Dr. Gernot Segelbacher @gernot@qoto.org
ornithologist, conservation geneticist and open water swimmer, love the outdoors and photography
Joined Nov 2022
with wheatear, ortolan bunting and whinchat 121 species on the #localpatch #lowcarbonbirding - spring rocks
@christianschwaegerl @textbook @ufz
der Jura nördlich der Donau ist natürlich durchlässiger, wobei ich mich jetzt mal auf BW beziehen möchte - da kann man eine gute Verbindung zu den Niederschlagssummen herstellen - im Lee des Schwarzwalds ist es trockener und der meiste Jahresniederschlag fiel üblicherweise im sommer, durch die Gewitter bedingt, und da spielt die Orographie eine entscheidende Rolle...... auffällig ist in unserer Gegend dass im Grunde alle Obstbäume in Hanglagen Trockenstress haben, ich wage die These dass wir in 20 Jahren nur noch Birnen an nordöstlich flacheren Lagen haben werden
@textbook @christianschwaegerl das sind Jahresniederschläge unter 600l - und langanhaltende Dürrephasen in den letzten Jahren. Ich sitze genau in dem tiefroten Bereich am westlichen Bodensee - dort war noch vor kurzem auch der Oberboden tiefrot - aber es müsste schon lange und viel regnen....damit die Bäume mal tanken können
end of march, today at 100 species for the local patch with hoopoe and osprey , two nice adds #LocalBigYear #lowcarbonbirding
@trinsec there is no political will to do so - there had been barriers some ten years ago to block off the road for some weeks in spring - these had to be removed to that cars can still speed on (and it would be maybe only 1 km extra tour for short time for them) - but free car driving is highest priority in germany
watch out for #amphibians , too many deaths on roads already again! migration is happening now (and most cars ignore them - this is so sad)
Dr. Gernot Segelbacher
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RT @ipbes
If we don’t win the battle against #Biodiversity loss, we won’t successfully tackle #ClimateChange.🌎
Learn more about interlinkages between climate change & biodiversity with this infographic by @IngeniumCa 📷
Or w/ @ipbes & @IPCC_CH workshop report⬇️
https://www.ipbes.net/events/ipbes-ipcc-co-sponsored-workshop-biodiversity-and-climate-change
Dr. Gernot Segelbacher
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What is the best preservative for DNA in insect traps? - article in Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, vol. 171, issue 3, pp. 218-226 by Laura-Sophia Ruppert and others like @gernot - https://doi.org/10.1111/eea.13266
office window view (and no this is not a summer thunderstorm) it is march 13th #UniFreiburg temperature maximum today 22°C
92 species now for #LocalBigYear #patchbirding includig six woodpecker species drumming and calling today #lowcarbonbirding
we have been waiting for so long - now with some rain time to migrate! #amphibians #springmigration
spring is coming - but it is dry!
while out for a walk I made a picture of the dry conditions in the landscape and checked the national database. Looks like we set a national negative record for the top soil humidity for the driest region in Germany currently - not good! . (data ufz - duerremonitor).
after doing a bit of gardening lately I noticed dry soil up to 1 min depth- so I checked the national maps - again/still on the very much extreme in our area - not too promising news for spring https://www.ufz.de/index.php?de=37937
quite worrying: rainwater has no drinkable quality across the world even in remote locations
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.2c02765
Dr. Gernot Segelbacher
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Inzwischen etabliert: “klimaneutral”, “klimapositiv”
Genauso nötig: “biodiversitätsneutral”, “biodiversitätspositiv”
69 species after two weeks with #lowcarbonbirding #localBigYear - including ring-necked and ferruginous duck, great bitterns and others.... the year has started well.
Dr. Gernot Segelbacher
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"Rabbits, hares & pikas could become this century’s new climate migrants – with up to 2/3 of species forced to relocate. There are almost certainly going to be extinctions among some of the more sensitive & less adaptable species."🐇
🗞️@ConversationEDU@twitter.com
https://theconversation.com/climate-change-threatens-more-than-two-thirds-of-rabbit-species-40281#:~:text=Now%20new%20research%20suggests%20that,of%20species%20forced%20to%20relocate
Dr. Gernot Segelbacher
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I've seen some consternation about the (very) extreme #temperature predictions over Europe. For context, I've created a GIF of the predictions (also hindsight) by the #ECMWF for appx the first two weeks of january.
These are temperature anomalies, and they have been very extreme. The "cooler" temperatures predicted for the coming days are still well above average.
ornithologist, conservation geneticist and open water swimmer, love the outdoors and photography
Joined Nov 2022
