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Marco Cantonati; Olena Bilous; Daniel Spitale; Nicola Angeli; Stefano Segadelli; Dimitri Bernabè; Kurt Lichtenwöhrer; Reinhard Gerecke; Abdullah A. Saber
... We studied diatoms from the fifteen springs selected in the Berchtesgaden National Park on behalf of the Bavarian State Ministry for the Environment to be sentinel environments of climate-change effects. For three of these springs, diatom data based on samples taken in 1997 were also available. A total of 162 species belonging to 49 genera were found sampling three microhabitat types (lithic mater ...
Acer; Aesculus; Fraxinus; Platanus; Quercus; Tilia; climate change; defoliation; drought; green infrastructure; health status; heat; inventories; soil; street trees; tree damage; tree mortality; water stress; Germany
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... Trees are one of the most important elements of green infrastructure in cities. Climate change is specifically affecting trees in many European cities. Trees are experiencing negative impacts from the increase in heat waves and droughts, both of which begin, in some cases, early in the year and continue through the growing season. Current studies on the regionalization of climate change indicate t ...
... Elevated levels of atmospheric CO₂ lead to the increase of plant photosynthetic rates, carbon inputs into soil and root exudation. In this work, the effects of rising atmospheric CO₂ levels on the metabolic active soil microbiome have been investigated at the Giessen free-air CO₂ enrichment (Gi-FACE) experiment on a permanent grassland site near Giessen, Germany. The aim was to assess the effects ...
... The creation of artificial dunes for coastal protection may have important consequences for freshwater lenses in coastal aquifers. The objective of this study was to compare the recharge processes below such a young dune with scant vegetation to an older dune covered by grass and herbaceous vegetation. To this aim, soil and water samples were collected from the unsaturated zone at two sites on Lan ...
carbon; climate change; electric energy consumption; energy; environment; evolution; greenhouses; heat; paper; Australia; China; Germany; United Kingdom
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... Household energy consumption has been one of the most critical factors to climate change. We conducted bibliometric research on household energy consumption by using CiteSpace and HistCite. The Web of Science was used to identify and visualize the evolution of paper citation diagram, the collaboration network, the cocitation network and emerging trends by mapping the knowledge domain of 2984 acade ...
Fagus sylvatica; Pinus sylvestris; Quercus rubra; bulk density; canopy; canopy height; climate change; dominant species; fire hazard; fire regime; fire spread; forest management; fuel moisture index; heat; lidar; temperate forests; temperate zones; wildfires; Central European region; Germany
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... Climate change causes more extreme droughts and heat waves in Central Europe, affecting vegetative fuels and altering the local fire regime. Wildfire is projected to expand into the temperate zone, a region traditionally not concerned by fire. To mitigate this new threat, local forest management will require spatial fire hazard information. We present a holistic and comprehensible workflow for qua ...
European Union; climate change; grain protein; heritability; loaves; nitrogen; nitrogen fertilizers; protein content; regression analysis; winter wheat; Germany
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... KEY MESSAGE: A novel approach based on the loaf volume–grain protein content relation is suggested to consider the static protein use efficiency and stability as efficient quality-related descriptors for wheat varieties. The most important trait for baking quality of winter wheat is loaf volume (V). It is mostly determined by grain protein content (GPC) and quality. New varieties with a high poten ...
M. Krauss; M. Wiesmeier; A. Don; F. Cuperus; A. Gattinger; S. Gruber; W.K. Haagsma; J. Peigné; M. Chiodelli Palazzoli; F. Schulz; M.G.A. van der Heijden; L. Vincent-Caboud; R.A. Wittwer; S. Zikeli; M. Steffens
... For decades, conservation tillage has been promoted as a measure to increase carbon stocks in arable soils. Since organic farming improves soil quality and soil carbon storage, reduced tillage under organic farming conditions may further enhance this potential. Therefore, we assessed soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks of reduced tillage compared with mouldboard ploughing in nine organic farming fiel ...
Quercus petraea; adults; biomass; cell wall components; climate change; discriminant analysis; drought tolerance; dry environmental conditions; forest trees; least squares; leaves; metabolism; old-growth forests; sugar content; total nitrogen; weather; Central European region; Germany
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... KEY MESSAGE: Sessile oak leaves showed a high degree of plasticity to atmospheric and pedospheric conditions. The aim of the present study was to elucidate the significance of current weather conditions for foliar traits of adult sessile oak (Quercus petraea), one of the most valuable forest tree species in Central Europe. For this purpose, structural and functional traits were analysed in fully e ...
agricultural land; base flow; chlorides; climate change; ecosystems; environment; hydrochemistry; infrastructure; intensive farming; isotope labeling; land use; municipal wastewater; nitrates; potassium; residential areas; rivers; runoff; sodium; spring; summer; surface water; wastewater treatment; water quality; watersheds; winter; Germany
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... Medium-sized rivers, which are used for intensive agriculture and urban infrastructure, are subject to manifold hydrochemical stressors. Identifying and monitoring these stressors is important for river basin management and a functioning ecosystem. To understand the spatiotemporal variation of surface water quality in a highly modified lowland river, the Münstersche Aa River (Northwestern Germany) ...
