List of works - Ralf Seppelt

6th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs): “Managing Resources of a Limited Planet: Pathways and Visions under Uncertainty”: A congress report

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A bird’s eye view over ecosystem services in Natura 2000 sites across Europe ⬇️

scholarly article by Guy Ziv et al published April 2018 in Ecosystem services

A generic tool for optimising land-use patterns and landscape structures

article by Annelie Holzkämper & Ralf Seppelt published December 2007 in Environmental Modelling and Software

A methodology for the design and development of integrated models for policy support

article

A new multiscale approach for monitoring vegetation using remote sensing-based indicators in laboratory, field, and landscape

scientific article published on 25 April 2012

A quantitative review of ecosystem service studies: approaches, shortcomings and the road ahead

article

Accounting for geographical variation in species-area relationships improves the prediction of plant species richness at the global scale

article

Adapting agricultural land management to climate change: a regional multi-objective optimization approach

scholarly article by Tommy Klein et al published 20 September 2013 in Landscape Ecology

Advancing sustainability through mainstreaming a social–ecological systems perspective

article

Advancing understanding of natural resource governance: a post-Ostrom research agenda

scientific article published on 03 May 2020

Agriculture and food security under a changing climate: An underestimated challenge

Aligning agri-environmental subsidies and environmental needs: a comparative analysis between the US and EU

scientific article published on 22 April 2021

An open-access global database of meta-analyses investigating yield and biodiversity responses to different management practices

Analysis of historic changes in regional ecosystem service provisioning using land use data

article

Analysis of pattern–process interactions based on landscape models—Overview, general concepts, and methodological issues

article

Applications of optimum control theory to agroecosystem modelling

scientific article published in 1999

Assessing ecosystem services for informing land-use decisions: a problem-oriented approach

scholarly article by Johannes Förster et al published 2015 in Ecology and Society

Assessing land-use effects on European plant diversity using a biome-specific countryside species-area model

article

Assessing the propagation of uncertainties in multi-objective optimization for agro-ecosystem adaptation to climate change

scholarly article by A. Holzkämper et al published April 2015 in Environmental Modelling and Software

Assumptions in ecosystem service assessments: Increasing transparency for conservation

scientific article published on 11 September 2020

Best Paper Awards for 2010

article

Biodiversity in European agricultural landscapes: transformative societal changes needed

scientific article

Biodiversity-production feedback effects lead to intensification traps in agricultural landscapes

scientific article published on 17 May 2023

Biodiversity–production feedback effects lead to intensification traps in agricultural landscapes

scientific article published in 2024

Blind spots in ecosystem services research and challenges for implementation

scholarly article by Sven Lautenbach et al published 14 January 2019 in Regional Environmental Change

Building blocks of polycentric governance

Challenges of simulating complex environmental systems at the landscape scale: A controversial dialogue between two cups of espresso

scientific article published in 2009

Chapter Two Good Modelling Practice

Characterising performance of environmental models

article

Closing global knowledge gaps: Producing generalized knowledge from case studies of social-ecological systems

Computer-Based Environmental Management

Connectivity conservation planning through deep reinforcement learning

scientific article published in 2024

Consequences of multiple imputation of missing standard deviations and sample sizes in meta-analysis

scientific article published on 07 October 2020

Constraints in multi-objective optimization of land use allocation – Repair or penalize?

scientific article published on 08 May 2019

Conventional land‐use intensification reduces species richness and increases production: A global meta‐analysis

article

Corrigendum to “It was an artefact not the result: A note on systems dynamic” [Environ. Model. Softw. 20 (2005) 1543–1548]

scholarly article published in Environmental Modelling and Software

Crop asynchrony stabilizes food production

scientific article published on 9 December 2020

Deciphering the Biodiversity-Production Mutualism in the Global Food Security Debate

scientific article published on 14 September 2020

Deciphering the Biodiversity–Production Mutualism in the Global Food Security Debate

scientific article published on 12 March 2021

Design, implementation and test of a serious online game for exploring complex relationships of sustainable land management and human well-being

