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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.

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Urban-rural migration: A decisions in favour of “the rural” or against “the urban”?

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…

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G20 in Brazil: Thünen workshop on food waste

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.

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The subsoil – deeply rooted in dry times

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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    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

    https://literatur.thuenen.de/digbib_extern/dn068857.pdf

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    Mallast J, Filipiak M, Stichnothe H, Margraf V, Schuster C, Hoffmann M, Monzon O, Ruser R, Klein J, Pamperin H, Rücknagel J, Wetzel S, Klein J, Skodras D (2025) Win-N-DB Thünen [Datenpublikation] [online]. 11PDF-Datei, 1 ACCDB-Datei. Göttingen: OpenAgrar, zu finden in <https://www.openagrar.de/receive/openagrar_mods_00100182> [zitiert am 30.09.2024], DOI:10.3220/DATA20240927143643-0

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    Sulanke E, Rubel V, Berkenhagen J, Bernreuther M, Stoeck T, Simons SL (2025) Amending the European fishing fleet segmentation based on machine learning and multivariate statistics. Fish Res 281:107190, DOI:10.1016/j.fishres.2024.107190

    https://literatur.thuenen.de/digbib_extern/dn068829.pdf

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    Ferrante M, Kirsch F, Westphal C (2025) Stable pollinator communities in different white clover populations suggest potential win-win scenarios for crop yield and biodiversity. Agric Ecosyst Environ 378:109295, DOI:10.1016/j.agee.2024.109295

    https://literatur.thuenen.de/digbib_extern/dn068770.pdf

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    Trautwein J-F, Rohde LR, Militz H, Brischke C (2024) Development of the external appearance of spruce trees as a result of a fatal bark beetle infestation. In: The 20th Annual Meeting of the Northern European Network for Wood Science and Engineering : (22nd) 23rd-24th October 2024, Edinburgh, Scotland.

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