Japan; Russia; clean energy; climate change; ecological footprint; nuclear power; time series analysis; Canada; France; Germany; South Korea; Sweden
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... The growing climate change debate necessitates a shift towards usage of clean energy in economic activities of developing and developed countries. However, existing studies are skeptical to consider nuclear energy as clean energy in primary energy-mix. This context addresses a question of whether top nuclear energy-consuming economies (i.e. Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Swede ...
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; assets; carbon; carbon dioxide; climate; climate change; greenhouse gases; infrastructure; risk; Germany
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... International shipping is overwhelmingly reliant on fossil fuels, with annual carbon dioxide emissions equivalent to a country the size of Germany. Actions to reduce its emissions are therefore an important element of global efforts to combat climate change. This article re-assesses the international shipping sector’s initial greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets against the Paris Agreement g ...
... Observational evidence suggests that forests in the Northern Alps are changing at an increasing rate as a consequence of climate change. Yet, it remains unclear whether the acceleration of forest change will continue in the future, or whether downregulating feedbacks will eventually decouple forest dynamics from climate change. Here we studied future forest dynamics at Berchtesgaden National Park, ...
... (1) Background: Fine roots (≤2 mm in diameter) play a critical role in forest ecosystem ecological processes and has been widely identified as a major research topic. This study aimed to synthesize the global literature based on the Web of Science Core Collection scientific database from 1992 to 2020 and summarize the research trends and prospects on research of fine roots in forest ecosystems. A ...
... Participatory modeling approaches provide opportunities for collective action responding to challenges of community resource limitations. In the context of climate change, challenges arise from the potential limitations of water availability and resulting conflicts within the agricultural sector. Northeast Lower Saxony is the region with the highest irrigation intensity in Germany due to the sandy ...
... Climate is a major determinant of the world's distribution of biodiversity and species ranges are expected to shift as the climate changes. For conservation policies to be cost-effective in the long run these changes need to be taken into account. To some extent, policies can be adapted over time, but transaction costs, lock-in effects and path dependence limit the extent to which such adaptation ...
... In the context of global climate change, greenhouse gas emissions have become increasingly serious. Steel companies make a great contribution to the annual CO₂ emissions, making this industry one of the key contributors to climate change. Many countries are paying high attention to the emission reduction technologies in the steel industry, and a trend has been established focusing on the reform an ...
climate; climate change; ecosystems; forest dynamics; forest inventory; forestry development; landscapes; national parks; species diversity; stand development; temperature; trees; Alps region; Germany
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... 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 ...
Internet; climate change; data collection; development policy; energy efficiency; energy policy; income; landscapes; markets; prices; urban development; Germany
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... To address climate change, the decarbonisation of Germany’s existing building stock urgently needs to be prioritised. However, the rate and depth of refurbishment has lagged behind official targets for years. This is a particular problem in the rental sector, where the costs and benefits of energy efficiency measures tend to be unevenly distributed between landlords and tenants (the so-called ‘lan ...
European Union; carbon; climate change; empirical research; energy; energy policy; France; Germany; Italy; Spain; United Kingdom
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... The European Green Deal has established a 2050 net-zero emissions target to tackle climate change. The manufacturing and energy sectors account for at least 40% of European emissions and are central in the transition to a low-carbon economy. Thus, devising suitable strategies for reaching net-zero emissions requires a comprehensive analysis of emissions reductions achieved by the two sectors. This ...
... Reducing overall household energy consumption through the application of information and communication technologies (ICT) can play an important role in the transformation towards sustainable consumption patterns, e.g. through the optimisation of energy-consuming processes. The challenge in the environmental assessment of ICT applications is to also consider their use-specific environmental effects ...
... An updated and increased compilation of georeferenced tick locations in Germany is presented here. This data collection extends the dataset published some years ago by another 1448 new tick locations, 900 locations of which were digitized from literature and 548 locations are published here for the first time. This means that a total of 3492 georeferenced tick locations is now available for German ...
advocacy; climate change; data collection; ecological economics; humans; Germany
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... Environmental awareness campaigns disseminate information about the state of the natural environment, aiming to affect public attitudes and encourage pro-environmental behavior. I test the influence of awareness days on the general public's environmental and climate change attitudes and concern, focusing on the case of the Earth Hour, an international campaign organized annually by the World Wide ...
carbon; climate change; environment; global carbon budget; growth and development; household consumption; income; China; Germany; India
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... The concern for inequality, growth and development is undoubtedly crucial in the context of climate change mitigation and adaptation. However, most studies either rely on the nation-state estimates of carbon emissions to propose a uniform nation-wide growth (or degrowth) strategy, or they tailor the method to assess the inequality of one country at a time, making a cross-country cross-income compa ...
... 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 ...
... Airborne pollen are the most important aeroallergens worldwide. Because of climate change, pollen seasonality and abundance have been altering significantly, raising the fundamental question: when and how much is the pollen exposure increasing? To answer this, we applied a multi-resolution study design, from bi-hourly to yearly scale, investigating the diversity, abundance and temporal occurrence ...
... Erosion by water on arable land can be influenced by the farmer mainly by crop selection, cultivation and field management. This requires updated knowledge on the erosion potential of crops, the so-called C factor of the (Revised) Universal Soil Loss Equation. In order to assess how climate change has already altered the C factors, we analysed the effects of a modified crop development and rain er ...
... The flood insurance protection gap, the level of uninsured flood risk, is a problem faced by many European countries and is expected to increase due to climate change. In some countries a cause of low demand for flood insurance is the crowding out of private insurance uptake due to the anticipation of government compensation for uninsured damage, a phenomenon known as charity hazard. This study ap ...
... Oak wood contains aroma-active compounds that contribute significantly to the chemical structure, olfactory and gustatory qualities of alcoholic beverages and vinegars as by-products that have been either fermented and/or aged in oak barrels. The chemical composition of cooperage oak is highly variable, depending on the degree of toasting and natural seasoning. However, it is unclear whether the o ...
agricultural land; agriculture; atmospheric precipitation; case studies; climate; climate change; drought; forage production; forage yield; grassland management; grasslands; meteorological data; silage; time series analysis; Germany; Northern European region
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... The effects of climate change on agricultural ecosystems are increasing, and droughts affect many regions. Drought has substantial ecological, social, and economic consequences for the sustainability of agricultural land. Many regions of the northern hemisphere have not experienced a high frequency of meteorological droughts in the past. For understanding the implications of climate change on gras ...
... How can communication contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions through behaviour change and policy support? The existing literature emphasises informing people about the scientific consensus on climate change, but the underlying research has been conducted mainly in the US, where prior beliefs in human-made climate change are lower than in many other countries with the highest per-capita em ...
Cydia pomonella; antioxidants; apples; chemical analysis; chemical communication; climate change; field experimentation; half life; males; markets; risk; sex pheromones; Germany; New Zealand
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... Since the discovery of the first sex pheromone and the adoption of pheromone in pest management, the global pheromone market size has grown to reach USD 2.4 billion per year in 2019. This has enabled the development of environmentally friendly approaches that significantly reduce the application of pesticides. Recently, there have been reports of the failure of various commercial codlemone: (E,E)- ...
climate change; coastal zone management; ecosystem management; issues and policy; latitude; Germany; Ireland
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... In the context of climate change, coastal areas around the world face multiple interrelated challenges. A range of ‘international best practice’ approaches have been proposed to address these, including concepts such as integrated coastal zone management, ecosystem-based management and managed retreat. However, such supposedly mobile and transferable approaches often fail to properly account for t ...
anthropogenic activities; arid lands; biological soil crusts; climate change; data collection; ecosystems; grasslands; land use; models; photosynthesis; rain; temperate zones; topography; Central European region; Germany
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... Biological soil crusts (BSCs) are thin microbiological vegetation layers that naturally develop in unfavorable higher plant conditions (i.e., low precipitation rates and high temperatures) in global drylands. They consist of poikilohydric organisms capable of adjusting their metabolic activities depending on the water availability. However, they, and with them, their ecosystem functions, are endan ...
... Proliferative kidney disease (PKD) caused by the myxozoan parasite Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae is an emerging salmonid disease implicated in recent declines in salmonid populations. Laboratory experiments have shown that the clinical symptoms of PKD exacerbate with increasing temperature. However, empirical evidence for a relationship between climate change and PKD driven declines in wild salmon ...
... The paper presents results of a palaeobotanical investigation of the borehole core Komorniki 97/72 from the Ruja lignite deposit, Lower Silesia. In the deposit lignites of three (2nd Lusatian, 2nd A Lubin, and 1st mid-Polish) middle Miocene groups of seams are present. The lignites of the 1st and 2nd groups are important correlation horizons throughout much of the Polish Lowlands and eastern Germa ...
case studies; climate change; data analysis; irrigation systems; microclimate; spring; viability; water distribution; water shortages; Germany
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... Water scarcity is becoming an increasingly important issue – also for cities in the Western world. As key-regulators of cities' micro-climate, urban trees suffer from this scarcity fueled by rising temperatures. With climate change on our doorsteps, cities turn to smart city concepts that harness advanced information technologies' potential to conserve scarce resources. Regarding withering trees, ...
Japan; animal manure management; carbon dioxide; carbon footprint; climate change; crop models; cropland; data collection; greenhouse gases; insurance; inventories; issues and policy; land use; soil erosion; soil management; soil organic carbon; Australia; France; Germany; New Zealand; Ontario; United Kingdom
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... Globally, agricultural soils are being evaluated for their role in climate change regulation as a potential sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) through sequestration of organic carbon as soil organic matter. Scientists and policy analysts increasingly seek to develop programs and policies which recognize the importance of mitigation of climate change and insurance of ecological sustainabilit ...
case studies; circular economy; climate change; databases; environmental impact; eutrophication; fossils; freshwater; inventories; life cycle impact assessment; life cycle inventory; user interface; wastes; wastewater treatment; Germany
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... The implementation of a circular economy in the construction sector is intended to reduce the environmental impact as well as the construction and demolition (C&D) waste generated. In most life cycle assessment (LCA) studies, the end-of-life (EoL) stage, specifically the demolition stage, is not included because only a marginal influence on the environmental impacts of a building's life cycle is a ...
