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...
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
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.
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New paper out!
We mapped forest recovery and its drivers in the Alps using multi-decadal fractional cover maps 🛰 and ecologically-informed recovery indicators 🌲.
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...
A bear and a human using fruit trees. Photos by Paula Mayer and Rewilding Apennines.
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 🚵🐻
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
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.
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#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
New paper in Nature Climate Change! What are the costs of increasing disturbances? Find out in this amazing contribution by @johannesmohr.bsky.social! Great to see this out and congrats Johannes on such a nice first PhD paper! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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.
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!
I am honoured!
Prof. Seidl, Prof. Senf, Dr. Mandl, Prof. Stritih
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😉
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 😅
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!
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...
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!
Probably less/no salvage logging. We controlled for species composition. There was no planned harvest included, only unplanned in response to or natural disturbances directly.
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...
Do you like forests and coding? Come work with me @uni-freiburg.de! Only 5 days left to apply: