Irina Heiß

Contact

Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Department of Computational Landscape Ecology

Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig
Germany

Tel.: +49 341 6025-1898

irina.heiss@ufz.de

https://orcid.org/0009-0007-4105-8056

Portrait Irina Heiß — (Image: Sebastian Wiedling/UFZ)

Research topics

exploring the potential to improve ecosystem services by agricultural management changes
using the Agricultural Production SIMulator (APSIM) model to assess the impact of agricultural management on biophysical processes and ecosystem services of agroecosystems
assessing the impact of agricultural management on multifunctionality of agroecosystems
Spatial analysis and GIS with R

Publications

Heiß, I., Stegmann, F., Wolf, M., Volk, M., Kaim, A., 2025. Supporting the spatial allocation of management practices to improve ecosystem services – An opportunity map approach for agricultural landscapes. Ecological Indicators 172, 113212. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113212

Curriculum vitae

since 2023	PhD candidate in the junior research group AgriScape
Nov.-Dec. 2022	Research assistant in the project Mustergut Tellow at the Thünen Institute for Climate-Smart Agriculture, Brunswick
2019-2022	M.Sc. in "Environmental Sciences: Atmosphere, Biogeochemistry and Climate" at Stockholm University, Sweden Thesis topic: "Inventory of the soil resources at the farm Tellow, Northern Germany: Current soil condition and future perspectives" supervised by PD Axel Don, Thünen-Institute for Climate-Smart Agriculture, Brunswick
2021-2022	Student assistant at the KlimAgrar research group, University of Potsdam
2020-2021	Erasmus scholarship for the master's program Geoecology at the University of Potsdam
2019-2019	Tuition Waiver Scholarship for the University of Sydney, Australia
2015-2019	B.Sc. in Geosciences, University of Göttingen Thesis topic: "Distribution of the non-relevant metabolites Desphenyl-Chloridazon and Methyl-Desphenyl-Chloridazon in the aquatic environment" supervised by Prof. Dr. Tobias Licha

Contact

Assistance
Sindy Bleiholder
Phone: +49 341 6025-1250

Nora Pabst
Phone: +49 341 6025-2367

sekces@ufz.de

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News/Press

Video in the Tagesthemen of the Tagesschau of Jul 28, 2022 (only in German)

Interview with Prof. Ralf Seppelt in the Tagesthemen about the Earth Overshoot Day.

Interview and video on Tagesschau24 of Jul 28, 2022 (only in German)

"All countries live on credit - year after year, humanity consumes more natural resources than the earth can renew. Landscape ecologist Ralf Seppelt explains what today's Earth Overshoot Day says - and what resource conservation can look like."

Video of MigSoKo (only in English)

MigSoKo Animation Video on Environmental Change and Human Migration.

Embedded in the scientific debate about understanding the causalities between environmental change and human migration, this animated video presents key results of the MigSoKo project.

Video of Nov 23, 2021 (only in German)

ARD - Das Erste, "Wissen vor 8. - Natur"

Given the drastic decline of media responses after the publication of the Global Assessment of IPBES in Mai 2019, IPBES and IPCC authors approached ARD and suggested to strengthen reporting on transformative change to fight the biodiversity and climate crisis. Finally we were invited to consult within the new series of „Wissen-vor-8“ on various topics such as zoonoses, agricultural monocultures, invasive species, climate change in the arctic.

Publications

The TALE project wins the BiodivERsA Prize for Excellence and Impact!

This animated movie presents the results of the TALE project (“Towards multifunctional Agricultural Landscapes in Europe”) which investigated the potential conflicts and possible synergies between agricultural services and biodiversity through the development of land use.

Tale Dissemination brochure The brochure (policy brief) "Preserving Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity on agricultural land" has been published and presents the objectives, findings and recommendations of our BiodivERsA project TALE.

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Atlas of Ecosystem Services Atlas of Ecosystem Services: Drivers, Risks, and Societal Responses.

Schröter, M., A. Bonn, S. Klotz, R. Seppelt, C. Baessler (eds., 2019). Springer, New York, 414 pages.

The “Atlas of Ecosystem Services“ contains 60 succinct chapters which deliver a comprehensive overview on the risks to sustained provision of ecosystem services. More than 260 authors, among them UFZ colleagues form 16 departments, have contributed to the book. Global and regional case studies shed light on the impacts of land use change, climate change and socio-economic drivers on ecosystem services, and their related (land use) conflicts. Furthermore, policy instruments and management options to address these risks are presented

Link to Springer (Download)

UFZ Policy Brief

Read book as e-paper

Cover WOCAT-Buch klein The book „Making sense of research for sustainable land management“ was developed in the framework of the GLUES project in cooperation with WOCAT.

Read book as e-paper

download book (16.5 MB)