Blick in die Zukunft (BLIZ)

On July 9th the 9th BLIZ Workshop took place via Zoom. The workshop started with guests from Uni Bayreuth: Prof. Dr. Thomas Köllner and his PhD students R. Riebl and M. Versluis from the LandKLIF-team presented the Bavarian Atlas of Ecosystem Services. Subsequently, we discussed collaboration ideas. During the internal part of the workshop each […]

Prof. Dr. Johannes Sauer was a guest on BR alpha-demokratie with the topic “Farmers and agricultural policy” on June 21st. Watch it here.

Anne Lewerentz gave a talk “Multidimensional distribution of submerged macrophyte species diversity in deep lakes” during the virtual meeting on June 25th. Furthermore, she contributed at the “Conceptual and Performance Arts Contest” with her bioDIVERsity computergame’s video and won first prize! She also joined the “Fun Challenge” with a Mini-Video on Twitter and won third […]

The summer school will take place online in 5 days spread out along 5 weeks starting 21st June, with 1 full day per week (Mondays). Both morning and afternoon sessions will encompass lecture and practical components. The first four weeks will cover themes providing important skills for collaborative research and data/model exploration. In the first […]

On March 1st we had our 8th BLIZ Workshop. We listened to updates from the subprojects discussed this year’s meetings and the BLIZ Summerschool in July. In the discussion groups further collaborations between the subprojects were started and existing collaborations were deepened.

On Thursday, Jan. 14th, the Seminar Waldbau, Ökosystemdynamik und Forstplanung takes place (15:00 – 17:00) via webex. The BLIZ PhD-candidate Sebastian Rössert will present results on land-use modelling on Bavarian agricultural farms.Write me an email (mona.reiss@tum.de) to join the seminar!

In their talk, the authors address the sensitivities and uncertainties of a vegetation model (LPJ-GUESS) within Europe. In particular, they found that climatic factors provide the largest uncertainty contributions and influence the uncertainty contributions of other processes such as water or mortality. Furthermore, the authors found that the processes of the model implicitly incorporate the […]

On the weekend 13.-15.11.2020 our PhD student Anne Lewerentz took part in an Innovation Challenge of the Bavarian State Ministry of Digital Affairs (https://code-bavaria.de/innovation-challenge). The challenge was designed as a competition to develop digital innovations for climate and environmental protection. Anne and her team invented a concept for an APP called “SAVEDiversity. Wir können nur […]

We held our 7th BLIZ Workshop via Zoom on October 19th. We listened to updates of our subprojects, reflected the milestones 2020 and viewed the milestones for 2021. Furthermore, we discussed our joint paper project.

From Oct 5th to Oct 7th BLIZ organises a virtual conference “How to predict future land use and biodiversity change under climatic change at the regional level” in cooperation with bayklif. We can expect exciting contributions from international speakers and workshops.