General terms and fundamentals of ecology (classification of ecosystems, material cycles) 

Conservation of nature and species (legal regulations, biodiversity studies) 

Aspects of social-ecological analysis (interactions between nature and human society, principles of sustainability; exemplarily for production of animal feed stuff and modern food industry) 

Ecosystem services (detailed discussion of selected examples from agriculture and forestry) 

Anthropogenic influences on natural environment and set up of artificial ecosystems (exemplarily discussed for modern urban architectural concepts and technological approaches in aquaculture) 

Monitoring tasks with focus on ecological issues (e.g. concepts of biomonitoring, data bases of environmental samples, influences/distribution of xenobiotics)