Research group
Biodiversity and Ecosystem services (BIOECOS)
Our research focuses on monitoring, mapping and modeling spatio-temporal patterns of biodiversity and ecosystem services. It comprises conceptual work, applied case studies and the development of methods. Our aims are:
- First, to understand the impacts of different land use systems on species distributions and the capacity of ecosystems to provide ecosystem services.
- Secondly, to characterize and quantify trade-offs and synergies among ecosystem services and between ecosystem services and biodiversity.
- Thirdly, to explore the suitability of information derived from remote sensing or other geospatial data to help inform decision-making and to develop future monitoring capabilities.
Methodological focus
- Geospatial analysis of large databases on biodiversity and ecosystem services using macroecological methods and statistical modeling
- Novel techniques to monitor biodiversity in agricultural landscapes (e.g. audiomoth)
- AI assisted analysis of biodiversity monitoring data
- Analysis of remote sensing products (e.g. Land Surface Temperature, Vegetation Indices, Leaf Area Index, UV-B radiation) for monitoring biodiversity and ecosystem services
- Systematic reviews and meta-analyses
Contacts
Phone: +49 (0)341 6025 1946
michael.beckmann@ufz.de
Phone: +49 (0)341 6025 1070
anne.paulus@ufz.de
Projects
- BESTMAP - Behavioural, Ecological and Socio-economic Tools for Modelling Agricultural Policy; Horizon 2020 project funded by the European Commission
Former Projects
- WAKANAKA: Ermittlung naturschutzbezogener Kriterien in der Umweltprüfung der Bedarfsplanung für Stromnetze und in der Bundesfachplanung zur Erhöhung der Planungssicherheit und Verhinderung von Zielkonflikten more information
- ECOPOTENTIAL: improving future ecosystem benefits through earth observations more information
- TALE - Towards multifunctional agricultural landscapes in Europe: Assessing and governing synergies between food production, biodiversity and ecosystem services more information
- LEGATO: Land-use intensity and Ecological Engineering – Assessment Tools for risks and Opportunities in irrigated rice based production systems more information
- Improving species distribution models of endangered plants in Mexico (completed) more information
Frequent collaborators
- University of Dresden, Chair of Computational Landscape Ecology Link
- University of Leeds, School of Geography (UK) Link
- Palacký University Olomouc, Faculty of Science, Department of Ecology & Environmental Sciences (Czech Republic) Link
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig Link
- The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) at the University of Maryland (USA) Link
- University of Southampton, Geography and Environmental Science Link
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of Science, Environmental Geography Link
- Stony Brook University (USA), Department of Ecology & Evolution Link
Recent publications
2024 (4)
- Burian, A., Kremen, C., Wu, J.S.-T., Beckmann, M., Bulling, M., Garibaldi, L.A., Krisztin, T., Mehrabi, Z., Ramankutty, N., Seppelt, R. (2024):
Biodiversity-production feedback effects lead to intensification traps in agricultural landscapes
Nat. Ecol. Evol. 10.1038/s41559-024-02349-0 - Equihua, J., Beckmann, M., Seppelt, R. (2024):
Connectivity conservation planning through deep reinforcement learning
Methods Ecol. Evol. 10.1111/2041-210x.14300 - Roilo, S., Paulus, A., Alarcón-Segura, V., Kock, L., Beckmann, M., Klein, N., Cord, A.F. (2024):
Quantifying agricultural land-use intensity for spatial biodiversity modelling: implications of different metrics and spatial aggregation methods
Landsc. Ecol. 39 (3), art. 55 10.1007/s10980-024-01853-9 - Zhang, C., Su, B., Beckmann, M., Volk, M. (2024):
Emergy-based evaluation of ecosystem services: Progress and perspectives
Renew. Sust. Energ. Rev. 192 , art. 114201 10.1016/j.rser.2023.114201
2023 (7)
- Alarcón-Segura, V., Roilo, S., Paulus, A., Beckmann, M., Klein, N., Cord, A.F. (2023):
Farm structure and environmental context drive farmers’ decisions on the spatial distribution of ecological focus areas in Germany
Landsc. Ecol. 38 (9), 2293 - 2305 10.1007/s10980-023-01709-8 - Bartkowski, B., Beckmann, M., Bednář, M., Biffi, S., Domingo-Marimon, C., Mesaroš, M., Schüßler, C., Šarapatka, B., Tarčak, S., Václavík, T., Ziv, G., Wittstock, F. (2023):
Adoption and potential of agri-environmental schemes in Europe: Cross-regional evidence from interviews with farmers
People Nat. 5 (5), 1610 - 1621 10.1002/pan3.10526 - Bonato, M., Martin, E.A., Cord, A.F., Seppelt, R., Beckmann, M., Strauch, M. (2023):
Applying generic landscape-scale models of natural pest control to real data: Associations between crops, pests and biocontrol agents make the difference
Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 342 , art. 108215 10.1016/j.agee.2022.108215 - Möckel, S., Bartkowski, B., Beckmann, M., Strauch, M., Stubenrauch, J., Volk, M., Witing, F., Wolf, A., Baaken, M.C. (2023):
Zukunftsfähige Agrarlandschaften in Deutschland – praktische Maßnahmen und ihre Wirksamkeit im Vergleich
Nat. Recht 46 , 13 - 24 10.1007/s10357-023-4282-y - Takola, E.E., Bonfanti, J., Seppelt, R., Beckmann, M. (2023):
An open-access global database of meta-analyses investigating yield and biodiversity responses to different management practices
Data Brief 51 , art. 109696 10.1016/j.dib.2023.109696 - Takola, E.E., Bonfanti, J., Seppelt, R., Beckmann, M. (2023):
Takola et al. (2023)_An open-access global database of meta-analyses investigating yield and biodiversity responses to different management practices
Open Science Framework (OSF) 10.17605/OSF.IO/7S9R4 - Zhang, C., Ran, W., Fang S., , Hu, S., Beckmann, M., Volk, M. (2023):
Divergent glacier area and elevation changes across the Tibetan Plateau in the early 21st century
Anthropocene 44 , art. 100419 10.1016/j.ancene.2023.100419
2022 (6)
- Beckmann, M., Didenko, G., Bullock, J.M., Cord, A.F., Paulus, A., Ziv, G., Václavík, T. (2022):
Archetypes of agri-environmental potential: a multi-scale typology for spatial stratification and upscaling in Europe
Environ. Res. Lett. 17 (11), art. 115008 10.1088/1748-9326/ac9cf5 - Díaz, S., Kattge, J., Cornelissen, J.H.C., Wright, I.J., Lavorel, S., Dray, S., Reu, B., Kleyer, M., Wirth, C., Prentice, I.C., Garnier, E., Bönisch, G., Westoby, M., Poorter, H., Reich, P.B., Moles, A.T., Dickie, J., Zanne, A.E., Chave, J., Wright, S.J., Sheremetiev, S.N., Jactel, H., Baraloto, C., Cerabolini, B.E.L., Pierce, S., Shipley, B., Casanoves, F., Joswig, J.S., Günther, A., Falczuk, V., Rüger, N., Mahecha, M.D., Gorné, L.D., Amiaud, B., Atkin, O.K., Bahn, M., Baldocchi, D., Beckmann, M., Blonder, B., Bond, W., Bond-Lamberty, B., Brown, K., Burrascano, S., Byun, C., Campetella, G., Cavender-Bares, J., Stuart Chapin III, F., Choat, B., Coomes, D.A., Cornwell, W.K., Craine, J., Craven, D., Dainese, M., de Araujo, A.C., de Vries, F.T., Ferreira Domingues, T., Enquist, B.J., Fagúndez, J., Fang, J., Fernández-Méndez, F., Fernandez-Piedade, M.T., Ford, H., Forey, E., Freschet, G.T., Gachet, S., Gallagher, R., Green, W., Guerin, G.R., Gutiérrez, A.G., Harrison, S.P., Hattingh, W.N., He, T., Hickler, T., Higgins, S.I., Higuchi, P., Ilic, J., Jackson, R.B., Jalili, A., Jansen, S., Koike, F., König, C., Kraft, N., Kramer, K., Kreft, H., Kühn, I., Kurokawa, H., Lamb, E.G., Laughlin, D.C., Leishman, M., Lewis, S., Louault, F., Malhado, A.C.M., Manning, P., Meir, P., Mencuccini, M., Messier, J., Miller, R., Minden, V., Molofsky, J., Montgomery, R., Montserrat-Martí, G., Moretti, M., Müller, S., Niinemets, Ü., Ogaya, R., Öllerer, K., Onipchenko, V., Onoda, Y., Ozinga, W.A., Pausas, J.G., Peco, B., Penuelas, J., Pillar, V.D., Pladevall, C., Römermann, C., Sack, L., Salinas, N., Sandel, B., Sardans, J., Schamp, B., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Schulze, E.-D., Schweingruber, F., Shiodera, S., Sosinski, E., Soudzilovskaia, N., Spasojevic, M.J., Swaine, E., Swenson, N., Tautenhahn, S., Thompson, K., Totte, A., Urrutia-Jalabert, R., Valladares, F., van Bodegom, P., Vasseur, F., Verheyen, K., Vile, D., Violle, C., von Holle, B., Weigelt, P., Weiher, E., Wiemann, M.C., Williams, M., Wright, J., Zotz, G. (2022):
The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset
Sci. Data 9 , art. 755 10.1038/s41597-022-01774-9 - Paulus, A., Hagemann, N., Baaken, M.C., Roilo, S., Alarcón-Segura, V., Cord, A.F., Beckmann, M. (2022):
Landscape context and farm characteristics are key to farmers' adoption of agri-environmental schemes
Land Use Pol. 121 , art. 106320 10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106320 - Václavík, T., Langerwisch, F., Ziv, G., Gunning, J., Gosal, A., Beckmann, M., Paulus, A., Wittstock, F., Cord, A., Roilo, S., Domingo-Marimon, C., Sanchez, A., Broekman, A., Vujaklija, D. (2022):
D1.3 Guidelines and protocols harmonizing activities across case studies
ARPHA Preprints 10.3897/arphapreprints.e81337 - Wittstock, F., Paulus, A., Beckmann, M., Hagemann, N., Baaken, M.C. (2022):
Understanding farmers' decision-making on agri-environmental schemes: A case study from Saxony, Germany
Land Use Pol. 122 , art. 106371 10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106371 - Ziv, G., Gunning, J., Václavík, T., Beckmann, M., Paulus, A., Mueller, B., Will, M., Cord, A., Roilo, S., Bullock, J., Evans, P., Domingo-Marimon, C., Masó Pau, J. (2022):
Deliverable D2.2 BESTMAP Conceptual Framework Design & Architecture
ARPHA Preprints 10.3897/arphapreprints.e82404
2021 (5)
- Biffi, S., Traldi, R., Crezee, B., Beckmann, M., Egli, L., Epp Schmidt, D., Motzer, N., Okumah, M., Seppelt, R., Slabbert, E.L., Tiedeman, K., Wang, H., Ziv, G. (2021):
Aligning agri-environmental subsidies and environmental needs: a comparative analysis between the US and EU
Environ. Res. Lett. 16 (5), art. 054067 10.1088/1748-9326/abfa4e - Gosal, A.S., Giannichi, M.L., Beckmann, M., Comber, A., Massenberg, J.R., Palliwoda, J., Roddis, P., Schägner, J.P., Wilson, J., Ziv, G. (2021):
Do drivers of nature visitation vary spatially? The importance of context for understanding visitation of nature areas in Europe and North America
Sci. Total Environ. 776 , art. 145190 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145190 - Palliwoda, J., Fischer, J., Felipe-Lucia, M.R., Palomo, I., Neugarten, R., Büermann, A., Price, M.F., Torralba, M., Eigenbrod, F., Mitchell, M.G.E., Beckmann, M., Seppelt, R., Schröter, M. (2021):
Ecosystem service coproduction across the zones of biosphere reserves in Europe
Ecosyst. People 17 (1), 491 - 506 10.1080/26395916.2021.1968501 - Schröter, M., Crouzat, E., Hölting, L., Massenberg, J.R., Rode, J., Hanisch, M., Kabisch, N., Palliwoda, J., Priess, J.A., Seppelt, R., Beckmann, M. (2021):
Assumptions in ecosystem service assessments: Increasing transparency for conservation
Ambio 50 (2), 289 - 300 10.1007/s13280-020-01379-9 - Spake, R., Mori, A.S., Beckmann, M., Martin, P.A., Christie, A.P., Duguid, M.C., Doncaster, C.P. (2021):
Implications of scale dependence for cross‐study syntheses of biodiversity differences
Ecol. Lett. 24 (2), 374 - 390 10.1111/ele.13641
2020 (7)
- 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 10.3389/fenvs.2020.00103 - Eigenbrod, F., Beckmann, M., Dunnett, S., Graham, L., Holland, R.A., Meyfroidt, P., Seppelt, R., Song, X.-P., Spake, R., Václavík, T., Verburg, P.H. (2020):
Identifying agricultural frontiers for modeling global cropland expansion
One Earth 3 (4), 504 - 514 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.09.006 - Hölting, L., Komossa, F., Filyushkina, A., Gastinger, M.-M., Verburg, P.H., Beckmann, M., Volk, M., Cord, A.F. (2020):
Including stakeholders’ perspectives on ecosystem services in multifunctionality assessments
Ecosyst. People 16 (1), 354 - 368 10.1080/26395916.2020.1833986 - Kambach, S., Bruelheide, H., Gerstner, K., Gurevitch, J., Beckmann, M., Seppelt, R. (2020):
Consequences of multiple imputation of missing standard deviations and sample sizes in meta‐analysis
Ecol. Evol. 10 (20), 11699 - 11712 10.1002/ece3.6806 - Kattge, J., Bönisch, G., Díaz, S., Lavorel, S., Beckmann, M., Dechant, B., Durka, W., Klotz, S., Roscher, C., Doktor, D., Prentice, I.C., et al. (2020):
TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access
Glob. Change Biol. 26 (1), 119 - 188 10.1111/gcb.14904 - Seppelt, R., Arndt, C., Beckmann, M., Martin, E.A., Hertel, T.W. (2020):
Deciphering the biodiversity-production mutualism in the global food security debate
Trends Ecol. Evol. 35 (11), 1011 - 1020 10.1016/j.tree.2020.06.012 - Ziv, G., Beckmann, M., Bullock, J., Cord, A., Delzeit, R., Domingo, C., Dreßler, G., Hagemann, N., Masó, J., Müller, B., Neteler, M., Sapundzhieva, A., Stoev, P., Stenning, J., Trajković, M., Václavík, T. (2020):
BESTMAP: behavioural, Ecological and Socio-economic Tools for Modelling Agricultural Policy
Rio 6 , e52052 10.3897/rio.6.e52052