Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences - Landscape Ecology

Landscape Ecology Lab

Research

The group of Landscape Ecology deals with ecosystems, ecosystem services, land use and its actors along the urban to rural gradient. The main topics are land use change, human and urban footprint, ecosystem services, multicriteria risk, resilience and system anaylsis.

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Methods

The group mainly works with models (process models, statistical models, cellular automata models and agent-based models) but also uses empirical fieldwork (e.g. C estimation of urban trees, mapping of land-use, role games, causal-loop-diagraming).

Recent & Upcoming

Global network
© Manuel Wolff

How do multiple crisis challenge our cities? A workshop with scholars from 15 countries discussed the effects of crisis - especially the current Covid-19 pandemic - on urban transformations.

 

ENABLE Prize
© Manuel Wolff

ENABLE project wins the BiodivERsA Prize for Excellence and Impact.

 

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© Thilo Wellmann

Remote Sensing for Cities is a new initiative aiming at providing evidence for the design of tomorrow’s green cities. The goal is to provide both a scientific research hub as well as an interface for interactions between scientific and societal actors and planning authorities. Share with us your research outcomes, your city story or your opinions and views.

 

The nature of cities

 

Are cities ecosystems—analogous to natural ones—of nature, infrastructure and people? Does thinking about cities in this way help us think about urban design?

 

Dagmar Haase appointed as third holder of the KSLA Wallenberg professorship

Projects & Research

 

The Landscape Ecology Lab is involved in the Global Land Project (GLP), the Urbanization and Global Environmental Change Project (UGEC) and the City Biodiversity Outlook (CBO) of the UN.

 

Collaborations

 

The Landscape Ecology Lab contributes to the Land System Science Cluster at the Geography Department of the Humboldt-University Berlin.