Dr. Ing. Karla Locher-Krause
Thematic Area Environment and Society
Department of Environmental Politics
Thematic Area Ecosystems of the Future
Department of Conservation Biology & Social-Ecological Systems
Helmholtz Centre
for Environmental Research − UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany
phone: ++49 - 341 - 235 1636
fax: ++49 - 341 - 235 1470
karla.locher@ufz.de
Research Interests
- Science-policy-society interface
- Ecosystem services, biodiversity, and landscape ecology
- Land use conflicts and tradeoffs between ecosystem services
- Environmental and socio-economic aspects and their impacts on land use/cover management decisions at different scales
- Sustainability transformations
- Geographic information systems and remote sensing applied to environmental topics
Curriculum Vitae
since 2019
Post-doc Researcher, Department of Conservation Biology & Social-Ecological Systems / Department of Environmental Politics, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ
2019
Dr Ing, Geodesy and Geoinformation Institute, Agricultural Faculty, University of Bonn / Department of Computational Landscape Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ
2018
Research Associate, System and Flux Analysis under Climate Change unit, UNU Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes of Resources UNU-FLORES, Dresden, Germany
2017
Associate Researcher at the Department of Conservation Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, EU funded Project EKLIPSE, Horizon 2020
2012 − 2016
Guest Scientist, Department of Computational Landscape Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ
2006 − 2011
Associate professor, Institute of Forest Management, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Natural resources, University Austral of Chile
2010
MSc in Forest Resources, Universidad Austral de Chile / Visiting scholar, University of Göttingen, Germany
2005 − 2011
Lecturer on “Geographic information systems” (MEFO 254), undergraduate, University Austral of Chile
2005
Forest Engineer, Universidad Austral de Chile
2003
Graduate in Forest Sciences, Universidad Austral de Chile
Current Projects
Completed Projects
Initiative "Green Value" − Comprehensive Valuation of the Natural Capital of African Protected Areas
Index:
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2025 (2)
- D'Amato, D., Rantala, S., Korhonen-Kurki, K., Locher-Krause, K.E., Stoffers, T., Falco, E., Włodarczyk-Marciniak, R., Adamescu, M., Krauze, K., Orta-Ortiz, M.S., Dianoux, R., Grainger, M.J., Young, J. (2025):
A social network analysis of the European science–policy–society interface on biodiversity
Conserv. Biol. 10.1111/cobi.70023 - Kørnøv, L., Ravn Boess, E., Eliasen, S.Q., Larsen, S.V., Locher-Krause, K.E., Zhu, Y., Wittmer, H., Borges Laporta, L., Geneletti, D., Monteiro, M.B., Partidario, M.R. (2025):
Beyond compliance: Enhancing biodiversity through transformative mitigation strategies in spatial planning related SEAs and EIAs
Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. 114 , art. 107960 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107960
2023 (1)
- van Dijk, J., Young, L.Y., Vandewalle, M., Watt, A., Locher, K. (2023):
Transformative change for biodiversity requires more inclusive and participatory framing of research agendas
Biodivers. Conserv. 32 (11), 3669 - 3679 10.1007/s10531-023-02670-3
2022 (1)
- Moya Rossi, J., Vergara Díaz, G., Becker Guaiquil, J., Herrera Machuca, M.A., Cortés Larenas, F., Albornoz Donoso, A., Navarreta Guerra, A., Araya Valdebenito, L.H., Muller-Using Wenzke, S., Locher-Krause, K.E., Esse Herrera, C., Barrera Barrera, V., Bahamondez Villarroel, C., Sandoval Vásquez, V.A. (2022):
Catastro y monitoreo de los recursos forestales en Chile
Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, 79 pp.
2021 (3)
- Berghöfer, A., Bisom, N., Huland, E., Koch, V., Kruse, J., Locher-Krause, K., Philipp, M., Renner, I., Thibault, K., Thiel, M., Tröger, U., van Zyl, H. (2021):
Africa’s protected natural assets. The importance of conservation areas for prosperous and resilient societies in Africa
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung (UFZ) GmbH, Leipzig, and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Eschborn, 153 pp. - Wittmer, H., Berghöfer, A., Büttner, L., Chakrabarty, R., Förster, J., Khan, S., König, C., Krause, G., Kreuer, D., Locher-Krause, K.E., Moreno Soares, T., Munoz, M., Neumann, M., Renner, I., Rode, J., Schniewind, I., Schwarzer, D., Tröger, U., Zinngrebe, Y., Spiering, S. (2021):
Es geht um unsere Lebensgrundlage: Wie wir jetzt handeln können, um die globalen Gemeingüter Biodiversität, Wälder und Meere für eine lebenswerte Zukunft zu erhalten
UFZ-Bericht 2/2021
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Leipzig, 15 S. - Wittmer, H., Berghöfer, A., Büttner, L., Chakrabarty, R., Förster, J., Khan, S., König, C., Krause, G., Kreuer, D., Locher-Krause, K., Moreno Soares, T., Muñoz Escobar, M., Neumann, M., Renner, I., Rode, J., Schniewind, I., Schwarzer, D., Tröger, U., Zinngrebe, Y., Spiering, S. (2021):
Transformative change for a sustainable management of global commons — biodiversity, forests and the ocean. Recommendations for international cooperation based on a review of global assessment reports and project experience
UFZ Report 3/2021
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, 154 pp. 10.57699/7s83-7z35
2020 (1)
- Jampani, M., Amerasinghe, P., Liedl, R., Locher-Krause, K., Hülsmann, S. (2020):
Multi-functionality and land use dynamics in a peri-urban environment influenced by wastewater irrigation
Sust. Cities Soc. 62 , art. 102305 10.1016/j.scs.2020.102305
2019 (1)
- Watt, A., Ainsworth, G., Balian, E., Cojocaru, G., Darbi, M., Dicks, L., Eggermont, H., Furman, E., Goudeseune, L., Huybrecht, P., Kelemen, E., Koch, F., Konstantinou, Z., Livoreil, B., Locher, K., Lux, A., Mehring, M., Neßhöver, C., Paloniemi, R., Saarikoski, H., Sousa Pinto, I., Vandewalle, M., Varjopuro, R., Varumo, L., Wittmer, H., Young, J. (2019):
EKLIPSE: engaging knowledge holders and networks for evidence-informed European policy on biodiversity and ecosystem services
Evid. Policy 15 (2), 253 - 264 10.1332/174426418X15314036194114
2017 (3)
- Cord, A.F., Bartkowski, B., Beckmann, M., Dittrich, A., Hermans-Neumann, K., Kaim, A., Lienhoop, N., Locher-Krause, K.E., Priess, J., Schröter-Schlaack, C., Schwarz, N., Seppelt, R., Strauch, M., Václavík, T., Volk, M. (2017):
Towards systematic analyses of ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies: Main concepts, methods and the road ahead
Ecosyst. Serv. 28 (Part C), 264 - 272 10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.07.012 - Locher-Krause, K.E., Lautenbach, S., Volk, M. (2017):
Spatio-temporal change of ecosystem services as a key to understand natural resource utilization in Southern Chile
Reg. Envir. Chang. 17 (8), 2477 - 2493 10.1007/s10113-017-1180-y - Locher-Krause, K.E., Volk, M., Waske, B., Thonfeld, F., Lautenbach, S. (2017):
Expanding temporal resolution in landscape transformations: Insights from a landsat-based case study in Southern Chile
Ecol. Indic. 75 , 132 - 144 10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.12.036