Global food systems and multifunctional land & seascapes

Toward understanding the dynamics of land change in Latin America: Potential utility of a resilience approach for building archetypes of land-systems change

Rocha, J. C., M. Baraibar, L. Deutsch, A. de Bremond, J. Oestreicher, F. Rositano, and C. Gelabert.

2019 - Journal / article

Climate change, financial shocks, and fluctuations in international trade are some of the reasons why resilience is increasingly invoked in discussions about land-use policy. However, resilience assessments come with the challenge of operationalization, upscaling their conclusions while considering the context-specific nature of land-use dynamics and the common lack of long-term data. We revisit the approach of system archetyp...

Hidden treasures: Human-made aquatic ecosystems harbour unexplored opportunities

Koschorreck, M., Downing, A.S., Hejzlar, J., Marcé, R. et.al.

2019 - Journal / article

Artificial water bodies like ditches, fish ponds, weirs, reservoirs, fish ladders, and irrigation channels are usually constructed and managed to optimize their intended purposes. However, human-made aquatic systems also have unintended consequences on ecosystem services and biogeochemical cycles. Knowledge about their functioning and possible additional ecosystem services is poor, especially compared to natural ecosystems. A...

Combining eight research areas to foster the uptake of ecosystem‐based management in fresh waters

Langhans, S.D., Domisch, S., Balbi, S., Delacámara, G., et.al.

2019 - Journal / article

Freshwater ecosystems are under a constant risk of being irreversibly damaged by human pressures that threaten their biodiversity, the sustainability of ecosystem services (ESs), and human well‐being. Despite the implementation of various environmental regulations, the challenges of safeguarding freshwater assets have so far not been tackled successfully. A promising way forward to stop the loss of freshwater biodiversity and...

Response of the river discharge in the Tocantins River Basin, Brazil, to environmental changes and the associated effects on the energy potential

Von Randow, R.C.S., Rodriguez, D.A., Tomasella, J. Aguiar, A.P.D., et.al.

2019 - Journal / article

Climate change is expected to impact the hydrological regime worldwide, and land use and land cover change may alter the effects of the former in some cases. Secondary growth in deforested and abandoned areas is one of the main consequences of land use and cover changes in Amazonia. Among land uses, the effects of the secondary growth in water availability in large scale basins are not well understood. This work analyzes the ...