Current and past Master's theses
Master’s theses – ongoing
- Arne Zebski - Mapping field size & identifying silvopastures in the Chaco/Chiquitano region
- Janika Hämmerle - Assessing the relevance of traditional market channels for Potato Diversity on the Peruvian Andes
- Anna Wenzel - Assessing the effectiveness of ecosystem restoration concessions in avoiding forest fires in Indonesia
- Gideon Hussels - Protecting an ancient forest - logging and forest conservation in the Bialowieza Forest in Poland and Belarus
- Sofia Miguel - Legacies of the Vietnam War bombing on contemporary land use and landscape fragmentation in Quang Tri Province, Vietnam
- Saskia Bacher - Drought-induced bark beetle infestations, Germany
- Kyra Damp - Analyzing the impact of mega herbivory on woody cover: A natural cross-sectional experiment in Eastern Africa
- Anastasios Savvidis - Seasonaility and remote sensing in the Arctic
Past Master’s theses
2023
- Julia Bartsch - Long-term fire reconstruction in Chiquitano tropical dry forest
2022
- Linda Siegert - Deciphering environmental changes during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene using vegetational sedimentary ancient DNA of lake Rauchuagytgyn in Chutotka, Russia
- Vera Krause - Socioeconomic traces of land use intensification in Uruguay: Census meet remote sensing data
- Isabel Carpenter - The impact of global demand for Soy/Cattle on biodiversity in the Gran Chaco
- Karla Vergara - Dynamics of deforestation frontiers in the Peruvian Amazon
- Nikola Halaski - Connectivity of Eurasian lynx habitat in Central Europe
- Rúben Chávez - Shifting conservation priorities due to rampant deofrestation in the Gran Chaco
- Yutong Liang - Identifying priority areas and safe corridors for the conservation of Persian leopards (Panthera pardus saxicolor) in the Caucasus
- Katrin Kirchner - Assessing niche overlap between livestock and mountain ungulates in eastern Tajikistan and northern Kyrgyzstan
- 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
- Lars Holschuh - Taxing EU's agricultural commodity imports to incentivise tropical and subtropical forest restoration
2021
- Sophia Zielosko - Reindeer, Climate and Vegetation: Development of Empetrum nigrum Biomass on Reindeer Summer Pastures in Finnmark, Norway
- Keri Tietge - Patterns of grassland management intensity and their relation with biodiversity in Southern Sweden
- Marie Pratzer - Exploring intensification spillovers: Understanding the relationship of agricultural intensification and deforestation in the world’s tropical dry forests
- Pauline Holz - Identification of priority conservation areas for the Persian leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor) and prey species in the Lesser Caucasus
- Marina Frietsch - Exploring the Social-ecological Effectiveness of Protected Areas – A Case Study from North Luangwa, Zambia
- Michaela Daberger - Systematic prioritization of livestock grazing rights buyout in the last viable population of Asiatic cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus venaticus) in Iran
2020
- Silja Zimmermann - Investigating factors influencing habitat selection of Arctic marine mammals to understand important future habitats under climate change
- Judith Rakowski - Exploring diversity and inclusion among protected area staff members in Armenia with a mixed methods approach
2019
- Ari Kivelä - Natural grassland change in the Dry Chaco since the 1960s
- 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 -
- Maria-Theres Dieckmann - The biogegraphic footprint of plastic litter in the marine environment
- Hendrik Bluhm - Mapping habitat suitability and landscape connectivity for moose (Alces alces) in Central Europe
- Florian Pötzschner - Carbon corridors between key biodiversity areas in the Dry Chaco
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 sudy of the Eastern Andes in Colombia.
2016
- Joe MacPherson - Potential terrestrial habitat loss due to future reservoir impoundment from hydropower dams*
- Isabel Knabe - Systematic conservation planning for increasing the protection of amphibians in West Africa
2015
- Alex Rowell - How has the restitution process affected the conservation value of Romania’s forests?*
- Annika Niepoth - Remote sensing based measures of tree diversity in the Southern Ecuadorian Andes
- Milenka Hampel - Using simulations from dense Landsat time series for crop yield estimations - a case study in Brandenburg, Germany
- Max Schneider - Boosting Methods for Statistical Classication of Spatial Geographic Phenomena*
- 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
2014
- Martin Mantel - Target areas for the introduction of agroforestry systems in Upper Lusatia*
- 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
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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