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Older, more diverse, but no longer a CO2 sink
Oktober 08, 2024
The results of the 2022 National Forest Inventory show Forests are becoming more structurally diverse, there are more older trees and more forested areas. However, the average carbon storage capacity of the forest has decreased. Between 2017 and 2022, forests even became a carbon source.
In a joint paper with the ILS – Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development, now published in the Journal of Rural Studies, Annett Steinführer, Aura Moldovan, and Joachim Kreis analyse how internal migration patterns in Germany have changed and which reasons are decisive move to rural…
Reducing food waste together: Leading agricultural scientists are also meeting on the margins of the G20 summit to develop strategies against food waste, for example. Support comes from the Thünen Institute.
Increasing drought is threatening harvests, even in our latitudes. Where will plants get water to grow and thrive in the future? From the subsoil, for example. Unused water and nutrient reserves lie dormant there.
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Stadelmann C, Grottian L, Natkhin M, Sanders TGM (2025) Improving the predictive capacity of the windthrow risk model ForestGALES with long-term monitoring data - A statistical calibration approach. Forest Ecol Manag 576:122389, DOI:10.1016/j.foreco.2024.122389
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Hafner SD, Pedersen J, Fuß R, Kamp JN, Dalby FR, Amon B, Pacholski AS, Adamsen APS, Sommer SG (2025) Improved tools for estimation of ammonia emission from field-applied animal slurry: Refinement of the ALFAM2 model and database. Atmos Environ 340:120910, DOI:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2024.120910
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Kammann UKR, Töpker V, Scharsack JP (2025) Tracking explosive contaminants from dumped munition in the Western Baltic Sea via urine and bile analysis of three flatfish species [Datenpublikation] [online]. 1 XLSX file. Göttingen: OpenAgrar, zu finden in <https://www.openagrar.de/receive/openagrar_mods_00100741> [zitiert am 06.11.2024], DOI:10.3220/DATA20241022124456-0
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Peters A, Germer K, Naseri M, Rolfes L, Lorenz M (2025) Modeling compaction effects on hydraulic properties of soils using limited information. Soil Tillage Res 246:106349, DOI:10.1016/j.still.2024.106349
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Götze H, Buchen-Tschiskale C, Eder L, Pacholski AS (2025) Effects of inhibitors and slit incorporation on NH3 and N2O emission processes after urea application. Agric Ecosyst Environ 378:109307, DOI:10.1016/j.agee.2024.109307
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