ausgewählte Veröffentlichungen

• Abschnitt eines Buches

  • Effective nature conservation is needed to protect the Caatinga biome 2017
  • Leaflet Caatinga: knowing, liking, conserving 2017
  • Managing Caatinga sustainably: good for livestock, farmers, and the environment 2017
  • Soil amendments can enhance the nutrient retention capacity of sandy soils 2017
  • Technology for an environmentally and economically sound irrigated agriculture 2017
  • Using undersowing of diverse weed species mixturesagainst insect decline? Promoting weed diversity increasesarthropod densitiy and biomass in cereal crops

• Buch

  • European atlas of forest tree species 2016
  • Landbedeckungs- und Landschaftsdiversitätsveränderungen in den Caatinga Trockenwäldern (2001-2012) – Landschaftsmusteranalysen mit MODIS Land Cover Produkten 2015
  • Kohlenstoffvorrat in Flussauen 2012
  • Umweltmanagement von Grossveranstaltungen: ein Leitfaden am Beispiel des Deutschen Evangelischen Kirchentages 2008
  • Vom Recyclingpapier bis zur Nullemission - Umweltmanagement beim Deutschen Evangelischen Kirchentag 2006
  • Umweltmanagement beim Deutschen Evangelischen Kirchentag 2006
  • Zusammenstellung und Auswertung von radio-ökologischen Messdaten zum Transfer Boden/Pflanze unter Berücksichtigung der lokalen Variabilität in Deutschland. St.Sch.-Nr. 4220 2004
  • Zusammenstellung und Auswertung von radioökologischen Messdaten zum Transfer Boden/Pflanze unter Berücksichtigung der lokalen Variabilität in Deutschland 2004
  • Diseño y Verificación de un Marco Metodológico para la Evaluación de Proyectos del Servicio de Voluntarios de las Naciones Unidas (VNU). Evaluación del Proyecto Randi-Randi en Ecuador 2001
  • Entwicklungspolitische Diskussionstage 2001 2001

• Konferenz-Paper

  • Biochar vs. clay: comparison of their effects on nutrient retention of a tropical Arenosol 2018
  • How regional projects contribute to international resource management and nature conservation: Science-policy-interface in the German-Brazilian regional project INNOVATE 2016
  • New management approaches for silvopastoralism and agriculture in semiarid areas 2016
  • Land-use impacts on biodiversity and carbon sequestration in grazed Caatinga dry forests, NE Brazil 2015
  • Yield-diversity relationships in perennial crop fields of North-Eastern Brazil 2015
  • Research cluster vegetation 2015
  • Implementing Aichi-Targets 5, 7, 14 and 15 – Research results from projects in Brazil and Germany 2014
  • Contribution to Aichi-Targets from land management projects in China, Brazil, Vietnam and the Philippines
  • Ecosystem nutrition – phosphorous in soil and biomass of beech and spruce forest ecosystems is strongly linked with tree layer´s species richness and biodiversity
  • Environmental and anthropogenic drivers of biodiversity and tree population ecology in grazed Caatinga dry forests of NE Brazil
  • From coca to cocoa – economic sustainability of smallholder cocoa production by recovery of native cocoa varieties in Peru
  • Grazing in forests - opportunities and threats in forest ecosystems of the world
  • How does the historical land use influence the population dynamics of Spondias tuberosa Arr Câm. in the Caatinga
  • Impacts of recent land use on the fine-scale genetic structure of the endemic tree Spondias tuberosa Arr.
  • Land-use impacts on plant diversity and carbon storage at Itaparica reservoir
  • Nachhaltige Ernährungsbildung und die Bedeutung der Schulgärten. Das essbare Klassenzimmer – Schulgartenengagement und der Genuss der Ernte
  • Towards land degradation neutrality in vulnerable ecosystems: an inter- and transdisciplinary approach in the Brazilian Caatinga

• Konferenz-Poster

  • Linking farm management, plant nutrition, and cocoa quality: Insights from Peruvian cacao farms 2018
  • Development of a standard protocol for the fermentation process of selected Trinitario fine and flavour clones for optimizing product quality and economically sustainable cocoa production in Peru 2014
  • How does weed diversity affect crop yield?
  • Investigation on Epiphyte Assemblages on Posidonia oceanica in Potentially Distrubed and Control Sites, Lipsi Island, Aegean Sea
  • Ufernahes Jungfischmonitoring am Greifswalder Bodden
  • With weeds against insect decline? Promoting in-field weed diversity increases absolute arthropod density and biomass in cereal cultures.

