Land-use systems
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Head:Dr. Anna Hersperger
The land-use systems group studies landscape patterns and processes and their changes over time. We focus on cultural landscapes and their multifunctionality while conducting research in the following topics:
- Development of models for simulating future landscape dynamics and for estimating the resulting landscape services;
- Application and further development of landscape genetic methods and theories;
- Analysis of historical changes in ecosystems and landscapes (focus on the past 100 to 250 years);
- Analysis of ecological implications of landscape and ecosystem changes in the context of the field of historical ecology;
- Analysis of actors, driving forces, and land change and their interaction to understand the causes of landscape change
- Contributing to the further development of landscape planning, based, for example, on conflict analysis and the evaluation of planning instruments.
The landscape ecology group combines methods and theories from natural sciences and social sciences on spatial scales from single ecosystems to continents. We are equally committed to theory development and innovative applications.
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Staff
Land-use systems
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Services and Products
Scenarios of land-use change for download
Person in charge:
Bronwyn Price
Urban Sprawl Metrics tool (USM)
Person in charge:
Felix Kienast
Publications
Die Berechnung der neusten Entwicklung der Zersiedelung zeigt räumliche Disparitäten auf. Basierend darauf macht das Buch Vorschläge zu Ziel- und Grenzwerten und stellt dar, wie diese Vorschläge in der raumplanerischen Gesetzgebung umgesetzt werden könnten.
Bristol-Schriftenreihe 57
2018
Focus WSL magazine Diagonal, 2/17: Whatever we do, we change the landscape. Our landscape researchers take a closer look so that we can shape these transformations together.
Wolff, S.; Meijer, J.; Schulp, C.J.E.; Verburg, P.H., 2020: Contextualizing local landscape initiatives in global change: a scenario study for the high forest zone, Ghana. Regional Environmental Change, 20, 4: 115 (17 pp.). doi: 10.1007/s10113-020-01701-x
Palka, G.; Oliveira, E.; Pagliarin, S.; Hersperger, A.M., 2020: Strategic spatial planning and efficacy: an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) approach in Lyon and Copenhagen. European Planning Studies, doi: 10.1080/09654313.2020.1828291
Arıkan, B.; Mohr, F.; Bürgi, M., 2020: Exploring the common ground of landscape ecology and landscape archaeology through a case study from eastern Anatolia, Turkey. Landscape Ecology, doi: 10.1007/s10980-020-01128-z
Malek, Ž.; Verburg, P.H., 2020: Mapping global patterns of land use decision-making. Global Environmental Change, 65: 102170 (16 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102170
Kienast, F.; Gosteli, S.; Edwards, T.C.Jr.; Martius, G., 2020: Lessons learned from the first worldwide accessible e-learning in Landscape Ecology. Landscape Online, 83: 1-14. doi: 10.3097/LO.202083
Zhao, C.; Weng, Q.; Hersperger, A.M., 2020: Characterizing the 3-D urban morphology transformation to understand urban-form dynamics: a case study of Austin, Texas, USA. Landscape and Urban Planning, 203: 103881 (13 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2020.103881
Bolliger, J.; Hennet, T.; Wermelinger, B.; Bösch, R.; Pazur, R.; Blum, S.; Haller, J.; Obrist, M.K., 2020: Effects of traffic-regulated street lighting on nocturnal insect abundance and bat activity. Basic and Applied Ecology, 47: 44-56. doi: 10.1016/j.baae.2020.06.003
Gao, D.; Bai, E.; Li, M.; Zhao, C.; Yu, K.; Hagedorn, F., 2020: Responses of soil nitrogen and phosphorus cycling to drying and rewetting cycles: a meta-analysis. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 148: 107896 (15 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2020.107896
Helfenstein, J.; Diogo, V.; Bürgi, M.; Verburg, P.; Swart, R.; Mohr, F.; Debonne, N.; Levers, C.; Herzog, F., 2020: Conceptualizing pathways to sustainable agricultural intensification. In: Nico (eds), 2020: sine loco, Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/bs.aecr.2020.08.005
Flück, H.; Mohr, F.; Reitmaier, T., 2020: Over a 1000 mountains and through 150 valleys - making choices for the future in GIS of the archaeological records of the Canton of Grisons, Switzerland. Österreichische Zeitschrift für Kunst und Denkmalpflege, 74, 1-2: 146-157.
Yang, B.; Ke, X.; Van Vliet, J.; Yu, Q.; Zhou, T.; Verburg, P.H., 2020: Impact of cropland displacement on the potential crop production in China: a multi-scale analysis. Regional Environmental Change, 20, 3: 97 (13 pp.). doi: 10.1007/s10113-020-01690-x
Allen, C.; Metternicht, G.; Verburg, P.; Akhtar-Schuster, M.; Inacio da Cunha, M.; Sanchez Santivañez, M., 2020: Delivering an enabling environment and multiple benefits for land degradation neutrality: stakeholder perceptions and progress. Environmental Science and Policy, 114: 109-118. doi: 10.1016/j.envsci.2020.07.029
Shirmohammadi, B.; Malekian, A.; Salajegheh, A.; Taheri, B.; Azarnivand, H.; Malek, Z.; Verburg, P.H., 2020: Impacts of future climate and land use change on water yield in a semiarid basin in Iran. Land Degradation and Development, 31, 10: 1252-1264. doi: 10.1002/ldr.3554
Gelabert, P.J.; Montealegre, A.L.; Lamelas, M.T.; Domingo, D., 2020: Forest structural diversity characterization in Mediterranean landscapes affected by fires using Airborne Laser Scanning data. GIScience & Remote Sensing, 57, 4: 497-509. doi: 10.1080/15481603.2020.1738060
Randin, C.F.; Ashcroft, M.B.; Bolliger, J.; Cavender-Bares, J.; Coops, N.C.; Dullinger, S.; Dirnböck, T.; Eckert, S.; Ellis, E.; Fernández, N.; Giuliani, G.; Guisan, A.; Jetz, W.; Joost, S.; Karger, D.; Lembrechts, J.; Lenoir, J.; Luoto, M.; Morin, X.; ... Payne, D., 2020: Monitoring biodiversity in the Anthropocene using remote sensing in species distribution models. Remote Sensing of Environment, 239: 111626 (18 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2019.111626
Nematollahi, S.; Fakheran, S.; Kienast, F.; Jafari, A., 2020: Application of InVEST habitat quality module in spatially vulnerability assessment of natural habitats (case study: Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province, Iran). Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 192, 8: 487 (17 pp.). doi: 10.1007/s10661-020-08460-6
Bolliger, J.; Collet, M.; Hohl, M.; Obrist, M.K., 2020: Automated flight-interception traps for interval sampling of insects. PLoS One, 15, 7: e0229476 (8 pp.). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0229476
Schulze, K.; Malek, Ž.; Verburg, P.H., 2020: The impact of accounting for future wood production in global vertebrate biodiversity assessments. Environmental Management, doi: 10.1007/s00267-020-01322-4
Leijten, F.; Sim, S.; King, H.; Verburg, P.H., 2020: Which forests could be protected by corporate zero deforestation commitments? A spatial assessment. Environmental Research Letters, 15, 6: 064021 (11 pp.). doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab8158
Bolliger, J.; Hennet, T.; Wermelinger, B.; Blum, S.; Haller, J.; Obrist, M.K., 2020: Low impact of two LED colors on nocturnal insect abundance and bat activity in a peri-urban environment. Journal of Insect Conservation, 24, 4: 625-635. doi: 10.1007/s10841-020-00235-1
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