Professorship for Sustainable Landscapes

Organisational unit: Professoship

Organisation profile

The working group "Sustainable Landscapes" was established in November 2010 by Prof. Joern Fischer and is affiliated to the School of Sustainabilty at Leuphana University.

We are an interdisciplinary team working on human-environment relationships. Much of our work focuses on the landscape scale. We are particularly interested in how people use landscapes, and how land use, in turn, affects biodiversity and ecosystem services. We see people and nature as interdependent.

Main research areas

In addition to our work at the landscape scale, we are interested in the conceptual development of sustainability science at a global scale. Here, too, we are influenced by an ecosystems approach, but we also draw on the insights from the social sciences as appropriate.

Our goal is to contribute to sustainable development through solution-oriented research.

  1. Published

    Challenges for postdocs in Germany and beyond: a personal perspective

    Fischer, J., 2014, Postdoctoral Career Paths 2.0: The Golden Triangle of Competitive Junior Investigators, Adequate Academic Systems, and Successful Careers. A.-V.-H.-S. (ed.). Verlag Dr. Josef Raabe, p. 25-26 2 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsTransferpeer-review

  2. Published

    Realigning the land-sharing/land-sparing debate to match conservation needs: considering diversity scales and land-use history

    von Wehrden, H., Abson, D. J., Beckmann, M., Cord, A. F., Klotz, S. & Seppelt, R., 07.2014, In: Landscape Ecology. 29, 6, p. 941-948 8 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Ecosystem services as a boundary object for sustainability

    Abson, D., von Wehrden, H., Baumgärtner, S., Fischer, J., Hanspach, J., Härdtle, W., Heinrichs, H., Klein, A.-M., Lang, D. J., Martens, P. & Walmsley, D., 07.2014, In: Ecological Economics. 103, 7, p. 29-37 9 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Place, case and process: Applying ecology to sustainable development

    Fischer, J., Sherren, K. & Hanspach, J., 05.2014, In: Basic and Applied Ecology. 15, 3, p. 187-193 7 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Bird community responses to the edge between suburbs and reserves

    Ikin, K., Barton, P. S., Knight, E., Lindenmayer, D. B., Fischer, J. & Manning, A. D., 02.2014, In: Oecologia. 174, 2, p. 545-557 13 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Ecological impacts of oil palm agriculture on forest mammals in plantation estates and smallholdings

    Azhar, B., Lindenmayer, D. B., Wood, J. T., Fischer, J. & Zakaria, M., 05.2014, In: Biodiversity and Conservation. 23, 5, p. 1175-1191 17 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Identifying core habitat before it's too late: The case of Bombina variegata, an internationally endangered amphibian

    Scheele, B. C., Boyd, C. E., Fischer, J., Fletcher, A. W., Hanspach, J. & Hartel, T., 01.03.2014, In: Biodiversity and Conservation. 23, 3, p. 775-780 6 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Does location really matter? An inter-colony comparison of seabirds breeding at varying distances from productive oceanographic features in the Bering Sea

    Harding, A., Paredes, R., Suryan, R., Roby, D., Irons, D., Orben, R., Renner, H., Young, R., Barger, C., Dorresteijn, I. & Kitaysky, A., 01.10.2013, In: Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 94, p. 178-191 14 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Correction: Bats in a farming landscape benefit from linear remnants and unimproved pastures

    Lentini, P. E., Gibbons, P., Fischer, J., Law, B., Hanspach, J. & Martin, T. G., 23.05.2013, In: PLoS ONE. 8, 5

    Research output: Journal contributionsOther (editorial matter etc.)Research

  10. Published

    Fat or lean: adjustment of endogenous energy stores to predictable and unpredictable changes in allostatic load

    Schultner, J., Kitaysky, A. S., Welcker, J. & Hatch, S., 02.2013, In: Functional Ecology. 27, 1, p. 45-55 11 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review