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Lothar Mueller
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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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Evaluation of Framework Conditions and Soil Potentials for Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture
Sustainable intensification (SI) is a concept for increasing agricultural production under sustainable conditions to meet the needs of the worldwide growing population. We reviewed the status and trends of SI ...
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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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Modelling and Simulation of Agricultural Landscapes
An agricultural landscape is a section of a region shaped by its natural landscape features primarily involving agricultural land use and land management. Intensive anthropogenic activities have left a permane...
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Open AccessEORTC-1203-GITCG - the “INNOVATION”-trial: Effect of chemotherapy alone versus chemotherapy plus trastuzumab, versus chemotherapy plus trastuzumab plus pertuzumab, in the perioperative treatment of HER2 positive, gastric and gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma on pathologic response rate: a randomized phase II-intergroup trial of the EORTC-Gastrointestinal Tract Cancer Group, Korean Cancer Study Group and Dutch Upper GI-Cancer group
10–20% of patients with gastric cancer (GC) have HER2+ tumors. Addition of trastuzumab (T) to cisplatin/fluoropyrimidine-based chemotherapy (CT) improved survival in metastatic, HER2+ GC. When pertuzumab (P) w...
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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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Emerging Measurement Methods for Soil Hydrological Studies
Monitoring and protecting the natural resources of soil and water, and their ecosystems, is intended to ensure the long-term conservation of their functions. To understand the reasons for resource degradation ...
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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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Small-Scale Soil Functional Map** of Crop Yield Potentials in Germany
The Muencheberg Soil Quality Rating (M-SQR) is a new approach for assessing soil suitability for arable and grassland farming, and estimating crop yield potential on a global scale. We utilized this approach t...
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