Module 3: Impacts of resource use for bioenergy on the Environment: spatial aspects
Aim of the project
We develop a set of methods aiming to integrate the effects of resource use for bioenergy activities on the environment at landscape level. The results of this systems analysis will be used for expand the concept of life cycle assessments (LCAs), as it considers the spatial structure of landscapes and land use pattern.
Approach
A landscape generator will be developed for enabling us to vary systematically spatial structures of model-landscapes (e.g. landscape configuration and composition). A set of model-landscapes will be generated for systematic analysis of the impact of resource use for bioenergy on several environmental variables.
We aim to identify landscape metrics as indicators correlating with spatial ecological impacts of bioenergy activities on specific environmental system components. These analyses will be integrated into spatially explicit life cycle assessments (LCAs) along the whole value chain of resources used for biofuel purposes, which is aimed to be developed in another module of this project.
Contact
Publications
Jeroen Everaars, Karin Frank and Andreas Huth (2014): Species ecology and the impacts of bioenergy crops: an assessment approach with four example farmland bird species. Global Change Biology Bioenergy: early view. DOI: 10.1111/gcbb.12135
Pe’er, G., G.A. Zurita, L. Schober, M.I. Bellocq, M. Müller and S. Pütz (2013). Simple process-based simulators for generating spatial patterns of habitat loss and fragmentation: A review and introduction to the G-RaFFe model. PLoS ONE 8: e64968.
Jan Engel, Andreas Huth and Karin Frank (2012): Bioenergy production and Skylark (Alauda arvensis) population abundance – a modelling approach for the analysis of land-use change impacts and conservation options. Volume 4, Issue 6, November 2012, Pages: 713–727. DOI: 10.1111/j.1757-1707.2012.01170.x
Taubert, F., Frank, K., Huth, A. (2012): A review of grassland models in the biofuel context. Ecological Modelling 245: 84-93.
Daniela Thrän, Ludwig Leible, Sonja Simon, Sandro Pütz, Stefan Kälber, Christian Geiss, Christoph Schillings (2010): Bioenergie und nachhaltige Landnutzung. Technikfolgenabschätzung -- Theorie und Praxis 19. Jg., Heft 3: 65-74.
Presentations
Sandro Pütz, Jeroen Everaars, Daniela Thrän, Karin Frank: A Landscape generator prototype and its application as tool for integrated regional environmental impact assessment of bioenergy activities. Annual Conference of the German Ecological Society, September 2012, Lüneburg. Dr. Sandro Pütz - pdf of Landscape generator presentation at GFÖ 2012
S. Pütz, D. Thrän, K. Frank: A Landscape generator as tool for integrated landscape level environmental impact assessment of bioenergy activities. Planet under Pressure Conference, Bioenergy Demand Session, London, March 2012. Dr. Sandro Pütz: Poster Environmental impacts of Bioenergy production - spatial aspects - Landscape generator
S. Pütz, D. Thrän, K. Frank: Landscape generators as tool for integrated regional environmental impact assessment of bioenergy activities.European Ecological Federations Conference, Avíla, September 2011.
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