Topics for final theses

We do not offer final thesis topics at the moment. We encourage students to have their own thesis ideas. To tell us about it please fill out the following form.
Important information:
* Please contact us at least 3 months before the start of your thesis.
* Proposed topics are discussed by the group once a month. If you have not received an answer after 4 weeks it means that we do not have the capacity to offer a thesis project.

The following theses have already been completed:

• Nina Smukalski (BSc Geographie): The distribution of the Asian hornet (Vespa velutina) in Germany and Europe and their influence on the domestic honey bee (Main supervision, 2023)
• Celia López Ruiz (MSc Ecosystem Services): Indicators and monitoring proposal for a result-based agri-environmental measure addressing soil quality in Navarra (Main supervision, 2023)
• Sophie Zimdars (MSc Ecosystem Services): Neoliberal conservation aspects in IPBES - A content analysis (Main supervision, 2023)
• Hanna Könnecke (BSc Geography): Changes in the segetal flora on the wild herbaceous fields of the Upper Lusatian Heath and Pond Landscape Biosphere Reserve from 1999 to 2019 (first supervision, 2022)
• Anja Steingrobe (MSc Raumentwicklung und Naturressourcenmanagement): Activity of bats and insects on areas of conventional and extensive agricultural use - A case study in the Biosphere Reserve Upper Lausitz Heath and Pond Landscape (Main supervision, 2023)
• Maximilian Schmuck (BSc Geographie): Linear structural elements in the agricultural landscape of the model region "Vereinigte Mulde" (Saxony) - influence on the occurrence of specific field bird species (Main supervision, 2022)
• Bela Rehnen (BSc Geographie): Multitaxonomic study on areas of conventional and extensive agricultural use in the Upper Lausitz Heath and Pond Landscape Biosphere Reserve (Main supervision, 2022)
• Luise Hofmann (MSc Geography): Effects of soil properties on plant communities in fallow and flowering set-aside fields (Main supervision, 2022)
• Paul Schuppelius (BSc Geography): Evaluation of the ecological effectiveness of conservation measures for the whinchat (Saxicola rubetra) in agricultural landscapes (Main supervision, 2022)
• Frederik Pitz (BSc Geography): Modeling the effects of agri-environmental measures on whinchat poplations in the "Vereinigte Mulde" Region (Main supervision, 2022)

• Lea Schwengbeck (MSc Raumentwicklung und Naturressourcenmanagement): Modelling the climate regulation by soils and the effects of agricultural management practices (Main supervision, 2022)

• Mandy Scherzer (MSc Raumentwicklung und Naturressourcenmanagement): Conservation-oriented management for the protection of arable wild plants – results from the Upper Lusatian Heath and Pond Landscape Biosphere Reserve (Main supervision, 2022)

• Maximilian Milbert (MSc Raumentwicklung und Naturressourcenmanagement): Effects of climate change on FFH areas and habitat types in the Free State of Saxony (Main supervision, 2022)

• Florian Schmidt (MSc Raumentwicklung und Naturressourcenmanagement, Technische Universität Dresden): Photovoltaic systems on open spaces - An opportunity for nature conservation? (main supervision, 2022)

• Annika Jacobs (Lehramt Gymasium Deutsch & Geographie, Technische Universität Dresden): Erfassung der Dürreschäden im Hochharz mittels multispektraler Satellitendaten (main supervision, 2022)

• Antonia Lieschke (BSc Geography,  Technische Universitat Dresden):
  Assessing burrow numbers of prairie dogs (Cynomys mexicanus) in northeast Mexico using high resolution satellite data (main supervision, 2021)

• Laura Leix (MSc Ecology, University Innsbruck): Habitat use and recommendations for surveying European honey buzzards (Pernis apivorus) using flight tracking data from home range surveys (co-supervision, 2021)

• Behrend Dellwisch (MSc Nature Conservation & Landscape Ecology, University Bonn): Do local weather conditions drive the expansion and colony development of European Bee-eaters (Merops apiaster) in Germany? (co-supervision, 2021)

• Laurenz Reschberger (BSc Geography, Technische Universität Dresden): Land-use changes between 1965 and 2018 in northwestern Saxony - an analysis of satellite data (main supervision, 2021)

• Sabine Speck (MSc Raumentwicklung und Naturressourcenmanagement): Effects of fallow management practices on species richness and functional diversity of flowering plants. (main supervision, 2021
• Jil Noemi Röw (BSc Geographie, Technische Universität Dresden): Impacts of landuse and conservation measures on butterfly diversity and abundance in the Mulde catchment area (main supervision, 2021)
• Nynke Paepen (BSc Bioloy, Ghent University): The role of the eyering in the diversification of the Zosteropidae clade (co-supervision, 2021)
• Daniel Vedder (MSc Biosciences, University Würzburg): Evolutionary rescue by introgressive hybridization in Zosterops (co-supervision, 2021)
• Mauricio José Villarreal Loáiciga (MSc Ecosystem Services): Elaborating the knowns and unknowns of ecosystem services provision by common European breeding birds (main supervision, 2021)
• Franziska Nuernbergk (BSc Geography): Implementation and success of bird protection measures in Northwest Saxony - an evaluation based on literature and expert interviews (first and second supervision, 2021)
• Lena Friedrich (MSc Spatial Development and Natural Resource Management): Model-based analysis of the relationship between landscape structure and land use intensity in Saxony (main supervision, cooperation with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, 2020)
• Katharina Schneider (BSc Geography): Objectives and spatial distribution of different ecological priority areas (EFA) in agricultural areas within Saxony main supervision, cooperation with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, 2020)
• Luisa Keim (BSc Geography): Grassland use and bog protection - Analysing agricultural land-use change and trade-offs on groundwater-influenced grassland areas in the Spreewald Biosphere Reserve (main supervision, 2020)
• Claudia Romelli (MSc Ecosystem Services): Assessing ecosystem services and their interactions in cultural landscapes: a case study from the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Upper Lausitz Heath and Pond Landscape (co-supervision, 2020)
• Torben Sloth (MSc Geoecology - Environmental Sciences, University of Bayreuth): Patterns of nature-based tourism in Costa Rica (co-supervision, 2020)