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$$\hbox {CO}_2$$ CO 2 -intensive power generation and REDD-based emission offsets with a benefit-sharing mechanism

A Framework for Global Twenty-First Century Scenarios and Models of Biological Invasions

scientific article published in September 2019

A dataset of forest biomass structure for Eurasia

scientific article

A decentralized approach to model national and global food and land use systems

scientific article published in 2023

A global dataset of crowdsourced land cover and land use reference data

scientific article

A high-resolution assessment on global nitrogen flows in cropland

scientific article

A new hybrid land cover dataset for Russia: a methodology for integrating statistics, remote sensing and in situ information

scholarly article by Dmitry Schepaschenko et al published December 2011 in Journal of Land Use Science

A spatial comparison of four satellite derived 1km global land cover datasets

A spatially explicit assessment of current and future hotspots of hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa in the context of global change

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Adaptive dynamics and technological change

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Affordable Nutrient Solutions for Improved Food Security as Evidenced by Crop Trials

scientific article published on April 2, 2013

African crop yield reductions due to increasingly unbalanced Nitrogen and Phosphorus consumption

scientific article

Agriculture and resource availability in a changing world: The role of irrigation

Alternative futures for global biological invasions

An assessment of monitoring requirements and costs of 'Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation'

scientific article

Anthropogenic global shifts in biospheric N and P concentrations and ratios and their impacts on biodiversity, ecosystem productivity, food security, and human health

scientific article published on 08 January 2020

Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water

scientific article

Assessing global resource use and greenhouse emissions to 2050, with ambitious resource efficiency and climate mitigation policies

Assessing the INDCs' land use, land use change, and forest emission projections

scientific article

Assessing the land resource-food price nexus of the Sustainable Development Goals.

scientific article published on 16 September 2016

Author Correction: Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water

correction of a scholarly article

Author Correction: Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration

correction of a scholarly article

Author Correction: Reconciling regional nitrogen boundaries with global food security

correction of a scholarly article

Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy

scientific article published on 10 September 2020

Beyond vulnerability assessment

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Biomass use, production, feed efficiencies, and greenhouse gas emissions from global livestock systems

scientific article published on December 2013

Biophysical and economic limits to negative CO2 emissions

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Building a hybrid land cover map with crowdsourcing and geographically weighted regression

article by Linda See et al published May 2015 in ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Can N2 O emissions offset the benefits from soil organic carbon storage?

scientific article published on 07 September 2020

Can climate-smart agriculture reverse the recent slowing of rice yield growth in China?

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Cattle ranching intensification in Brazil can reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by sparing land from deforestation

scientific article

Climate change mitigation through livestock system transitions

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Climate warming from managed grasslands cancels the cooling effect of carbon sinks in sparsely grazed and natural grasslands

scientific article published on 05 January 2021

Comment on "The extent of forest in dryland biomes"

scientific article published on 01 October 2017

Comparing the quality of crowdsourced data contributed by expert and non-experts

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Comparison of four global FAPAR datasets over Northern Eurasia for the year 2000

article by Ian McCallum et al published May 2010 in Remote Sensing of Environment

Competition for land

scientific article

Contribution of the land sector to a 1.5 °C world

scientific article published on 21 October 2019

Could Global Intensification of Nitrogen Fertilisation Increase Immunogenic Proteins and Favour the Spread of Coeliac Pathology?

scientific article published on 04 November 2020

Country-Level Relationships of the Human Intake of N and P, Animal and Vegetable Food, and Alcoholic Beverages with Cancer and Life Expectancy

scientific article published on 03 October 2020

Cropland for sub-Saharan Africa: A synergistic approach using five land cover data sets

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Development of a global hybrid forest mask through the synergy of remote sensing, crowdsourcing and FAO statistics

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Downgrading recent estimates of land available for biofuel production.

scientific article published on 11 January 2013

Drivers of change in China's energy-related CO2 emissions

scientific article published on 23 December 2019

Dynamics of the land use, land use change, and forestry sink in the European Union: the impacts of energy and climate targets for 2030

scholarly article by Stefan Frank et al published 8 July 2016 in Climatic Change

Economic Development and Forest Cover: Evidence from Satellite Data

scientific article

Empirical support for the biogeochemical niche hypothesis in forest trees

scientific article published on 04 January 2021

Evaluating Global Warming Potentials with historical temperature

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Expanding the Soy Moratorium to Brazil's Cerrado

scientific article published on 17 July 2019

Fix the broken food system in three steps

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Forest fires and adaptation options in Europe

Generating crop calendars with Web search data

Geo-Wiki: An online platform for improving global land cover

scientific article published on 29 December 2011

Global Phosphorus Fertilizer Market and National Policies: A Case Study Revisiting the 2008 Price Peak

scientific article

Global Supply of Biomass for Energy and Carbon Sequestration from Afforestation/Reforestation Activities

scholarly article by Michael Obersteiner et al published 23 March 2006 in Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

Global and regional phosphorus budgets in agricultural systems and their implications for phosphorus-use efficiency

scientific article published on 8 January 2018

Global and regional phosphorus budgets in agricultural systems and their implications for phosphorus-use efficiency

Global bioenergy scenarios – Future forest development, land-use implications, and trade-offs

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Global cost estimates of reducing carbon emissions through avoided deforestation

scientific article

Global exposure and vulnerability to multi-sector development and climate change hotspots

scientific article published in May 2018

Global food markets, trade and the cost of climate change adaptation

scholarly article by Aline Mosnier et al published 26 January 2014 in Food Security

Global food security & adaptation under crop yield volatility

Global land-use implications of first and second generation biofuel targets

article by Petr Havlík et al published October 2011 in Energy Policy

Global maps and factors driving forest foliar elemental composition: the importance of evolutionary history

scientific article published on 08 October 2021

Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration

scientific article published on 14 October 2020

Global trends and scenarios for terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services from 1900 to 2050

scientific article published on 25 April 2024

Global wheat production potentials and management flexibility under the representative concentration pathways

scholarly article by Juraj Balkovič published in November 2014

Harnessing the power of volunteers, the internet and Google Earth to collect and validate global spatial information using Geo-Wiki

scientific article published in September 2015

How effective are the sustainability criteria accompanying the European Union 2020 biofuel targets?

