
Guy Pe'er, PhD
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
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UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Dept. Ecosystem Services
address:
Puschstraße 4
04103 Leipzig
Research interests
Understanding and addressing anthropogenic pressures on biodiversity, especially through habitat loss, fragmentation, land-use- and climatic changes. I am particularly interested in how animal movement and dispersal interact with species’ demography to determine population viability, range-shift dynamics, and community structures in fragmented landscapes.
Patterns and trends in biodiversity: long-term monitoring, targeted fieldwork on rare species, and biodiversity surveys help determining the status and trends in biodiversity. With particular interest in butterflies, I am one of the founders of the Israeli Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (BMS-IL) established 2009, and nowadays serving as a scientific supervisor and consultant to the programme.
Agriculture and agricultural policy and their effects on nature and humans: Agricultural production, expansion and intensification exert pressures on our society, economy and environment. To address these pressures I am engaged in interdisciplinary research onto how the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) affects both nature and humans. I am particularly interested in how the CAP affects Socio-Ecological Systems in terms of the interactions between farm structure and economy, biodiversity and ecosystem services, and consequently also rural vitality and farmers’ wellbeing.
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Projects and Supervision
Julia Rouet-Leduc (PhD student, with Alfons van der Plas, project GrazeLIFE)
Ariane Chamoin (PhD student, with Etienne Maclouf & Aletta Bonn)
Andrea Büermann (PhD student, with Aletta Bonn, project VielFalterGarten)
Christian Nappert (technician, project VielFalterGarten)
Carla Cerda (assistant, project iCAP-BES)
Judith Rakowski (assistant, project CAP4GI)
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Alumni: Dr. Orr Comay (former post-doc, Israeli Butterfly Monitoring Scheme)
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CAP Fitness Check and Call for action:
