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“peer2peer” event in the Biosphere Reserve Upper Lusatian Heath and Pond Landscape

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The Upper Lusatian Heath and Pond Landscape Biosphere Reserve has been working with farmers for a long time to implement innovative measures to protect biodiversity in agriculture. On September 14, ECO²SCAPE therefore invited to a “peer2peer” event. The full-day excursion to the biosphere reserve served as a technical exchange between the farmers of our model …

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TURMFEST in Dresden: we will be there to answer your geeky questions

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The 25. Turmfest will take place at the Technische Sammlungen Dresden this Sunday, 11.09.2022, and five researchers from the Technische Universität Dresden, among which our group leader Prof. Dr. Anna Cord, will be there to answer all of your burning scientific questions. The science Q&A, moderated by “Checker Julian”, will start at 14:00 and is …

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ECO²SCAPE was awarded as “Outstanding example of the UN Decade in the Ecosystem Restoration Project Competition”

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The jury of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration has assessed ECO²SCAPE as a particularly positive contribution to the conservation and restoration of ecosystems in the field of cultural and agricultural landscapes and biodiversity. Our project was therefore recognized as an “Outstanding Example of the UN Decade” in the UN Decade Project Competition on Ecosystems …

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New publication on co-design

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Working with farmers to halt the loss of biological diversity? Find out more on the practical implementation of the “co-design” approach in our new ECO²SCAPE publication: https://doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.12169. In this paper, we outline the importance of co-design in the context of farmland biodiversity conservation, which refers to the participatory design of conservation measures for a secific …

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Our Computational Landscape Ecology group was at the ECCB 2022 in Prague!

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Our research groups was well represented at the European Congress for Conservation Biology (ECCB 2022) which took place last week in Prague, Czech Republic! Our lab members Lisanne, Gaby and Stephanie joined the conference to present some of their current research, encompassing diverse topics: from plant diversity in fallow fields, to prairie dog disturbances in …

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What effect do prairie dogs have on plants in the semi-arid grasslands of Northeast Mexico?

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For our new paper published in Ecology and Evolution we studied the effect caused by the disturbance of the endemic prairie dog Cynomys mexicanus (in the picture) on plant functional and taxonomical diversity. The species in endangered and is considered to be a grassland ecosystem engineer due to their grazing and burrowing activities (you can …

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BESTMAP Summer School on Modelling policy impacts on ecosystem services and biodiversity – call for participants

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The BESTMAP Summer School on modelling policy impacts on ecosystem services and biodiversity will take place in Olomouc, Czech Republic on September 12–16, 2022 and is organised jointly by Palacky University Olomouc, University of Leeds, UFZ–Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, TU Dresden and other project partners. The full agenda of the Summer School can be …

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Successful ECO²SCAPE project meeting in Berlin

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On May 31st and June 1st, all ECO²SCAPE project partners, together with members of the Advisory Board, met in Berlin to report on the project progress, discuss research activities and ongoing publications, and brainstorm new ideas. The 2-day meeting was intense and sparked many fruitful discussions which the group is eager to further develop; for …

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