TY - JOUR A1 - Bazzo, Clara Oliva Gonçalves A1 - Kamali, Bahareh A1 - Behrend, Dominik A1 - Hueging, Hubert A1 - Schleip, Inga A1 - Mosebach, Paul A1 - Behrendt, Axel A1 - Gaiser, Thomas T1 - Assessing the Effect of Field Disturbances On Biomass Estimation in Grasslands Using UAV-Derived Canopy Height Models JF - PFG – Journal of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Science N2 - Abstract Accurate estimation of biomass in grasslands is essential for understanding ecosystem health and productivity. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as valuable tools for biomass estimation using canopy height models derived from high-resolution imagery. However, the impact of field disturbances, such as lodging and molehills, on the accuracy of biomass estimation using UAV-derived canopy height models remains underexplored. This study aimed to assess the relationship between UAV-derived canopy height and both reference canopy height measurements and dry biomass, accounting for different management systems and disturbance scenarios. UAV data were collected using a multispectral camera, and ground-based measurements were obtained for validation. The results revealed that UAV-derived canopy height models remained accurate in estimating vegetation height, even in the presence of disturbances. However, the relationship between UAV-derived canopy height and dry biomass was affected by disturbances, leading to overestimation or underestimation of biomass depending on disturbance type and severity. The impact of disturbances on biomass estimation varied across cutting systems. These findings highlight the potential of UAV-derived canopy height models for estimating vegetation structure, but also underscore the need for caution in relying solely on these models for accurate biomass estimation in heterogeneous grasslands. Future research should explore strategies to enhance biomass estimation accuracy by integrating additional data sources and accounting for field disturbances. KW - - KW - Vegetation structure KW - Monitoring KW - Ecosystem services KW - Remote sensing Y1 - 2025 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:eb1-opus-9685 SN - 2512-2789 SN - 2512-2819 VL - 93 IS - 1 SP - 37 EP - 49 PB - Springer International Publishing CY - Cham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sousa-Silva, Rita A1 - Feurer, Mélanie A1 - Morhart, Christopher A1 - Sheppard, Jonathan P. A1 - Albrecht, Stefanie A1 - Anys, Markus A1 - Beyer, Friderike A1 - Blumenstein, Kathrin A1 - Reinecke, Sabine A1 - Seifert, Thomas A1 - Whitehead, Ian A1 - Pauleit, Stephan A1 - Bauhus, Jürgen T1 - Seeing the Trees Without the Forest: What and How can Agroforestry and Urban Forestry Learn from Each Other? JF - Current Forestry Reports N2 - Abstract Purpose of Review Agroforestry and urban forestry have evolved mainly as separate disciplines, although they share a long history of tree cultivation in man-made environments. Here, we review their common threads, exploring how trees in both systems interact with and shape their environments. We examine common themes and methodologies – ranging from tree growth dynamics to environmental stressors, ecosystem services provision, and questions of governance – and identify opportunities for synergies between these fields. Recent Findings We emphasize the potential of agroforestry and urban forestry for enhancing multifunctional landscapes. Geographical divides in research are evident, with agroforestry predominantly studied in the Global South and urban forestry receiving more attention in the Global North. However, significant research gaps provide avenues for collaboration, for instance, addressing challenges in capturing the monetary and socio-cultural value of ecosystem services and environmental justice considerations. Summary In light of the growing need for integrated approaches in addressing contemporary challenges, from climate change mitigation and adaptation to community well-being, our review explores what these research fields can learn from each other and provides recommendations for fostering greater interdisciplinary dialogue and new avenues for collaborations in a meaningful and synergistic manner, aiming to advance policy, research, and practice in agroforestry and urban forestry. KW - - KW - Ecosystem services KW - Interdisciplinary research KW - Social − ecological systems KW - Sustainability KW - Trees outside forests KW - Urban–rural green infrastructure Y1 - 2024 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:eb1-opus-9543 SN - 2198-6436 VL - 10 IS - 4 SP - 239 EP - 254 PB - Springer International Publishing CY - Cham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hernández-Morcillo, M. A1 - Torralba, M. A1 - Baiges, T. A1 - Bernasconi, A. A1 - Bottaro, G. A1 - Brogaard, S. A1 - Bussola, F. A1 - Díaz-Varela, E. A1 - Geneletti, D. A1 - Grossmann, C. M. A1 - Kister, J. A1 - Klingler, M. A1 - Loft, L. A1 - Lovric, M. A1 - Mann, C. A1 - Pipart, N. A1 - Roces-Díaz, J. V. A1 - Sorge, S. A1 - Tiebel, M. A1 - Tyrväinen, L. A1 - Varela, E. A1 - Winkel, G. A1 - Plieninger, T. T1 - Scanning the solutions for the sustainable supply of forest ecosystem services in Europe JF - Sustainability Science N2 - Abstract Forests are key components of European multifunctional landscapes and supply numerous forest ecosystem services (FES) fundamental to human well-being. The sustainable provision of FES has the potential to provide responses to major societal challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, or rural development. To identify suitable strategies for the future sustenance of FES, we performed a solution scanning exercise with a group of transdisciplinary forest and FES experts from different European regions. We identified and prioritized fifteen major challenges hindering the balanced provision of multiple FES and identified a series of potential solutions to tackle each of them. The most prominent challenges referred to the increased frequency and impacts of extreme weather events and the normative mindset regarding forest management. The respective solutions pointed to the promotion of forest resilience via climate-smart forestry and mainstreaming FES-oriented management through a threefold strategy focusing on education, awareness raising, and networking. In a subsequent survey, most solutions were assessed as highly effective, transferable, monitorable, and with potential for being economically efficient. The implementation of the solutions could have synergistic effects when applying the notion of leverage points. Seven emerging pathways towards the sustainable supply of FES have been identified. These pathways build on each other and are organized based on their potential for transformation: (1) shifting forest management paradigms towards pluralistic ecosystem valuation; (2) using integrated landscape approaches; (3) increasing forest resilience; (4) coordinating actions between forest-related actors; (5) increasing participation in forest planning and management; (6) continuous, open, and transparent knowledge integration; and (7) using incentive-based instruments to support regulating and cultural FES. These pathways can contribute to the implementation of the new EU Forestry Strategy to support the balanced supply of multiple FES. Graphical abstract KW - - KW - European forests KW - Ecosystem services KW - Sustainability KW - Solution scanning KW - Leverage points KW - EU Forestry Strategy KW - Environmental Sciences Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:eb1-opus-9186 SN - 1862-4065 SN - 1862-4057 VL - 17 IS - 5 SP - 2013 EP - 2029 PB - Springer Japan ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Voglhuber-Slavinsky, Ariane A1 - Lemke, Nahleen A1 - MacPherson, Joseph A1 - Dönitz, Ewa A1 - Olbrisch, Mathias A1 - Schöbel, Philipp A1 - Moller, Björn A1 - Bahrs, Enno A1 - Helming, Katharina T1 - Valorization for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in the Agri-Food Value Chain JF - Environmental Management N2 - Abstract This article defines the term valorization of biodiversity and ecosystem services (BES) measures, as distinguished from their valuation, and underpins it with an assessment of private valorization examples along the agri-food value chain. Valorization incentivizes measures for promoting BES, while valuation refers to its quantification. Valuation can be a step of valorization but is not indispensable. In scientific literature, the terms valorization and valuation are often used interchangeably. In addition, there is a lack of research on private options versus conventional, public policy options. Therefore, we searched for private valorization options primarily in public sources (gray literature and websites). This led to the identification of four clusters (markets for voluntary services, labeling, and certification, environmental management/CSR, and tradable permits and quotas). Based on these clusters the options were assessed from a legal and systems dynamics perspective. In addition, the viability of selected valorization options in different future scenarios was examined. The analysis revealed a wide range of private valorization options, which in contrast to public policy options that focus almost entirely on the production stage, are spread across the agri-food value chain. Their suitability differs under different future scenarios, legal and systems conditions. KW - - KW - Biodiversity KW - Ecosystem services KW - Valorization KW - Value chain KW - Foresight KW - Private valorization options KW - Studies in Human Society Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:eb1-opus-9162 SN - 0364-152X SN - 1432-1009 VL - 72 IS - 6 SP - 1163 EP - 1188 PB - Springer US ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Tanneberger, Franziska A1 - Birr, Friedrich A1 - Couwenberg, John A1 - Kaiser, Moritz A1 - Luthardt, Vera A1 - Nerger, Monique A1 - Pfister, Sonja A1 - Oppermann, Rainer A1 - Zeitz, Jutta A1 - Beyer, Colja A1 - van der Linden, Sebastian A1 - Wichtmann, Wendelin A1 - Närmann, Felix T1 - Saving soil carbon, greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity and the economy: paludiculture as sustainable land use option in German fen peatlands JF - Regional Environmental Change N2 - AbstractPeatlands in the European Union are largely drained for agriculture and emit 25% of the total agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. Drainage-based