• Wissenschaftliche Vortragsfolien

  • Herausforderungen und Chancen des Tagebaus für die Biodiversität. 2024
  • Biodiversität und Ökosystemleistungen 2024
  • Stadtbrachen: Wie wichtig sind sie für die biologische Vielfalt in Dresden? 2023
  • Biodiversität in Sachsen
  • Ecologization of soybean growing
  • Einführung in die Welt der biologischen Vielfalt in Kleingärten – Die Perspektive der Wissenschaft
  • Implementing Biodiversity Knowledge in Saxony:Strategies, Stakeholders and Scales
  • Insel der Rechte
  • Nutzung von Pflanzenkomplementarität in der Landwirtschaft: Reaktionen von Sommerweizen, Gerste, Hafer und Mais auf die Vielfalt von Beikrautarten in Mittelgebirgslagen
  • Pflanzenkomplementarität und ihre Wirkung auf den Ertrag, die Pflanzenernährung und den Sekundärstoffwechsel von Nutzpflanzen: Eine Einführung
  • Socio-ecological challenges in post-mining landscapes
  • Socio-ecological challenges in post-mining landscapes
  • Using undersowing of diverse weed species mixtures against insect decline? Promoting weed diversity increases arthropod densitiy and biomass in cereal crops.
  • Vegetation engineering techniques for increasing biodiversity during and after mining
  • Vorstellung des Transferzentrums für Biodiversität Sachsen.

