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  • A hierarchical framework for mapping pollination ecosystem service potential at the local scale 
    Perennes, Marie; Diekötter, Tim; Groß, Jens; Burkhard, Benjamin (Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier Science, 2021)
    Wild bees play a major role in the cultivation of crops for human use, in the reproduction of many wild plants and are a key component of biodiversity. Mainly due to human activities, wild bees, like other insects, face a ...
  • Biodiversität und Landschaftsbild in der Ökobilanzierung von Biogasanlagen 
    Bredemeier, Birte; Schmehl, Meike; Rode, Michael; Geldermann, Jutta; Haaren, Christina von (Hannover : Institutionelles Repositorium der Leibniz Universität Hannover, 2017)
    Im Zuge der angestrebten Energiewende ist eine weitere Nutzung von Biomasse notwendig. Vor dem Hintergrund von zunehmenden Nutzungskonflikten muss sich die zukünftige Entwicklung jedoch an ökologischen Grenzen und vor allem ...
  • Biologische Vielfalt in Ökobilanzen : eine Integration am Beispiel biogener Kraftstoffe 
    Urban, Barbara (Hannover : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, 2011)
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  • Citizen science project characteristics: Connection to participants' gains in knowledge and skills 
    Peter, Maria; Diekötter, Tim; Kremer, Kerstin; Höffler, Tim (San Francisco, California, US : PLOS, 2021)
    Background: Biodiversity is being lost rapidly and its conservation is thus one of the most urgent tasks today. For biodiversity conservation to be successful, the public needs to gain an awareness and understanding of ...
  • Diverse values of nature for sustainability 
    Pascual, Unai; Balvanera, Patricia; Anderson, Christopher B.; Chaplin-Kramer, Rebecca; Christie, Michael; González-Jiménez, David; Martin, Adrian; Raymond, Christopher M.; Termansen, Mette; Vatn, Arild; Athayde, Simone; Baptiste, Brigitte; Barton, David N.; Jacobs, Sander; Kelemen, Eszter; Kumar, Ritesh; Lazos, Elena; Mwampamba, Tuyeni H.; Nakangu, Barbara; O’Farrell, Patrick; Subramanian, Suneetha M.; van Noordwijk, Meine; Ahn, SoEun; Amaruzaman, Sacha; Amin, Ariane M.; Arias-Arévalo, Paola; Arroyo-Robles, Gabriela; Cantú-Fernández, Mariana; Castro, Antonio J.; Contreras, Victoria; De Vos, Alta; Dendoncker, Nicolas; Engel, Stefanie; Eser, Uta; Faith, Daniel P.; Filyushkina, Anna; Ghazi, Houda; Gómez-Baggethun, Erik; Gould, Rachelle K.; Guibrunet, Louise; Gundimeda, Haripriya; Hahn, Thomas; Harmáčková, Zuzana V.; Hernández-Blanco, Marcello; Horcea-Milcu, Andra-Ioana; Huambachano, Mariaelena; Wicher, Natalia Lutti Hummel; Aydın, Cem İskender; Islar, Mine; Koessler, Ann-Kathrin; Kenter, Jasper O.; Kosmus, Marina; Lee, Heera; Leimona, Beria; Lele, Sharachchandra; Lenzi, Dominic; Lliso, Bosco; Mannetti, Lelani M.; Merçon, Juliana; Monroy-Sais, Ana Sofía; Mukherjee, Nibedita; Muraca, Barbara; Muradian, Roldan; Murali, Ranjini; Nelson, Sara H.; Nemogá-Soto, Gabriel R.; Ngouhouo-Poufoun, Jonas; Niamir, Aidin; Nuesiri, Emmanuel; Nyumba, Tobias O.; Özkaynak, Begüm; Palomo, Ignacio; Pandit, Ram; Pawłowska-Mainville, Agnieszka; Porter-Bolland, Luciana; Quaas, Martin; Rode, Julian; Rozzi, Ricardo; Sachdeva, Sonya; Samakov, Aibek; Schaafsma, Marije; Sitas, Nadia; Ungar, Paula; Yiu, Evonne; Yoshida, Yuki; Zent, Eglee (London [u.a.] : Nature Publ. Group, 2023)
    Twenty-five years since foundational publications on valuing ecosystem services for human well-being1,2, addressing the global biodiversity crisis3 still implies confronting barriers to incorporating nature’s diverse values ...
