Sandy soils and dry climatic conditions promote the processes of wind erosion and the associated dust emissions, particularly in Brandenburg. The problem has intensified considerably in the last 20 years, as climate change has become noticeable through increasingly prolonged dry periods and rising ...
Agriculture faces the challenge of being highly productive while minimizing environmental impacts, especially on soils. However, intensive agricultural use leads to soil degradation, which impairs the ability of soil to retain and regulate water, provide nutrients and maintain a healthy ecosystem for ...
Prolonged periods of drought, which are occurring more frequently, have led to unprecedented levels of tree mortality across Germany. These recent events have greatly accelerated forest restructuring, whereby the forestry and timber industry is ...
The advancing climate change is already now leading to extreme weather events, the frequency of which is very likely to increase further. In recent years, forest ecosystems in Europe have been heavily affected by droughts. These events have shown that ...
The massive decline of insect diversity and biomass can be attributed to various, intertwined factors: Habitat loss, chemical pollution, climate change and invasive species. To counteract this decline particular found in agricultural landscapes, the establishment of ...
Spiders are one of the most abundant predator groups and occur in a wide range of terrestrial ecosystems. Spiders are of great value to human societies as they provide important ecosystem services such as supressing agricultural and forestry pests. They are also important ...
Mosses and lichens are important components of the ground vegetation in Central European forests. Particularly in semi-shady woods of Scots pine and oak, forest mosses and lichens of the genus Cladonia cover large ground surfaces and are very dominant in the ...
Within the “Soil Health in Space” project, coordinated by the Norfolk Institute in the USA and other participating US institutions, living soil was successfully brought to the International Space Station (ISS) for the first time as part of the Cygnus NG-14 mission ...