Walddiskurs

Walddiskurs is a project within the framework of the BMEL's "Sustainable Forest Conservation" funding program. In this interdisciplinary project Nadja Simons is leading the subproject "Forest ecosystem - analysis and modeling of potential conflicts between CO2 storage and biodiversity protection through forest management". The main research topics are the description, analysis and modeling of trade-offs and synergies between climate and biodiversity protection in managed forests. For this purpose, statistical models will be developed and applied to different scenarios, and empirical studies on the relationship between wood mass and biodiversity will be conducted. In the joint project, there is close cooperation with collaborators from the fields of political science and linguistics in order to record discourses and management practices in state forests and to develop recommendations for action in practice.