Department Computational Landscape Ecology
Mail Address:
Permoserstr.15
D - 04318 Leipzig
Interim: Bautzner Str. 67
Our research field is the development of models and tools for quantification impacts of land use and land-cover change to selected ecosystem functions, i.e. "ecosystem services". In detail we
- identify and analyze drivers of regional change processes in rural-urban regions originating from climate change, land use change and demographic trends. Specific challenge is to identify the relevant feedbacks and simulate land use change processes.
- model and simulate environmental systems on different scales to quantify ecosystem functions and services such as water and land provisioning, regulation, retention, pollination, recreation, flood retention, water availability and distribution, fate of nutrients, species distribution and their functioning in the ecosystem.
- develop methods for testing and deriving management strategies and for future land-use development to sustain ecosystem services.
Thus, landscape ecology puts ecology into a spatial context on different spatial scales. With our interdisciplinary approach, we focus on approaches model and method development in the above mentioned fields of application, see 
"Ecological Modelling" (doi)
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