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1. Accelerating Mountain Forest Dynamics in the Alps

Author:
Dominik Thom; Rupert Seidl
Source:
Ecosystems 2022 v.25 no.3 pp. 603-617
ISSN:
1432-9840
Subject:
climate; climate change; ecosystems; forest dynamics; forest inventory; forestry development; landscapes; national parks; species diversity; stand development; temperature; trees; Alps region; Germany
Abstract:
... Climate change alters forest development pathways, with consequences for ecosystem services and biodiversity. As the rate of warming increases, ecosystem change is expected to accelerate. However, ecosystem dynamics can have many causes unrelated to climate (for example, disturbance and stand development legacies). The compound effects of multiple drivers remain largely unclear. Here, we assessed ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10021-021-00674-0

2. Application of extreme gradient boosting and Shapley Additive explanations to predict temperature regimes inside forests from standard open-field meteorological data

Author:
Fatemeh Ghafarian; Ralf Wieland; Dietmar Lüttschwager; Claas Nendel
Source:
Environmental modelling & software 2022 pp. 105466
ISSN:
1364-8152
Subject:
computer software; ecosystems; forests; heat; meteorological data; microclimate; model validation; prediction; support vector machines; temperature; Germany
Abstract:
... Forest microclimate can buffer biotic responses to summer heat waves, which are expected to become more extreme under climate warming. Prediction of forest microclimate is limited because meteorological observation standards seldom include situations inside forests. We use eXtreme Gradient Boosting ‒ a Machine Learning technique ‒ to predict the microclimate of forest sites in Brandenburg, Germany ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.envsoft.2022.105466

3. Bank re‐erosion action to promote sediment supply and channel diversification: Feedback from a restoration test on the Rhine

Author:
Valentin Chardon; Laurent Schmitt; Anne Clutier
Source:
River research and applications 2022 v.38 no.5 pp. 975-987
ISSN:
1535-1459
Subject:
bank erosion; bedload; biodiversity; ecosystems; geomorphology; habitats; humans; lidar; research; risk; river regulation; rivers; sediments; France; Germany
Abstract:
... River regulation alters hydrological and sediment regimes and consequently affects habitat complexity and dynamics, biodiversity and ecosystem services. Although channel bank erosion is a key geomorphological process supplying alluvial channels with coarse sediments and diversifying aquatic and riparian habitats, banks have often been stabilized to limit erosion risk to human activities and facili ...
DOI:
10.1002/rra.3968

4. Biodiversity maintains soil multifunctionality and soil organic carbon in novel urban ecosystems

Author:
Conrad Schittko; Gabriela Onandia; Maud Bernard‐Verdier; Tina Heger; Jonathan M. Jeschke; Ingo Kowarik; Stefanie Maaß; Jasmin Joshi
Source:
journal of ecology 2022 v.110 no.4 pp. 916-934
ISSN:
0022-0477
Subject:
carbon dioxide; climate change; ecosystems; equations; indigenous species; introduced species; soil fauna; soil organic carbon; species richness; urbanization; Germany
Abstract:
... Biodiversity in urban ecosystems has the potential to increase ecosystem functions and support a suite of services valued by society, including services provided by soils. Specifically, the sequestration of carbon in soils has often been advocated as a solution to mitigate the steady increase in CO₂ concentration in the atmosphere as a key driver of climate change. However, urban ecosystems are al ...
DOI:
10.1111/1365-2745.13852

5. Biodiversity showed positive effects on resistance but mixed effects on resilience to climatic extremes in a long-term grassland experiment

Author:
Md Lokman Hossain; Jianfeng Li; Samuel Hoffmann; Carl Beierkuhnlein
Source:
Science of the total environment 2022 v.827 pp. 154322
ISSN:
0048-9697
Subject:
ecological resilience; ecosystems; evapotranspiration; grasslands; net primary productivity; species richness; Germany
Abstract:
... Understanding the role of biodiversity in maintaining ecosystem functioning and stability under increasing frequency and magnitude of climatic extremes has fascinated ecologists for decades. Although growing evidence suggests that biodiversity affects ecosystem productivity and buffers ecosystem against climatic extremes, it remains unclear whether the stability of an ecosystem is caused by its re ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154322

6. Collective action across boundaries: Collaborative network initiatives as boundary organizations to improve ecosystem services governance

