Dr. Ralf Seppelt
professor
Head of the Department of Computational Landscape Ecology
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Germany
Biography
Ralf Seppelt (Prof. Dr.) studied applied mathematics at the Technical University Clausthal Zellerfeld, Germany, obtained his doctorate degree at the Technical University Braunschweig, Germany, in agroecology and systems analysis where he worked as research assistant and lecturer at Institute for Geoecology. After several research visits at the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, Burlington and Maryland, USA, as well at the CSIRO in Canberra, Australia, he was appointed full professor for applied landscape ecology at Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, where he lectures course on Environmental Modelling. He is head of the department for Computational Landscape Ecology. At UFZ he is responsible for the research topic Land use Options of the programme
Research Interest
He thus is interested in the interactions and interrelationship of anthropheric and biospheric processes, Terrestrial Environment. This requires methodological developments in landscape ecology such as model integration, hybrid model systems and scales in space and time
Publications
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Seppelt, R., M. Beckmann, S. CeauÅŸu, A.F. Cord, K. Gerstner, J. Gurevitch, S. Kambach, S. Klotz, C. Mendenhall, H.R.P. Phillips, K. Powell, P.H. Verburg, W. Verhagen, M. Winter, T. Newbold. 2016. Harmonizing Biodiversity Conservation and Productivity in the Context of Increasing Demands on Landscapes. BioScience.
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Seppelt, R., G. S. Cumming. 2016. Humanity’s distance to nature: time for environmental austerity? Landscape Ecology.
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Ziv, G., Mullin, K., Boeuf, B., Fincham, W., Taylor, N., Villalobos-Jiménez, G., … Seppelt, R., Beckmann, M. (2016). Water Quality Is a Poor Predictor of Recreational Hotspots in England. Plos One, 11(11), e0166950.
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Hermans-Neumann, K., Gerstner, K., G.eijzendorffer, I.R., Herold, M., Seppelt, R., Wunder, S. 2016. Why Do Forest Products Become Less available?A Pan-Tropical Comparison of Drivers of Forest-Resource Degradation. Environmental Research Letters 11(12): 125010.
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Cord, A. F., Brauman, K. A., Chaplin-Kramer, R., Huth, A., Ziv, G., & Seppelt, R. (2017). Priorities to Advance Monitoring of Ecosystem Services Using Earth Observation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution
