Master’s theses – ongoing

• Anna Wenzel
• Rúben Chávez - Shifting conservation priorities due to rampant deofrestation in the Gran Chaco
• Isabel Carpenter - The impact of global demand for Soy/Cattle on biodiversity in the Gran Chaco Biome
• Karla Vergara - Dynamics of deforestation frontiers in the Peruvian Amazon

• Suchana Dahal - Mapping grazing pressure and its impact on distribution of snow leopard and wild-prey in mountainous region of Central Asia

• Sophia Zielosko - Reindeer, Climate and Vegetation: Development of Empetrum nigrum Biomass on Reindeer Summer Pastures in Finnmark, Norway

• 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
• Nikola Halaski - Understanding dispersal barriers for the Eurasian lynx in Europe
• Lars Holschuh - Taxing EU's agricultural commodity imports to incentivise tropical and subtropical forest restoration

Past Master’s theses

2021

• 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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