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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!