How to spend a dwindling greenhouse gas budget

Human-induced nitrogen-phosphorus imbalances alter natural and managed ecosystems across the globe

scientific article published on January 2013

Impact of modelling choices on setting the reference levels for the EU forest carbon sinks: how do different assumptions affect the country-specific forest reference levels?

scientific article published on 03 September 2019

Impacts and Uncertainties of +2°C of Climate Change and Soil Degradation on European Crop Calorie Supply.

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Impacts of biogenic CO2emissions on human health and terrestrial ecosystems: the case of increased wood extraction for bioenergy production on a global scale

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Impacts of climate change on virtual water content of crops in China

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Impacts of incentives to reduce emissions from deforestation on global species extinctions

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Impacts of population growth, economic development, and technical change on global food production and consumption

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Implementing Brazil’s Forest Code: a vital contribution to securing forests and conserving biodiversity

scientific article published on 03 April 2021

Improved global cropland data as an essential ingredient for food security

article by Linda See et al published March 2015 in Global food security

Increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations correlate with declining nutritional status of European forests

scientific article published on 13 March 2020

Increasing gap in human height between rich and poor countries associated to their different intakes of N and P.

scientific article published on 15 December 2017

Integrated assessment of uncertainties in greenhouse gas emissions and their mitigation: Introduction and overview

Integrated model for robust emission trading under uncertainties: Cost-effectiveness and environmental safety

Land-use futures in the shared socio-economic pathways

Large-Scale Forest Modeling: Deducing Stand Density from Inventory Data

Learning and climate change

scholarly article by Brian C. O'Neill et al published January 2006 in Climate Policy

Mapping global cropland and field size

scientific article published on 16 January 2015

Methanol production by gasification using a geographically explicit model

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New feed sources key to ambitious climate targets

scientific article

On fair, effective and efficient REDD mechanism design

scientific article (publication date: 27 November 2009)

On the financial viability of negative emissions

Optimal location of wood gasification plants for methanol production with heat recovery

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Optimal mitigation strategies with negative emission technologies and carbon sinks under uncertainty

scholarly article by Sabine Fuss et al published 25 January 2013 in Climatic Change

Pan-European crop modelling with EPIC: Implementation, up-scaling and regional crop yield validation

Pathways for balancing CO2 emissions and sinks.

scientific article

Planning for future energy resources

scientific article published on 01 April 2003

Plant invasion is associated with higher plant-soil nutrient concentrations in nutrient-poor environments

scientific article published on 7 June 2016

Possible pathways for balancing CO2 emissions and sinks as agreed in Paris COP21

Potential CO2 removal from enhanced weathering by ecosystem responses to powdered rock

scientific article published in 2021

Practice and perspectives in the validation of resource management models

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Predicting the deforestation-trend under different carbon-prices

scientific article (publication date: 6 December 2006)

Projected shifts in Coffea arabica suitability among major global producing regions due to climate change

scientific article

Recent advances and future research in ecological stoichiometry

scientific article published on 21 April 2021

Reconciling regional nitrogen boundaries with global food security

scientific article

Reducing emissions from agriculture to meet the 2 °C target

scientific article

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture without compromising food security?

Reply to: The risks of overstating the climate benefits of ecosystem restoration

scientific article published in 2022

Satellite-based terrestrial production efficiency modeling

scientific article published on 18 September 2009

Shifting from a fertilization-dominated to a warming-dominated period

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Spatial variation in biodiversity loss across China under multiple environmental stressors

scientific article published on 20 November 2020

Spatially explicit LCA analysis of biodiversity losses due to different bioenergy policies in the European Union

scientific article published on 30 August 2018

Spatially explicit life cycle impact assessment for soil erosion from global crop production

Storing carbon in forests

journal article; published in Nature on 2009-03-11

Structural change as a key component for agricultural non-CO2 mitigation efforts.

scientific article published on 13 March 2018

Systemic trade risk of critical resources

scientific article

The Need for Improved Maps of Global Cropland

article by Steffen Fritz et al published 15 January 2013 in Eos

The Shared Socioeconomic Pathways and their energy, land use, and greenhouse gas emissions implications: An overview

The bioelements, the elementome, and the biogeochemical niche

scientific article published on 22 March 2019

The carbon benefits of fuels and forests

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The dynamic soil organic carbon mitigation potential of European cropland

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The effect of global change on soil phosphatase activity

scientific article published on 12 August 2021

The feasibility of low CO2 concentration targets and the role of bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS)

scholarly article by Christian Azar et al published May 2010 in Climatic Change

The marker quantification of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathway 2: A middle-of-the-road scenario for the 21st century

The phosphorus trilemma

Uncertainty in soil data can outweigh climate impact signals in global crop yield simulations

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Uncertainty modeling of CCS investment strategy in China’s power sector

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Verifiable soil organic carbon modelling to facilitate regional reporting of cropland carbon change: A test case in the Czech Republic

scientific article published on 17 August 2020

Vertical profiles of leaf photosynthesis and leaf traits and soil nutrients in two tropical rainforests in French Guiana before and after a 3-year nitrogen and phosphorus addition experiment

scientific article published on 04 January 2022