Landscape Ecology

Climate, soils, human land use and other aspects of the environment vary in space and time. Landscape ecology studies how organisms respond to such environmental variation, how their interactions in variable environments determine community dynamics, and how these dynamics affect ecosystem processes. These fundamental topics of ecology and biodiversity research are also crucial for answering pressing questions posed by global environmental change. The Master’s programme provides in-depth training in ecological theory, concepts and methods that enables graduates to address such applied and fundamental research questions in a creative and scientifically sound way.