The Kiel Conference #KielScales25 at @kieluni ended last Friday with an appeal #fordemocracy and #academicfreedom: https://www.uni-kiel.de/en/cluster-roots/details/news/2025-04-04-kiel-conference Afterwards, many participants took the opportunity to go on excursions, for example to the CAU's Medical History Collection or the Albersdorf Archaeological-Ecological Centre
#Archaeology #paleoecology #pastsocieties

Happy to see this great new study on future #boreal tree cover changes!

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2404391121

#Paleoecology offers a complementary perspective: We previously found that open woodlands in E-Siberia during the Early Holocene coincided with higher #wildfire activity, proposing a potential future "open woodland-fire feedback"

Reconstructing past wildfires and vegetation coverage furthermore led us to hypothesize that present-day, dense larch forests may still mediate the full extent of climate-driven fire regime intensification in this region. You can find our #paleofire study from #Siberia here:

https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.962906

@paleofire @wildfirescience @ecology #charcoal #pollen #FireEcology

Hi there , I am back after nearly a 300 day hiatus. Life got in the way and I think my brain became very burnt out

I might be about to make matters worse as I am about to begin a long haul of pollen counting - so, any recommendations for light hearted podcasts/game reviews/cosy game playthroughs are welcome !! I need something to soothe my brain

It's done!
I've successfully completed my doctoral #defense in #Geoecology at the University of Potsdam and @awi!
I'm especially grateful for the warm support by my family, fantastic colleagues, and the Potsdam fire department!
Very excited to now dive even deeper into researching #wildfires in boreal forests!

#fire #ecology #paleoecology #siberia #sakha #yakutia #feuerwehr @paleofire @wildfirescience @academicchatter @phdlife

Making #paleofire data #FAIR: Read our new report, published today in the new #PAGES Magazine, on integrating the Global Paleofire Database into the #Neotoma Paleoecology Database! This step will have benefits for data curators and users, but a lot of work is still ahead

https://doi.org/10.22498/pages.32.2.140

@paleofire @wildfirescience #wildfire #paleoecology

#NewSpecies!
New ammonoid from Carboniferous of Gattendorfia Limestone just surfaced on #FossilFriday:

Paprothites kullmanni
Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EA5C14-CAB8-85FC-FDAF-F939FC4486C9
Publication: http://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.882.2177
#ejtaxonomy

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #paleo #paleoecology #fossil #molluscs #malacology #ammonoids

#NewSpecies!
New fossil snail from the Lower Pleistocene of Florida, USA just surfaced:

Carychium nashuaense
Holotype: Naturhistorisches Museum Bern

Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/A8021066-EA5D-4152-8E66-9D35C8F0AF69
Publication: http://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1167.102840
#ejtaxonomy

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #malacology #snails #paleo #paleontology #paleoecology #Florida #USA

paleo question: so back when Antarctica was really warm (like, above 0°C) and a lot more species could live there, how did plants and animals cope with the whole 6-month day/night thing? did their sleep cycles change? did they hibernate or migrate in the nights? did it limit what could thrive there? Or is this a silly question and it was, like, whatever species past the Arctic Circle do more but more so.

#NewSpecies!
New fly from the Lower Eocene of Colorado, USA just surfaced on #fossilfriday!

Eornithoica grimaldii

Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/F55387CB-FFAA-347A-7255-FCAFF35BA57C
Publication: http://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.1.9
#Palaeoentomology

#FAIRdata
#science #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #entomology #insects #paleo #paleontology #paleoecology #diptera #FlyFriday #flies #fly #colorado #usa

RT @JCSvenning@twitter.com: 6 open 2-year postdoc positions in #megafauna #ecosystem ecology, #macroecology #vegetation dynamics, trophic #rewilding, #novelecosystems & #paleoecology - see later in this thread @EconovoAU @EcoinfAU @BiochangeAU https://twitter.com/jcsvenning/status/1610974630604607488?s=46&t=VI3DntWshzrd0UUCuuXLuA

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Welcome to my colleague Dr Elodie Brisset @ElodieBrisset , CNRS scientist working on #Paleoecology #Paleolimnology #Holocene

I've seen again this graph showing the proportion of wild mammals/human-managed mammals in the mammal biomass. And of course human managed mammals represent 96% of themv(humans 30-something themselves).
I wonder if this huge proportion of human-managed mammals represents a replacement or an addition of mammals compared to a pre-human animal biomass landscape?
Probably a bit of both. I'd be curious to know if we have estimations of pre-human biomass distribution? #paleoecology #ecology #agro

I am a paleoanthropologist studying the environment of #humanevolution. I like #paleoecology and #fossils. More about my research on my personal lab website: https://wabarr.com