Informing the Present from the Past
I have often pondered how different our society might be today if we had been more deeply inspired by the holistic ecological principles envisioned by Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), rather than by the 19th-century...
Over the past few weeks, we did more quality checks and corrected and improved some of the entries in the AOD dataset. For some reason, we confused Coluber austriacus with Coronipora austriaca (Kristan, 1957)....
In July of this year, we attended the summer conference of the “Arbeitskreis Forstgeschichte” organized by the Zentrum Wald-Forst-Holz Weihenstephan, which took place in Iphofen. The conference primarily brought together foresters and historians and...
The meaning of the logo we designed for CHE is (hopefully obviously) related to our mission. However, the meanings of the three individual colours in the context of CHE could not be decoded and...
We are presenting and discussing our work on AOD and first analytic results at the monthly online forum BiodiversiTea on November, 19th at noon. German language, but slides in English. The forum is run...
Malte is going to talk about his ideas for a comprehensive research programme on Computational Historical Ecology. Ask for a Zoom link if you want to join the presentation and the discussion.
When you start looking at the AOD data set, you not only come across some exciting details, but you also start to experiment with the data in various ways, which then suddenly develops into...
It was the work of a whole year, and now we could finally publish the data set “Historical animal observation records by Bavarian forestry offices (1845)”! With it, the first sub-project of CHE is...
