Studies at higher spatial scales

The combined impact of land use adaption efforts in many regions will lead to adjustments in international commodity markets and create feedback to local land use. The C2 project attempts to link local land use adaptations to regional and global scales.

How can we introduce climate protection on farms? At national level, we summarize the motivations of German farmers to engage greenhouse gas emission friendly land management.

Motivating factors for reducing on-farm greenhouse gas emissions in Germany

To pave the way for efficient monitoring of agricultural greenhouse gases, we propose a novel strategy to decrease high transaction costs for the large-scale regulation of agricultural non-point source pollutants.

Proposed digital agricultural emission monitoring system

At continental scale, a detailed biogeophysical process-modeling was applied to explore spatially resolved producer consequences of pesticide-free agriculture in the European Union.

Simulated winter wheat yields under conventional and organic agriculture

Combining geoecological mapping and mathematical programming, we found feasible cost-effective and ecologically representative realizations of post-2020 EU biodiversity targets.

Current (a) and required (b-d) protection of European ecoregions under different scenarios

Food-nature conflicts are also investigated for 33 global biodiversity hotspots. This global study combines high-resolution crop management simulations under climate change and explores adaptation capacities both on the production and consumption side.

Projected losses of remaining natural intact vegetation by 2050 under business as usual (BAU), healthy diet (D), healthy diet plus intensification (DI), healthy diet plus intensification plus crop mix change (DIC) scenarios

Related scientific publications

Rasche, L., Habel, J. C., Stork, N., Schmid, E., & Schneider, U. A. (2022). Food versus wildlife: Will biodiversity hotspots benefit from healthier diets? Global Ecology and Biogeography.

Rasche, L. (2021). Estimating pesticide inputs and yield outputs of conventional and organic agricultural systems in Europe under climate change. Agronomy.

Jantke K., Hartmann M.J., Rasche L., Blanz B. and Schneider U.A. (2020). Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Knowledge and Positions of German Farmers. Land.

Müller A., Schneider U.A. and Jantke K. (2020). Evaluating and expanding the European Union’s protected area network towards potential post-2020 coverage targets. Conservation Biology.

Habel, J. C., L. Rasche, U.A. Schneider, J. O. Engler, E. Schmid, D. Rödder, S. T. Meyer, N. Trapp, R. Sos del Diego, H. Eggermont, L. Lens and N. E. Stork (2019). Final countdown for biodiversity hotspots. Conservation Letters.

Schneider U.A., Rasche L. and Jantke K. (2019). Farm-level digital monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions from livestock systems could facilitate control, optimisation and labelling. Journal of Sustainable and Organic Agricultural Systems.