Current and past Master's theses

Ongoing

Francesco Bini - Camtraps and mammals Chiquitania
Tim Westermann - European bison population modelling
Alexandra Weber - Home range sizes European bison
Karoline Gerbatsch - Wolves in Caucasus
Justus Mennerich - frontier dynamics and mammal ranges
Rebecca Cameron - Using Lipid biomarkers to trace organic matter sources from catchments with differing land use extents in the Colombian Andes
Kristina Gackstetter - Understanding conservation conflicts between herding communities and large carnivores in a shared landscape in Kyrgyzstan
Philip Liehr - Mapping feed lots and silo bags using CNNs
Niklas Brachmann - Social-ecological similarity of Tropical Dry Forests

Completed

2024

Natalja Mai - Complementary use of surrounding flower-rich leys by flower-visiting insects in semi-natural grasslands revealed by remote sensing
Lisa Trimborn - Projecting boreal forest disturbances under climate change with individual based modelling
Antonia Neumaier - The carbon gap in Chacoan forests and outcomes for forest strucutre and productivity
Diego Nicolás Rojas-Vargas - Distribution of COVID-19 infections in dynamic land-use change areas in the Argentinian Gran Chaco
Josefa Vergara - Co-occurrence of red squirrels and meso-carnivores in private gardens in Berlin, Germany
Meike Wunder - Mapping the suitable habitat for brown bears (Ursus arctos) in the Caucasus ecoregion since 1987
Janika Hämmerle - Andean Agrobiodiversity in Traditional Peasant Markets: Mapping corridors of food security on the Peruvian Andes
Juliana Eggers- Forage-Safety Trade-Offs in the Face of Forest Disturbances: Insights from Red Deer Habitat Selection

2023

Anna Wenzel - Effectiveness of Ecosystem Restoration Concessions and Protected Areas in Avoiding Forest Fires in Indonesia from 2017 to 2021
Julia Bartsch - Long-term fire reconstruction in Chiquitano tropical dry forest
Kyra Damp - Analyzing the impact of mega herbivory on woody cover: A natural cross-sectional experiment in Eastern Africa
Gideon Hussels - Protecting an ancient forest - logging and forest conservation in the Bialowieza Forest in Poland and Belarus

2022

Isabel Carpenter - The impact of global demand for Soy/Cattle on biodiversity in the Gran Chaco
Rúben Chávez - Shifting conservation priorities due to rampant deofrestation in the Gran Chaco
Suchana Dahal - Mapping trends in livestock grazing pressure in the mountains of Central Asia; combining satellite imagery and field data
Monique Fahrenberg - Hydroclimatic conditions during extreme events associated with negative gross primary production
Nikola Halaski - Connectivity of Eurasian lynx habitat in Central Europe
Lars Holschuh - Taxing EU’s agricultural commodity imports to incentivise tropical and subtropical forest restoration
Katrin Kirchner - Assessing niche overlap between livestock and mountain ungulates in eastern Tajikistan and northern Kyrgyzstan
Vera Krause - Socioeconomic traces of land use intensification in Uruguay: Census meet remote sensing data
Yutong Liang - Identifying priority areas and safe corridors for the conservation of Persian leopards (Panthera pardus saxicolor) in the Caucasus
Linda Siegert - Deciphering environmental changes during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene using vegetational sedimentary ancient DNA of lake Rauchuagytgyn in Chutotka, Russia
Karla Vergara - Dynamics of deforestation frontiers in the Peruvian Amazon

2021

Michaela Daberger - Systematic prioritization of livestock grazing rights buyout in the last viable population of Asiatic cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus venaticus) in Iran
Marina Frietsch - Exploring the Social-ecological Effectiveness of Protected Areas – A Case Study from North Luangwa, Zambia
Pauline Holz - Identification of priority conservation areas for the Persian leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor) and prey species in the Lesser Caucasus
Marie Pratzer - Exploring intensification spillovers: Understanding the relationship of agricultural intensification and deforestation in the world’s tropical dry forests
Keri Tietge - Patterns of grassland management intensity and their relation with biodiversity in Southern Sweden
Sophia Zielosko - Reindeer, Climate and Vegetation: Development of Empetrum nigrum Biomass on Reindeer Summer Pastures in Finnmark, Norway

2020

2019

Hendrik Bluhm - Mapping habitat suitability and landscape connectivity for moose (Alces alces) in Central Europe
Maria-Theres Dieckmann - The biogegraphic footprint of plastic litter in the marine environment
Ari Kivelä - Natural grassland change in the Dry Chaco since the 1960s
Florian Pötzschner - Carbon corridors between key biodiversity areas in the Dry Chaco
Simon Thomsen - Exploring differences in forest disturbances and land management practices in the Ecuadorian Amazon using Landsat time series and propensity score matching
Moritz Wenzler -

2017

Lena Krupp - Land use change and forest fragmentation in the Argentinian Chaco
Simone Markoff - A functional connectivity approach to identify conservation areas in a changing landscape. A case study of the Eastern Andes in Colombia

2016

Isabel Knabe - Systematic conservation planning for increasing the protection of amphibians in West Africa
Joe MacPherson - Potential terrestrial habitat loss due to future reservoir impoundment from hydropower dams*

2015

Milenka Hampel - Using simulations from dense Landsat time series for crop yield estimations - a case study in Brandenburg, Germany
Verena Fehlenberg - Understanding proximate causes of deforestation in the Gran Chaco - soybean production vs. cattle ranching
Christoph Israel - Mapping land use change in the Paraguayan Chaco
Annika Niepoth - Remote sensing based measures of tree diversity in the Southern Ecuadorian Andes
Alex Rowell - How has the restitution process affected the conservation value of Romania’s forests?*
Max Schneider - Boosting Methods for Statistical Classication of Spatial Geographic Phenomena*

2014

Benjamin Bleyhl - Mapping European bison habitat in the Caucasus
Stephan Gollombeck - Determinants and spatial patterns of cropland fallow events in Central Europe
Oreas Kotschi - The changing global soybean network: relations between soybean consumption and its land use footprint
Martin Mantel - Target areas for the introduction of agroforestry systems in Upper Lusatia*

2013

Myron Thylmann - Global simulations of high and low intensity agriculture: land management types in a global biogeochemical computer model (LPJmL)*

* = co-supervision

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