cross-sectional group nature conservation and biodiversity
The name says it all - in our cross-sectional group, employees with different professional backgrounds from all working areas of the institute come together to exchange ideas on biodiversity and nature conservation topics and to develop joint ideas.
Nature conservation
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Nature conservation involves the planning and implementation of measures to preserve and promote various components and functions of an ecosystem. Natural or protected goods are soil, water, climate and air, species and biotopes as well as the landscape. The corresponding legal foundations can be found in the nature conservation laws of the federal and state governments.
Knowledge is needed for successful maintenance and protection measures in Germany - for forest ecosystems, the Thünen Institute regularly provides comprehensive knowledge contributions. The data basis is formed by the national surveys in the forest entrusted to us and the intensive research facility in Britz. In additional research projects, detailed aspects are answered, such as currently on the water balance or forest fire.
Biodiversity
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Biodiversity describes the variety of life in its different forms - from genetic diversity to the diversity of species and habitats and their interactions.
Massive interventions in nature and landscape are leading to a rapidly increasing loss of biodiversity worldwide and endangering the functioning of ecosystems and their services. In order to analyse how environmental changes as well as different management practices affect biodiversity in forests, we support, among other things, the development of a national biodiversity monitoring in forests.
We conduct research and provide advice in the areas of climate and air, water, forest soils, plants and animals, peatlands, forest structures, forest environmental monitoring and forest management, and act as a liaison between the five areas of work. We answer inquiries from science, politics and the media on the topics of biodiversity and nature conservation in the forest, work on joint publications, provide information about our research fields as well as interesting projects and organize workshops and colloquia. In this way, connections can be shown and promising, integrative research approaches can emerge.
The cooperation and coordination of many disciplines and research approaches in the cross-sectional group help us to better understand the role of biodiversity for the forest ecosystem, to support its adaptation to environmental change, and to explore linkages between biodiversity and the beneficial, protective, and recreational functions.
Dr. Cornelius Oertel
Dr. Karolina Pietras-Couffignal
Dr. Inken B. Krüger
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Contact
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- Phone
- +49 3334 3820 309
- franz.kroiher@thuenen.de
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