Picea abies; Scolytidae; bark; bark beetles; climate change; forest dynamics; forestry development; forests; landscapes; national parks; Central European region; Germany
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... Bark beetle outbreaks have intensified in many forests around the globe in recent years. Yet, the legacy of these disturbances for future forest development remains unclear. Bark beetle disturbances are expected to increase further because of climate change. Consequently, feedbacks within the disturbance regime are of growing interest, for example, whether bark beetle outbreaks are amplifying futu ...
Japan; capital; climate change; economic development; environmental impact; environmental quality; globalization; issues and policy; renewable energy sources; time series analysis; trade; Germany
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... Renewable energy adaptation can play a critical role to halt climate change, although many researchers in the past tried to estimate its effect toward the environment, but the findings are still unclear and complex due to limitation of data and adopted methodologies. Therefore, to overcome the weaknesses, this paper aims to re-investigate the role of renewable energy adaptation, financial developm ...
Sarcoptiformes; climate; climate change; dead wood; drought; ecosystems; forest soils; forests; life history; mosses and liverworts; parthenogenesis; risk; sex ratio; species richness; spring; storms; summer; temperature; windthrow; Germany
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... Climate change is enhancing the annual mean temperature and the risk for droughts and natural disasters. Hot and dry summers not only have a negative impact on forest performance, but also affect fundamental ecosystem processes such as litter decomposition and nutrient cycling and the organisms involved. Oribatid mites are sexually or parthenogenetically reproducing soil-living microarthropods sub ...
Internet; air pollutants; air pollution; climate change; demographic statistics; elderly; health services; hospitals; human health; humidity; patients; rain; solar radiation; spring; summer; temperature; winter; Germany
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... Climate change and increasing risks of extreme weather events affect human health and lead to changes in the emergency department (ED) admissions and the emergency medical services (EMS) operations. For a better allocation of resources in the healthcare system, it is essential to predict ED numbers based on environmental variables. This publication aims to quantify weather, air pollution and calen ...
... Carbon neutrality has been a global consensus to navigate away from catastrophic climate change. In particular, such climate changes also generate inevitable influences on economic securities, such as energy security and food security, through energy structure transformation etc. Energy and food are essential elements for human beings, and they are naturally linked to sustainable development. Usua ...
... Urban green space is increasingly viewed as essential infrastructure to build resilience to climate change by retaining water in the city landscape and balancing ecohydrological partitioning into evapotranspiration for cooling and groundwater recharge. Quantifying how different vegetation types affect water partitioning is essential for future management, but paucity of data and the complex hetero ...
... For food security issues or global climate change, there is a growing need for large-scale knowledge of soil organic carbon (SOC) contents in agricultural soils. To capture and quantify SOC contents at a field scale, Earth Observation (EO) can be a valuable data source for area-wide mapping. The extraction of exposed soils from EO data is challenging due to temporal or permanent vegetation cover, ...
... 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 ...
... The Tibetan Plateau works as an important environmental and ecological barrier for the Asian continent. The researches on Tibetan environment and ecology are becoming extensive, but there is no systematic summary of research hotspots and trends in this field. Here, we analyzed 9180 publications retrieved from the WOS and CNKI during 2000 ~ 2020. The characteristics of publication, keywords with a ...
... Against the background of the current “Speed-Up Society,” which seems to foster a trade-off between economic success and climate change, we study whether the individual Pace of Life is associated with productivity and pro-environmental behavior on the micro-level. In a controlled laboratory environment with students in Germany, we measured the productivity of participants in a real effort task, qu ...
Quercus ilex; climate change; drought; forests; frost; heat; irrigation; plant establishment; reforestation; soil; Central European region; Germany; Greece; Italy; Southern European region
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... Climate change imposes severe stress on European forests, with forest degradation already visible in several parts of Europe. Thus adaptation of forestry applications in Mediterranean areas and central Europe is necessary. Proactive forestry management may include the planting of Mediterranean oak species in oak-bearing Central European regions. Five replicate common gardens of Greek and Italian p ...
... Airborne allergenic pollen impact the health of a great part of the global population. Under climate change conditions, the abundance of airborne pollen has been rising dramatically and so is the effect on sensitized individuals. The first line of allergy management is allergen avoidance, which, to date, is by rule achieved via forecasting of daily pollen concentrations. The aim of this study was ...
alluvial aquifer; climate; climate change; environment; evapotranspiration; evolution; groundwater; land use; models; nitrates; pollution; temperature; water budget; Germany
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... When investigating future nitrate (NO₃⁻) concentrations in groundwater, climate change has a major role as it determines the future water budget and, in turn, the conditions in the aquifer which will finally have a decisive effect on NO₃⁻ concentrations. In this study, the different effects on water balance and NO₃⁻ concentration under three projected climate scenarios - RCP 2.6, RCP 4.5, and RCP ...
