Highlights

2012 new journal Ecosystem Services launching

February 17, 2012: "Special forum on Global Land Use Impacts on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in LCA within the framework of the UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative", Brussels >> see program and invitation here

February 15-16, 2012: "Ecosystem Services: From practice to policies"5th SETAC Europe Special Science Symposium, Brussels >> more information

June 7, 2011: "Ecosystem Services and Global Trade of Natural Resources: Ecology, Economics and Policies." edited by Thomas Koellner, published by Routledge, Oxon, UK - 292 pages >> see details

April 5, 2011: Open position in project on TEEB Germany/Naturkapital Deutschland  >> more information

The Ecosystem Services Research Group in LinkedIn >>

Welcome to the Professorship of Ecological Services

The main goal of the Professorship of Ecological Services (PES) is to establish a research and teaching program to understand the societal relevance of ecosystem services given global change scenarios. For stimulating high practical relevance we aim to embed the research on ecosystem services in “real” decision contexts.

The research program does focus on spatial-temporal models of the supply of and demand for  ecosystem services. We want to investigate the complex of human decision-making, resulting land use/cover, biodiversity and ecosystem services given scenarios of climate change, market change and policy development. We investigate this in an interdisciplinary manner  at the interface of the environmental system and the human system.

The teaching program shall equip students with knowledge and methods to address complex environmental problems in science and practice from an interdisciplinary viewpoint. The group offers courses mainly for the MSc Global Change Ecology and the MSc Geoecology. These include Ecosystem Services, Economics of Biodiversity, Land Use and Land Cover, Environmental Finance, Research at the Natural and Social Science Interface and Life Cycle Assessment.

The Professorship of Ecological Services is financially supported by the Bavarian Elite Network M.Sc. Graduate Program Global Change Ecology (GCE) and member of the BAYreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BAYCEER).