From Tulips to Turf: Decrease in livestock grazing results in increased #wildfire frequency in #Kazakhstan --> Massive changes in Eurasian steppe vegetation, potentially affecting 2 million km² Martin Freitag 's MSc thesis now out in Global Change Biology: bit.ly/2Tl8kMO

New paper Global Change Biology! 'Post-Soviet shifts in fire and grazing regimes changed the functional plant community composition on the Eurasian steppe' doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15… led by Martin Freitag, collab with Biodiversity & Ecosystem Research MS and ACBK, funded by VolkswagenStiftung

Seven species of #louseflies found as #parasites on birds at Muraviovka Park/#RussianFarEast - including a #first_record for Russia! New paper based on Benjamin Meissner´s bachelor thesis (!) out now: kmkjournals.com/journals/REJ/R… #amurbirdproject #Hippoboscidae #insectscience

New studies on the migration ecology of land birds moving along the #EastAsianFlyway: Migration timing of #Phylloscopus warblers link.springer.com/article/10.100… Seasonal differences in stopover duration doi.org/10.2326/osj.19… #amurbirdproject #ornithology

🔥Long-term legacies of #SiberianFires in subarctic tundra: slow lichen recovery (with implications for #permafrost thaw) but increased shrub vitality/encroachment after >44 years. New paper led by @RamonaJHeim: authors.elsevier.com/c/1c1n0B8ccoP6S with @AnnaBucharova TSU

We support the Open University’s Floodplain Meadows Partnership! Please share! #TheOpenUniversityxEcover

New paper elucidating the complex #moult strategies of the Pallas´s Grasshopper Warbler - a collaborative piece of work including bird ringing experts (John Allcock and many others) from all over East Asia: doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7… #molt #ornithology

Congratulations! Alyona Koshkina just passed her PhD viva on #steppe #marmots and ground squirrels in Kazakhstan. Great talk linking remote sensing and fieldwork in project #BALTRAK. No drinks, but a chance for colleagues and guests from across Eurasia to participate virtually!

An another thesis defense in times of Covid19: Big congratulations to Wieland Heim (Amur Bird Project) for passing his PhD viva with flying colours! Innovative and extensive research on Asian #landbirds.

No fieldwork was possible in 2020 for the #AmurBirdProject team in Russia, but we used the time to work with our data. Hans-Jürgen Eilts, Benjamin Meißner & @JWobker95 worked at Muraviovka Park in 2017- now all three have their publications out: amurbirding.blogspot.com/2021/03/amur-b… 1/4

Finally published! Status update for the #CriticallyEndangered Yellow-breasted Bunting & other songbirds migrating along #EAAF: ongoing illegal trade but encouraging conservation responses: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cs… with Johannes Kamp (@kampjohannes.bsky.social) Simba Chan Pavel Ktitorov Biodiversity & Ecosystem Research MS #ornithology

Happy to see our recent update on the status of the #CriticallyEndangered Yellow-breasted Bunting highlighted by BirdGuides birdguides.com/articles/signs…

Landscape ecologists #WWU_Muenster study the interactions between plants and insects in the restoration of #ecosystems; they found out that plant provenance influences pollinators. @AnnaBucharova British Ecological Society doi.org/10.1111/1365-2… idwf.de/-C7UNAC