... Climate change is producing threats to forests’ capacity of regulating water regimes. Therefore, thinning strategies can be applied to mitigate climate change impacts more efficiently by providing more spaces for trees to utilize resources e.g., water and nutrients. This study examined the effects of different thinning intensities and intervals on water characteristics and biomass growth of a 75-y ...
Abies alba; Fagus sylvatica subsp. sylvatica; Picea abies; acid rain; air pollution; climate; climate change; ecological balance; forest management; long term experiments; niches; risk; selection forests; species diversity; stand structure; surveys; trees; water stress; Germany
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... Research Highlights: We make use of long term observation data from a selection forest in Bavaria. Despite the changing environmental conditions, stand level productivity remains constant over time. Maintaining species and structural diversity by forest management can contribute to resilient forest ecosystems. Background and Objectives: Forests in mountains are similarly affected by environmental ...
Araneae; Japan; climate change; horticulture; niches; seasonal variation; spiders; synanthropes; Australia; Germany; New Zealand; South Africa; South America
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... Badumna longinqua (L. Koch, 1867) (Araneae: Desidae) is a web-building spider indigenous to eastern and southern Australia; it has been introduced to several countries in North and South America, as well as New Zealand, Japan and Germany. In South Africa, where it was formally recorded for the first time a decade ago, B. longinqua has been sampled from the southern coastal areas (Eastern and Weste ...
climate change; coastal ecosystems; coasts; confidence interval; data collection; decline; environment; habitats; land cover; sea level; uncertainty; Albania; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Mediterranean Sea; Netherlands; North Sea
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... Coastal erosion is a major issue facing Europe that will only worsen under future climate change and the resulting sea level rise. One effect of erosion is the loss of ecosystem services, which are provided by coastal areas, such as provisioning, regulating, habitat, and cultural services. These services can be quantified in monetary terms. Here, we present comprehensive estimates of future declin ...
... Nature-based solutions (NBS) for mitigating climate change are gaining popularity. The number of NBS is increasing, but research gaps still exist at the governance level. The objectives of this paper are (i) to give an overview of the implemented NBS for flood risk management and mitigation in Germany, (ii) to identify governance models that are applied, and (iii) to explore the differences betwee ...
... In order to analyze the impact of climate change on groundwater resources in North Rhine-Westphalia a multi-model ensemble for projecting future groundwater recharge was established. The ensemble consists of 36 members of the model chain RCP-GCM-RCM-mGROWA in total, i.e. combinations of 3 greenhouse gas concentration trajectories, 6 global and 5 regional climate models, and the water balance model ...
... In 2019, record-setting temperatures in Europe adversely affected human health and wellbeing (WMO 2020) and cities—thus, people in urban areas suffered particularly under heat stress. However, not only heat stress but also the differential vulnerability of people exposed is key when defining adaptation priorities. Up to now, local data on vulnerability and particularly adaptive capacities is rathe ...
... Floods are a known natural hazard in Germany, but the amount of precipitation and ensuing high death toll and damages after the events especially from 14 to 15 July 2021 came as a surprise. Almost immediately questions about failure in the early warning chains and the effectiveness of the German response emerged, also internationally. This article presents lessons to learn and argues against a bla ...
... Large numbers of bats are killed by wind turbines globally, yet the specific demographic consequences of wind turbine mortality are still unclear. In this study, we compared characteristics of Nathusius' pipistrelles (Pipistrellus nathusii) killed at wind turbines (N = 119) to those observed within the live population (N = 524) during the summer migration period in Germany. We used generalized lin ...
... Quantifying the output uncertainty and tracking down its origins is key to interpreting the results of modelling studies. We performed such an uncertainty analysis on the predictions of forest growth and yield under climate change. We specifically focused on the effect of the interannual climate variability. For that, the climate years in the model input (daily resolution) were randomly shuffled w ...
... Social innovations for sustainable consumption have attracted policymakers’ attention internationally as a possible means to reach sustainability and climate change goals. So far, most of the research on the emergence and potential of social innovations has been carried out in the Global North. Consequentially, some theoretical approaches and concepts have not been reviewed critically for their ap ...
... When COVID-19 pandemic spread in Europe, governments imposed unprecedented confinement measures with mostly unknown repercussions on contemporary societies. In some cases, a considerable drop in energy consumption was observed, anticipating a scenario of sizable low-cost energy generation, from renewable sources, expected only for years later. In this paper, the impact of governmental restrictions ...