Distinguishing anthropogenic and natural contributions to coproduction of national crop yields globally

scientific article published on 24 May 2021

Do drivers of biodiversity change differ in importance across marine and terrestrial systems - Or is it just different research communities' perspectives?

scientific article

ECOTOX-Ecological Modelling and Ecotoxicology

scientific article published in 2002

EDITOR'S CHOICE: REVIEW: Effects of land use on plant diversity - A global meta-analysis

article

Ecosystem service coproduction across the zones of biosphere reserves in Europe

scientific article published on 07 September 2021

Effects of natural habitat composition and configuration, environment and agricultural input on soybean and maize yields in Argentina

scientific article published in 2022

Effects of profit-driven cropland expansion and conservation policies

scientific article published on 13 August 2024

Empowering peer reviewers to improve transparency

Empowering peer reviewers with a checklist to improve transparency

scientific article published on 22 May 2018

Evaluating cost-effectiveness of conservation management actions in an agricultural landscape on a regional scale

article published in 2007

Evaluation of water-energy balance frameworks to predict the sensitivity of streamflow to climate change

scholarly article by Maik Renner et al published 15 May 2012 in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Exploring indicators for quantifying surface urban heat islands of European cities with MODIS land surface temperatures

article by Nina Schwarz et al published December 2011 in Remote Sensing of Environment

Exploring resilience with agent-based models: State of the art, knowledge gaps and recommendations for coping with multidimensionality

scientific article published in 2018

Flow of genetic information through agricultural ecosystems: a generic modelling framework with application to pesticide-resistance weeds and genetically modified crops

scientific article published in 2004

Focus on cross-scale feedbacks in global sustainable land management

Form follows function? Proposing a blueprint for ecosystem service assessments based on reviews and case studies

article

Global impacts of future cropland expansion and intensification on agricultural markets and biodiversity

scientific article published on 28 June 2019

Harmonise and integrate heterogeneous areal data with the R package arealDB

scientific article published in 2020

Harmonizing Biodiversity Conservation and Productivity in the Context of Increasing Demands on Landscapes.

scientific article published on 17 February 2016

Hierarchical dynamic programming and applications in ecosystem management

How can we make progress with decision support systems in landscape and river basin management? Lessons learned from a comparative analysis of four different decision support systems

scientific article published on 24 December 2009

How range residency and long-range perception change encounter rates

scientific article published on 07 April 2020

Humanity’s distance to nature: time for environmental austerity?

scientific article published in 2016

Identifying Agricultural Frontiers for Modeling Global Cropland Expansion

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

Identifying trade-offs between ecosystem services, land use, and biodiversity: a plea for combining scenario analysis and optimization on different spatial scales

article

Importance of spatial structures in advancing hydrological sciences

Inclusion, Transparency, and Enforcement: How the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement Fails the Sustainability Test

scientific article

Information content of global ecosystem service databases and their suitability for decision advice

scholarly article by Stefan Schmidt & Ralf Seppelt published August 2018 in Ecosystem services

Integrating ecosystem service bundles and socio-environmental conditions – A national scale analysis from Germany

article

Investigating potential transferability of place-based research in land system science

Land-use intensity mediates ecosystem service tradeoffs across regional social-ecological systems

Landscape composition, configuration, and trophic interactions shape arthropod communities in rice agroecosystems

article

Landscape heterogeneity filters functional traits of rice arthropods in tropical agroecosystems

scientific article published on 03 February 2022

Large scale land acquisitions and REDD+: a synthesis of conflicts and opportunities

Levers and leverage points for pathways to sustainability

scientific article published on 24 July 2020

Linking biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human well-being: three challenges for designing research for sustainability

scholarly article by Elena M. Bennett et al published June 2015 in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Making environmental assessments of biomass production systems comparable worldwide

Managing resources of a limited planet – Or, how to organise an environmentally friendly congress

article

Mapping and analysing historical indicators of ecosystem services in Germany

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Mapping global land system archetypes

scholarly article published in 2013

Mapping water quality-related ecosystem services: concepts and applications for nitrogen retention and pesticide risk reduction

scholarly article by Sven Lautenbach et al published June 2012 in International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management