peatland use has also negative impacts on water quality, drinking water provision and biodiversity. Consequently, key EU environmental policy objectives include the rewetting of all drained peatlands as an essential nature-based solution. Rewetting of peatlands can be combined with site-adapted land use, so-called paludiculture. Paludiculture produces biomass from wet and rewetted peatlands under conditions that maintain the peat body, facilitate peat accumulation and can provide many of the ecosystem services associated with natural, undrained peatlands. The biomass can be used for a wide range of traditional and innovative food, feed, fibre and fuel products. Based on examples in Germany, we have analysed emerging paludiculture options for temperate Europe with respect to greenhouse gas fluxes, biodiversity and indicative business economics. Best estimates of site emission factors vary between 0 and 8 t CO2eq ha−1 y−1. Suitability maps for four peatland-rich federal states (76% of total German peatland area) indicate that most of the drained, agriculturally used peatland area could be used for paludiculture, about one-third of the fen area for any paludiculture type. Fen-specific biodiversity benefits from rewetting and paludiculture, if compared to the drained state. Under favourable conditions, paludiculture can be economically viable, but costs and revenues vary considerably. Key recommendations for large-scale implementation are providing planning security by paludiculture spatial planning, establishing best practice sites and strengthening research into crops, water tables and management options. KW - - KW - Agriculture KW - Biodiversity KW - Ecosystem services KW - Greenhouse gases KW - Mitigation KW - Organic soil KW - Environmental Sciences Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:eb1-opus-9142 SN - 1436-3798 SN - 1436-378X VL - 22 IS - 2 PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mouratiadou, Ioanna A1 - Lemke, Nahleen A1 - Chen, Cheng A1 - Wartenberg, Ariani A1 - Bloch, Ralf A1 - Donat, Marco A1 - Gaiser, Thomas A1 - Hanike Basavegowda, Deepak A1 - Helming, Katharina A1 - Ali Hosseini Yekani, Seyed A1 - Krull, Marcos A1 - Lingemann, Kai A1 - Macpherson, Joseph A1 - Melzer, Marvin A1 - Nendel, Claas A1 - Piorr, Annette A1 - Shaaban, Mostafa A1 - Zander, Peter A1 - Weltzien, Cornelia A1 - Bellingrath-Kimura, Sonoko Dorothea T1 - The Digital Agricultural Knowledge and Information System (DAKIS): Employing digitalisation to encourage diversified and multifunctional agricultural systems JF - Environmental Science and Ecotechnology N2 - Multifunctional and diversified agriculture can address diverging pressures and demands by simultaneously enhancing productivity, biodiversity, and the provision of ecosystem services. The use of digital technologies can support this by designing and managing resource-efficient and context-specific agricultural systems. We present the Digital Agricultural Knowledge and Information System (DAKIS) to demonstrate an approach that employs digital technologies to enable decision-making towards diversified and sustainable agriculture. To develop the DAKIS, we specified, together with stakeholders, requirements for a knowledge-based decision-support tool and reviewed the literature to identify limitations in the current generation of tools. The results of the review point towards recurring challenges regarding the consideration of ecosystem services and biodiversity, the capacity to foster communication and cooperation between farmers and other actors, and the ability to link multiple spatiotemporal scales and sustainability levels. To overcome these challenges, the DAKIS provides a digital platform to support farmers' decision-making on land use and management via an integrative spatiotemporally explicit approach that analyses a wide range of data from various sources. The approach integrates remote and in situ sensors, artificial intelligence, modelling, stakeholder-stated demand for biodiversity and ecosystem services, and participatory sustainability impact assessment to address the diverse drivers affecting agricultural land use and management design, including natural and agronomic factors, economic and policy considerations, and socio-cultural preferences and settings. Ultimately, the DAKIS embeds the consideration of ecosystem services, biodiversity, and sustainability into farmers' decision-making and enables learning and progress towards site-adapted small-scale multifunctional and diversified agriculture while simultaneously supporting farmers' objectives and societal demands. KW - Digital agriculture KW - Ecosystem services KW - Decision support system KW - Farming practices KW - Biodiversity KW - Modelling KW - Small-scale management Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:eb1-opus-8012 SN - 2666-4984 VL - 16 PB - Elsevier ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Loft, Lasse A1 - Schleyer, Christian A1 - Klingler, Michael A1 - Kister, Jutta A1 - Zoll, Felix A1 - Stegmaier, Peter A1 - Aukes, Ewert A1 - Sorge, Stefan A1 - Mann, Carsten T1 - The development of governance innovations for the sustainable provision of forest