Dr. Manfred Denich

 
 
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Area of Specialization
Biology - Applied Botany, Agronomy - Tropical Agriculture
Department ZEF c - Ecology and Natural Resource Management
Current Research Topics

Tropical secondary vegetation, fallow management, alternatives to slash-and-burn, mulch systems, carbon sequestration, conservation and use of wild coffee

See also http://www.shift-capoeira.uni-bonn.de/

http://www.coffee.uni-bonn.de

Further Research Topics Bamboo ecology (China), Faidherbia albida (Namibia), land degradation (Ethiopia)
Contacts / Partners / Funding Institutions

EMBRAPA Amazônia Oriental, Belém (Brazil); Ethiopian Agricultural Research Organization, Addis Abeba (Ethiopia); Addis Abeba University, Addis Abeba (Ethiopia); Haluoleo University, Kendari (Sulawesi, Indonesia); Hubei University, Wuhan (China); Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) Tamale (Ghana)

Publications

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Tadesse W. Gole, Denich, M., Demel Teketay & Vlek, P.L.G. 2002. Human impacts on the Coffea arabica genepool in Ethiopia and the need for its in situ conservation. In: Managing Plant Genetic Resources (J.M.M. Engels, A.H.D. Brown, M.T. Jackson, eds.), CAB International, 237- 247.

 
Eckelmann, J.; Denich, M. 2001. Research for the Rain Forest - Alternatives to slash-and-burn agriculture for small holders in Amazonia. Video documentation, 20 min., Eule Film, Quedlinburg.  
Li Zhaohua & Denich, M. 2001. An approach on the survivorship of giant panda in the wild. Journal of Forestry Research, Vol.12, p. 59-62.  
Li Zhaohua & Denich, M. 2001. Community features of Indocalamus wilsoni in the Shennongjia National Nature Reserve, China. Journal of Forestry Research, Vol.12, p. 169-175.  
Denich, M., Kanashiro, M. & Vlek, P.L.G. 2000. The potential and dynamics of carbon sequestration in traditional and modified fallow systems of the Eastern Amazon region, Brazil. In: "Global Climate Change and Tropical Ecosystems", Lal, R., Kimble, J.M. & Stewart, B.A., CRC, Press, Boca Raton FL.  
Sommer, R., Denich, M., Vlek, P.L.G. 2000. Carbon storage and root penetration in deep soils under small-farmer land-use systems in the Eastern Amazon region, Brazil. Plant and Soil 219, 231-241  
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