Meta-studies in land use science: Current coverage and prospects

scientific article published on 25 September 2015

Model-Based Estimation of Collision Risks of Predatory Birds with Wind Turbines

scientific article published in 2012

Modeling and simulating residential mobility in a shrinking city using an agent-based approach

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Modelling approaches to compare sorption and degradation of metsulfuron-methyl in laboratory micro-lysimeter and batch experiments

scientific article

Models of natural pest control: Towards predictions across agricultural landscapes

Model‐based impact analysis of climate change and land‐use intensification on trophic networks

scientific article published on 18 December 2024

More farms, less specialized landscapes, and higher crop diversity stabilize food supplies

scientific article published in May 2021

Multiscale scenarios for nature futures

scientific article published in 2017

Omnipresent Sprawl? A Review of Urban Simulation Models with Respect to Urban Shrinkage

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Optimization methodology for land use patterns using spatially explicit landscape models

scientific article published in 2002

Optimization methodology for land use patterns—evaluation based on multiscale habitat pattern comparison

scientific article published in 2003

Optimization-based trade-off analysis of biodiesel crop production for managing an agricultural catchment

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Optimizing landscape configuration to enhance habitat suitability for species with contrasting habitat requirements

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Pathways to bridge the biophysical realism gap in ecosystem services mapping approaches

scholarly article by Sandra Lavorel et al published March 2017 in Ecological Indicators

Pattern and processes of dynamic mosaic landscapes

scientific article published in 2006

Priorities to Advance Monitoring of Ecosystem Services Using Earth Observation ⬇️

scientific article

Realigning the land-sharing/land-sparing debate to match conservation needs: considering diversity scales and land-use history

scientific article published in 2014

Regional-scale effects override the influence of fine-scale landscape heterogeneity on rice arthropod communities

Regionalised optimum control problems for agroecosystem management

scientific article published in 2000

Relationships Between Ecosystem Services: Comparing Methods for Assessing Tradeoffs and Synergies

scholarly article by Améline Vallet et al published August 2018 in Ecological Economics

Research priorities for global food security under extreme events

Resilience trinity: safeguarding ecosystem functioning and services across three different time horizons and decision contexts

scientific article published on 31 January 2020

Resilience trinity: safeguarding ecosystem services across three different time horizons and decision contexts

scholarly article published 14 February 2019

Response to Kabisch and Colleagues

Rice Ecosystem Services in South-East Asia: The LEGATO Project, Its Approaches and Main Results with a Focus on Biocontrol Services

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Rice ecosystem services in South-east Asia

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Scale-specific Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Approach in Environmental Research

Scenario analysis and management options for sustainable river basin management: Application of the Elbe DSS

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Searching for Win-Win Archetypes in the Food-Biodiversity Challenge: A Response to Fischer et al.

scientific article published on 18 July 2017

Simulating Demography and Housing Demand in an Urban Region under Scenarios of Growth and Shrinkage

scholarly article by Steffen Lauf et al published April 2012 in Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design

Simulating invasions in fragmented habitats: theoretical considerations, a simple example and some general implications

scientific article published in 2005

Simulation of forest tree species' bud burst dates for different climate scenarios: chilling requirements and photo-period may limit bud burst advancement

scientific article published on 8 April 2016

Smaller agricultural fields, more edges, and natural habitats reduce herbicide-resistant weeds

scientific article published in 2023

Solutions for sustaining natural capital and ecosystem services

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Spatial Optimization of Best Management Practices to Attain Water Quality Targets

scholarly article in Water Resources Management, vol. 28 no. 6, March 2014

Spatial and temporal trends of global pollination benefit

scientific article

Spatially explicit modelling of transgenic maize pollen dispersal and cross-pollination

scientific article published in November 2003

Sustainable development goals: Monitor ecosystem services from space.