ecosystem services in Europe: A comparative analysis of four pilot innovation processes JF - Ecosystem Services N2 - In the past decades, novel governance and management approaches that support the provision of non-marketable Forest Ecosystem Services (FES) have emerged throughout Europe. However, it remains unclear under which circumstances such modes of FES governance develop and which sets of social-ecological parameters, management formats, and interests enable or constrain these processes. In this paper, we aim to shed light on the development processes of such governance innovations. We combine approaches from natural resource governance with insights from innovation studies to identify the close interrelations between designing governance approaches and the inherent innovation dynamics in their development. Empirically, we apply an adapted innovation journey approach to reconstruct the development history of four governance innovations in Europe. We analyse key turning points and crucial influencing factors of the innovation processes, focussing on interests, resources, and values of actors, biophysical and technical conditions of the forest resource systems, institutions and governance arrangements, and features of the innovation management. Our findings show that often individual actors became mainstays of the innovation developments, whereas governmental organisations took up an important role in managing the innovation development process, without being the main change agents. Further, in cases with a reliable legal environment and existing funding schemes innovation development was fostered effectively. While various natural disturbances negatively impacted upon innovation development, most crisis-related interruptions provided an opportunity for radically changing pathways. We conclude that to cope with these uncertain development dynamics, conditions for innovation development need to be created that allow for continuous monitoring and adaptation of innovation processes along their development. For future governance innovation development processes, this calls for the setup of protected spaces that allow for stakeholder participation and open deliberation of interests and expectations regarding FES provisioning as preconditions for governance co-design work based on mutual learning and reflection. KW - Forest policy KW - Forest management KW - Ecosystem services KW - Governance KW - Constructive innovation assessment KW - Innovation journeys KW - EU Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:eb1-opus-7457 SN - 2212-0416 VL - 58 PB - Elsevier ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Marselle, Melissa R. A1 - Hartig, Terry A1 - Cox, Daniel T.C. A1 - de Bell, Siân A1 - Knapp, Sonja A1 - Lindley, Sarah A1 - Triguero-Mas, Margarita A1 - Böhning-Gaese, Katrin A1 - Braubach, Matthias A1 - Cook, Penny A. A1 - de Vries, Sjerp A1 - Heintz-Buschart, Anna A1 - Hofmann, Max A1 - Irvine, Katherine N. A1 - Kabisch, Nadja A1 - Kolek, Franziska A1 - Kraemer, Roland A1 - Markevych, Iana A1 - Martens, Dörte A1 - Müller, Ruth A1 - Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark A1 - Potts, Jacqueline M. A1 - Stadler, Jutta A1 - Walton, Samantha A1 - Warber, Sara L. A1 - Bonn, Aletta T1 - Pathways linking biodiversity to human health: A conceptual framework JF - Environment International N2 - Biodiversity is a cornerstone of human health and well-being. However, while evidence of the contributions of nature to human health is rapidly building, research into how biodiversity relates to human health remains limited in important respects. In particular, a better mechanistic understanding of the range of pathways through which biodiversity can influence human health is needed. These pathways relate to both psychological and social processes as well as biophysical processes. Building on evidence from across the natural, social and health sciences, we present a conceptual framework organizing the pathways linking biodiversity to human health. Four domains of pathways—both beneficial as well as harmful—link biodiversity with human health: (i) reducing harm (e.g. provision of medicines, decreasing exposure to air and noise pollution); (ii) restoring capacities (e.g. attention restoration, stress reduction); (iii) building capacities (e.g. promoting physical activity, transcendent experiences); and (iv) causing harm (e.g. dangerous wildlife, zoonotic diseases, allergens). We discuss how to test components of the biodiversity-health framework with available analytical approaches and existing datasets. In a world with accelerating declines in biodiversity, profound land-use change, and an increase in non-communicable and zoonotic diseases globally, greater understanding of these pathways can reinforce biodiversity conservation as a strategy for the promotion of health for both people and nature. We conclude by identifying research avenues and recommendations for policy and practice to foster biodiversity-focused public health actions. KW - Biodiversity KW - Ecosystem services KW - Nature KW - Mediation KW - Public health KW - Human well-being Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:eb1-opus-5624 SN - 0160-4120 VL - 150 ER -