Albert Lab

Research focus

ERC Starting Grant · 2020

Integrating processes across scales to understand and predict ecological dynamics in landscapes

The accelerating loss and fragmentation of natural habitats are major threats to biodiversity, the very foundation of our life-supporting system. High land pressure at the global scale reduces opportunities to preserve large amounts of habitat. Habitat configuration (i.e. spatial arrangement) and matrix resistance (i.e. easiness for animals to move between habitat patches) remain the only possible adjustment variables to sustain biodiversity. What the management of habitat configuration and matrix resilience offers as "window of opportunity" for conservation has been subject to debate since the 1970s. Resolving this debate is now critical. This is the objective of this project. SCALED will…

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