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:

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

Publications

Latest publications:

• Gerling, C., Drechsler, M., Leins, J.A., Sturm, A., Wätzold, F. (2025):
  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
• Drechsler, M. (2024):
  Should the biodiversity bank be a savings bank or a lending bank?
  Ecol. Complex. 60 , art. 101101 10.1016/j.ecocom.2024.101101
• Drechsler, M. (2024):
  Flexibility trade‐offs in conservation offsets
  Conserv. Biol. 38 (1), e14144 10.1111/cobi.14144
• Drechsler, M. (2024):
  A game-theoretic systematics of conservation and management of spatial ecosystem services
  Nat. Resour. Model. 37 (4), e12404 10.1111/nrm.12404
• Duan, Y., Zhou, S., Ning, J., Drechsler, M. (2024):
  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
• Reutter, F., Drechsler, M., Gawel, E., Lehmann, P. (2024):
  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
• 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 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2023.107948
• 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 10.1016/j.socec.2022.101967
• Drechsler, M. (2023):
  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
• Drechsler, M. (2023):
  Insights from Ising models of land-use under economic coordination incentives
  Physica A 625 , art. 128987 10.1016/j.physa.2023.128987
• Drechsler, M. (2023):
  The influence of farm land distribution on the performance of the agglomeration bonus
  Front. Environ. Sci. 11 , art. 1233758 10.3389/fenvs.2023.1233758
• Drechsler, M., Grimm, V. (2023):
  Exploiting hysteresis in coordination incentives for cost-effective biodiversity conservation
  Q Open 3 (2), qoad026 10.1093/qopen/qoad026

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.