Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Introduction to Ecosystem Restoration and Social-Ecological Systems (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Berta Martín-López, Victoria Temperton

Termin:
wöchentlich | Freitag | 12:15 - 13:45 | 06.04.2026 - 10.07.2026 | C 12.101 Seminarraum

Masterprogramm Sustainability: Nachhaltigkeitswissenschaft - Sustainability Science - Vertiefte Perspektiven - Introduction to Ecosystem Restoration and Social-Ecological Systems
Masterprogramm Sustainability: Sustainability Science: Ecosystems, Biodiversity and Society - Profilmodule - Introduction to Ecosystem Restoration and Social-Ecological Systems

For SEBS and SGL students: Restoration, conservation, social-ecological management and governance of the Island of Hiddensee (Projekt)

Dozent/in: Claus-Thomas Schomerus, Victoria Temperton

Termin:
wöchentlich | Montag | 14:15 - 17:45 | 06.04.2026 - 10.07.2026 | C 11.319 Seminarraum

Ecological Restoration for Sustainability- Project Planning (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Milena Groß, Berta Martín-López, Victoria Temperton, Eva Völler

Termin:
wöchentlich | Freitag | 09:00 - 12:00 | 06.04.2026 - 10.07.2026 | C 11.308 Seminarraum

Inhalt: IMPORTANT: our first introductory session is on the 10th April, Friday, at 11.00 am (not the normal 9,15). It will be either live or on zoom depending on how things develop over the next period. Please make sure you attend this introductory meeting as all other tasks will depend on information you gain in this meeting and we will talk about the pecha kucha examination format. Students are now in four different groups: 1) Abiotic butterflies 2) Understory pollinators 3) Outreach and connection to nature 4) Camera traps and wildlife In this semester you will develop your plans you started for the posters in the winter and sample the orchard with your goals in mind. We plan to add a moth trap that we would sample 3 times in the summer, which could be a nice addition to the camera trap and wildlife group. We are currently losing pollinators, the bees and the flies and the butterflies, in our intensively managed landscapes and we need theses organisms not least to feed ourselves. What can we do? Come and help us to restore, study and manage cultural landscapes that can provide us with both food and the diversity of life! One of the most important challenges of our time is how to combine biodiversity and food security, as our human population and our influence on the biophysical basis of our existence on earth increases. Many people are no longer connected to nature, and feel alienated from natural processes and places. Our activities are causing major biodiversity decline that in turn affects how our ecosystems that we depend on function and the services they provide for us humans. Although our influence is often negative, there are many ways in which we can have positive effects on biodiversity as well as ensuring food security is possible. What can we do? This course combines key aspects of biodiversity conservation and ecological restoration of degraded ecosystems with the extensive management of cultural landscapes,. The latter provide us with food and resources whilst at the same time fostering biodiversity. It is also highly relevant for the topic of sustainable consumption, as it instills in participants the value of extensively managed landscapes that cannot provide us with huge bumper harvests but are more resilient in face of climate change and provide much more habitat for many species to co-exist with us. In this planning seminar, we will plan projects in detail. Our baseline project is a wonderful cultural landscape site near the village of Wendisch-Evern, where together with the a traditional orchard club (Streuobstwiesenverein) in November 2016 we restored an apple (and cherry and pear) orchard to a degraded horse paddock with low biodiversity and high nutrients in the soils (not good for biodiversity). Since the restoration action we have been doing two main things with different student cohorts: 1) tracking how the plants and animals change at the site over time; we expect that the biodiversity of plants and insects and birds will increase over time, as we remove nutrients by mowing or grazing the site and this is good for promoting more plant and hence also animal species. 2) We are testing whether we can attract even more insects to the site but planting different grassland plants under each of the 15 apple trees; more tasty clover and co species (Klee) or forbs species that attract pollinators but are not quite as tasty as the clover and co species. This is the first time that anybody has studied this option scientifically in a traditional orchard, and if it works, it may be a nice option for attracting more pollinators to many other orchard sites. We are embedded in a cultural landscape including returning wolves and a shephard who does not want to have her sheep at our site - there are plenty of socio-ecological topics within the overall topic of the magic orchard and its transformation over time. GENERAL INFO: This course is one several different courses in the sustainability minor (sustainable consumption, sustainable governance, life cycles)- you need to choose one of the main courses and then you stick to this course over two years. This course in the summer semester, Module 3 and 4, takes place in the third semester of your minor. Building on the preceding modules introducing you to transdisciplinary research and projects, and to the key concepts and methods in ecological restoration, this semester you take part in two seminars that move into the more active sphere.

Leuphana Bachelor - Minor Nachhaltigkeitswissenschaften - Komplexe Systeme transformieren Interdisziplinäre Projektkonzipierung und Kooperation mit der Praxis

Masterforum SEBS (Kolloquium)

Dozent/in: David Abson, Victoria Temperton

Termin:
Einzeltermin | Mi, 29.04.2026, 14:15 - Mi, 29.04.2026, 17:45 | C 11.320 Seminarraum
Einzeltermin | Mi, 10.06.2026, 12:15 - Mi, 10.06.2026, 15:45 | C 12.101 Seminarraum

Inhalt: This is the Master Forum for SEBS students. It consists of sessions in class, with alternating presence of the two lecturers. During these two sessions we will be discussing the exposes that have been uploaded to MyStudy. The first session will be on Wed 29th April 2026 from14.15 to 17.45in 11 320 with Vicky Temperton, and the second on on Wed 10th June 2026, also from 12.15 until 17.45, with Dave Abson in C7 019. Between these dates students are expected to make appointments with their direct supervisors to discuss their thesis ideas and plans.

Freilandübung 5 - Einführung in die Ökologie (Freilandübung)

Dozent/in: Victoria Temperton

Inhalt: Please note that the field exercises not only differ in dates, but also in their topics and the study locations. For some exercises you will have to stay overnight, and for some exercises you need a bicycle. FOR THIS FIELD EXERCISE YOU NEED A BIKE AND A TENT (or share a tent with someone), as we CAMP at the ELBELING CAMPSITE near Radegast: This is a hands-on field exercise where you get to experience and get to know a species-rich meadow in the Elbe river area and learn how to identify plant species, as well as measure how species increase with the area you sample in a meadow. Thus, it is very much about learning by doing, and testing a key ecological theory in the field. For this exercise you need to bring your own bicycle. We cannot make exceptions for this, and please check your bike tires are well pumped up before setting out to the Elbe. Many thanks. We are also staying one night (Friday night) in the campsite near Radegast, and so you need to organise with your co-students to bring a tent, mat and sleeping bag. One cannot borrow a tent on the campsite, so please make sure you have this equipment with you. If there is some bigger equipment that you cannot manage to transport on your bikes, we can transport this in the institute van.

Grundlagen Nachhaltiger Entwicklung (Vorlesung)

Dozent/in: Roman Isaac, Lukas Kuhn, Victoria Temperton

Termin:
wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 10:15 - 11:45 | 06.04.2026 - 10.07.2026 | C 9.102 Seminarraum

Inhalt: The course provide lectures on a wide variety of sustainability topics that connect with the focus of each of the seminars, including biodiversity conservation and food security, sustainable consumption and governance for sustainability. Thus the course covers theory, approaches and tools relating to sustainability, including the ecological, social and governance realms. By the end of the course you will understand the basics for sustainability and will get basic knowledge of the projects conducted in the three seminars of this minor.

Leuphana Bachelor - Minor Nachhaltigkeitswissenschaften - Grundlagen nachhaltiger Entwicklung

PhD Colloquium Institute of Ecology (Kolloquium)