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Ecosystem services

Research Focus on Ecosystem Services

Research projects

  • SELINA - Science for evidence-based and sustainable decisions about natural capital
    In SELINA, a total of 50 partners from all 27 EU member states (including selected EU overseas regions), Norway, Switzerland, Israel and the United Kingdom are working together to translate the methods and data on ecosystems and their services that have been developed in recent years within the framework of the European Biodiversity Strategies into practical applications in decision-making processes in public and private sectors. SELINA integrates not only academic partners, but also various partners from policy, administration and business, who will explore issues of various sectors at different spatial-temporal scales within the framework of a total of 15 demonstration projects. The main goal of SELINA is to create applicable information and recommendations for evidence-based decision-making and to support the necessary societal transformative change for the protection and sustainable use of the environment.
    Led by: Benjamin Burkhard
    Team: Angie Faust, Joana Seguin, Sabine Lange, Luke Brander
    Year: 2022
    Funding: EU Horizon
    Duration: 01.07.2022 – 30.06.2027
  • SMILES - Enhancing Small-Medium IsLands resilience by securing the sustainability of Ecosystem Services
    The aim of this action is to provide a platform for coordinated interdisciplinary research on several aspects of mapping and assessment of ecosystem services in small and medium European Islands in order to synthesize and strengthen the knowledge base for conservation of island realms and contribute to their sustainable development.
    Led by: Ioannis Vogiatzakis (Open University of Cyprus)
    Team: Benjamin Burkhard, Ina Sieber
    Year: 2022
    Funding: EU COST
    Duration: 22.09.2022 - 21.09.2026
  • Your Emotional City!
    “Emocity Citizen Science Laboratory.” Jointly Exploring Stress and Resilience In Urban Dwellers - Experimentallabore für Wissenschaftskommunikation Your Emotional City! Cities are growing. At the same time, mental strain caused by stress is becoming increasingly common among urban dwellers. In cooperation with Futurium Berlin, the experimental laboratory Emocity Citizen Science Laboratory will raise social awareness for the pressing challenges of urban living. With its app-based Citizen Science approach, the project invites Berlin residents to actively explore the impact of city life on our mental health with researchers. What are the city's stress points? What are places of well-being? In interactive events, forums and workshops, they meet up to exchange knowledge and develop an emotional city map of Berlin.
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Mazda Adli (Charité Berlin), Prof. Dr. Joerg Fingerhut (Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
    Team: Prof. Dr. Nadja Kabisch, Prof. Dr. Klaus Gramann (Technische Universität Berlin), Prof. Dr. Rainer Hehl (Technische Universität Berlin), und Prof. Dr. Ulrike Kluge (Charité) durchgeführt.
    Year: 2021
    Funding: Berlin University Alliance
    Duration: 1.4.2021-31.3.2023
  • EBeMÖS - Erfassung und Bewertung von Meeresökosystemen und Ökosystemleistungen der deutschen Nord- und Ostsee
    The overall goal of the project is to assess the ecosystem services of the German seas in the 12 nautical miles zone and in the the exclusive economic zone and to evaluate them monetarily. This can support political decisions in this area in a variety of ways. EBeMÖS will both contribute to the implementation of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive MSRL and support Actions 5 and 14 of the 2nd target of the EU Biodiversity Strategy.
    Led by: Malte Oehlmann (adelphi)
    Team: Tinka Kuhn, Benjamin Burkhard
    Year: 2020
    Funding: Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN)
    Duration: 20.11.2019 - 31.05.2022
  • UPSCALE
    Push-pull technology is a strategy for controlling agricultural pests through the use of repelling ('push') and trapping ('pull') crops. The EU-funded UPSCALE project aims to expand the understanding and applicability of push-pull technology from individual fields to agricultural, landscape and regional scales, and from cereals to other crops and cropping systems. By identifying the factors that influence push-pull success at different scales, the project will enable the targeted implementation and prediction of push-pull effectiveness and resilience under current and future climate conditions. By harnessing the benefits of push-pull technology at different scales and crops, UPSCALE will catalyse the development and widespread implementation of climate and environmentally friendly food production in East Africa and beyond.
    Led by: Emily Poppenborg
    Team: Benjamin Burkhard
    Year: 2020
    Funding: EU Horizon 2020
    Duration: 01.11.2020 – 31.10.2025
  • MOVE-ON: From case studies to anchor projects - Setting the ground to advance MAES in Europe’s overseas
    The ongoing work on MOVE (which this consortium is running) has already showed that the steps forward in the implementation of MAES (Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services) in the European Overseas involve (i) tailoring existing methodologies, or develop new ones, taking into account common specificities and needs, (ii) providing opportunities for knowledge exchange and collaborative work and (iii) promoting the involvement of decision makers in initiatives with practical relevance.