  • Diversity, distribution and role of wild crucifers in major cabbage and kale growing areas of Kenya 
    Kahuthia-Gathu, R.; Löhr, B.; Poehling, Hans-Michael; Mbugua, P.K. (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009)
    An investigation of the diversity and distribution of wild crucifer species and their importance for cultivated crucifers was conducted during 2005 and 2006 in the highland and mid-altitude semi-arid areas of Kenya. Thirteen ...
  • Does the exotic equal pollution? Landscape methods for solving the dilemma of using native versus non-native plant species in drylands 
    Kotzen, Benz; Branquinho, Cristina; Prasse, Rüdiger (Chichester, Sussex : Wiley, 2020)
    There is a need to resolve methods to determine the merits of native versus non-native plant use in drylands and indeed in more temperate areas around the world. This is because whilst plant introductions may have positive ...
  • Ecological restoration across the Mediterranean Basin as viewed by practitioners 
    Nunes, Alice; Oliveira, Graca; Mexia, Teresa; Valdecantos, Alejandro; Zucca, Claudio; Costantini, Edoardo A.C.; Abraham, Eleni M.; Kyriazopoulos, Apostolos P.; Salah, Ayman; Prasse, Rüdiger; Correia, Otilia; Milliken, Sarah; Kotzen, Benz; Branquinho, Cristina (Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2016)
    Restoration efforts in the Mediterranean Basin have been changing from a silvicultural to an ecological restoration approach. Yet, to what extent the projects are guided by ecological restoration principles remains largely ...
  • Ecological Sustainability Assessment of Water Distribution for the Maintenance of Ecosystems, their Services and Biodiversity 
    Schlattmann, Anna; Neuendorf, Felix; Burkhard, Kremena; Probst, Elisabeth; Pujades, Estanislao; Mauser, Wolfram; Attinger, Sabine; von Haaren, Christina (New York, NY : Springer, 2022)
    Water provision and distribution are subject to conflicts between users worldwide, with agriculture as a major driver of discords. Water sensitive ecosystems and their services are often impaired by man-made water shortage. ...
  • Ecosystem functions including soil organic carbon, total nitrogen and available potassium are crucial for vegetation recovery 
    Qiu, Kaiyang; Xie, Yingzhong; Xu, Dongmei; Pott, Richard (London : Nature Publishing Group, 2018)
    The effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functions have been extensively studied, but little is known about the effects of ecosystem functions on biodiversity. This knowledge is important for understanding biodiversity-ecosystem ...
  • Faster evaluation of induced floral sterility in transgenic early flowering poplar 
    Hoenicka, H.; Nowitzki, O.; Debener, T.; Fladung, M. (Bad Orb : J.D. Sauerländer, 2006)
    A major concern over the use of transgenic trees is the potential for transgene dispersal through pollen and seeds. The incorporation of sterility inducing genes into transgenic lines of trees has been proposed to reduce ...
  • Laser MICROSAMPLING of soil microbial community 
    Gorlenko, M.V.; Chutko, E.A.; Churbanova, E.S.; Minaev, N.V.; Kachesov, K.I.; Lysak, L.V.; Evlashin, S.A.; Cheptsov, V.S.; Rybaltovskiy, A.O.; Yusupov, V.I.; Zhigarkov, V.S.; Davydova, G.A.; Chichkov, Boris; Bagratashvili, V.N. (London : BioMed Central Ltd., 2018)
    Standard microorganism isolating technology applied for complex multiphase environmental samples such as soil or sediment needs pre-treatment steps to remove living cells from their mixed-phase microniche, by creating a ...
  • LEGU-MED: Developing Biodiversity-Based Agriculture with Legume Cropping Systems in the Mediterranean Basin 
    Martinelli, Federico; Vollheyde, Anna-Lena; Cebrián-Piqueras, Miguel A.; von Haaren, Christina; Lorenzetti, Elisa; Barberi, Paolo; Loreto, Francesco; Piergiovanni, Anna Rosa; Totev, Valkov Vladimir; Bedini, Alberico; Morelli, Roberto Kron; Yahia, Nourredine; Rezki, Meriem Amina; Ouslim, Sarah; Fyad-Lameche, F.Z.; Bekki, Abdelkader; Sikora, Sanja; Rodríguez-Navarro, Dulce; Camacho, María; Nabbout, Rania; Amil, Rola; Trabelsi, Darine; Yucel, Derya; Yousefi, Sanaz (Basel : MDPI, 2022)
    Environmental degradation and the decrease of ecosystem service provision are currently of major concern, with current agricultural systems being a major driver. To meet our future environmental and sustainability targets ...
