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:
- BTU Research Cluster “Multifunctional Landscapes under Climate Change” (MultiLand)
Publications
Latest publications:
Ecological modelling for transformation
Ecol. Model. 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2025.111119
Cost-effective policy instruments for biodiversity conservation under climate change – The need for flexibility
Ecol. Econ. 227 , art. 108414 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108414
Should the biodiversity bank be a savings bank or a lending bank?
Ecol. Complex. 60 , art. 101101 10.1016/j.ecocom.2024.101101
Flexibility trade‐offs in conservation offsets
Conserv. Biol. 38 (1), e14144 10.1111/cobi.14144
A game-theoretic systematics of conservation and management of spatial ecosystem services
Nat. Resour. Model. 37 (4), e12404 10.1111/nrm.12404
Introducing wetland offset markets under development-restoration conflicts: The role of public offset credit supply
J. Environ. Manage. 352 , art. 120125 10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.120125
Social costs of setback distances for onshore wind turbines: A model analysis applied to the German State of Saxony
Environ. Resour. Econ. 87 (2), 437 - 463 10.1007/s10640-023-00777-3
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
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
Insights from Ising models of land-use under economic coordination incentives
Physica A 625 , art. 128987 10.1016/j.physa.2023.128987
The influence of farm land distribution on the performance of the agglomeration bonus
Front. Environ. Sci. 11 , art. 1233758 10.3389/fenvs.2023.1233758
Exploiting hysteresis in coordination incentives for cost-effective biodiversity conservation
Q Open 3 (2), qoad026 10.1093/qopen/qoad026
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.