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Tobias Kuemmerle @tkuemmerle.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Continental-scale study looking into four species (roe deer, red deer, moose, European bison)- using GPS tracking data from >3000 individuals and a 35-year disturbance history @corneliussenf.bsky.social - main finding: disturbances (both natural and anthropogenic) improve for decades 👇

Graph showing how habitat suitability increases after disturbances - and after some time, as forests grow back, decreases again.

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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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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Prof. Cornelius Senf @corneliussenf.bsky.social has been appointed to the Landsat Science Team! ✨🛰️🌲 The members of the team are among the world's leading Earth Observation researchers and contribute directly to the strategic development of the Landsat program. More: shorturl.at/NMLAy

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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

New paper by @albavianasoto.bsky.social and @corneliussenf.bsky.social on forest reburns in southern Europe, published in Glob. Ecol. and Biogeography🌲🔥 Highlight: 30.1% of burned forest area experiencing multiple fire events since 1985. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Lisa Mandl @lisa-mandl.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

New paper out! We mapped forest recovery and its drivers in the Alps using multi-decadal fractional cover maps 🛰 and ecologically-informed recovery indicators 🌲.

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Cornelius Senf @corneliussenf.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

New paper - and final PhD chapter of @lisa-mandl.bsky.social - published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. Using Landsat recovery and meteorological data, we show that thermal limitations constrain post-disturbance recovery success across forests of the European Alps: doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...

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Ana Stritih @anastritih.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Come work with us! We are hiring a PhD to work on human-bear coexistence from a social-ecological systems perspective. uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004... As part of an international project, you'll use qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate coexistence with bears in Slovenia 🚵🐻

A bear and a human using fruit trees. Photos by Paula Mayer and Rewilding Apennines.

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Sebastian Seibold @sebseibold.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

After several years of hard work two important papers from Berchtesgaden NP are finally out: 1) effects of microclimate on biodiversity change with macroclimate along elevation, but taxon specific - led by @lisageres.bsky.social doi: 10.1002/ecog.07984 with @rupertseidl.bsky.social and many more

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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

New paper by Wout Cherlet of @qforestlab.bsky.social with very valuable insights into tree instance segmentation including one of our intensive measurement sites in #Berchtesgaden National Park 🌳✂️🌲 Co-authored by @hanzlan.bsky.social and @corneliussenf.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.is...

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Maximilian Pichler @maximilianpichler.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

#PhD position! I’m looking for a PhD Student (1+3 years) to model insect populations using statistical models + deep learning at #TheoreticalEcology, Regensburg (Germany). Join our team - please RT! Details: karriere.uni-regensburg.de/tg7w9 #Insects #Ecology #DeepLearning #Ecology #Monitoring

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Cornelius Senf @corneliussenf.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Want to do a PhD in remote sensing? Interested in mountain forest ecosystems? Then apply for a PhD position in our lab! You will be part of the newly founded Centre for Forest Management in the Alps, working on scaling tree productivity from tree to landscape scale. Deadline 21st September.

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Cornelius Senf @corneliussenf.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

We had to change our summer retreat plans due to bad weather but Munichs technical museum was a great alternative. They even have a stuffed spy pigeon on display!

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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

We warmly congratulate @lisa-mandl.bsky.social on her successful PhD defence! In accordance with tradition, Lisa is wearing a special hand-made hat 🎓, illustrating her research and PhD journey, and signifying her transformation into Dr. Mandl😉

Prof. Seidl, Prof. Senf, Dr. Mandl, Prof. Stritih

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Cornelius Senf @corneliussenf.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

What a defense! Very well done @lisa-mandl.bsky.social! A a special day for me, as Lisa was my first ever PhD student as a prof. I think I was equally nervous beforehand 😅

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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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Mathias Disney @matdisney.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Our new perspective on the use (& misuse) of what we're calling virtual forests (rather than digital twins!), for forest change from space, led by @kimcalders.bsky.social w many great colleagues 🔭 🧪🔬 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Realistic virtual forests for understanding forest disturbances and recovery from space

Forests worldwide are undergoing large-scale and unprecedented changes in terms of structure and composition due to land use change and natural distur…

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Cornelius Senf @corneliussenf.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

We’re hiring a new PhD student! Interested in terrestrial laser scanning, land surface temperature and the intersection of disturbance and microclimate ecology? Then apply!

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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Natural disturbances are often invoked as an argument against creating new forest reserves. But are reserves more affected by disturbances than managed forests? For C Europe the answer is no, in fact reserves have lower disturbance rate & severity than managed forests! doi.org/10.1111/1365...

