The consequences of habitat change for human well-being are assumed to be especially extreme in Burkina Faso. The country is located in a highly drought-sensitive zone of West Africa, and small‐scale subsistence farmers may be especially affected if losses of biodiversity lead to changes in ecosystem functioning; many depend on more or less degraded lands for agricultural production. The overall aim of the present thesis consequently was to characterize the functional traits of soil-organisms which are crucial for a productive and balanced soil environment in the study region – termites and ants. They are true ecosystem engineers whose activity alters the habitat. Through soil-turnover in the course of constructing biogenic structures of ...
This thesis was conducted within the scope of a graduation fellowship from the state of Baden-Württe...
Several decades of intensive dryland-farming in the Gadarif Region, located in the Eastern part of S...
Due to a growing world population, an extension of bioenergy production and the larger proportion of...
Global climate change and land use change will not only alter entire ecosystems and biodiversity pat...
One of the pronounced global challenges facing ecologists is how to feed the current growing human p...
The main drivers of soil fertility variability across Sub-Saharan Africa (SAA) must be understood to...
The Zanzibar Archipelago is the largest reef system in eastern Africa and represents the transition ...
Malnutrition, poverty and the unsustainable exploitation of natural resources pose serious problems ...
Peatlands are an important component in the global carbon cycle as they act as both long-term sinks ...
Summary Introduction. Rapid and uncontrolled industrialisation and urbanisation in most developing ...
Der Begriff Bodenqualität ist zu einem zentralen Konzept erhoben worden, welches die Unte...
Chapter 1 – General introduction Anthropogenic land-use and climate change are the major drivers ...
Owing to long-term similarities with regard to orbital climate forcing (i.e., low eccentricity and a...
Chapter I The gradual turnover of dead organic material into mineral nutrients is a key ecological...
Striking characteristics of the Neoproterozoic fold belt of Cameroon (NFBC) are the presence of volu...
This thesis was conducted within the scope of a graduation fellowship from the state of Baden-Württe...
Several decades of intensive dryland-farming in the Gadarif Region, located in the Eastern part of S...
Due to a growing world population, an extension of bioenergy production and the larger proportion of...
Global climate change and land use change will not only alter entire ecosystems and biodiversity pat...
One of the pronounced global challenges facing ecologists is how to feed the current growing human p...
The main drivers of soil fertility variability across Sub-Saharan Africa (SAA) must be understood to...
The Zanzibar Archipelago is the largest reef system in eastern Africa and represents the transition ...
Malnutrition, poverty and the unsustainable exploitation of natural resources pose serious problems ...
Peatlands are an important component in the global carbon cycle as they act as both long-term sinks ...
Summary Introduction. Rapid and uncontrolled industrialisation and urbanisation in most developing ...
Der Begriff Bodenqualität ist zu einem zentralen Konzept erhoben worden, welches die Unte...
Chapter 1 – General introduction Anthropogenic land-use and climate change are the major drivers ...
Owing to long-term similarities with regard to orbital climate forcing (i.e., low eccentricity and a...
Chapter I The gradual turnover of dead organic material into mineral nutrients is a key ecological...
Striking characteristics of the Neoproterozoic fold belt of Cameroon (NFBC) are the presence of volu...
This thesis was conducted within the scope of a graduation fellowship from the state of Baden-Württe...
Several decades of intensive dryland-farming in the Gadarif Region, located in the Eastern part of S...
Due to a growing world population, an extension of bioenergy production and the larger proportion of...