A5067226876- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Plant and animal studies
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Forest Management and Policy
- Lichen and fungal ecology
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Mollusks and Parasites Studies
- Nematode management and characterization studies
- Rural development and sustainability
- Silicon Effects in Agriculture
Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo
2025
Chuo University
2020-2024
Philipps University of Marburg
2013-2019
Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
2017
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
2010-2014
The University of Tokyo
2005-2007
Environmental Earth Sciences
2006
Hokkaido University
2006
University of Regensburg
2004-2006
Abstract Soil biodiversity plays a key role in regulating the processes that underpin delivery of ecosystem goods and services terrestrial ecosystems. Agricultural intensification is known to change diversity individual groups soil biota, but less about how affects food web as whole, whether or not these effects may be generalized across regions. We examined webs from grasslands, extensive, intensive rotations four agricultural regions Europe: Sweden, UK , Czech Republic Greece. Effects...
Intensive land use reduces the diversity and abundance of many soil biota, with consequences for processes that they govern ecosystem services these underpin. Relationships between biota have mostly been found in laboratory experiments rarely are field. Here, we quantified, across four countries contrasting climatic conditions Europe, how differences food web composition resulting from systems (intensive wheat rotation, extensive permanent grassland) influence functioning soils deliver....
Förster, J., J. Barkmann, R. Fricke, S. Hotes, M. Kleyer, Kobbe, D. Kübler, C. Rumbaur, Siegmund-Schultze, Seppelt, Settele, H. Spangenberg, V. Tekken, T. Václavík, and Wittmer. 2015. Assessing ecosystem services for informing land-use decisions: a problem-oriented approach. Ecology Society 20(3):31. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07804-200331
Soil biodiversity through its delivery of ecosystem functions and attendant supporting services—benefits soil organisms generate for farmers—underpins agricultural production. Yet lack practical methods to value the long‐term effects current farming practices results, inevitably, in short‐sighted management decisions. We present a method valuing changes services associated natural capital—the stock organisms—in agriculture, based on resultant future farm income streams. assume that relative...
Much of our knowledge about land use and ecosystem services in interrelated social-ecological systems is derived from place-based research. While local regional case studies provide valuable insights, it often unclear how relevant this research beyond the study areas. Drawing generalized conclusions practical solutions to management observations formulating hypotheses applicable other places world requires that we identify patterns are similar those represented by study. Here, utilize...
Uvaria chamae is a wild shrub species widely used as source for traditional medicine, food and fuel in West Africa. The threatened by uncontrolled harvesting of its roots pharmaceutical applications the extension agricultural land. This study assessed role environmental variables current distribution potential impact climate change on future spatial U. Benin. We data related to climate, soil, topography land cover model species. Occurrence were combined with six least correlated bioclimatic...
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Agriculture provides a wide range of ecosystem services and has the potential to contribute biodiversity conservation. In Japan, many resources associated with agroecosystems are threatened by farmland abandonment. Identifying where what extent agricultural affected abandonment is essential for developing effective strategies counter loss these biological communities that support them. Our study aimed examine how set indicators linked (proportions land dedicated rice production other...
1 The influence of tephra (aerially transported volcanic ejecta) on mire vegetation was investigated in a field experiment at Sarobetsu Mire, northern Hokkaido, Japan, which simulated relatively thin, widespread tephras. It carried out the centre raised part Carex middendorffii–Sphagnum papillosum community. 2 We tested effects varying layer thickness, grain size and season impact. 3 Vegetation surveys analyses pore water were before years after application. Redox potential, oxygen...
Decomposers provide an essential ecosystem service that contributes to sustainable production in rice ecosystems by driving the release of nutrients from organic crop residues. During a single cycle we examined effects four different residue management practices (rice straw or ash burned scattered on soil surface incorporated into soil) decomposition and abundance aquatic soil-dwelling invertebrates. Mass loss litterbags two mesh sizes either prevented allowed access meso-...
Sustainable management of agricultural systems includes promoting nutrient cycles, which can reduce the need for application fertilizer. As rice is one most important food resources in world, sustainable paddies increasingly demand. However, little known about influence invertebrates on decomposition processes these ecosystems. We hypothesized that contribute significantly to straw and their relative contribution affected by distance other landscape structures within fields. placed...