Climate change, land use and biodiversity
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BLIZ
How are ecosystem services and biodiversity developing in Bavaria? The interdisciplinary joint project BLIZ (Blick in die Zukunft: Wechselwirkungen zwischen Gesellschaft, Landnutzung, Ökosystemleistungen und Biodiversität in Bayern bis 2100) takes a look into the future and develops new scenarios for a sustainable management of ecosystems in Bavaria. In this joint research project, we investigate the effects of climate change on ecological systems (ecosystem services and biodiversity) and socio-economic systems (land use development) and their interactions. With the help of computer-based simulation models, we investigate which adaptation strategies lead to a stabilisation of these systems and under which circumstances drastic ecological degradation or socio-economic changes (so-called tipping points) can occur. Together with Prof. Anja Rammig (Land Surface-Atmosphere Interactions at TUM) we lead the subproject 1: Effects of land-use and climate change on terrestrial ecosystems and biodiversity and investigate in the doctoral project of Sven Rubanschi how biotopes and biodiversity in Bavaria are distributed currently and in future.