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  1. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    June, 2009
    Ecuador

    Long-term field studies in the scope of a multidisciplinary project in southern Ecuador revealed extraordinary high species
    numbers of many organismic groups. This article discusses reasons for the outstanding vascular plant diversity using a
    hierarchical scale-oriented top-down approach (Grüninger 2005), from the global scale to the local microscale. The global
    scale explains general (paleo-) ecological factors valid for most parts of the humid tropics, addressing various hypotheses

  2. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    November, 2009

    The present chaotic transformation from the industrial to the global information society is accelerating the ecological,
    social and economic unsustainability. The rapidly growing unsustainable, fossil energy powered urbanindustrial
    technosphere and their detrimental impacts on nature and human well-being are threatening the solar
    energy powered natural and seminatural biosphere landscapes and their vital ecosystem services. A sustainability
    revolution is therefore urgently needed, requiring a shift from the „fossil age“ to the „solar age“ of a new world

  3. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    September, 2009
    United States of America

    The effects of landscape context on habitat quality are receiving increased attention in conservation biology. The objective of this research is to demonstrate a landscape-level approach to mapping and evaluating the anthropogenic risks of grassland and forest habitat degradation by examining habitat context as defined by intensive anthropogenic land uses at multiple spatial scales.

  4. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    March, 2009
    Germany

    The scenic quality of a landscape is a natural resource that is to be preserved according to German and international law. One important indicator for the evaluation of this value is the structural diversity of the landscape. Although Landscape Metrics (LM) represent a well-known instrument for the quantification of landscape patterns, they are hardly used in applied landscape and environmental planning. This study shows possibilities for the integration of LM into a commonly used method to assess scenic quality by the example of a Landscape Structure Plan.

  5. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    March, 2009

    This study investigates today’s plant species richness and composition in cultivated and recently abandoned
    arable land of Kosovo. Relationships between these aspects of vegetation and both environmental features
    and agricultural management measures are studied at the regional and plot scale. In 2006, 432 vegetation relevés
    with a standard plot size of 25 m² were recorded in cultivated fields. In 2007, data collection focussed on 41 plots
    in arable fields that had been abandoned the year before. With respect to the environment, data analysis accounts

  6. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    December, 2009
    Germany

    Landscapes differ in their capacities to provide ecosystem goods and services, which are the benefits humans obtain
    from nature. Structures and functions of ecosystems needed to sustain the provision of ecosystem services are altered
    by various human activities. In this paper, a concept for the assessment of multiple ecosystem services is proposed
    as a basis for discussion and further development of a respective evaluation instrument. Using quantitative and

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