Research projects

    LUBIO project

    Bohner Andreas, Dr.

    Dr. Andreas Bohner

    Environmental ecology
    Mayer Renate, DI

    DI Renate Mayer

    Acquisition

    LUBIO - Land use, climate change and biodiversity in cultivated landscapes

    Program: Earth System Sciences (ESS) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
    Duration: 2015-2018

    Land use and climate change are important causes of global environmental change and pose a major threat to global biodiversity. Research to date has mostly focused on only one of the two components and rarely examined their interaction, although important feedbacks exist between the effects of climate and climate change Land use changes on biodiversity are to be expected. In particular, climate change not only changes the composition of animal and plant species that develop in a given area, but also forces land managers to rethink their land use decisions. This results in additional impacts on local and regional species composition and diversity.

    The aim of LUBIO is to investigate the expected feedback between

    • climate change,
    • land use decisions of landowners,
    • changes in land use and
    • Changes in biodiversity patterns in the coming decades in a regional context.

    Many different land uses and intensity levels are integrated. For this purpose, an integrated socio-ecological model is being developed and implemented by the project partners. Using a regional case study, LUBIO examines the options for future land use and estimates both the direct and indirect effects of climate warming on plant biodiversity, mediated through land use. In addition, a catalog of measures should be created for politicians and other stakeholders in order to make the project results usable for the region.

     

    Wildflower meadow

    Wildflower meadow

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    Land use, climate change and biodiversity in cultivated landscapes

    Bohner Andreas (2015 - 2018)