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New paper out!

Our paper entitled “Response of endangered bird species to land-use changes in an agricultural landscape in Germany” has been published in Regional Environmental Change! How can we reconcile crop production and biodiversity conservation in agricultural areas? Stakeholders and birds joined forces to find the answer in this paper, check it out here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10113-022-01878-3

Evaluation of historic satellite data

Within the framework of a bachelor thesis and in cooperation with the junior professorship for environmental remote sensing, land use changes in the model region of ECO²SCAPE were evaluated. For this purpose, a satellite image from 1965 was classified and compared with a digital orthophoto from 2018. The evaluation shows that the size of agricultural …

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Participation in the Landscape 2021 conference

The Chair of Model-Based Landscape Ecology was represented with two presentations at the conference “Landscape 2021” of ZALF. Anna Cord presented the new project ECO²SCAPE in the session “Guiding principles for biodiversity-friendly agricultural landscapes”. Lisanne Hölting presented results from her dissertation in the session “Pathways for a Sustainability Transformation of agricultural Landscapes in Europe”.

The BMBF FEDA kick-off took place last week – and we were there!

On the 14th and 15th of January, the national kick-off conference of the BMBF Research Initiative for Biodiversity Conservation (Forschungsinitiative zum Erhalt der Artenvielfalt – FEdA) took place online. We were excited to present our new research project ECO²SCAPE and to network with scientists and stakeholders from other projects. ECO²SCAPE is one of 19 projects …

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Last month, our labmate Lisanne Hölting successfully defended her PhD thesis!

In her dissertation, titled “Multifunctionality of landscapes – an ecosystem service perspective” she provides an overview of the most recent multifunctionality assessments and tests two alternative approaches to assess ecosystem service multifunctionality. You can find her papers here: https://t.co/sD50pKWfz4 https://t.co/aY3aZQqW7t https://t.co/ti6s2jGr3F Congratulations from all of us, Lisanne!