M.Sc., Global Change Ecology

Course: Land Cover and Land Use Change

!!Presentation for 20mins and 10mins discussion!!

Presentation Date : Thursday Jan 8th, 2009 Time: 16.00-19.00hrs

Place : K1 (GEO)

Sl / Candidate / Topics /
1 / Stone, Jonathan / Global land uses - Changes, Consequences & Challenges
Time : 16.00 – 16.20; 10min discussion /
2 / Oney, Brian Johannes / Managing land use and land cover in conserving biodiversity
Time: 16.30 – 16.50; 10min discussion /
3 / Schwarz, Michael Andreas / Potential of the ecological footprint and monitoring environmental impacts from natural resource use
Time: 17.00 – 17.20; 10min discussion /
!!Coffee Break!! (10mins) /
4 / Aizpuru Catalan, Ibai / Impact of land use and land cover on climate change and atmospheric chemistry
Time: 17.40 – 18.00; 10min discussion /
5 / Ingrisch, Johannes / Linking land-use change, Watershed Services and Socio-Economic impacts: Concept and Techniques (Not participating) /
6 / Jana, Edlinger / Impacts of human-induced land cover change: methods and examples
Time: 18.20 – 18.40; 10min discussion /

Presentation Date : Monday Jan 12th, 2009 Time: 08.00-12.00hrs

Place : K1 (GEO)

Sl / Candidate / Topics /
7 / Schindler, Solveig / Ecological impact of marine fisheries: Role of sustainability
Time: 08.00 – 08.20; 10min discussion /
8 / Dempe, Holger / Land cover change and global food production
Time: 08.30 – 08.50; 10min discussion /
9 / Niklas, Sarah / Land cover change in Agroforestry: Effectiveness & Implications
Time: 09.00 – 09.20; 10min discussion /
!!Coffee Break!! (10mins) /
10 / Ahrens, Bernhard / Declining biodiversity in agricultural landscapes and the effectiveness of agri-environment schemes
Time: 09.30 – 09.50; 10min discussion /
11 / Schwenk, Cornelia Barbara / Forecasting global climatic change impacts on Mediterranean agricultural land use in the 21st Century
Time: 10.00 – 10.20; 10min discussion /
12 / Chung, Ai-Chi / Urban growth as a component of global environmental change
Time: 10.30 – 10.50; 10min discussion /
13 / Obermaier, Eva-Marie / Role of international agencies in LULUC program
Time: 11.00 – 11.20; 10min discussion /

Presentation Date : Tuesday Jan 13th, 2009 Time: 10.00-13.00hrs

Place : S21

Sl / Candidate / Topics /
14 / Leutner, Benjamin-Frederic / Effects of large-scale deforestation, its identification and modelling in the humid tropics
Time: 10.00 – 10.20; 10min discussion /
15 / Simang, Anne / What will land-use and land-cover patterns and characteristics be 5 to 50 years into the future?
Time: 10.30 – 10.50; 10min discussion /
16 / Besser, Tim / Sustainable land use and natural resource management in mountain regions
Time: 11.00 – 11.20; 10min discussion /
!!Coffee Break!! (10mins) /
17 / Kachelrieβ, Daniel / Environmental, social, economic, and human health consequences of current and potential land-use and land-cover change into the future
Time: 11.40 – 12.00; 10min discussion /
18 / Bastek, Linda-Veronika / Relating local scale land uses and global land cover change and its impact
Time: 12.20 – 12.40; 10min discussion /