We offer a new #PhD position starting on 21.01.2023! You are interested in innovative tools for forestry planning in Bavaria considering management changes in #forest structure, biodiversity and #ecosystemservices. More information: portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissensch…

I successfully defended my PhD thesis yesterday! So happy that all the hard work has paid off. Thanks so much to my supervisors, colleagues, friends and family! #PhDone

NEW: Sven Rubanschi recently published his first PhD paper. This is an important story on how modelling can be used to identify potential biotopes in the landscape, with potential for restoration. Congrats Sven! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dd…

The #ForestConditionMonitor season 2023 has started with relatively low quantiles in several parts of Germany. However, this might be caused by the relatively cool and moist spring conditions, which have delayed #phenology and the onset of the growing season. #climatechange

Perspective on integrating climate change effects on land use into regional biodiversity models – outcome of BLIZ workshop with colleagues across the bayklif network and beyond besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pa…. Published People and Nature. Thread:

Thanks to Center for Computational and Theoretical Biology, bayklif, BLIZ, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, UoB Biosciences, Uni of Birmingham for support and thanks the ample network of co-authors

The late phenology as observed over the cool and wet spring period seems to catch in May as indicated by a reduction of low quantiles. Studying the development of #ForestCondition 2023 over the next weeks will be interesting due to increasingly drier conditions. #climatechange

🚨🚨🚨 Good news after coming back from my holiday break: Our paper “Farm-level responses to weather trends: A structural model”, led by Stefan Wimmer, w/ Jonas Schmitt, and Robert Finger is now online at American Journal of Agricultural Economics . More info below:

In mid June, forest canopy greenness declined in many parts of Germany due to emerging drought conditions. In particular, the Thüringer Wald, the Schwarzwald, the Eifel, and the majority of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg were characterized by low canopy greenness #forestcondition

📢 Look beneath the surface! 🌊🌿New process-based modelling study reveals how future changes will affect the species richness of freshwater macrophytes. Read the full story in the Oikos at doi.org/10.1111/oik.09…

Beginning of July, the #ForestCondition Monitor showed a stark increase in lowest quantiles, likely as a result of ongoing drought in that period. It'll be interesting to analyze canopy changes in July after repeated rainfall ended the #drought.

After the dry early summer, the forest canopy condition reached a negative record beginning of July but largely improved until end of July due to wetter conditions. #ForestCondition (left: quantiles, right: proportions) More info: shorturl.at/hoIQ9

Congratulations, dear Christian Stetter 🥳 Great work! 🎉

🎮 Did you know you can use a game engine to better visualise ecological models? 🔍 Check out the new paper: "Integrating Julia Code into the Unity Game Engine to Dive into Aquatic Plant Growth." doi.org/10.2312/imet.2… #julialanguage #unity3d #ecologicalmodeling

🌿 We present the julia-Unity plugin by Nico Manke. The tool aims to bridge the gap between Julia's growing popularity in mechanistic models and Unity's prower in interactive simulations. The immersive simulation of a macrophyte growth model serves as a first case study.

🙌 Thanks to all collaborators from Games Engineering Würzburg and Juliano Sarmento Cabral ! The Julia Language Unity BLIZ Center for Computational and Theoretical Biology @KIT_IfGG_Veg

💡 "Die Bereitschaft bayerischer Landwirt:innen zur Kultivierung von Agroforstsystemen in Anbetracht regionaler Wetterextreme" Neuer Beitrag in ANLiegen Natur kostenlos verfügbar unter: anl.bayern.de/publikationen/…

Nice to spend the evening together after a long day of writing during our BLIZ/ECOMOD writing retreat. Tomorrow seminar at Uni Marburg! BLIZ Center for Computational and Theoretical Biology UoB Biosciences

🌾🌦️🌳Happy to announce that our article: "Tackling climate change: Agroforestry adoption in the face of regional weather extremes" is now available at: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Here's a quick summary of our findings 🧵 BLIZ w/ Jo Sauer TU München

Congrats to Dr. Jana Blechschmidt for the succesful PhD defense. Very proud of the new modelling offspring of the Ecological Modelling group! Time to celebrate! bayklif