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Today, our 🆕 law to fight 🌍 deforestation and forest degradation enters into force! It will ensure that a set of key goods exported or placed on the 🇪🇺 market must be deforestation-free 👉 europa.eu/!whgM6b #EUGreenDeal #EUForests

REMINDER: Postdocs from sub-Saharan Africa can accelerate their scientific careers with a 3-month visit to a German institute. Learn more about our cooperation visits programme with DFG public | @[email protected]: twas.org/opportunity/tw…

Publicación del GEA en la revista Science "Agricultural expansion raises groundwater and increases flooding in the South American plains"

Cambios lentos, casi desapercibidos: grandes riesgos y el potencial para consecuencias catastróficas. Excelente colaboración con Esteban Jobbagy

La llanura argentina se inunda más. (<- causa) Napas más superficiales que bajan menos en las sequías. (<- causa) Raíces más cortas. Fenómeno único por su extensión y velocidad. Lo contamos con GEA - San Luis y Mariana Rufino en Science Magazine aquí shorturl.at/apJQX

The loss of deep-rooting native vegetation and declining evapotranspiration due to rapid agricultural expansion in the South American plains has led to shallow groundwater tables and increased flooding throughout the region, researchers report in Science. scim.ag/3dM

How hard is it to do science in a language that’s not your first language? We quantified the severity of #languagebarriers for non-native English speakers when reading/publishing papers and attending/presenting at international conferences. doi.org/10.1371/journa… 1/9

Work with an excellent team!

Last week, had an excellent & positive engagement at #Technical_University_Munich. We discussed & agreed on a long term strategic alliance with #ILRI & the #CGIAR. The partnership will join & support our ambitions at the #CGIAR for the transformation of the Food, Land, and Water

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 just out in Biological Conservation 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.bioc…

#DIADECAMPO ➡En estas semanas de trabajo a campo en equipo, medimos emisiones de metano,dióxido de carbono y óxido nitroso. ➡Estas mediciones se llevaron a cabo en zonas agrícolas que se convirtieron en humedales en las últimas dos décadas.

Argentina's freeze on the government budget for universities and scientific research amidst nearly 300% annual inflation translates to an 80% spending cut in real terms, the University of Buenos Aires reports. buff.ly/4b7wOiq

Interesting read, worth reflecting when we seat in a admissions or appointment committee: Are Merit-Based Systems Actually Fair? greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/a…

Land-use typology for conservation in tropical dry woodlands led by Marie Pratzer Tobias Kuemmerle Patrick Meyfroidt @[email protected] Natasha Ribeiro @Yann_le_Polain María Vallejos @shalini_dhyani Mau Nuñez Regueiro RIEL Daniel Müller @ https://bsky.app/profile/danielmu P S Roy and more! #newpaperalert sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Delighted to be back in Kenya, monitoring plant 🌱 species diversity at the spectacular #Kapiti ranch with PhD students from ⁦Lancaster Environment Centre⁩ & ⁦TU München⁩ Long term collaboration with ⁦ILRI.org⁩ ⁦John Quinton⁩ ⁦Sonja Leitner⁩

Species 🌱 inventory at #Kapiti completed! Well done PhD students Fiona_Pierce & Habtamu_Sibilu. Lots of forbs 🌼, legumes & perennials grasses 🌾evidence of healthy seedbank after long drought. Fodder for 🐂🐑🦒🦓⁦ILRI.org⁩ ⁦TU München⁩ ⁦⁦Lancaster Environment Centre⁩

Measuring grassland health in western Kenya Habtamu W. Sibilu testing the penetrometer kindly built by #Gunther_Liebhard for us. Large differences between degraded & healthy soils John Quinton Sonja Leitner ILRI.org TU München Lancaster Environment Centre

Discovering the complexity of grasslands of #Berchtesgaden National Park. What is the impact of 🌲 encroaching on carbon, 🌱 🌺 and 🐝 🦋 diversity? ⁦Students will discover that this summer TU München⁩ #HSWT