Author:
Claudia Sattler; Barbara Schröter
Source:
Ecosystem services 2022 v.56 pp. 101452
ISSN:
2212-0416
Subject:
case studies; collective action; conservation areas; data collection; ecosystems; empirical research; governance; landscapes; social networks; water management; Germany
Abstract:
... In this study we explore the concept of boundary organizations in the context of collaborative network initiatives which aim to achieve collective action to improve ecosystem services governance at landscape scale. We are specifically interested to analyze how the boundary, which exists between actors with mainly economic interests, related to producing provisioning ecosystem services, and actors ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ecoser.2022.101452

7. Data on public preferences for soil-based ecosystem services in Germany

Author:
Bartosz Bartkowski; Julian R. Massenberg; Nele Lienhoop
Source:
Data in Brief 2022 v.43 pp. 108371
ISSN:
2352-3409
Subject:
climate; data collection; drought; ecosystems; flood control; social welfare; surveys; Germany
Abstract:
... This article describes the data from a discrete choice experiment survey into public preferences for soil-based ecosystem services. The survey was conducted online in June and July 2021 on a representative sample of 1500 German citizens. Four soil-based ecosystem services were included as attributes in the discrete choice experiment: climate regulation, drought protection, flood protection and cle ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.dib.2022.108371

8. Decoding geochemical signals of the Schwalbenberg Loess-Palaeosol-Sequences — A key to Upper Pleistocene ecosystem responses to climate changes in western Central Europe

Author:
Mathias Vinnepand; Peter Fischer; Olaf Jöris; Ulrich Hambach; Christian Zeeden; Philipp Schulte; Kathryn E. Fitzsimmons; Charlotte Prud'homme; Zoran Perić; Wolfgang Schirmer; Frank Lehmkuhl; Sabine Fiedler; Andreas Vött
Source:
Catena 2022 v.212 pp. 106076
ISSN:
0341-8162
Subject:
Pleistocene epoch; automation; catenas; climate; discriminant analysis; dust; ecosystems; geochemistry; loess; multivariate analysis; paleosolic soil types; provenance; soil formation; Central European region; Germany
Abstract:
... Loess deposits are the most extent continental archives of climatic- and environmental change and represent important components of local and global dust systems. Consequently, their geochemistry provides an excellent basis for studying climate oscillations on land and how these affect processes in the terrestrial system. It is, however, challenging to assess information archived in loess records ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.catena.2022.106076

9. Development of a multiplex microsatellite marker set for the study of the solitary red mason bee, Osmia bicornis (Megachilidae)

Author:
Jens Van Eeckhoven; Gavin J. Horsburgh; Deborah A. Dawson; Kathryn Mayer; Amanda Bretman; Elizabeth J. Duncan
Source:
Molecular biology reports 2022 v.49 no.1 pp. 783-788
ISSN:
0301-4851
Subject:
DNA; Osmia rufa; ecosystems; extinction; genetic markers; genetic variation; genome; genotyping; males; microsatellite repeats; molecular biology; pollination; pollinators; polymerase chain reaction; risk; England; Germany
Abstract:
... BACKGROUND: Solitary bees, such as the red mason bee (Osmia bicornis), provide important ecosystem services including pollination. In the face of global declines of pollinator abundance, such haplodiploid Hymenopterans have a compounded extinction risk due to the potential for limited genetic diversity. In order to assess the genetic diversity of Osmia bicornis populations, we developed microsatel ...
DOI:
10.1007/s11033-021-06796-x

10. Diatom Red Lists: important tools to assess and preserve biodiversity and habitats in the face of direct impacts and environmental change

Author:
Marco Cantonati; Gabriele Hofmann; Daniel Spitale; Marcus Werum; Horst Lange-Bertalot
Source:
Biodiversity and conservation 2022 v.31 no.2 pp. 453-477
ISSN:
0960-3115
Subject:
Bacillariophyceae; biodiversity; carbonates; ecosystems; eutrophication; freshwater; geographical distribution; habitats; inland waters; microalgae; threatened species; Germany
Abstract:
... Freshwater biodiversity is disproportionally endangered and under-prioritized. Algal Red Lists literature is very limited, and there are only two editions of a single diatom-specific Red List (developed for Germany), in spite of the importance of diatoms for biodiversity and global ecosystem functioning. We used and analysed the new diatom Red List, compared to the previous edition, to show that t ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10531-021-02339-9

