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This contribution discusses scientific challenges and new possibilities for better modelling of the consequences of changes in land use and land management in whole landscapes on ecosystem functions in space and time. The regional dimension under discussion is an area of up to several thousand square kilometres. Main problems on this scale are high complexity, structural diversity, ecological heterogeneity, inadequate representation of the governing processes in the model with respect to a given application and uncertainty in data and in understanding of the process dynamics.
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Wenkel, KO., Wieland, R., Mirschel, W. (2020). Challenges and Perspectives for Integrated Landscape Modelling to Support Sustainable Land Use Management in Agricultural Landscapes. In: Mirschel, W., Terleev, V., Wenkel, KO. (eds) Landscape Modelling and Decision Support. Innovations in Landscape Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37421-1_2
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