Martin Drechsler

Contact

Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ

Department of Ecological Modelling

Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig
Germany

Tel.: +49 341 235 1713
Fax: +49 341 235 1743
martin.drechsler@ufz.de    

Research

My research interests include the mathematical modelling of populations in fragmented and dynamic landscapes, the model-based ecological-economic analysis of instruments and strategies for the conservation of biodiversity, the model-based analysis of renewable energy deployment as well as mathematical optimisation and decision theory.

Currently I am involved in the following third-party funded projects:

• Ecoclimb
• BTU Research Cluster “Multifunctional Landscapes under Climate Change” (MultiLand)

Publications

Latest publications:

• Drechsler, M. (2023):
  Flexibility trade‐offs in conservation offsets
  Conserv. Biol.
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• Drechsler, M. (2023):
  Improving models of coordination incentives for biodiversity conservation by fitting a multi-agent simulation model to a lab experiment
  J. Behav. Exp. Econ. 102 , art. 101967
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• Drechsler, M. (2023):
  Ecological and economic trade-offs between amount and spatial aggregation of conservation and the cost-effective design of coordination incentives
  Ecol. Econ. 213 , art. 107948
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• Drechsler, M. (2023):
  Insights from Ising models of land-use under economic coordination incentives
  Physica A 625 , art. 128987
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• Reutter, F., Drechsler, M., Gawel, E., Lehmann, P. (2023):
  Social costs of setback distances for onshore wind turbines: A model analysis applied to the German State of Saxony
  Environ. Resour. Econ.
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• Drechsler, M. (2022):
  On the cost-effective temporal allocation of credits in conservation offsets when habitat restoration takes time and is uncertain
  Environ. Resour. Econ. 82 (2), 437 - 459
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• Drechsler, M., Wätzold, F., Grimm, V. (2022):
  The hitchhiker's guide to generic ecological-economic modelling of land-use-based biodiversity conservation policies
  Ecol. Model. 465 , art. 109861
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• Leins, J.A., Grimm, V., Drechsler, M. (2022):
  Large-scale PVA modelling of insects in cultivated grasslands: The role of dispersal in mitigating the effects of management schedules under climate change
  Ecol. Evol. 12 (7), e9063
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• Drechsler, M. (2021):
  Impacts of human behaviour in agri-environmental policies: How adequate is homo oeconomicus in the design of market-based conservation instruments?
  Ecol. Econ. 184 , art. 107002
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• Drechsler, M. (2021):
  On the cost-effective design of agglomeration bonus schemes for the conservation of multiple competing species
  Front. Ecol. Evol. 9 , art. 695764
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• Drechsler, M. (2021):
  Bundling of ecosystem services in conservation offsets: risks and how they can be avoided
  Land 10 (6), art. 628
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• Drechsler, M., Albers, H.J., Smith, H.G. (2021):
  Editorial: Policies and strategies for the conservation of metacommunities
  Front. Ecol. Evol. 9 , art. 817530
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• Drechsler, M., Gerling, C., Keuler, K., Leins, J., Sturm, A., Wätzold, F. (2021):
  A quantitative approach for the design of robust and cost-effective conservation policies under uncertain climate change: The case of grasshopper conservation in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
  J. Environ. Manage. 286 , art. 113201
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• Leins, J.A., Banitz, T., Grimm, V., Drechsler, M. (2021):
  High-resolution PVA along large environmental gradients to model the combined effects of climate change and land use timing: lessons from the large marsh grasshopper
  Ecol. Model. 440 , art. 109355
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• Bartkowski, B., Beckmann, M., Drechsler, M., Kaim, A., Liebelt, V., Müller, B., Witing, F., Strauch, M. (2020):
  Aligning agent-based modeling with multi-objective land-ese allocation: Identification of policy gaps and feasible pathways to biophysically optimal landscapes
  Front. Environ. Sci. 8 , art. 103
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• Drechsler, M. (2020):
  Conservation management in the face of climatic uncertainty – the roles of flexibility and robustness
  Ecol. Complex. 43 , art. 100849
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• Drechsler, M. (2020):
  Ecological-economic modelling for biodiversity conservation
  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 297 pp.
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• Drechsler, M. (2020):
  Model-based integration of ecology and socio-economics for the management of biodiversity and ecosystem services: State of the art, diversity and current trends
  Environ. Modell. Softw. 134 , art. 104892
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• Drechsler, M., Wätzold, F. (2020):
  Biodiversity conservation in a dynamic world may lead to inefficiencies due to lock-in effects and path dependence
  Ecol. Econ. 173 , art. 106652
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• Salomon, H., Drechsler, M., Reutter, F. (2020):
  Minimum distances for wind turbines: A robustness analysis of policies for a sustainable wind power deployment
  Energy Policy 140 , art. 111431
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Complete list of publications

CV

I am a physicist by training and obtained my degree in 1991 with a thesis on superconductivity. After that I turned to ecological modelling and obtained my PhD with a thesis on stochastic metapopulation models. During a post-doc at the University of Melbourne I became familiar with population viability analysis and decision theory which eventually brought me to my current main field of research, which is ecological-economic modelling. In 2012 I obtained a doctorate degree in economics. Since 2019 I am honorary professor of ecological-economic modelling at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg.

Detailed CV

Collaboration with BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg

Much of my research is in collaboration with Frank Wätzold, Chair of Economics in particular Environmental Economics at Bradenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, where I also teach regularly.