• Wissenschaftlicher Artikel

  • Effectiveness of reforms to eliminate obstacles in the development of sustainable energy in different countries of the world.  Problems and perspectives in management, Vol.22(3), pp. 1-13.  2024
  • Vorteile durch erhöhte Biodiversität: Artenreiche Untersaaten – eine wirkungsvolle Methode zur Steigerung der biologischen Vielfalt in einer ertragsorientierten Landwirtschaft?.  Lumbrico : konservierender ökologischer Landbau, (18), pp. 29-33.  2024
  • Amending a tropical Arenosol: increasing shares of biochar and clay improve the nutrient sorption capacity.  Biochar (Online), Vol.4(1).  2022
  • Goats foster endozoochoric dispersal of exotic species in a seasonally dry tropical forest ecosystem.  Journal of arid environments, Vol.188, p. 104473.  2021
  • Exploring the biotic homogenization and diversity resistance hypotheses: The understorey of non‐native and native woodland canopies in three urban areas of Europe.  Diversity & distributions, Vol.27(9), p. 1747.  2021
  • Exploring the biotic homogenization and diversity resistance hypotheses: The understorey of non-native and native woodland canopies in three urban areas of Europe.  Diversity & distributions, Vol.27(9), pp. 1747-1758.  2021
  • Striegeln, Brennen, oder: Säen? 2021
  • Linkages between Phosphorus and Plant Diversity in Central European Forest Ecosystems-Complementarity or Competition?.  Forests, Vol.10(12), p. 1156.  2019
  • Grazing reduces plant species diversity of Caatinga dry forests in northeastern Brazil.  Applied vegetation science, Vol.22(2), pp. 348-359.  2019
  • Biochar vs. clay: Comparison of their effects on nutrient retention of a tropical Arenosol.  Geoderma, Vol.337, pp. 524-535.  2019
  • Cadmium Accumulation in Peruvian Cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) and Opportunities for Mitigation.  Water, air, and soil pollution, Vol.230(3), pp. 1-18.  2019
  • Grazing, forest density, and carbon storage: towards a more sustainable land use in Caatinga dry forests of Brazil.  Regional environmental change, Vol.18(7), pp. 1969-1981.  2018
  • The legacy of large dams and their effects on the water-land nexus.  Regional environmental change, Vol.18(7), pp. 1883-1888.  2018
  • A novel dendrochronological approach reveals drivers of carbon sequestration in tree species of riparian forests across spatiotemporal scales.  The Science of the total environment, Vol.574, pp. 1261-1275.  2017
  • Land change and loss of landscape diversity at the Caatinga phytogeographical domain – Analysis of pattern-process relationships with MODIS land cover products (2001–2012).  Journal of arid environments, Vol.136, pp. 54-74.  2017
  • Floristic survey of the caatinga in areas with different grazing intensities, Pernambuco, Northeast Brazil.  Journal of environmental analysis and progress, Vol.1(1), pp. 43-51.  2016
  • Grazing deteriorates the soil carbon stocks of Caatinga forest ecosystems in Brazil.  Forest ecology and management, Vol.367, pp. 62-70.  2016
  • Soil formation and its implications for stabilization of soil organic matter in the riparian zone.  Catena (Giessen), Vol.139, pp. 9-18.  2016
  • Is crop yield related to weed species diversity and biomass in coconut and banana fields of northeastern Brazil? 2016
  • Robinia pseudoacacia in Europe: distribution, habitat, usage and threats 2016
  • Drivers of carbon sequestration by biomass compartment of riparian forests.  Ecosphere (Washington, D.C), Vol.6(10), pp. art185-16.  2015
  • The interplay of sedimentation and carbon accretion in riparian forests 2014
  • Biological Flora of the British Isles: Robinia pseudoacacia.  The Journal of ecology, Vol.101(6), pp. 1623-1640.  2013
  • Fine root and aboveground carbon stocks in riparian forests: the roles of diking and environmental gradients.  Plant and soil, Vol.370(1-2), pp. 497-509.  2013
  • Biotic homogenization at the community scale: disentangling the roles of urbanization and plant invasion.  Diversity & distributions, Vol.19(7), pp. 738-748.  2013
  • Prevalence of alien versus native species of woody plants in Berlin differs between habitats and at different scales.  Preslia (Praha), Vol.85(2), pp. 113-132.  2013
  • Regeneration of the East African timber tree Ocotea usambarensis in relation to historical logging.  Forest ecology and management, Vol.291, pp. 396-403.  2013
  • Plant species diversity in alien black locust stands: A paired comparison with native stands across a north-Mediterranean range expansion.  Forest ecology and management, Vol.285, pp. 85-91.  2012
  • Historic and recent fragmentation coupled with altitude affect the genetic population structure of one of the world's highest tropical tree line species.  Global ecology and biogeography, Vol.21(4), pp. 455-464.  2012
  • Knowledge-based classification of remote sensing data for the estimation of below- and above-ground organic carbon stocks in riparian forests.  Wetlands ecology and management, Vol.20(2), pp. 151-163.  2012
  • Operational performance indicators for litter management at festivals in semi-natural landscapes.  Ecological indicators, Vol.13(1), pp. 328-337.  2012
  • Direct and indirect effects of ski run management on alpine Orthoptera.  Biodiversity and conservation, Vol.21(1), pp. 281-296.  2012
  • Organic matter distribution in floodplains can be predicted using spatial and vegetation structure data 2011
  • Carbon stocks of soil and vegetation on Danubian floodplains 2010
  • Mating system, outcrossing distance effects and pollen availability in the wind-pollinated treeline species Polylepis australis BITT.(Rosaceae) 2009
  • Recruitment of trees at tropical alpine treelines: Erica in Africa versus Polylepis in South America 2008
  • Post-fire population dynamics of two tree species in high-altitude Polylepis forests of central ecuador.  Biotropica, Vol.40(2), pp. 176-182.  2008
  • Effects of altitude and livestock on the regeneration of two tree line forming Polylepis species in Ecuador 2008
  • Impact of sowing, canopy cover and litter on seedling dynamics of two Polylepis species at upper tree lines in central Ecuador 2007
  • Variation of stand structure and regeneration of Mediterranean holm oak along a grazing intensity gradient.  Plant ecology, Vol.173(2), pp. 215-223.  2004
  • Effects of grazing on the species composition in a holm oak forest community of south-eastern Spain (Adenocarpo decorticantis-Quercetum rotundifoliae Rivas Martínez 1987) 2002
  • Plant diversity effects on crop yield, pathogen incidence, and secondary metabolism on cacao farms in Peruvian Amazonia.  Agriculture, ecosystems & environment, Vol.222, pp. 223-234. 
  • Potential lateral expansion of Polylepis forest fragments in central Ecuador