Researching land-use change & how it impacts biodiversity at
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Seeking to support biodiversity conservation.
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@tkuemmerle.bsky.social & team (check out our starterpack).
hu.berlin/biogeo
Biogeography Berlin
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Today is the last day of the field excursion: some last tests in the laboratory, digitizing results and talking about challenges as well as successes!!
Looking forward to the poster presentations in some weeks 🤩
#excursion #fieldtrip #fieldwork #biogeography #class #huberlin #university
And also take a look at this text which discusses the impacts on the Asiatic Cheetah, briefly mentioning our study as well: news.mongabay.com/2026/04/war-... .
This week the biogeography course led by @alfredoromero.bsky.social and @scjaehnig.bsky.social went on an excursion to Brandenburg. The three groups did fieldwork in and on the edge of coniferous and deciduous forests and water landscapes, measuring biodiversity, temperature and soil attributes:
Last weekend the #longnightofscience took over the @humboldtuni.bsky.social's scientific campus. Of our lab Imo prepared a workshop about camera traps and @matthiasbaumann.bsky.social a pop quiz about biogeography!
We had lots of fun & are looking forward to next year!
#university #huberlin #LNDW
Check out this article mentioning @julidecarre.bsky.social's work that formed the basis for the Kyrgyz government's designation of the corridor: news.mongabay.com/2026/05/in-k...
Setting up beetle traps, counting plant and animal species, photographing canopy cover and being eaten alive by mosquitoes can be summed up as quite a successful week!
#excursion #biogeography #huberlin #university #fieldwork #biodiversity #brandenburg #class
Before the war began in February 2026, there was some rare good news for Iran’s imperiled Asiatic cheetahs. Rangers spotted and filmed a female in the North Khorasan province accompanied by five cubs ...
Snow leopards haunt the rocky ridgelines of Central Asia, vanishing into terrain so rugged that researchers rarely catch more than a brief glimpse on camera traps. Locals call them “ghosts of the moun...
The Amazon can be saved — with concerted action inside and outside Brazil www.nature.com/articles/d41...
As deforestation in the Amazon falls, fresh evidence shows that the rainforest can withstand global warming, but only if there is a worldwide effort to stop cutting it down.
Biological conservation at risk in Slovakia: Brown bears under attack of autocratic pressures - doi.org/10.1111/csp2...
Paper discussing how recent government changes in Slovakia lead to increased culling and reduced expert involvement.
Nice summary of our work on patterns of deforestation and reforestation in India’s tropical dry woodlands -->
india.mongabay.com/2026/06/reth...
Original paper: doi.org/10.1088/1748...
Also covered here - thanks to Johan Oldekop and Dhanapal Govindarajulu for the nice summaries! phys.org/news/2026-06...
Tobias Kuemmerle
Tobias Kuemmerle
India’s dry forest region gained 2.10 million hectares between 2014 and 2024, masking deforestation on government-managed lands.
India gained around 2.1 million hectares of tropical dry woodland between 2014 and 2024—an area larger than Wales—according to a major new study involving researchers from The University of Manchester...