    Led by: Artur Gil (University of the Azores)
    Team: Ina Sieber, Paula Rendón, Benjamin Burkhard
    Year: 2019
    Funding: European Commission
    Duration: 01.05.2020 - 30.04.2023
  • MAIA - Mapping and Assessment for Integrated ecosystem Accounting
    MAIA (Mapping and Assessment for Integrated ecosystem Accounting) zielt darauf ab, Naturalkapitalbewertungen und umweltökonomische Gesamtrechnungen in den EU-Mitgliedstaaten zu koordinieren. Die Arbeiten werden im Rahmen der EU Biodiversitätsstrategie 2020, Ziel 2 Maßnahme 5 „Erfassung und Bewertung von Ökosystemen und ihren Leistungen (MAES)“ durchgeführt.
    Led by: Lars Hein (Wageningen University)
    Team: Benjamin Burkhard, Sabine Lange
    Year: 2018
    Funding: EU Horizon 2020
    Duration: 11.2018 - 11.2022
  • MAIA - Mapping and Assessment for Integrated ecosystem Accounting
    MAIA (Mapping and Assessment for Integrated ecosystem Accounting) aims to mainstream natural capital and ecosystem accounting in EU Member States. The work is carried out in the context of the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2020 Target 2 Action Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services (MAES).
    Led by: Lars Hein (Wageningen University)
    Team: Benjamin Burkhard, Sabine Lange
    Year: 2018
    Funding: EU Horizon 2020
    Duration: 11.2018 - 11.2022
  • ROSEMARIE - Blue health and wealth from the Baltic Sea – a participatory systematic review for smart decisions
    ROSEMARIE conducts systematic reviews on Baltic Sea ecosystem services (ES) and their contribution to human health and wellbeing and analyses methods and models to estimate both monetary and non-monetary values of marine ES.
    Led by: Soile Oinonen (Finnish Environment Institute SYKE)
    Team: Benjamin Burkhard, Tinka Kuhn
    Year: 2018
    Funding: EU BONUS
    Duration: 01.10.2018 - 31.03.2020
  • ECOSEO: Ecosystemic Services Observatory of the Guiana Shield
    Main aims of ECOSEO are: 1) Definition of a transnational strategy for the conservation and valorisation of ecosystem services and associated socioeconomic benefits; 2) Identification, monitoring and communication about the main ecosystem services shared at the regional scale (water, biodiversity, carbon); and 3) Improve access to data & information on land cover/use and ecosystem conditions at the regional level.
    Led by: Philippe Thibault (WWF French Guyana)
    Team: Benjamin Burkhard, Ina Sieber
    Year: 2018
    Funding: European Union, Water Basin Office Guyana
    Duration: 01/2018 - 12/2020
  • MOVE: Facilitating MAES to support regional policy in OVerseas Europe: mobilizing stakeholders and pooling resources
    The general objectives of MOVE are to (1) build a collaborative network of local agents from a significant number of EU Outermost regions, EU Overseas countries and territories and mainland Europe teams, in order to (2) engage stakeholders in identifying local priorities for the Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services (MAES) and (3) collaborating in the development of case studies addressing those priorities.
    Led by: José Azevedo (University of the Azores)
    Team: Benjamin Burkhard, Ina Sieber
    Year: 2018
    Funding: European Commission
    Duration: 01.04.2018 - 31.03.2021
  • IMAGINE - Integrative Management of Green Infrastructures Multifunctionality, Ecosystem integrity and Ecosystem Services
    The IMAGINE project team supports the idea that sustainable territorial management requires a transition from the management of natural resources that degrades the ecological integrity of ecological systems to an adaptive management that preserves it while improving human well-being. With 6 partners from 5 countries and 6 case study sites, IMAGINE aims at quantifying the multiple functions, ecosystem services and benefits provided by Green Infrastructures.
    Led by: Philip Roche (INRAe, France)
    Team: Sylvie Campagne, Marie Perennes, Benjamin Burkhard
    Year: 2017
    Funding: EU ERA-NET/Horizon 2020 BiodivERsA
    Duration: 03.2017 - 11.2020
  • GreenEquityHEALTH
    GreenEquityHEALTH . Nachwuchsgruppe: Interaktion und Auswirkung von Umwelt und Gesundheit in Städten (GreenEquityHEALTH) - Gesundheit und Wohlbefinden im Kontext globaler Herausforderungen GreenEquityHEALTH untersucht, wie urbane Grünflächen Ökosystemleistung unter Bedingungen eines globalen Wandels wie Klimawandel und Urbanisierung bereitstellen. Sensorbasierte Feldmessungen in urbanen Parks helfen, die Auswirkungen von Hitze und Luftverschmutzung auf Parkvegetation zu analysieren und auszuwerten. Gesundheitsmessungen und Befragungen zur wahrgenommenen Gesundheit von Parkbesuchern geben parallel dazu Aufschluss über die tatsächlichen Gesundheitseffekte.