Dianthus gratianopolitanus; biodiversity; climate change; evolution; flagship species; genetic variation; germination; habitat conservation; heat sums; land use change; limestone; phenology; plant ecology; population viability; seed set; seedlings; spring; temperature; winter; Central European region; Germany
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... Species-rich rocky outcrops and cliff vegetation in central Europe distributed outside alpine regions are typically associated with historical landscapes of interrelated natural and cultural features such as the Swabian Alb in Germany. Consequently, in these regions, biodiversity is highly threatened by various factors, such as land use change and increased land use intensity. In central Europe, t ...
available water capacity; climate change; drought; groundwater; groundwater recharge; models; public water supply; soil water balance; soil water content; temperature; water management; Germany
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... Public water supply in southern Germany relies to a high degree on the usage of groundwater and spring water. Thus, knowledge about the development of the soil water balance and especially groundwater recharge is important. Within the cooperation project KLIWA (Climate Change and Consequences for Water Management), the development of the soil water balance and groundwater recharge from precipitati ...
applied research; case studies; climate change; electricity; energy policy; markets; wind; wind power; Germany; North Sea
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... The aim of this paper is to identify facilitating and hindering factors for onshore wind energy development near natural conservation regions, in particular in Lower Saxony's Wattenmeer region. An applied research approach was deployed to connect individual aspects of wind energy technology and establish a cross-disciplinary perspective on the expansion of wind energy. To this end, relevant facili ...
Federico Martinelli; Anna-Lena Vollheyde; Miguel A. Cebrián-Piqueras; Christina von Haaren; Elisa Lorenzetti; Paolo Barberi; Francesco Loreto; Angela Rosa Piergiovanni; Valkov Vladimir Totev; Alberico Bedini; Roberto Kron Morelli; Nourredine Yahia; Meriem Amina Rezki; Sarah Ouslim; F. Z. Fyad-Lameche; Abdelkader Bekki; Sanja Sikora; Dulce Rodríguez-Navarro; María Camacho; Rania Nabbout; Rola Amil; Darine Trabelsi; Derya Yucel; Sanaz Yousefi
... 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 a transformation of the agro-food systems and current agricultural value chain are crucial. One approach to redesign farming systems is the concept of biodiversity-based agricult ...
climate change; databases; environmental impact; field experimentation; freight; greenhouse gases; infrastructure; life cycle assessment; models; trucks; Germany
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... In order to investigate the contribution of electromobility to climate change, green house gas (GHG) emissions of electric vehicles need to be studied in a life cycle (LC) perspective using the method of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). Most LCA studies focus on passenger cars, but a high share of GHG emissions in the mobility sector comes from freight transport. Here we present a LCA of an emerging o ...
... Currently, the dynamics underlying the storage and acquisition of biomass, and thus carbon, in naturally developing forests are under debate. A better understanding of the biomass dynamics of forests is needed to clarify the role played by naturally developing forests in the mitigation of climate change. Long‐term monitoring data from unmanaged strict forest reserves (SFRs) in north‐western German ...
... Climate change has become a significant factor in crop production in the 21st century for many countries. To turn losses into profit, adaptation measures are needed, which are based on the analysis and forecast of economically valuable characteristics of crops. The field trial data were analyzed for 764 oat accessions from the global germplasm collection by the N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Institute o ...
Tobias Walter Miller; Dominik Florian Stangler; Elena Larysch; Harald Honer; Thomas Seifert; Heike Puhlmann; Georg von Arx; Patrick Fonti; Marina V. Fonti; Cyrille B.K. Rathgeber; Hans-Peter Kahle
... Climate change is expected to have significant impacts on European forests, causing changes in the geographic distribution of species and ecosystem functioning. Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) and silver fir (Abies alba) are considered potential alternatives to the drought endangered Norway spruce (Picea abies). However, still little is known about differences in their intra-annual growth dyna ...
... Provisioning a sufficient stable source of food requires sound knowledge about current and upcoming threats to agricultural production. To that end machine learning approaches were used to identify the prevailing climatic and soil hydrological drivers of spatial and temporal yield variability of four crops, comprising 40 years yield data each from 351 counties in Germany. Effects of progress in ag ...
algorithms; biodiversity; canopy; chlorophyll; climate change; data collection; leaf area index; leaf chlorophyll content; models; national parks; radiative transfer; spectral analysis; temperate forests; Germany
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... Assessment of vegetation biochemical and biophysical variables is useful when developing indicators for biodiversity monitoring and climate change studies. Here, we compared a radiative transfer model (RTM) inversion by merit function and five machine learning algorithms trained on an RTM simulated dataset predicting the three plant traits leaf chlorophyll content (LCC), canopy chlorophyll content ...
Landsat; agricultural land; agricultural statistics; biodiversity; climate change; data collection; drought; land cover; leaves; population growth; radar; summer; sustainable agriculture; time series analysis; Germany
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... Monitoring agricultural systems becomes increasingly important in the context of global challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, population growth, and the rising demand for agricultural products. High-resolution, national-scale maps of agricultural land are needed to develop strategies for future sustainable agriculture. However, the characterization of agricultural land cover over larg ...
