Agrar-, Ernährungs- und Ingenieurwissenschaftliche Fakultät: E-Dissertationen
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Computable General Equilibrium assessment of Sustainable Development Goals in low-income countries with household detail
(2025-04-25)The major crises of our time, such as climate change, hunger, political tensions, and poverty, are linked by various channels, such as diseases, markets, and emissions. Through these connections, they have causes and ... -
Selective weed management strategies and their impacts on crop yield and biodiversity
(2025-04-25)Balancing crop productivity with biodiversity conservation in agricultural systems remains a critical challenge of our time. The emergence of autonomous and AI-driven weeding technologies, such as field robots, offers ... -
Exploring Plant Responses to Changing Environments: Integrating Phenotyping and Modeling Across Scales
(2025-04-22)Climate change and the depletion of essential resources like phosphorus are challenging agriculture by reducing water and fertilizer availability and ultimately threatening the security of the human food supply. Knowledge ... -
Anwendungsmöglichkeiten von trocknenden Pflanzenölen zum Schutz von Pflanzen gegenüber biotischen und abiotischen Stressfaktoren
(2025-04-22)Pflanzenöle bieten als „Biorationals“ für den Pflanzenschutz zahlreiche Vorteile. Vor allem die Tatsache, dass es sich dabei um natürliche Produkte mit einer geringen ökotoxikologischen Wirkung und einer hohen biologischen ... -
Spatio-Temporal Perception for Mobile Robots in Dynamic Environments
(2025-04-22)Robotic systems have the potential to revolutionize operations in environments that are too dangerous, intricate, or demanding for humans. These environments pose notable challenges due to their dynamic and often unpredictable ... -
Sustainability of European cattle farming: Status Quo and ways forward analysed with a farm-level optimisation model
(2025-04-22)Europe is among the largest cattle producers worldwide, contributing to food security and the economy. However, the recent public debate has questioned existing production systems due to their adverse environmental effects, ... -
Investigations of Quality Aspects in UAV-Based Laser Scanning for Agriculture and Deformation Monitoring
(2025-04-17)This dissertation investigates the quality of UAV-based laser scanning and its applications in agriculture and deformation monitoring. UAV-based laser scanning is a growing technology that integrates sensors such as GNSS ... -
Colostrum Management on German Dairy Farms: Current State and Potential for Improvements
(2025-04-16)Calf rearing is the fundament of any dairy farm. In consequence, colostrum management is an important part of calf rearing because calves are passively immunized through colostrum uptake. Therefore, colostrum management ... -
Robotics in Horticulture: From Sensor Data to Autonomous Harvesting
(2025-04-16)Our agricultural production system has to cope with an increased demand for food, feed, fuel, and fiber in a range between 30% and 60% caused by a rapidly growing world population, set to reach 10 billion in 2050, and ... -
Chemical composition and in vitro evaluation of the feeding value of brewery by-products for ruminants: an Ethiopian perspective
(2025-04-16)Livestock production plays a crucial role in food security and nutrition, especially in developing countries. In Ethiopia with its huge livestock population – more than two-thirds of population own livestock – lack of feed ... -
Wetland Vegetation in East Africa – Integrity, Diversity, and Recovery Dynamics
(2025-04-15)Wetlands in East Africa provide various ecosystem services. They are important habitats for biodiversity, regulate and purify water, store carbon, and provide wild plants for food and medicinal use. At the same time, they ... -
Investigating the role of genotype, field design and environment in cereal/legume intercropping systems
(2025-04-08)Cropping system diversification through annual intercropping, such as cereal/legume, provides a pathway for agricultural production with reduced inputs of fertilizer and pesticides. However, a significant research gap still ... -
Functional characterization of inositol pyrophosphate pyrophosphatases in plants
(2025-04-07)The consequences of the climate and biodiversity crisis present an increasingly challenge for the agricultural sector to ensure food security for a growing world population. The optimal nutrient supply of plants is a ... -
Biodiversity and distribution of edible saturniidae (Lepidoptera) and their potential for mass rearing in Kenya
(2025-03-26)Edible insects including saturniid caterpillars are traditionally consumed in sub-Saharan Africa. Saturniids are utilized both as food and a source of income for rural communities. This study includes a review of available ... -
How to Fulfil the UN Sustainability Goals: Rethinking the Role and Concept of Money in the Light of Sustainability
(2025-03-25)The cumulative dissertation consists of two publications, which complement each other. The main work is a book of 356 pages published by Springer Nature, which is a complex treatise on the role and concept of money in the ... -
Erfassung struktureller und chromatischer Pflanzenmerkmale mittels intelligenter, bildgebender 2D Verfahren im Bereich der Gemüsezüchtung
(2025-03-10)Seit Beginn der Landwirtschaft beruht die vom Menschen gesteuerte Entwicklung der Kulturpflanzen auf Auslese und Rekombination. Ziel dieses Prozesses ist es einen Genotyp zu schaffen, der optimal an die jeweiligen ... -
Modelling Hydrological, Economic and Governance Aspects of Water Allocation in the Lake Naivasha Basin Kenya
(2025-03-05)Freshwater scarcity poses a significant challenge in many parts of the world, particularly in arid and semiarid areas prone to volatile rainfall and water supply. The growing population and climate change exacerbate this ... -
Assessment of intelligent packaging systems to improve resource efficiency along the supply chain of fresh produce
(2025-02-21)The aim of this thesis was the assessment of intelligent packaging systems along different supply chains of fresh produce and their contribution to improve resource efficiency. As part of the work, a novel method was used ... -
Environmental impacts of silage production: Formation, emission and fixation of gases from field to barn
(2025-02-21)Silages are essential feeds in livestock husbandry. Losses should be minimised to close the nutrient cycle between crop and animal production. Besides, losses are generally associated with emissions of climate and environmental ... -
Geometric Algorithms for the Visual Exploration of Spatiotemporal Data
(2025-02-20)The visualization of spatial data is an important research field in geoinformation science. Especially nowadays, where positioning sensors are widely spread, many (large) data sets have spatial information. As an example, ...
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