Biodiversity, Habitats and Management

Conservation management is a necessary and important measure to maintain light-open habitats and enhance biodiversity connected to them.

 

Conservation management often implies grazing, which over centuries has shaped the light-open habitats such as pastures, fens, heaths and commons, but also oak thickets and other types of woodland.

 

We investigate the interaction between habitats, plant societies and plant species and grazing and other disturbances. Our aim is to develop and asses conservation management methods to maintain and enhance habitats and biodiversity.

 

Our focus is on interaction between impact by management and effects on habitats and biodiversity:

 

• Forest succession: How does grazing and open land interact?

• What level of tolerance does habitat and plant species hold towards grazing and other disturbances?

We investigate the impact of domestic and wild grazers and the effects on open habitats and woodlands in experiments including surveys of long term effects such as Læsø and Mols Bjerge.