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Frank Eulenstein
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Types of Physical Soil Degradation and Implications for Their Prevention and Monitoring
Physical soil degradation is a deterioration of the soil’s structure diminishing its functions and ecosystem services. It is mainly initiated and manifested by physical forces and processes, such as energy imp...
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Understanding Soils: Their Functions, Use and Degradation
Soils, the thin skin of the earth, a living body, are the basis of all highly developed life and have ensured human existence and culture since millennia. Their functions and ecosystem services are crucial for...
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Understanding and Monitoring Chemical and Biological Soil Degradation
Soil degradation is an exceedance of the capacity and resiliency of soil for providing functions and ecosystem services. It is a complex ongoing phenomenon threatening humans’ livelihoods and our future on ear...
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Renewable Resources from Agriculture and Forestry—State of Use and Innovative Concepts in Germany
In Germany, renewable raw materials are cultivated on approximately 15 percent of the agricultural area. Crops for biogas production have the largest cultivation area, followed by crops for biofuels. A minor r...
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Agricultural Landscapes: History, Status and Challenges
Agricultural landscapes (rural landscapes, agrolandscapes) are territories shaped by agricultural production. They have enabled the development of human civilizations and are a cultural achievement. Peasants, ...
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Optimizing Agricultural Landscapes: Measures Towards Prosperity and Sustainability
Due to the multiplicity of challenges facing all societies at the beginning of the twenty-first century, agricultural systems and rural landscapes are under pressure. Solutions for their optimization towards s...
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Exploring Agricultural Landscapes: Recent Progress and Opportunities for Eurasia
Most vegetated land on earth has been used for agriculture for hundreds of years, sha** the land’s features and functions. Agricultural (rural) landscapes are the basis for feeding the global population and ...
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Landscapes, Their Exploration and Utilisation: Status and Trends of Landscape Research
A new geological epoch has begun—the Anthropocene. Huge anthropogenic transformations of terrestrial landscapes over the past five decades have forced its declaration. Exploring of interaction of humans with n...
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Erratum to: Yield stability and lower susceptibility to abiotic stresses of improved open-pollinated and hybrid maize cultivars
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Open AccessYield stability and lower susceptibility to abiotic stresses of improved open-pollinated and hybrid maize cultivars
Maize is one of the world’s most important cereals, cultivated in a wide range of environments. Besides the importance of maize and the gains in yield from selection schemes, commercial breeding drastically re...
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Regionalization of climate scenarios impacts on maize production and the role of cultivar and planting date as an adaptation strategy
Understanding climate change and its impacts on crops is crucial to determine adaptation strategies. Simulations of climate change impacts on agricultural systems are often run for individual sites. Neverthel...
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Status Report About Understanding, Monitoring and Controlling Landscape Processes in Siberia
Siberia has experienced significant transformations over the past 70 years and particularly since the introduction of the market economy 25 years ago. This has caused implications for landscape processes and f...
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An Emerging Method of Rating Global Soil Quality and Productivity Potentials
This chapter provides information about an emerging approach for rating agricultural soil quality (SQ) and crop yield potentials consistently over a range of spatial scales. We developed and tested the Muenche...
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Potential of Applying Novel Monitoring and Management Methods to Siberian Landscapes
This chapter reviews and summarises the overall content of the book “Novel Methods for Monitoring and Managing Land and Water Resources in Siberia”. The book starts with an extended analysis of water and land ...
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Land and Water Resources of Siberia, Their Functioning and Ecological State
Siberia is the backbone of the economy of modern Russia due to huge reserves of gas, oil, land and water. Not only resource extracting and processing industries, but also forestry and agriculture capitalize th...
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Assessing and Controlling Land Use Impacts on Groundwater Quality
Stewardship of fresh water resources is of paramount importance throughout Europe and for all environmental policies now and in the future. The problem has especially affected areas under predominantly agricul...
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The Muencheberg Soil Quality Rating for Assessing the Quality of Global Farmland
Sustainable use of soils is a vital issue in the 21st century to meet global challenges of food security, demands for energy and water, climate change and biodiversity. Eurasia has reasons to tackle and solve ...
