The study was conducted in the context of the @erc.europa.eu project SystemShift and contributes to @glp-earth.bsky.social

Agrarproduktion ist Hauptursache für verheerende Waldbrände in Südamerikas Trockenwäldern Ein internationales Forschungsteam hat unter Leitung der Humboldt-Universität mit Hilfe von Satellitendaten die Feuergeschichte einer der größten Trockenwaldregionen der Welt rekonstruiert.

Press release by @humboldtuni.bsky.social here (also in English): shorturl.at/vf3dl

Fire dynamics in the South American Chaco and their link to agriculture and drought Nature Sustainability - Climate change, particularly intensifying droughts, is often blamed for wildfires across the Gran Chaco, a vast South American dry woodland. An analysis of over 30 years of...

New paper in @natsustain.nature.com
rdcu.be/famEK

Together with colleagues from #INTA, #conicet (both Argentina) and #FCBC (Bolivia) we show that fires in the Gran Chaco are linked to agriculture, not climate.

@tkuemmerle.bsky.social @oswaldomaillard.bsky.social

Fire in the Bolivian Chaco - Photo Daniel Coimbra

Fires in the South American Gran Chaco are linked to agriculture, not climate
- new paper out in @natsustain.nature.com led by @matthiasbaumann.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @humboldtuni.bsky.social

Expanding deforestation in the Bolivian Chiquitano Forest

Where smallholders are present, agribusinesses expand more slowly into forests.

New study showing this for the Gran Chaco and Chiquitano Forest, both global deforestation hotspots - led by Marie Pratzer. Out now in @pnas.org @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
👉 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

There are so many perks of working in an international lab - the best one obviously being sweets as souvenirs from all over the world!!

@geolacerda.bsky.social @aguiarse86.bsky.social

#sweets #labwork #academia #international #souvenirs #biogeography #huberlin

We're constantly told that renewables are unpopular, but that's simply not true

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

@camillabrunet.bsky.social is a conservation-behavior #scientist interested in wildlife management, #conservation, movement and spatial #ecology. She will start her #phd studies, where she will investigate how changes in agricultural land use can influence the behavior of large mammals.
#newmember

Look at this beautiful Puma with these beautiful flowers 🤩!
A photo of our camera trap in Uturungo, Argentina.

#wildcamera #cameratrap #puma #argentina #biogeography #research

Last weekend @alfredoromero.bsky.social and Marie Pratzer were invited to talk at the #LongNightofClimate in Berlin. They had a lot of fun and enjoyed this inspiring, interesting and important event!
Film: "Bolivia Burning"
look at some more information here: www.langenachtdesklimas.de

#LNDK #BTS

Robert Habeck tritt ab: „Ich will nicht wie ein Gespenst über die Flure laufen“ Ex-Vizekanzler Habeck verlässt den Bundestag. Die Grünen hätten ihre neue Rolle nun gefunden, sagt er der taz. Und dann gibt er Julia Klöckner noch eins mit.

In seinem letzten Interview als Bundestagsabgeordneter beschreibt Robert Habeck nochmal präzise, was die Union gerade tut: Sie spaltet das Land mit quatschigem Kulturkampf, um von den Problemen abzulenken.

Lesenswert:

Well done, Hendrik!

Building sustainability science on solid ground: our framework uses shared social-ecological units to integrate diverse data streams. Tested in Rwanda, adaptable elsewhere. Open, reproducible, and ready for interdisciplinary teams. #Rwanda #Restoration @biogeoberlin.bsky.social shorturl.at/qHaQ0

Tropical dry woodland loss in India since 1880 and its relation to current megafauna distributions Tropical dry woodlands provide ecosystem services to hundreds of millions of people and support high biodiversity. Despite their importance, many dry woodlands are under high and rising human pressur...

A Century of Loss: Long-Term #DryWoodland Decline and Its Implications for India’s #Megafauna

Our latest paper, along with @matthiasbaumann.bsky.social, @arashghoddousi.bsky.social, @tkuemmerle.bsky.social and others is now out!

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Pasture and agricultural expansion in Gran Chaco drive biodiversity loss: Study A recent study has identified how cattle pasture and agricultural expansion, driven by global demand for beef and soy, is causing biodiversity loss in the Gran Chaco region of Argentina and Paraguay. ...

Our study on biodiversity loss embodied in trade is featured in @mongabay.com tinyurl.com/2edpu626 . Unfortunately, we at @biogeoberlin.bsky.social could not contribute to this news piece. Glad, though, that @nature.org calls the study 'very timely'
Link to the study: tinyurl.com/3xubzpbe

Madison, Wisconsin, is the best.

Check this out!

One more week to apply to this exciting PhD position! come join the Conservation Biogeography group at Humboldt-University Berlin (hu.berlin/Biogeography) .@biogeoberlin.bsky.social

Das 15. (!) Land in Europa ohne Kohle. Wir sind dann in 13 Jahren dran.
Aber Deutschland hat angeblich Klimaschutz „überbetont“.

Exciting PhD position to work on large mammals and land use in Europe with the @biogeoberlin.bsky.social lab at @humboldtuni.bsky.social

‘On a knife edge’ – hot dry spring threatens arable harvest Analysis suggests the harvest could be one of the worst in records stretching back to the 1980s.

Climate change reduces farming efficiency, which leads to more land use to grow enough food, which leads to more emissions, and so on and so forth...

Major paper coming out on this feedback loop in a couple of days from the University of Minnesota, @projectdrawdown.bsky.social, and others!

🐄🐂 Putting landless cattle on the map! 🐄🐂
New paper in Env. Research Letters on mapping cattle intensification from space - across South America's dry diagonal doi.org/10.1088/1748... @erc.europa.eu @matthiasbaumann.bsky.social @pedrofernandez91.bsky.social #SystemShift @biogeoberlin.bsky.social

Attributing deforestation-driven biodiversity decline in the Gran Chaco to agricultural commodity supply chains Agricultural expansion is one of the principal drivers of biodiversity loss globally. Attributing biodiversity loss to domestically consumed versus in…

Sorry for posting the wrong link, here is the correct one:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We traced how soy and beef production in Argentina and Paraguay impact mammal diversity—and who’s driving it. Spoiler: It’s not just exports. Read the paper: shorturl.at/bpPEH

@alfredoromero.bsky.social @matthiasbaumann.bsky.social @tkuemmerle.bsky.social @aguiarse86.bsky.social @sei.org

Putting land claiming on the map reveals that the footprint of agricultural frontiers extends far into seemingly ‘intact’ forests.
New paper by @o-delgiorgio.bsky.social in PNAS @pnas.org
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
@matthiasbaumann.bsky.social
@tkuemmerle.bsky.social
@yannlepolain.bsky.social

What Happens When People Don’t Understand How AI Works Despite what tech CEOs might say, large language models are not smart in any recognizably human sense of the word.

This is a really good article about how AI works. And, more importantly, how it doesn’t….

www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

New PhD position on large mammals and land-use change in Europe | Conservation Biogeography Lab We are excited to invite applications for a new PhD position on large mammals and land-use change in Europe. Join us at the Conservation and Biogeography Lab at Humboldt University Berlin!

Come join us at the Conservation Biogeography Lab @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social and carry out work on megafauna in Europe

pages.cms.hu-berlin.de/biogeo/websi...

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

#newposition #phd