ZEF theme: Ecosystem services
Ongoing Doctoral Theses
Modern agricultural frontier development and pasture restoration in the Brazilian Amazon: implications for biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
Climate change mitigation finance: risks and opportunities for farmers and food systems in Africa (tentative).
Doctoral Thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
Policy, practice and people: towards science-based climate-resilient forest management in the Philippines.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
Published Doctoral Theses
2024
2024.
The role of green infrastructure quality for healthier and biodiverse cities. A One Health approach for reconciling people and wildlife needs.
Doctoral thesis within the One Health Graduate School and at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
2022
2022.
Linking land use-land cover change with annual and perennial plant growth models for the spatio-temporal explicit simulation of ecosystem services: A case study in a savanna region of Ghana.
Doctoral Thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, Center for Development Research, University of Bonn.
2021
2021.
Economic and policy mechanisms affecting land use decisions in the Brazilian agricultural frontier.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
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2018
2018.
Sustainable Agricultural Practices (SAPs) in northern Ghana: Impacts on welfare, environmental reliance and agricultural land expansion.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
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2018.
Spatial interaction of agricultural land uses and their impacts on ecosystem service provision at the landscape scale.
Doctoral Thesis at
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Bonn.
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2018.
An expert-based ecosystem services assessment under land use and land cover changes and different climate scenarios in northern Ghana, West Africa.
Doctoral thesis at
University of Halle.
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2017
2017.
Action-based and outcome-based payments for environmental services: An experimental auction for tree plantings contracts in Kenya.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
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2017.
The impact of public policies on deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.
Doctoral Thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, Center for Development Research, University of Bonn.
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2017.
Determinants of incentive-based forest governance in the Amazon: evidence from Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru.
Doctoral Thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
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2017.
Mainstreaming the Ecosystem Services Approach in Strategic Environmental Assessment of Spatial Planning in Chile.
Doctoral Thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, Center for Development Research, University of Bonn.
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2017.
Food web dynamics in coastal vegetated habitats of the Southern Gulf of Mexico.
Doctoral Thesis at
University of Bremen.
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2015
2015.
Boundary Work for Collaborative Water Resources Management: Conceptual and Empirical Insights from a South African Case Study.
Doctoral thesis at
University of Münster.
MV Wissenschaft
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2015.
Cost and effectiveness of REDD policies: insights from the Bosawas Biosphere Reserve, Nicaragua.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Forest Science and Forest Ecology, University of Göttingen.
J.D. Sauerlaender's Verlag Bad Orb
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2015.
Targeting watershed protection in the Guapiaçu-Macacu region of the Atlantic Forest, Brazil: An environmental and economic assessment of the potential for a payment for ecosystem services scheme.
Cologne University of Applied Sciences/ University of Leipzig.
Kölner Schriften zur Ingenieur- und Naturwissenschaftlichen Forschung. Band 1/2015
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2014
2014.
Trees, crops, and rural livelihoods: Afforestation of marginal croplands in Uzbekistan.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
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2014.
Exploring the potential of multipurpose tree species for revegetating abandoned cropping sites in the lower Amu Darya Basin.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
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2013
2013.
A system approach for integrated assessment of land use and land management impact on ecosystem services provision at landscape scale.
Habilitation thesis at
University of Bonn, Agricultural Faculty.
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2012
2012.
Flexibility of multi-agent system models for rubber agroforest landscapes and social response to emerging reward mechanisms for ecosystem services in Sumatra, Indonesia.
Ecology and Development Series No. 88 at
Faculty of Math. & Nat. Science, University of Bonn.
Ecology and Development Series No. 88
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2012.
Leakage Effects of REDD Policy Adoption in East and Central African Counties on Kenya's Forest Resources.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
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2009
2009.
An Approach to Environmental Services Assessment: Functional Biodiversity in Tropical Agroforestry Systems: The Case of Tomé-Açú, Northern Brazil.
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
Ecology and Development Series No, 65
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2009.
Spatial Targeting of Payments for Environmental Services in Costa Rica – A Site Selection Tool for Increasing Conservation Benefits.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
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2008
2008.
Ecophysiological diversity of wild /Coffea arabica/ populations in Ethiopia: Drought adaptation mechanisms.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
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2007
2007.
Resilience of Mangroves on the South Coast of Havana province, Cuba.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Math. & Nat. Science, University of Bonn.
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2007.
The contribution of different fauna communities to improved soil health: A case of Zimbabwean soils under conservation agriculture.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
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2006
2006.
The Impacts of Savannah Vegetation on the Spatial and Temporal Variation of the ETa in the Volta Basin.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Math. & Nat. Science, University of Bonn.
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2005
2005.
Multi-Agent System for Simulation of Land-use and Land-cover Change: a Theoretical Framework and Its First Implementation for an Upland Watershed in the Central Coast of Vietnam.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, University of Bonn.
Cuvillier Verlag
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2003
2003.
The role of biological nitrogen fixation in secondary and primary forests of Central Amazonia.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
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2003.
Towards Realization of Kenya´s Full Beekeeping Potential: A Case Study of Baringo District.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
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2002
2002.
Soil Fauna in Rainfed Paddy Field Systems: Their Role in Organic Matter Decomposition and Nitrogen Turn-over.
Doctoral hesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
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