from #SouthAmerica, the AI-powered species annotation feature of TrapTagger wildeyeconservation.org/traptagger/ helped a lot with this animal...Can you spot it? #biogeography #cameratrap #conservation
Camera trap picture from South America, showing mostly ground, plants and one animal
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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
On the 26th it was International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem!! Let's be aware of the change and challenges these ecosystems face and all the consequences that follow for animals, plants, humans and the climate!
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Beef has a huge climate problem. And the most effective solution -- by far -- is to simply reduce beef consumption and waste. But we don't want to hear that, so we often welcome fuzzy greenwashing stories instead. In the end, however, the math doesn't seem to work. drawdown.org/insights/gre...
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Greenwashing and denial won’t solve beef’s enormous climate problems
Dive into the world of beef's environmental impact, from deforestation to climate change. Learn about the myths of "eco-friendly" beef and the industry's narratives.
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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
By offering a standardized workflow, frontiermetrics facilitates frontier monitoring, supports evidence-based conservation planning, and enables robust comparison of deforestation trends and patterns across regions and spatial scales. doi.org/10.1002/rse2.70092 #deforestation #biogeography #research
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frontiermetrics: An R Package for Characterizing Deforestation Frontiers
Deforestation frontiers are major drivers of biodiversity loss, carbon emissions, and ecosystem degradation, yet our understanding of how deforestation progresses in these frontiers is limited. We pr....
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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Although we know where #deforestation occurs, our knowledge of how deforestation unfolds in space & time is limited. We developed frontiermetrics, a tool deriving eight metrics measuring speed, severity and spatiotemporal patterns to characterize deforestation frontiers for #ecology & #conservation
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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Have you already checked out Pablo Yair Huais and colleagues' new paper out now in Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation @rsecjournal.bsky.social? It asks how deforestation progresses in space and time by introducing the R package frontiermetrics! doi.org/10.1002/rse2.7009 #newpaper #R
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Tobias Kuemmerle @tkuemmerle.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Brazil’s environmental governance at risk | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... "An agribusiness-backed package" of bills put forward to "constrain environmental enforcement, narrow ecosystem protection, and shift biodiversity decisions away from environmental and scientific institutions."
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Brazil’s environmental governance at risk
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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Very bad weather in Berlin right now so we are sharing some cuties that sweetened our rainy day - and will hopefully do the same for you (whatever the sky may look like for you today)... Fotos taken by our #cameratraps in #Bolivia & #Argentina in 2024. Enjoy 🐆🐄! #biogeography #research #fieldwork
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Akrotelm 🌾 @akrotelm.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Auch das, was im Müritz-Nationalpark in #Mecklenburg-Vorpommern brennt, ist kein Wald, sondern eine Nadelholzplantage. 🌲🔥🌲 "Was, das ist doch Naturschutzgebiet...?" 👉 Ja, aber vor dem Naturschutz war da ne Plantage. Und die ist halt immer noch da, wenn auch jetzt aus der Nutzung genommen. /1/
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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
And there were a whole lot of amazing poster presentations: @julidecarre.bsky.social, @camillabrunet.bsky.social, @rubenchn.bsky.social, and Imogen Schwandner introduced the 850 participants from more than 25 countries to their important research!
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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
@alfredoromero.bsky.social and @francescobini.bsky.social held presentations! Alfredo talked about understanding challenges and opportunities for wildlife community conservation amidst shifting socio-ecological systems in deforestation frontiers, whereas Francesco introduced a different topic:
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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
As promised some contributions of the lab at the ECCB 2026 in Leiden @eccb26leiden.bsky.social: @tkuemmerle.bsky.social organized the symposium "Archetype analysis for conservation science and practice" together with @ranjmurali.bsky.social - with amazing contributions, discussions and new ideas!
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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
At the beginning of July Gabri defended his PhD!! His paper was about the restoring of the European bison in contemporary landscapes. Congratulations on a truly impactful research, great results and a great defense!! #phd #defense #dissertation #congratulations #bison #biogeography #rewilding
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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Last week a whole lot of our lab attended #eccb @eccb26leiden.bsky.social in Leiden (NL) - an amazing experience for connecting, learning, presenting, as well as exchanging opinions, research approaches and questions. Stay tuned for some posts & pics of our lab's contributions!
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Tobias Kuemmerle @tkuemmerle.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Anticipating where European bison might come into conflict with agriculture, forestry, or traffic --> new paper led by Hendrik Bluhm now out in the @jappliedecology.bsky.social 🦬🦬👉 doi.org/10.1111/1365... #Bison #Wisent #Rewilding #Megafauna #Conflict @biogeoberlin.bsky.social
Bison in Bialowieza Forest. Today around 800 wild bison survive in Bialowieza. Photo by: Lukasz Mazurek/Wild Poland.
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Tobias Kuemmerle @tkuemmerle.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Now out in @rsecjournal.bsky.social: frontiermetrics: An R Package for Characterizing Deforestation Frontiers - led by Pablo Yair Huais 👉 doi.org/10.1002/rse2... @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu #SystemShift
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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Delighted to welcome Corvin Pacher to our team!! He is a Geography student at our institute @humboldtuni.bsky.social and will be part of our team as a student collaborator - looking forward to working together!! #newmember #studentcollaborator #huberlin #biogeography #welcome
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