11. The End-Devonian Hangenberg Event and its aftermath in South China: Stratigraphic and sedimentary records from shallow to deep water facies

Author:
Hongfei Hou; Xueping Ma; Huailing Zhou; James G. Ogg; Yang Shen
Source:
Earth-science reviews 2022 pp. 104137
ISSN:
0012-8252
Subject:
Animalia; Phanerozoic eon; ecosystems; extinction; limestone; storms; China; Germany
Abstract:
... The global End-Devonian Hangenberg Event was one of the most important mass extinction events during the Phanerozoic eon. The stratigraphical, paleontological, and sedimentological evolution of strata equivalent to the Hangenberg Event have been widely investigated in three depositional environments of shallow-marine platform, of margin and upper slope, and of deep-water facies along the South Chi ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104137

12. English Ivy (Hedera helix) is fast, but ash (Fraxinus excelsior) too: Decomposition of English Ivy litter compared to four common host trees - A multisite citizen sciences project

Author:
Mareike Roeder; Katrin Meyer
Source:
Acta oecologica 2022 v.115 pp. 103832
ISSN:
1146-609X
Subject:
Fagus; Fraxinus excelsior; Hedera helix subsp. helix; carbon; citizen scientists; ecosystems; fauna; ornamental plants; population dynamics; trees; Germany
Abstract:
... English Ivy (Herdera helix, Araliaceae) is an evergreen woody climbing plant occurring naturally in temperate forests of Europe and as introduced ornamental plant in many parts of the world, becoming invasive in some. Over the last decades an increase of ivy occurrence in middle Europe was observed in forests as well as in urban or rural areas. As a consequence, ivy might also play a larger role i ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.actao.2022.103832

13. Enzyme kinetics inform about mechanistic changes in tea litter decomposition across gradients in land-use intensity in Central German grasslands

Author:
Ulf-Niklas Meyer; Alexander Tischer; Martin Freitag; Valentin H. Klaus; Till Kleinebecker; Yvonne Oelmann; Ellen Kandeler; Norbert Hölzel; Ute Hamer
Source:
Science of the total environment 2022 v.836 pp. 155748
ISSN:
0048-9697
Subject:
Aspalathus linearis; carbon; cellulose 1,4-beta-cellobiosidase; cost effectiveness; ecosystems; environment; enzyme kinetics; extracellular enzymes; fluorescence; grassland management; grasslands; green tea; land use; nitrogen; organic matter; phosphorus; primary productivity; soil depth; tea bags; topsoil; Germany
Abstract:
... Grassland ecosystems provide important ecosystem services such as nutrient cycling and primary production that are affected by land-use intensity. To assess the effects of land-use intensity, operational and sensitive ecological indicators that integrate effects of grassland management on ecosystem processes such as organic matter turnover are needed. Here, we investigated the suitability of measu ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155748

14. Estimating historic N- and S-deposition with publicly available data – An example from Central Germany

Author:
David Schellenberger Costa; Johanna Otto; Ines Chmara; Markus Bernhardt-Römermann
Source:
Environmental pollution 2022 v.292 pp. 118378
ISSN:
0269-7491
Subject:
biodiversity; ecosystems; models; nitrogen; pollution; sulfur; vegetation; Germany
Abstract:
... The deposition of reactive nitrogen and sulphur has profound effects on ecosystem functioning. In the last decades, monitoring networks providing high resolution spatio-temporal deposition estimates have been set up, but equivalent information on historic deposition is mostly missing. However, understanding vegetation change and mitigate future loss of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning is onl ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.envpol.2021.118378

15. Evaluating CAP wildflower strips: High‐quality seed mixtures significantly improve plant diversity and related pollen and nectar resources

Author:
Annika Schmidt; Anita Kirmer; Niels Hellwig; Kathrin Kiehl; Sabine Tischew
Source:
Journal of applied ecology 2022 v.59 no.3 pp. 860-871
ISSN:
0021-8901
Subject:
European Union; agricultural land; applied ecology; botanical composition; ecosystems; fauna; flowers; forbs; grasses; habitats; landscapes; nectar; pollen; pollinators; soil fertility; species richness; spring; vegetation; wild flowers; winter; Germany
Abstract:
... Flower strips are a fundamental part of agri‐environment schemes (AESs) introduced by the European Union to counteract the loss of biodiversity and related ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes. Although vegetation composition of the strips is essential for most fauna groups, comprehensive studies analysing vegetation development and influencing factors are rare. From 2017 to 2019, we inve ...
DOI:
10.1111/1365-2664.14102

