Publications

Nielja Knecht, Ingo Fetzer, Juan Rocha. 2024. Global terrestrial ecosystem resilience: a high-resolution multivariate analysis of patterns and drivers. EGU. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-12856

Global assessments of ecosystem resilience often exclude areas with direct anthropogenic land use changes and focus instead on remnant natural ecosystems. However, for regional stakeholders it is important to understand how land-use and zoning decisions may affect the resilience of remaining ecosystems and the risk of critical transitions. In this study, we conduct a high-resolution global assessment of terrestrial ecosystem r...

Corentin Clerc, Laurent Bopp, Fabio Benedetti, Nielja S. Knecht, Meike Vogt, Olivier Aumont. 2024. Effects of mesozooplankton growth and reproduction on plankton and organic carbon dynamics in a marine biogeochemical model. ESS. https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.170983160.00886471/v1

Marine mesozooplankton play an important role for marine ecosystem functioning and global biogeochemical cycles. Their size structure, varying spatially and temporally, heavily impacts biogeochemical processes and ecosystem services. Mesozooplankton exhibit size changes throughout their life cycle, affecting metabolic rates and functional traits. Despite this variability, many models oversimplify mesozooplankton as a single, u...

D. Rodríguez-Rodríguez, N. Knecht, J.C. Llopis, R.A. Heriarivo, H. Rakotoarison, V. Andriamampionomanjaka, E. Navarro-Jurado, V. Randriamamonjy. 2024. Socioeconomic impacts of small conserved sites on rural communities in Madagascar. Environmental Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envdev.2024.100965

Madagascar is considered one of the top global biodiversity hotspots while at the same time is among the world's least developed countries. Pressing socioeconomic needs such as food provision often lead to unsustainable land uses and widespread loss, fragmentation and degradation of natural habitats. Thus, ascertaining the socioeconomic effects of small conserved sites is urgent in order to show their benefits and identify the...

Romi Lotcheris, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Juan Rocha. 2024. Remote sensing-based detection of resilience loss in the terrestrial water cycle. EGU. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-17019

In the face of Anthropogenic change, ecosystems globally have shown evidence of resilience loss in the past several decades. By governing key processes in terrestrial ecosystems, the hydrological cycle is critical for Earth system stability. A resilient system is able to retain its function and structure in the face of external perturbations. Changes to driving hydrological variables, i.e., precipitation, evaporation, and soil...

Sofia Maniatakou, Beatrice Crona, Isabelle Jean-Charles, Moa Ohlsson, Kate Lillepold, Amar Causevic. 2024. A science-based heuristic to guide sector-level SDG investment strategy. Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment. https://doi.org/10.1080/20430795.2024.2320318

Aligning investments with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been a longstanding ambition for many private investors. The assessment of corporate impact on the SDGs is not a trivial task, and most present-day attempts often overlook SDG interactions, and lack scientific anchoring and transparency. We present an evidence-based review approach for investors to assess sector-level impacts on individual SDGs, and score these...

Mahesh Poudyal, Franziska Kraft, Geoff Wells, Anamika Das, Suman Attiwilli, Kate Schreckenberg, Sharachchandra Lele, Tim Daw, Carlos Torres-Vitolas, Siddappa Setty, Helen Adams, Sate Ahmad, Casey Ryan, Janet Fisher, Brian Robinson, Julia P. G. Jones, Katherine Homewood, Jevgeniy Bluwstein, Aidan Keane, Celia Macamo, Lilian Mwihaki Mugi. 2024. Nature’s contribution to poverty alleviation, human wellbeing and the SDGs. Scientific Data. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-02967-0

Millions of households globally rely on uncultivated ecosystems for their livelihoods. However, much of the understanding about the broader contribution of uncultivated ecosystems to human wellbeing is still based on a series of small-scale studies due to limited availability of large-scale datasets. We pooled together 11 comparable datasets comprising 232 settlements and 10,971 households in ten low-and middle-income countrie...

Geoff J. Wells, Casey M. Ryan, Anamika Das, Suman Attiwilli, Mahesh Poudyal, Sharachchandra Lele, Kate Schreckenberg, Brian E. Robinson, Aidan Keane, Katherine M. Homewood, Julia P.G. Jones, Carlos A. Torres-Vitolas, Janet A. Fisher, Sate Ahmad, Mark Mulligan, Terence P. Dawson, Helen Adams, R. Siddappa Setty, Tim M. Daw. 2024. Hundreds of millions of people in the tropics need both wild harvests and other forms of economic development for their well-being. One Earth. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.12.001

Local access to “wild,” common-pool terrestrial and aquatic resources is being diminished by global resource demand and large-scale conservation interventions. Many theories suggest the well-being of wild harvesters can be supported through transitions to other livelihoods, improved infrastructure, and market access. However, new theories argue that such benefits may not always occur because they are context dependent and vary...

Azucena Castro, Oscar Sebastian Tellini. 2024. Latin American Multispecies Studies. Oxford Bibliographies - Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199766581-0289

The multispecies studies considered here include relations between humans and nonhumans, as elaborated in Latin American cultural studies. Cultural approaches to multispecies relations began in the late 1990s in branches of anthropology and Indigenous studies that started to question the separation between humans and nonhumans, nature and culture, organic and inorganic inherited from Western modernity. The definition of specie...

Lenka Suchá, Lenka Dušková, Julia Leventon, Prof. Dr., Aneta Seidlová, Štěpán Bubák, Zuzana V. Harmáčková. 2024. Knowledge based interventions for sustainable development cooperation: insights from knowledge systems mapping in Zambia. OSF. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/r5qc3

Knowledge is an essential determinant and component of international development cooperation agenda and projects. Therefore, it is vital to understand and reflect on how knowledge in international development cooperation is created, what knowledge counts, and how it influences the planning, implementation, and outcomes of international development cooperation projects. In this paper, we critically examine the knowledge system ...

Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Patrick Keys, Arie Staal, Jolanda Theeuwen, Nico Wunderling, Stefan Dekker, Agnes Pranindita, Adriaan J. Teuling, Maganizo Kruger Nyasulu, Ingo Fetzer, Rafaela Flach, Michael J. Lathuillière, Simon Fahrländer, Fernando Jaramillo, Line Gordon, Chandrakant Singh, Ruud van der Ent, Jose Andres Posada, Michele-Lee Moore, Mingzhu Cao. 2024. Time to recognize the ecosystem service of vegetation-supplied precipitation in management and governance. EGUsphere. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-19880

Globally, 60% of the evaporation from land returns as precipitation over land and a fifth of annual precipitation over land is directly dependent on the presence of vegetation-supplied moisture. In many regions, particularly in dry seasons, a majority of the precipitation relies on moisture from vegetation and is therefore vulnerable to changes in upwind land use that modify water moisture supply to the atmosphere. The benefit...