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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

New study out in NEE, led by Stanislas Rigal: Even more effort needed to reverse negative trends in bird and butterfly populations.

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

We organize a symposium on #biodiversity, #citizenScience, species knowledge and conservation in October (in German language). Will be cool. Join us! Info and registration: www.fokus-vielfalt.de/tagung

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Out now: Very nice special issue in #BiologicalConservation: Conservation of Palaearctic steppes and semi-natural grasslands: challenges and solutions.

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Rodel Nguimdo Vouffo @rodelnguimdo.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

🎉Paper just published! We used Bayesian dynamic occupancy models to assess the effect of accessibility, hunting and other landscape variables on the occupancy, persistence and colonisation of eleven terrestrial and arboreal species. @consbiogoe.bsky.social @matthiaswaltert.bsky.social

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Can we "perceive" how species populations change? No. Need #structured #biodiversity monitoring. Cool new paper led by Catalina Munteanu, suggesting widespread shifting baselines and change blindness in biodiversity experience: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Uphill shifts in tropical forest birds on a Caribbean island - BSc thesis of Filibert Heim now published: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Nice collaboration led by @steffopp.bsky.social at @vogelwarte.bsky.social, wíth many people on Montserrat.

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Steffen Oppel @steffopp.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

NEW PAPER in #ornithology shows that #tropical #forest birds are moving higher up the mountain due to #climate change: buff.ly/5DQBiZN

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

How do forest disturbance, post-disturbance succession and temperature variability affect #moth and #butterfly diversity? Led by Imran Khaliq, we fitted 20,000 species distribution models to #CitizenScience data from across Germany and predicted responses: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

New paper! Determinants of terrestrial and limnic species richness in Germany: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Some first evidence for #hotspot patterns of certain taxonomic groups, but also clearly a lot to do: spatial #samplingbias doesn't go unnoticed, even in birds. Nice collab.

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Another very nice new paper emerging from Rodel's PhD - amazing dataset🐘⬇️

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

New paper! Hunting affects spatial distribution and occupancy trends in elephants and chimpanzees in Cameroon: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Led by @rodelnguimdo.bsky.social, neat analysis with contributions by @matthiaswaltert.bsky.social @consbiogoe.bsky.social Mahmood Soofi etal.

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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

The future of Europe’s forest disturbance regimes– a thread. Tl, dr: Disturbances from wildfire, bark beetles & wind will continue to increase in the coming decades. Under unabated climate change disturbances could more than double by 2100. New paper out in @science.org doi.org/10.1126/scie...

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Ready to start your own lab? Interested in #GlobalChange,#Biodiversity and #Ecosystem#Resilience? Join us in Göttingen - we are looking for a (female) Junior Research Group Leader in #EcologicalNovelty. Attractive conditions, see euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/415857 - please share widely if you can!

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Ever heard of #SociableLapwing? Easily one of the coolest birds on earth! Led by @tejasconsbio.bsky.social we just published insight into habitat suitability change during the entire #annualcycle. Read here #openaccess: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Eva Katharina Engelhardt @ekengelhardt.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Come work with us! 🪲For our new project bAImo we are searching for a PhD researcher combining modelling 💻 with ecological expertise, aiming to improve interdisciplinary approaches to insect monitoring 🔎🐝 please visit tinyurl.com/bAImo-PhDoffer for more details. Looking forward to your application 🦗😊

Job Offer: PhD Position
Project bAImo: artificial intelligence for insect monitoring
3 years (initially)
65% TV-L
Background: photo of a brown butterfly (Pyronia tithonus) on a purple flower

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Come work with us! #PhD position on #ecosystem and #biodiversity effects of large #herbivores on the Eurasian steppes now announced: www.euraxess.de/jobs/395512 Nice combination of fieldwork and meta-analysis, co-supervised by @jonastrepel.bsky.social and ejlundgren.github.io

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Jonas Trepel @jonastrepel.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Excited to share that my first PhD chapter just got published in @animalecology.bsky.social! You can check it out here: doi.org/10.1111/1365.... Based on fieldwork in the beautiful Waterberg Biosphere Reserve in South Africa, we show that.. (1/3)

Beautiful Sunset in Kaingo Private Game Reserve, one of our fieldsites

A white rhino in Dabchick Wildlife Reserve, one of our fieldsites

Woody savanna landscape in Swebeswebe Nature Reserve, on of our fieldsites

Overview of the reserves in our study sites. Shows the location of 10 included reserves with pictograms indicating the largest herbivore in each.

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Come and join us! Interesting talks, lively discussions, great speakers! (In German.)

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Christmas market and dinner with the lab (and some friends of the lab)❄️

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

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...

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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...

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Big congratulations to Rodel for defending his PhD thesis with flying colours!

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

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...

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

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!

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

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.

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

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

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

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....

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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

#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...

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

#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...

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

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...

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Cornelius Senf @corneliussenf.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

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!

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Kommenden Samstag: Einblick in die Welt von Spinnern, Spannern und anderen Nachtfaltern - im Alten Botanischen Garten in Göttingen. All welcome! ⬇️ #ScienceNight #NightOfScience #NachtdesWissens

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

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

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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

There is a new open position at our Lab!! haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/... #newposition #phd

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

#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.

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

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

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

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! ⬇️

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

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.

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

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...

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Jonas Trepel @jonastrepel.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

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...

Figure 2 from Rech et al. (2025) shows habitat selection estimates for cattle, horses, and buffalo, separated by feeding status and season.

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

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...

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

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

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

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...

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

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

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

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.

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Malte Jochum @maltejochum.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Fellow Ecologists, The #gfoe2025 @gfoesoc.bsky.social call for papers has just been published. Please submit your abstracts for exciting talks and engaging posters to present in Würzburg in September! gfoe-conference.de/index.php?ca... @uni-wuerzburg.de @globalchangeeco.bsky.social

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Gesellschaft für Ökologie e.V. @gfoesoc.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

REGISTRATION OPEN Online registration is now open and the call for abstracts for oral presentations and posters has been published for the 54th Annual Meeting of the #Ecological Society of #Germany, #Austria and #Switzerland. HOW TO SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT: www.gfoe-conference.de/index.php?ca...

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Back from the international conference on steppe birds in Spain, organized by @giaeavesteparias.bsky.social ! A great week of talks and exchange....

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Successful kick-off in Göttingen: In Climate Future Lab DIVERSA (zkfn.de/en/diversa/), an interdisciplinary consortium will study forest disturbance triggered by climate change to shed light on drivers, and to increase forest adaptability. We will focus on large-scale biodiversity analyses.

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Talk in Göttingen about our BBioDiv project on Citizen Science and Biodiversity, by Florian Goedecke⬇️

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