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Tenure arrangement, cadastral survey system, and land valuation: addressing tenure insecurity in the aquatic land settlements of Riau Islands Province, Indonesia
Feryandi, Faus Tinus Handi (2025-12-22)Riau Islands Province of Indonesia poses a land administration challenge due to its marine setting and culturally rooted coastline settlements. The settlements rapid growth, intricate administration, unclear rights and ... -
The need for and feasibility of diversification in agriculture: Knowledge production, farming practices, and decision-making
Kamau, Hannah Nyakio (2025-12-17)Diversification has become a critical strategy in farming systems for mitigating risks, while also providing socio-economic benefits and ecological resilience. However, the dominant conceptualization of diversification in ... -
Evaluierung eines Gerätesystems zur ultraflachen Bodenbearbeitung
Müller, Phillip (2025-12-17)Die steigenden Anforderungen aus Politik und Gesellschaft sowie die bereits spürbaren Folgen des Klimawandels stellen den Ackerbau vor immer größere Herausforderungen. Diese Entwicklungen machen es notwendig, bestehende ... -
The effects of fat amount and fatty acid composition on postprandial metabolic events in older adults with a risk phenotype for cardiometabolic diseases
Kienēs, Hannah Frederike (2025-12-16)Due to frequent food intake, most humans spend the majority of the day in the postprandial state, associated with alterations in blood concentrations of triglycerides (TGs), glucose, and insulin. The meal composition is ... -
Inclusion of oregano oil and a probiotic feed additive into drinking water of broilers – effects on performance and gut health
Izadi, Mahshid (2025-12-15)The hypothesis of this study was that the inclusion of oregano oil and a probiotic <em>Enterococcus faecium</em> strain in drinking water, either singly or alternating, would (1) not negatively affect feed and water intake, ... -
From Soil Legacy to Wheat Yield Decline: Studying the Plant-Soil Feedback Mechanisms in Wheat Rotations
Kaloterakis, Nikolaos (2025-12-03)Winter wheat is one of the most important crops cultivated globally. The yield of winter wheat is stagnating in several areas of the world since the 1990s. Continuous winter wheat cultivation is associated with a marked ... -
Physiology and essential oils of Mentha spp. influenced by genotype, environment, and management
Hubert-Schöler, Charlotte (2025-11-18)Species of the genus <em><em>Mentha</em></em> are of high economic importance due to their versatile uses in food, cosmetics, and pharmaceutical industries. In particular, the essential oils (EOs) of <em><em>Mentha</em></em> ... -
Long-read 16S amplicon analyses and improved cultivation techniques as joined approach for the identification of viable bacterial populations in silage
Flegler, Wanda Antonia; Behrens, Freya; Sturmhöfel, Anne Theresa; Sonntag, Miriam; Schmitt, Lisa; Rang, Kristin; Deeken, Hauke Ferdinand; Sun, Yurui; Maack, Gerd-Christian; Büscher, Wolfgang; Baer, Mareike; Lipski, André (2025-06-14)<strong>Aims:</strong> Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are crucial for the quality and preservation of silage. Exploration and isolation of the key microbiome are important for improving fermentation processes. While ... -
Untargeted lipidomics reveals unique lipid signatures of extracellular vesicles from porcine colostrum and milk
Furioso Ferreira, Rafaela; Ghaffari, Morteza H.; Ceciliani, Fabrizio; Fontana, Manuela; Caruso, Donatella; Audano, Matteo; Savoini, Giovanni; Agazzi, Alessandro; Mrljak, Vladimir; Sauerwein, Helga (2025-02-13)Extracellular vesicles (EV) are membranous vesicles considered as significant players in cell-to-cell communication. Milk provides adequate nutrition, transfers immunity, and promotes neonatal development, and milk EV are ... -
The economics of carbon sequestration in African agriculture
Schilling, Friederike (2025-11-11)The growing recognition of food systems and agricultural soils for climate change adaptation and mitigation has not yet been matched by investment and action at scale. Carbon markets have the potential to mobilize financing ... -
Map Generalization and Set Visualization Through Spatial Unit Allocation
Rottmann, Peter (2025-11-10)Data visualization is an important aspect of making complex data accessible to a wide audience. Capturing key information in visualized data is critical for users to understand the data and make informed decisions. On the ... -
Public Acceptance of Digital, Autonomous Farming Technologies and Other Innovations: An Economic Analysis
Zeddies, Hendrik Hilmar (2025-11-06)Technological change in agriculture is essential to balancing environmental conservation with global food security. Robotics, artificial intelligence, and digitalization (RAD) in agriculture offer potential for greater ... -
Agroforestry adoption and adaptation: A farmer-centric case study in Son La, Vietnam
Do, Hoa Thi (2025-10-31)Agroforestry is promoted in northwestern Vietnam for enhancing environmental sustainability and supporting livelihoods, particularly in resource-constrained settings. By integrating trees into agricultural landscapes, ... -
A machine learning-based approach to estimate solar-induced fluorescence from airborne and spaceborne hyperspectral data
Buffat, Jim Loïc (2025-10-31)Techniques to estimate sun-induced fluorescence (SIF) passively from hyperspectral remote sensing data have evolved steadily over the last two decades. SIF provides causally grounded information about the photosynthetic ... -
Climate-relevant land cover composition and configuration trajectories in Europe
Ferro, Marco; Dutta, Trishna; Hüttel, Silke; Lindner, Marcus; Poll, Stefan; Börner, Jan (2025-04-11)Land use and land cover change (LULCC) can affect the climate system by altering biophysical surface characteristics. At the local scale, climate regulating functions are co-determined by land cover composition and ... -
Balancing Biodiversity and Economic Viability: Farmers' Motivations and Challenges in Nature-Protected Areas
Turck, Angela (2025-10-29)Biodiversity loss is one of the most urgent environmental challenges, particularly in nature-protected areas (NPAs), where agriculture and conservation come together. Farmers play a central role in land management and can ... -
Molecular mechanisms affected by boron deficiency in root and shoot meristems of plants
Chu, Liuyang; Schäfer, Cay Christin; Matthes, Michaela S. (2025-01-28)Boron deficiency is an abiotic stress that negatively impacts plant growth and yield worldwide. Boron deficiency primarily affects the development of plant meristems— stem cells critical for all post-embryonic tissue growth. ... -
Rhizospheric Bacillus isolates control Fusarium wilt on cotton and enhance plant biomass and root development
Aslam, Seema; Baber, Muhammad; Naqqash, Tahir; Javed, Muhammad; Bredenbruch, Sandra; Grundler, Florian M. W.; Schleker, A. Sylvia S. (2025-05-02)Cotton is a globally significant crop, serving as a source of natural fiber for the textile industry and contributing to various other products. Its economic importance is substantial, impacting livelihoods and international ... -
Simultaneous selection and displacement of buildings and roads for map generalization via mixed-integer quadratic programming
Rosenberger, Leon; Shen, Yilang; Haunert, Jan-Henrik (2025-03-03)Research on map generalization has led to many algorithms for multiple elementary processes, such as object selection, aggregation, simplification, and displacement. Algorithms for different processes are usually combined ... -
Simulating Soil Moisture Dynamics in a Diversified Cropping System Under Heterogeneous Soil Conditions
Engels, Anna Maria; Gaiser, Thomas; Ewert, Frank; Grahmann, Kathrin; Hernández-Ochoa, Ixchel (2025-02-06)Agro-ecosystem models are useful tools to assess crop diversification strategies or management adaptations to within-field heterogeneities, but require proper simulation of soil water dynamics, which are crucial for crop ...






















