We aim at unravelling landscape and ecosystem development and dynamics, focusing on the interaction between biotic, abiotic and human induced processes over a wide range of temporal and spatial scales. Our approaches include the reconstruction of past environments using molecular and palaeoecological evidence, and also scaling mechanisms, such as the up-scaling of fine-scale processes that lead to emergent patterns in ecosystems on broader spatial scales.

• What was the effect of the arrival of humans into landscapes?
• How resilient are ecosystems to abrupt climatic and anthropogenic change?
• How can geo-ecological processes be rescaled so that new patterns and processes become evident?
• How do landscape, ecosystem, and biodiversity patterns develop and change across space and through time?