scientific article published in September 2015

Synchronized peak-rate years of global resources use

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Synchrony of peak-rate years suggests challenges to sustainable development: a response to O’Sullivan (2015)

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Synergies, Trade-offs, and Losses of Ecosystem Services in Urban Regions: an Integrated Multiscale Framework Applied to the Leipzig-Halle Region, Germany

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The Art of Scientific Performance

scientific article published in September 2018

The concerns of the young protesters are justified: A statement by Scientists for Future concerning the protests for more climate protection

scientific article published on 12 June 2019

The rise and fall of biodiversity in literature: A comprehensive quantification of historical changes in the use of vernacular labels for biological taxa in Western creative literature

scientific article from 2021

Towards a bridging concept for undesirable resilience in social-ecological systems

scientific article published in 2020

Towards systematic analyses of ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies: Main concepts, methods and the road ahead

scholarly article by Anna F. Cord et al published December 2017 in Ecosystem services

Trade-Offs and Synergies Between Biodiversity Conservation and Productivity in the Context of Increasing Demands on Landscapes

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Transformation archetypes in global food systems

scientific article published on 16 February 2022

Uncertainty of Monetary Valued Ecosystem Services - Value Transfer Functions for Global Mapping

scientific article

Values in socio-environmental modelling: Persuasion for action or excuse for inaction

Water Quality Is a Poor Predictor of Recreational Hotspots in England ⬇️

scientific article

When, Where, and How Nature Matters for Ecosystem Services: Challenges for the Next Generation of Ecosystem Service Models

scholarly article by Jesse T. Rieb published in August 2017

Why do forest products become less available?A pan-tropical comparison of drivers of forest-resource degradation

article by Kathleen Hermans-Neumann et al published 1 December 2016 in Environmental Research Letters

Will there be human rights-based litigation tackling biodiversity loss as a systemic threat?

scientific article published on 7 March 2023

Will your paper be used in a meta-analysis? Make the reach of your research broader and longer lasting

scientific article (publication date: March 2017)

“It was an artefact not the result”: A note on systems dynamic model development tools

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List of works by Ralf Seppelt

6th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs): “Managing Resources of a Limited Planet: Pathways and Visions under Uncertainty”: A congress report

A bird’s eye view over ecosystem services in Natura 2000 sites across Europe ⬇️

A generic tool for optimising land-use patterns and landscape structures

A methodology for the design and development of integrated models for policy support

A new multiscale approach for monitoring vegetation using remote sensing-based indicators in laboratory, field, and landscape

A quantitative review of ecosystem service studies: approaches, shortcomings and the road ahead

Accounting for geographical variation in species-area relationships improves the prediction of plant species richness at the global scale

Adapting agricultural land management to climate change: a regional multi-objective optimization approach

Advancing sustainability through mainstreaming a social–ecological systems perspective

Advancing understanding of natural resource governance: a post-Ostrom research agenda

Agriculture and food security under a changing climate: An underestimated challenge

Aligning agri-environmental subsidies and environmental needs: a comparative analysis between the US and EU

An open-access global database of meta-analyses investigating yield and biodiversity responses to different management practices

Analysis of historic changes in regional ecosystem service provisioning using land use data

Analysis of pattern–process interactions based on landscape models—Overview, general concepts, and methodological issues

Applications of optimum control theory to agroecosystem modelling

Assessing ecosystem services for informing land-use decisions: a problem-oriented approach

Assessing land-use effects on European plant diversity using a biome-specific countryside species-area model

Assessing the propagation of uncertainties in multi-objective optimization for agro-ecosystem adaptation to climate change

Assumptions in ecosystem service assessments: Increasing transparency for conservation

Best Paper Awards for 2010

Biodiversity in European agricultural landscapes: transformative societal changes needed

Biodiversity-production feedback effects lead to intensification traps in agricultural landscapes

Biodiversity–production feedback effects lead to intensification traps in agricultural landscapes

Blind spots in ecosystem services research and challenges for implementation

Building blocks of polycentric governance

Challenges of simulating complex environmental systems at the landscape scale: A controversial dialogue between two cups of espresso

Chapter Two Good Modelling Practice

Characterising performance of environmental models

Closing global knowledge gaps: Producing generalized knowledge from case studies of social-ecological systems

Computer-Based Environmental Management

Connectivity conservation planning through deep reinforcement learning

Consequences of multiple imputation of missing standard deviations and sample sizes in meta-analysis

Constraints in multi-objective optimization of land use allocation – Repair or penalize?