16. Evidences of soil warming from long-term trends (1951–2018) in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Author:
Kristof Dorau; Chris Bamminger; Daniel Koch; Tim Mansfeldt
Source:
Climatic change 2022 v.170 no.1-2 pp. 9
ISSN:
0165-0009
Subject:
air temperature; climate; climate change; ecosystems; multivariate analysis; organic carbon; soil temperature; subsoil; summer; Germany
Abstract:
... Soil temperature (ST) is an important property of soils and driver of below ground biogeochemical processes. Global change is responsible that besides variable meteorological conditions, climate-driven shifts in ST are observed throughout the world. In this study, we examined long-term records in ST by a trend decomposition procedure from eleven stations in western Germany starting from earliest i ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10584-021-03293-9

17. Farmers' acceptance of results-based agri-environmental schemes: A German perspective

Author:
Anna Massfeller; Manuela Meraner; Silke Hüttel; Reinhard Uehleke
Source:
Land use policy 2022 v.120 pp. 106281
ISSN:
0264-8377
Subject:
European Union; biodiversity; birds; cognition; ecosystems; farmers; fearfulness; land management; land policy; models; pollinators; Germany
Abstract:
... Results-based agri-environmental schemes (AES) seek to overcome reluctance to adopt other forms of AES in the European Union. Instead of complying with inflexible land management prescriptions, farmers receive payments after certain contracted environmental results are verified. In addition to reducing the organizational and administrative burdens, this practice allows farmers to focus on which pr ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106281

18. Flood risk management along German rivers – A review of multi-criteria analysis methods and decision-support systems

Author:
Francesca Perosa; Laura Felicia Seitz; Aude Zingraff-Hamed; Markus Disse
Source:
Environmental science & policy 2022 v.135 pp. 191-206
ISSN:
1462-9011
Subject:
decision making; ecosystems; energy; environmental science; flood control; fluid mechanics; hydrology; issues and policy; risk management; rivers; Germany
Abstract:
... Sustainable and climate-resilient decisions in flood risk management (FRM) are complex problems, which should consider flood mitigation, but also ecological, economic, and social aspects within a collaborative decision-making process. In this article, we explore the state of multi-criteria analysis (MCA) and decision-support systems (DSS) in Germany to understand their advantages, challenges in ap ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.envsci.2022.05.004

19. Geospatial assessment of urban ecosystem disservices: An example of poisonous urban trees in Berlin, Germany

Author:
Peer von Döhren; Dagmar Haase
Source:
Urban forestry & urban greening 2022 v.67 pp. 127440
ISSN:
1618-8667
Subject:
air; carbon sequestration; ecosystems; geospatial data processing; green infrastructure; heat island; oxygen production; pollen; population density; traffic; trees; urban forestry; urban population; waste disposal; Germany
Abstract:
... Urban trees play an important role in green infrastructure planning for the ecosystem services they provide. These services include carbon sequestration, the provision of clean air through oxygen production and filtering of airborne pollutants, and the offsetting of the urban heat island effect by providing shade and cooling. In addition to the well-studied positive effects of urban trees, under s ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ufug.2021.127440

20. Green infrastructure connectivity analysis across spatiotemporal scales: A transferable approach in the Ruhr Metropolitan Area, Germany

Author:
Jingxia Wang; Andreas Rienow; Martin David; Christian Albert
Source:
Science of the total environment 2022 v.813 pp. 152463
ISSN:
0048-9697
Subject:
biodiversity conservation; decision making; ecosystems; environment; green infrastructure; metropolitan areas; models; path analysis; spatial variation; Germany
Abstract:
... Developing green infrastructure (GI) has drawn increasing attention as a strategic planning approach for advancing urban sustainability. The connectivity of green spaces, a central principle of GI, has been considered in planning studies regarding its structure and functions for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services delivery; however, aspects of GI connectivity across temporal and spati ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152463