Landsat; climate; climate change; growth models; humans; land cover; land use and land cover maps; landscapes; metropolitan areas; population growth; remote sensing; simulation models; surface temperature; urbanization; Germany
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... Urban sprawl is a ubiquitous with a complex network of driving forces and human and natural impacts on various scales of the coupled human-environment urban system. In Germany, a land consumption of 30 ha per day is envisaged. In that regard, the effect of growing metropolitan areas on the climate of local neighborhoods becomes more and more a topic in regional planning. Accordingly, the objective ...
... Public support of climate policies crucially depends on climate change beliefs. Here we analyze the effects of natural disaster experience on the belief in the existence of climate change. The primary data source is a panel survey covering 22,251 observations from 11,194 geo-located households collected in Germany between 2012 and 2015, combined with satellite imagery of a major flood event in 201 ...
... Electrification of all sectors needs net zero electricity (NZE) to slash greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), 38% of the global annual energy-related GHG of 34 Gt CO₂eq. NZE is to avoid climate catastrophe, predicted at 2.7 °C rise in global mean temperature by 2100 (at 50% probability). There is no consensus approach to the sustainable development of NZE systems. This study has developed a novel, rigo ...
... AIMS: Persistence plays a key role in both plant population and community dynamics as it allows withstanding temporarily habitat conditions unsuitable for growth and reproduction. Plants can exploit three different strategies to persist in situ (building soil seed banks, increasing adult longevity and/or clonal reproduction), the dominance of which in a community might vary along environmental gra ...
case studies; climate change; coasts; decision making; environmental economics; issues and policy; people; recreation; surveys; willingness to pay; Baltic Sea; Germany
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... Climate change adaptation is essential for coastal areas. This paper adds to the limited evidence on the trade-offs people are willing to make concerning coastal adaptation strategies along an entire coast of a state (Baltic Sea coast of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania). The trade-offs are conceptualised in a choice experiment in terms of six attributes: the extent of beach nourishment, dyke heighte ...
... Improved wheat varieties have ameliorated our food production. Intensive cropping systems, as in Germany, achieve very high grain yields and thus contribute greatly to global food security. As diseases, especially fungal pathogens, pose major threats in winter wheat production, disease management is crucial to uphold high production levels and to avoid economic losses. Yet, the economic value of b ...
... Climate change affects people's daily lives and industrial activities by increasing the frequency of extreme weather events, such as typhoons and heatwaves, raising the sea-level, and changing rainfall patterns. These effects expand across countries and industries through disruptions in supply chains. In this study, a method of identifying high-risk processes in the supply chain due to climate-rel ...
air temperature; climate change; data collection; drought; experimental design; heat; information management; urban areas; Germany
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... The cooling capacity of urban green spaces constitutes a key measure for cities to mitigate heat events, which is gaining importance in climate change adaptation and mitigation. In this protocol article, we present details on two field campaigns aiming at collecting dense air temperature data in two urban inner city parks in Leipzig, Germany, under unprecedented heat and drought conditions. We int ...
... Montane grasslands in Europe are exposed to increasing temperatures twice as fast as the global average. Changes in climatic conditions are possibly accompanied by an increase in land use intensity, caused by a prolongation of the vegetation period and the need to improve productivity. Therefore, the investigation of combined effects of climate change and land use intensity is needed to further im ...
climate change; environmental policy; federal government; governance; variance; Germany
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... Climate change adaptation (CCA) to reduce or prevent negative climate change impacts and, in some cases, maximize potential benefits is a complex challenge demanding multi-level policy action. In federalist systems, sub-national governments are among key actors for enabling adaptation and their clear commitments can increase collaboration and innovation at the local level. Germany serves as a part ...
... Braided reaches were common along near‐natural Alpine rivers, and the associated habitat dynamics supported plant and animal species specialized on early‐successional stages. The extensive riparian zones could mitigate climate change by absorbing floods and by retaining water during droughts. Human impacts largely reduced active river corridors through altered discharge and construction of dykes, ...
... Promoting and increasing the uptake of sustainable agricultural practices poses a major challenge for European agricultural policy. The scientific evidence for potentially relevant and environmentally beneficial practices, however, is scattered among numerous sources. This article examines the state of knowledge regarding agri-environmental practices and their impact on various domains of the envi ...
... BACKGROUND: Ixodid ticks from the Northern Hemisphere have registered a northward expansion in recent years, and Dermacentor reticulatus is such an example in Europe, its expansion being considered a result of climate change alongside other factors. The aim of this study was to identify the composition of questing tick species and the associated pathogens at different sites near the German Baltic ...
climate; climate change; human health; humans; issues and policy; morbidity; mortality; social welfare; stakeholders; Bhutan; Ethiopia; Germany
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... Climate change and variability remain a pressing global challenge directly and indirectly affecting human health. This has increased the demand for usable climate information for adaptation to climate related health challenges and for building effective response strategies. Climate services for health can help to enhance human well-being and in extreme cases can save human lives by reducing morbid ...