Conventional land‐use intensification reduces species richness and increases production: A global meta‐analysis

Corrigendum to “It was an artefact not the result: A note on systems dynamic” [Environ. Model. Softw. 20 (2005) 1543–1548]

Crop asynchrony stabilizes food production

Deciphering the Biodiversity-Production Mutualism in the Global Food Security Debate

Deciphering the Biodiversity–Production Mutualism in the Global Food Security Debate

Design, implementation and test of a serious online game for exploring complex relationships of sustainable land management and human well-being

Distinguishing anthropogenic and natural contributions to coproduction of national crop yields globally

Do drivers of biodiversity change differ in importance across marine and terrestrial systems - Or is it just different research communities' perspectives?

ECOTOX-Ecological Modelling and Ecotoxicology

EDITOR'S CHOICE: REVIEW: Effects of land use on plant diversity - A global meta-analysis

Ecosystem service coproduction across the zones of biosphere reserves in Europe

Effects of natural habitat composition and configuration, environment and agricultural input on soybean and maize yields in Argentina

Effects of profit-driven cropland expansion and conservation policies

Empowering peer reviewers to improve transparency

Empowering peer reviewers to improve transparency

Empowering peer reviewers with a checklist to improve transparency

Evaluating cost-effectiveness of conservation management actions in an agricultural landscape on a regional scale

Evaluation of water-energy balance frameworks to predict the sensitivity of streamflow to climate change

Exploring indicators for quantifying surface urban heat islands of European cities with MODIS land surface temperatures

Exploring resilience with agent-based models: State of the art, knowledge gaps and recommendations for coping with multidimensionality

Flow of genetic information through agricultural ecosystems: a generic modelling framework with application to pesticide-resistance weeds and genetically modified crops

Focus on cross-scale feedbacks in global sustainable land management

Form follows function? Proposing a blueprint for ecosystem service assessments based on reviews and case studies

Global impacts of future cropland expansion and intensification on agricultural markets and biodiversity

Harmonise and integrate heterogeneous areal data with the R package arealDB

Harmonizing Biodiversity Conservation and Productivity in the Context of Increasing Demands on Landscapes.

Hierarchical dynamic programming and applications in ecosystem management

How can we make progress with decision support systems in landscape and river basin management? Lessons learned from a comparative analysis of four different decision support systems

How range residency and long-range perception change encounter rates

Humanity’s distance to nature: time for environmental austerity?

Identifying Agricultural Frontiers for Modeling Global Cropland Expansion

Identifying trade-offs between ecosystem services, land use, and biodiversity: a plea for combining scenario analysis and optimization on different spatial scales

Importance of spatial structures in advancing hydrological sciences

Inclusion, Transparency, and Enforcement: How the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement Fails the Sustainability Test

Information content of global ecosystem service databases and their suitability for decision advice

Integrating ecosystem service bundles and socio-environmental conditions – A national scale analysis from Germany

Investigating potential transferability of place-based research in land system science

Land-use intensity mediates ecosystem service tradeoffs across regional social-ecological systems

Landscape composition, configuration, and trophic interactions shape arthropod communities in rice agroecosystems

Landscape heterogeneity filters functional traits of rice arthropods in tropical agroecosystems

Large scale land acquisitions and REDD+: a synthesis of conflicts and opportunities

Levers and leverage points for pathways to sustainability

Linking biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human well-being: three challenges for designing research for sustainability

Making environmental assessments of biomass production systems comparable worldwide

Managing resources of a limited planet – Or, how to organise an environmentally friendly congress