  • Mapping and assessment of ecosystems and their services in the outermost regions and overseas countries and territories of the European Union 
    Sieber, Ina Maren (Hannover : Institutionelles Repositorium der Leibniz Universität Hannover, 2022)
    Ecosystem services (ES) are the benefits humans derive from nature. The ES concept has become a framework to assess the state of ecosystems and the services they supply. Mapping and assessment of ecosystems and their ...
  • The next generation of site-based long-term ecological monitoring: Linking essential biodiversity variables and ecosystem integrity 
    Haase, Peter; Tonkin, Jonathan D.; Stoll, Stefan; Burkhard, Benjamin; Frenzel, Mark; Geijzendorffer, Ilse R.; Häuser, Christoph; Klotz, Stefan; Kühn, Ingolf; McDowell, William H.; Mirtl, Michael; Müller, Felix; Musche, Martin; Penner, Johannes; Zacharias, Steffen; Schmeller, Dirk S. (Amsterdam : Elsevier BV, 2018)
    Global change effects on biodiversity and human wellbeing call for improved long-term environmental data as a basis for science, policy and decision making, including increased interoperability, multifunctionality, and ...
  • Potential of small-scale and structurally diverse short-rotation coppice as habitat for large and medium-sized mammals 
    Zitzmann, Felix; Reich, Michael; Schaarschmidt, Frank (Berlin ; Heidelberg : Springer, 2021)
    We surveyed occurrence and activity of large and medium-sized mammals on three experimental short-rotation coppice (SRC) and three afforestations by camera trapping. Both habitat types were surveyed simultaneously in spring. ...
  • Practicable recording, assessment and visualisation of on-site biodiversity of agricultural suppliers of food companies : Executive Summary of the research project "Firmen fördern Vielfalt" (companies foster biodiversity) 
    Bredemeier, Birte; Sybertz, Janine; von Haaren, Christina; Matthies, Sarah; Reich, Michael; Weller, Malte; Kempa, Daniela (Hannover : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Umweltplanung, 2018-02-20)
    For decades, a continuous loss of species diversity in the agricultural landscape has been observed. Today, not only are conservationists and governments engaged in halting the decline of farmland species diversity, but ...
  • Towards a national ecosystem assessment in Germany 
    Albert, Christian; Neßhöver, Carsten; Schröter, Matthias; Wittmer, Heidi; Bonn, Aletta; Burkhard, Benjamin; Dauber, Jens; Döring, Ralf; Fürst, Christine; Grunewald, Karsten; Haase, Dagmar; Hansjürgens, Bernd; Hauck, Jennifer; Hinzmann, Mandy; Koellner, Thomas; Plieninger, Tobias; Rabe, Sven-Erik; Ring, Irene; Spangenberg, Joachim H.; Stachow, Ulrich; Wüstemann, Henry; Görg, Christoph (München : Oekom - Gesellschaft fuer Oekologische Kommunikation mbH, 2017)
    We present options for a National Ecosystem Assessment in Germany (NEA-DE) that could inform decision-makers on the state and trends of ecosystems and ecosystem services. Characterizing a NEA-DE, we argue that its ...
  • Towards detecting swath events in TerraSAR-X time series to establish NATURA 2000 grassland habitat swath management as monitoring parameter 
    Schuster, Christian; Ali, Iftikhbar; Lohmann, Peter; Frick, Annett; Förster, Michael; Kleinschmit, Birgit (Basel : MDPI AG, 2011)
    Spatial monitoring tools are necessary to respond to the threat of global biodiversity loss. At the European scale, remote sensing tools for NATURA 2000 habitat monitoring have been requested by the European Commission to ...
  • Which Large- and Medium-Sized Mammals Use Commercial Short-Rotation Coppice as Habitat? 
    Zitzmann, Felix; Reich, Michael (New York, NY : Springer, 2022)
    We surveyed occurrence and activity of large- and medium-sized mammals on six commercial mini-rotation short-rotation coppice (SRC) plantations in northern Germany by camera trapping in different seasons (winter, late ...