    Led by: Nadja Kabisch
    Team: Roland Krämer, Lennart Eichfuss, Dagmar Wörister, Camille Dammann
    Year: 2017
    Funding: BMBF
    Duration: 1.8.2017-31.7.2022
  • GreenEquityHEALTH
    GreenEquityHEALTH - Junior research group ‘Environmental-health Interactions in Cities' (GreenEquityHEALTH) – Challenges for Human Well-being under Global Changes The research group GreenEquityHEALTH aims to assess how urban green spaces provide ecosystem services to mitigate and adapt to climate change and urbanisation with a specific focus on public health and socio-environmental justice. Pressure such as high temperatures, soil sealing, air pollution or changes and disturbances in urban vegetation patterns with potential effects on human health and well-being are detected with remote sensing time series data and on-site sensor based measurements. Field surveys are conducted in inner city parks to measure health on site including perception studies via questionnaire surveys and health measurements. The focus is in particular on local residents including retired people and children.
    Led by: Nadja Kabisch
    Team: Roland Krämer, Lennart Eichfuss, Dagmar Wörister, Camille Dammann
    Year: 2017
    Funding: BMBF
    Duration: 1.8.2017-31.7.2022
  • Designing a concept for the cumulative assessment of anthropogenic stress
    Led by: Claus-Dieter Dürselen (AquaEcology GmbH)
    Team: Benjamin Burkhard
    Year: 2012
    Funding: UBA UFOPLAN
    Duration: 08.2012 - 02.2014
  • Establishing indicators for evaluating and managing natural heritage sites of the DBU
    Led by: Stefan Klotz (UFZ Halle)
    Team: Benjamin Burkhard
    Year: 2011
    Funding: Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) (German Federal Environmental Foundation)
    Duration: 04.2011 - 12.2012
  • LEGATO - Land-use intensity and Ecological EnGineering – Assessment Tools for risks and Opportunities in irrigated rice based production systems
    In order to advance long-term sustainable development of intensive land use systems against risks arising from multiple aspects of global change, LEGATO plans to quantify the dependence of ecosystem functions (ESF) and services (ES) that they generate in agricultural systems in South East Asia. The focus is on local as well as regional land use intensity (including the socio-cultural and economic background) and biodiversity, and the potential impacts of future climate and land use change.
    Led by: Josef Settele (UFZ Leipzig)
    Team: Benjamin Burkhard
    Year: 2011
    Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
    Duration: 03.2011 - 10.2016
  • EnvEurope - Environmental quality and pressures assessment across Europe: the LTER network as an integrated and shared system for ecosystem monitoring
    EnvEurope proposes a design for environmental high quality monitoring and long-term research sites and the exemplary establishment of common parameter sets to be collected across the largest site-based network of Long-Term Ecosystem Research in Europe (LTER Europe), which was recently established (2006) under the auspices of the FP6 Network of Excellence ALTER-Net, building on existing infrastructures and thus a lot of valuable data series.
    Led by: Alessandra Pugnetti (Institute of Marine Sciences Venice, Italy)
    Team: Benjamin Burkhard
    Year: 2010
    Funding: EU LIFE
    Duration: 01.2010 - 12.2013
  • EcoChange - Assessment of Freshwater Ecosystems under Global Change
    The Sino-German network EcoChange will be established to bring together experts in the field of hydrology, hydrobiology, remote sensing, soil science and ecosystem theory to assess the impacts of global change on freshwater ecosystems by identifying meaningful ecological indicators. These indicators will be brought together in a comprehensive indicator model to support integrated decisions in sustainable freshwater management.
    Led by: Nicola Fohrer (CAU Kiel)
    Team: Benjamin Burkhard
    Year: 2009
    Funding: Sino-German Centre for Research Promotion, DFG/NSFC
    Duration: 01.2009 - 12.2011
  • CLMIRF - Changing landscape management in rural Finland
    The aim of the "Changing landscape management in rural Finland CLMIRF" project is the analysis of patterns of anthropogenic land use, their dynamics and relations to the provision of ecosystem goods and services. Different scenarios for the ecological, social and economical long-term impacts of different land use options will be developed and assessed. The ultimate goal is to develop a tool to assess how the ecosystem services could be used in sustainable land use planning. The project and the co-operating partners will support the development of a model for sustainable development for the low productive forestry areas in northernmost Finland.
    Led by: Benjamin Burkhard
    Year: 2007
    Funding: DAAD und Finnische Akademie der Wissenschaften
    Duration: 01.2007 - 12.2010
  • Zukunft Küste - Coastal Futures
    Coastal Futures deals with questions of a sustainable and Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) at the western coast of Schleswig-Holstein. The individual subprojects are focused on the integrated analysis of the interactions between various types of coastal use as well as the interactions between human activities and the coastal ecosystem. Coastal Futures describes a joint research project supported by national and international scientific institutes, national authorities, the State Ministries of Schleswig-Holstein as well as regional and transnational institutions.
    Led by: Andreas Kannen (HZG Geesthacht)
    Team: Benjamin Burkhard
    Year: 2004
    Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
    Duration: 06.2004 - 04.2010

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