Biogeography Berlin

Conservation agendas transition from the global to the local - but how do they interact with existing land uses? Our typology has a global and a regional level, allowing for broad-scale planning and comparison as well as for contextually appropriate interventions on the ground.

How to be more nuanced about land use in conservation? We identify land systems, focused on actors, that represent key threats and conservation opportunities - across the tropical dry woodlands.

Land-use typology for conservation in tropical dry woodlands published in Global Environmental Change 
By Marie Pratzer, @tkuemmerle.bsky.social, Patrick Meyfroidt, Natasha Ribeiro, Jayshree Ratnam, Mariana Rufino, Yann le Polain, Maria Vallejos and more! 

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An actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world’s tropical dry woodlands

Land use is a key driver of the ongoing biodiversity crisis and therefore also a major opportunity for its mitigation. However, appropriately consider…

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Get to know more about his research here:

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

2. github.com/sacridini

Here's wishing him a great start from all of us!

Eduardo Lacerda | Conservation Biogeography Lab

Research at the Conservation Biogeography Lab in Berlin

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Welcoming our latest addition, Dr. Eduardo Lacerda, to the Biogeo lab!

Eduardo is deeply interested in spatial prioritization and land use change & joins us as a Postdoc.

Over the following years, he will assess the cost-benefits associated with prioritizing areas for conservation in the #Chaco.

Here's officially welcoming Dr Jonas Geldmann to our lab!✨

Jonas is a researcher at the Center for Macroecology, Evolution, & Climate, Univ. of Copenhagen.

Over the next few months, he will continue delving deeper into mapping the threats to biodiversity & studying the impacts of protected areas.

#Roads can affect the #behavior of #prey and #predator species, with potential consequences on the ecology of wildlife communities.

The continuous expansion of the global road network should be accompanied by efforts to understand & minimize its impact on wildlife.

More specifically, responses to #roads were consistent with avoidance of natural #predation risk.

Near roads, animals increased #movement rates & selected for vegetation cover.

#Roadcrossings were more frequent at twilight & at night within open areas offering food resources.

In a recent collaborative paper led by Matteo Bastianelli, we found remarkably similar behavioral responses to roads of #roedeer, #reddeer, #wildboar, and #lynx in a #protectedarea in central Europe.

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Risk response towards roads is consistent across multiple species in a temperate forest ecosystem

Roads can have diverse impacts on wildlife species, and while some species may adapt effectively, others may not. Studying multiple species' responses to the same infrastructure in a given area can h....

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A very warm welcome to Xiang Liu who joins us as a PostDoc! 🌟

With us, he will evaluate rewilding prospects in #aquatic and #semiaquatic environments, focusing on changes in #landuse, plant biodiversity, and alterations at the land-water nexus.

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Head to Biological Reviews to read about our latest paper, led by @fengzhihe.bsky.social and learn more about how #freshwatermegafauna shape ecosystems and their restoration!

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Find a copy of the study in German in the forest chapter of the Critical Agrarian Report: kritischer-agrarbericht.de/agrarbericht...

In this study, we show 1) that intensifying agriculture does not spare forests, but Indigenous land stewardship does. 2) Market-oriented #commodityagriculture accelerated #deforestation - which is not surprising after decades of agrarian capitalism.

The #KritischerAgrarBericht2024 (Critical Agrarian Report) is now out which includes an article published in
Nature Sustainability led by Marie Pratzer, along with
@tkuemmerle.bsky.social and others.

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Agricultural intensification, Indigenous stewardship and land sparing in tropical dry forests - Natu...

Intensifying agriculture can, in theory, spare nature from agricultural expansion. This study finds that intensification is not sparing tropical dry forests generally, but is in areas with widespread ...

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Congrats to Tejas Bhagwat, @tkuemmerle.bsky.social , Mahmood Soofi, Johannes Kamp and co, for their latest paper in Global Change Biology!

Title: A novel, post-Soviet fire disturbance regime drives bird diversity & abundance on the Eurasian steppe.

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International #conservation #funding in #SouthAmerica tends to go to areas with high conservation value, not where threats (deforestation in our case) are high.

New paper led by Siyu Qin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social now out in Biological Conservation

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What determines international #conservationfunding allocation?

Is it influenced by things we were expecting to matter such as:
1) conservation targets
2) threat levels
3) costs
4) supporting IPLC
5) pre-existing investment

Our latest paper led by SiyuQ with Marie Pratzer, Patrick Meyfroidt & @tkuemmerle.bsky.social
is now out in Biological Conservation.

Title: Changing Determinants of International Conservation Funding Committed to Major Deforestation Regions in South America

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Hi there!

Welcome to the Conservation Biogeography Lab from the Geography Department of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

We are a team of land-use scientists, remote sensers, & conservationists and study linkages between land-system change, biodiversity loss and conservation interventions.