A5030078511- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Labor Movements and Unions
- Plant and animal studies
- Work-Family Balance Challenges
- Agricultural Economics and Policy
- Economic Policies and Impacts
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Firm Innovation and Growth
- Forest Management and Policy
- German Economic Analysis & Policies
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Taxation and Compliance Studies
- Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Auction Theory and Applications
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Cervical Cancer and HPV Research
Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg
2025
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
2016-2025
University of Basel
2009-2025
University of Derby
2023
Palacký University Olomouc
2023
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
2023
University of Leeds
2023
Anhalt University of Applied Sciences
2023
Institut für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung
2018-2021
IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
2015-2021
Abstract Plant traits—the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological characteristics of plants—determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect other trophic levels, influence ecosystem properties their benefits detriments people. trait data thus represent the basis for a vast area research spanning from evolutionary biology, community functional ecology, biodiversity conservation, landscape management, restoration, biogeography earth system...
Abstract Aims Vegetation‐plot records provide information on the presence and cover or abundance of plants co‐occurring in same community. data are spread across research groups, environmental agencies biodiversity centers and, thus, rarely accessible at continental global scales. Here we present sPlot database, which collates vegetation plots worldwide to allow for exploration patterns taxonomic, functional phylogenetic diversity plant community level. Results version 2.1 contains from...
Summary Macroecology has prospered in recent years due part to the wide array of climatic data, such as those provided by WorldClim and CliMond data sets, which become available for research. However, important environmental variables have still been missing, including spatial sets on UV ‐B radiation, an increasingly recognized driver ecological processes. We developed a set global surfaces (gl ) suitable match common scales macroecology. Our is based remotely sensed records from NASA 's...
Summary Ecological and evolutionary research increasingly uses quantitative synthesis of primary studies (meta‐analysis) for answering fundamental questions, informing environmental policy summarizing results decision makers. Knowing how meta‐analysis works is important researchers so that their can have broader impact. Meta‐analytic thinking encourages scientists to see single as substantial contributions a larger picture. To facilitate inclusion in meta‐analysis, relevant must be found...
Here we provide the 'Global Spectrum of Plant Form and Function Dataset', containing species mean values for six vascular plant traits. Together, these traits -plant height, stem specific density, leaf area, mass per nitrogen content dry mass, diaspore (seed or spore) - define primary axes variation in form function. The dataset is based on ca. 1 million trait records received via TRY database (representing 2,500 original publications) additional unpublished data. It provides 92,159 traits,...
Intensive agriculture with high reliance on pesticides and fertilizers constitutes a major strategy for 'feeding the world'. However, such conventional intensification is linked to diminishing returns can result in 'intensification traps'-production declines triggered by negative feedback of biodiversity loss at input levels. Here we developed novel framework that accounts crop yields evaluate risk magnitude traps. Simulations grounded systematic literature reviews showed traps emerge most...
Encounters of regenerating goldfish retinal axons with oligodendrocytes and CNS myelin mammals fish were monitored in vitro assays. Upon contact highly branched rat oligodendrocytes, collapsed or grew around but never crossed these cells. However, the presence antibody IN-1 against oligodendrocyte-associated growth-inhibitory proteins, did grow over oligodencrocytes. In contrast to mammalian optic nerve/tract-derived oligodendrocytelike cells allowed growth across their surface even along...
Biodiversity conservation and agricultural production are often seen as mutually exclusive objectives. Strategies for reconciling them intensely debated. We argue that harmonization between biodiversity crop can be improved by increasing our understanding of the underlying relationships them. provide a general conceptual framework links through separate land use production. Hypothesized derived synthesizing existing empirical theoretical ecological knowledge. The suggests nonlinear caused...
Understanding coping and adaptation behaviour of different population groups in the context global environmental change has become increasingly important, especially regions with high vulnerability such as Sub-Saharan drylands. In this regard, household strategies tend to be dependent on local context-specific conditions. However, strategic development climate measures, well natural resource migration management national international level require transferable results recommendations....
Agri-environmental schemes (AES) belong to the main instruments of European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) foster sustainable farming practices that contribute conservation biodiversity, ecosystem services, climate change mitigation and adaptation. Farmers' attitudes towards these voluntary measures socio-economic factors influencing their decisions have been widely studied through interviews or surveys. However, it remains unclear whether spatial patterns AES adoption can be...
Abstract Meta‐analyses often encounter studies with incompletely reported variance measures (e.g., standard deviation values) or sample sizes, both needed to conduct weighted meta‐analyses. Here, we first present a systematic literature survey on the frequency and treatment of missing data in published ecological meta‐analyses showing that majority encountered studies. We then simulated meta‐analysis sets investigate performance 14 options treat impute SDs and/or SSs . Performance was...
Multifunctional landscapes are used and shaped by a range of different stakeholders. The high number diverging values, interests or demands in such can lead to conflicts that impact sustainability goals. In this study, our aim was include stakeholders' valuations ecosystem services multifunctionality assessments thereby identify possibly contradictory perspectives on landscape multifunctionality. Two European cultural landscapes, the Vereinigte Mulde (Germany) Kromme Rijn (The Netherlands),...
The increasing expansion of cropland is major driver global carbon emissions and biodiversity loss. However, predicting plausible future distributions croplands remains challenging. Here, we show that, in general, existing data aligned with classical economic theories explain the current (1992) extent reasonably well, but not recent (1992–2015). Deviations from models 1992 ("frontierness") can be used to improve expansion, most likely as these deviations are a proxy for under frontier...
Among the biggest challenges of modern society are biodiversity conservation and food security. Food security requires increase agricultural yields, though land use intensification is one main drivers loss. Environmentally friendly farming practices, such as organic farming, have positive effects on biodiversity, but accompanied by yield losses. Other diversification, result in a simultaneous yield. In this study, we quantitatively synthesize results multiple meta-analyses, to identify...