On 14.07.2022, our staff member Ina Sieber successfully defended her PhD thesis on "Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services in the Outermost Regions and Overseas Countries and Territories of the European Union".
The thesis deals with the implementation of the requirements of the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2020 for the mapping and assessment of ecosystem services in the Overseas Countries and Territories of the European Union. The work was carried out within the framework of the PhyGeo EU research projects ESMERALDA, EcoSeo, MOVE and MOVE-ON.