Martin Drechsler
Contact
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:
The influence of farm land distribution on the performance of the agglomeration bonus
Front. Environ. Sci. 11 , art. 1233758 10.3389/fenvs.2023.1233758
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 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2023.107948
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 10.1016/j.socec.2022.101967
Insights from Ising models of land-use under economic coordination incentives
Physica A 625 , art. 128987 10.1016/j.physa.2023.128987
Ising models to study effects of risk aversion in socially interacting individuals
Physica A 632, Part 1 , art. 129345 10.1016/j.physa.2023.129345
Exploiting hysteresis in coordination incentives for cost-effective biodiversity conservation
Q Open 3 (2), qoad026 10.1093/qopen/qoad026
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 10.1007/s10640-022-00685-y
The hitchhiker's guide to generic ecological-economic modelling of land-use-based biodiversity conservation policies
Ecol. Model. 465 , art. 109861 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2021.109861
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 10.1002/ece3.9063
Bundling of ecosystem services in conservation offsets: risks and how they can be avoided
Land 10 (6), art. 628 10.3390/land10060628
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 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107002
On the cost-effective design of agglomeration bonus schemes for the conservation of multiple competing species
Front. Ecol. Evol. 9 , art. 695764 10.3389/fevo.2021.695764
Editorial: Policies and strategies for the conservation of metacommunities
Front. Ecol. Evol. 9 , art. 817530 10.3389/fevo.2021.817530
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 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113201
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 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109355
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 10.3389/fenvs.2020.00103
Conservation management in the face of climatic uncertainty – the roles of flexibility and robustness
Ecol. Complex. 43 , art. 100849 10.1016/j.ecocom.2020.100849
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 10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104892
Ecological-economic modelling for biodiversity conservation
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 297 pp. 10.1017/9781108662963
Biodiversity conservation in a dynamic world may lead to inefficiencies due to lock-in effects and path dependence
Ecol. Econ. 173 , art. 106652 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106652
Minimum distances for wind turbines: A robustness analysis of policies for a sustainable wind power deployment
Energy Policy 140 , art. 111431 10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111431
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.
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.