Sulukhan K. Temirbekova; Ivan M. Kulikov; Yuliya V. Afanasyeva; Olga O. Beloshapkina; Elena A. Kalashnikova; Rima N. Kirakosyan; Peter A. Dokukin; Dmitry E. Kucher; Mourad Latati; Nazih Y. Rebouh
... The paper presents the results of a 50-year research of the genepool of the winter wheat from the world’s largest wheat collection of N.I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry (VIR) to investigate its resistance to the abiotic stress factors of the Moscow region and see how closely it matches the attributes of a wheat ideotype as postulated by N.I. Vavilov in 1935. The critical years in studying th ...
... Humic acids (HAs) are macromolecular substances that play important roles in different areas of soil, atmosphere, water, and ecological environment restoration. Here, we applied bibliometric analysis to systematically evaluate HAs applications in the environmental field. In-depth analysis of the publication characteristics of 9145 articles published from 1980 to 2020 revealed that the number of ar ...
attitudes and opinions; carbon; carbon footprint; certification; climate change; consumer preferences; data analysis; food industry; foods; greenhouse gas emissions; issues and policy; logit analysis; trade; willingness to pay; Germany
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... Carbon neutral labeling of food products is a market-based approach to reduce carbon footprints in the agri-food sector. To better understand consumers’ preferences and attitudes towards a carbon neutral label on globally traded agri-food products, the willingness to pay (WTP) of German consumers for a carbon neutral label on specialty coffee was examined. A discrete choice experiment was conducte ...
... Six years have passed since the European Commission published its Roadmap for Climate Services (2015). Nowadays, this domain is characterized by a complex constellation of different products, services, and actors. Indeed, the definitions of climate services adopted by the WMO and the European Union are very vague, leading to possible mismatches between users’ expectations and producers’ offers in ...
... Using dendroclimatological techniques this study investigates whether inner city tree-ring width (TRW) chronologies from eight tree species (ash, beech, fir, larch, lime, sessile and pedunculate oak, and pine) are suitable to examine the urban heat island of Berlin, Germany. Climate-growth relationships were analyzed for 18 sites along a gradient of increasing urbanization covering Berlin and surr ...
... Climate change and associated changes in weather patterns have globally widespread effects on natural systems. Shifts in phenology can affect the reproductive success of birds by causing a mismatch between the onset of breeding and favourable conditions for reproduction, such as a peak in food availability. Weather conditions and their changes have also long been discussed as affecting the reprodu ...
Diana E. Bowler; David Eichenberg; Klaus‐Jürgen Conze; Frank Suhling; Kathrin Baumann; Theodor Benken; André Bönsel; Torsten Bittner; Arne Drews; André Günther; Nick J.B. Isaac; Falk Petzold; Marcel Seyring; Torsten Spengler; Bernd Trockur; Christoph Willigalla; Helge Bruelheide; Florian Jansen; Aletta Bonn
Anisoptera (Odonata); Zygoptera; citizen science; climate change; habitat destruction; habitats; insects; natural history; species richness; temperature; time series analysis; water quality; Germany
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... AIM: Recent studies suggest insect declines in parts of Europe; however, the generality of these trends across different taxa and regions remains unclear. Standardized data are not available to assess large‐scale, long‐term changes for most insect groups but opportunistic citizen science data are widespread for some. Here, we took advantage of citizen science data to investigate distributional cha ...
... Information on the responsiveness of winter barley to nitrogen (N) is scarce. Based on a long-term field trial (1978–2015) with different winter barley varieties in northern Germany combined with 64 N fertilizer treatments differing in amount (0–360 kg N ha⁻¹) and distribution, the effects of N fertilizer amount and variety on the grain yield and its components, grain protein concentration (GPC), ...
base flow; canopy; climate change; cooling; riparian areas; riparian buffers; riparian vegetation; streams; summer; water; water temperature; Germany
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... Water temperature is a key driver for riverine biota and strongly depends on shading by woody riparian vegetation in summer. While the general effects of shading on daily maximum water temperature Tₘₐₓ are well understood, knowledge gaps on the role of the spatial configuration still exist. In this study, the effect of riparian buffer length, width, and canopy cover (percentage of buffer area cove ...
... Phenological records of apple and pear trees, including flowering, harvest and leaf drop, and concomitant weather records at Klein-Altendorf (50° N) near Bonn, Germany were correlated using two approaches: (a) linear curve fitting and (b) comparison of mean values of the first 30 years (1956–1988) versus the recent 30 years of climate change (1989–2017). The annual air temperature increased by 1.7 ...
Caroline Hallin; Jacobus L. A. Hofstede; Grit Martinez; Jürgen Jensen; Nina Baron; Thorsten Heimann; Aart Kroon; Arne Arns; Björn Almström; Per Sørensen; Magnus Larson
... From November 12th to 13th in 1872, an extreme coastal flood event occurred in the south Baltic Sea. An unusual combination of winds created a storm surge reaching up to 3.5 m above mean sea level, which is more than a meter higher than all other observations over the past 200 years. On the Danish, German, and Swedish coasts, about 300 people lost their lives. The consequences of the storm in Denm ...