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Ana Stritih @anastritih.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Do you like forests and coding? Come work with me @uni-freiburg.de! Only 5 days left to apply:

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Full Professorship (W 3) for Fire Ecology, University of Freiburg, Germany uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004... 🧪🌿🔥🌍🔥🌳 wildfires #sciencejobs #academicsky

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Earth Observation Lab @humboldteolab.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

📣PNAS piece led by @philrufin.bsky.social: commercial very-high-resolution EO data is needed for monitoring SDG 2 indicators in smallholder landscapes but costs are prohibitive. A call for open access for sustainability-centered research: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... @humboldtuni.bsky.social

$A drone capture of a smallholder farming landscape. Overlaid are squares of the size of typical optical satellite missions. Openly accessible data (e.g. Landsat or Sentinel-2) is often not sufficient to capture the landscape complexity in full detail, for example when trying to delineate individual fields. Here, one Landsat pixel contains fractions of multiple fields. Commercial data come at higher spatial resolution, offering potential to discriminate indivudual landscape components.$

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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Strengthening European Forest Monitoring with Earth Observation! 🌍 Led by Prof. Martin Herold, 77 EO experts signed an open letter to the European Commission to consider wider implementation of Earth Observation data for the reevaluation of the Forest Monitoring Law. 🌳🛰️ Read here: shorturl.at/Kst5t

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Cornelius Senf @corneliussenf.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Want to know more about forest harvesting regimes of Europe? Check out our latest collab with @ssuvanto.bsky.social where we analyzed NFI data across 11 countries.

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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

And just another example of using our European disturbance dataset. Susanne Suvanto @ssuvanto.bsky.social analysed forest harvesting regimes in Europe and assessed the importance of socioeconomic factors and disturbances for harvest intensity. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Marcus Lindner @marlind.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

We published three policy briefs on enhancing forest resilience based on results of our Horizon2020 project RESONATE. First: Managing Forest Disturbances in a Changing Climate efi.int/sites/defaul...

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Marcus Lindner @marlind.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

We published three policy briefs on enhancing forest resilience based on results of our Horizon2020 project RESONATE. Second: The Role of Biodiversity in Making Forests Resilient efi.int/sites/defaul...

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The International Tree Mortality Network @treemortality.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Towards a global understanding of tree mortality - out in @newphyt.bsky.social a collaboration between 113 of our members exploring the potential to better understand tree death globally nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Cornelius Senf @corneliussenf.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Six years in the making and finally published! Our viewpoint on how to improve tree mortality monitoring. With in-depth discussion on how to improve ground-based monitoring, integration of ground-based monitoring with remote sensing and modelling, and fair and collaborative science: lnkd.in/dJgSRQHt

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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Another example of how our European forest disturbance data can be integrated in conservation research: colleagues from @au.dk (Aarhus Uni) mapped high conservation value forests in Denmark and analysed the rates of disturbance therein (very low!): conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Example of disturbance (including management) detected since 2015 for the Mols Bjerge Region in Eastern Jutland based on the disturbance masks provided by Senf and Seidl (2021). The two top panels show an orthophoto from summer 2014 without annotation (top-left) and with the projected forest conservation value superimposed (top-right). Light green indicates a potential high conservation value and rust indicates a potentially low conservation value. The bottom panels show an orthophoto from spring 2021 without annotations (bottom-left) and with annotation of the areas detected as disturbed between 2015 and 2020 (bottom-right). Disturbed polygons are indicated in purple. Orthophotos provided by Styrelsen for Dataforsyning og Effektivisering (2022).

Predicted locations of high and low conservation value forests across the whole of Denmark (map on left) and for the Frederiksdal region (panels on right)—not accounting for disturbance. The upper right panel depicts an orthophoto of the Frederiksdal region (summer 2014); the lower right panel shows the same orthophoto with the forest conservation value projections overlain on top. Orthophotos provided by Styrelsen for Dataforsyning og Effektivisering (2022).

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

New paper! Forest disturbance through drought, windthrow, pest outbreaks and fire is increasing in Europe, driven by past planting decisions and climate change. In Germany alone, more than 500,000 ha of mostly Spruce died back in 2018-2022. Led by Anne Graser, we studied biodiversity responses...

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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

We are hiring a professor (assistant/associate) for Transformative Landscape Governance at @tumuenchen.bsky.social. If you're working on landscape planning under global change from a social-ecological perspective, we'd be happy to hear from you!

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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

🎥 How do we study forests using satellite and laser data? Here's a overview by our Prof. Cornelius Senf (@corneliussenf.bsky.social) in a short video produced by @daadworldwide.bsky.social (with English subs): www.youtube.com/watch?si=KPm...

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Satelliten und Laser in der Waldforschung – Prof. Dr. Cornelius Senf zu seiner Forschung

YouTube video by DAAD Worldwide

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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Welcome to the new BlueSky page of our group! Follow for updates on our research in many collaborative projects examining forest structure, disturbance and recovery - with the main focus on European temperate forests and a new direction exploring the Eurasian boreal biome!

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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

In a new paper, Anne Graser from University of Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social used our European disturbance map to understand disturbance and post-disturbance management impact on bird communities in Central Europe: doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Predicted density of 37 bird species modelled via community distance sampling for years since disturbance. Red-listed species are shown with a red-bordered header box. Coloured header boxes indicated the habitat affiliation: Green: forest, yellow: farmland/open land, white: several. Species for which the posterior checks did not indicate that the models are reliable are labelled n.r. (not reliable).

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