Winfried Schröder

This book is intended to provide a hitherto missing English-language overview of a multi-year research project in which a comprehensive methodology was developed to assess a rule-based classification of the habitat services, the primary net biomass productivity and carbon sequestration capacity. The comprehensive methodology presented operationalises the specifications of the MAES working group quantitatively. The MAES classification framework for integrative ecosystem assessments comprises the mapping of ecosystems, the classification of ecosystem conditions (ecosystem condition information for individual indicators, ecosystem functions and ecosystem types), the classification of ecosystem services and their integration. The presented rule-based classification of the three ecosystem services examined in depth using quantitative indicators is unique in the EU to date.

The book provides a unique analysis of current air pollution in Germany by correlating results from chemical transport modelling and accumulation monitoring by moss. Results of most recent modelling of atmospheric concentration and deposition of the metal elements Cd, Hg and Pb are compared with the results of technical measurements and bioindication with mosses. These modelling results with status 2020 have a higher spatial resolution of 0.1° x 0.1° than the modelling results valid up to then (50 km x 50 km). This leads to partly slightly higher correlations between the findings of the modelling and those of the moss monitoring. In this study, descriptive and correlation-statistical parameters are calculated, results and recommendations drawn described. A statistically adequately deepened analysis and evaluation of the highresolution modelling results requires additional methodological tools, which are outlined in summary. It is particularly important to link the exposure data from modelling, technical measurements and the findings from moss monitoring with information on the receptors, the ecosystem types. This is the only way to ensure that the results of the present project contribute to a more differentiated assessment of the impacts on ecosystems from atmospheric heavy metal deposition than has been the case to date, thus enabling a targeted further development of risk assessments for German

This open access book reports on a pilot project aiming at collecting information on the socio-ecological risks that could arise in the event of an uncontrolled spread of genetically engineered organisms into the environment. The researchers will, for instance, be taking a closer look at genetically engineered oilseed rape, genetically engineered olive flies as well as plants and animals with so-called gene drives. The book mainly adresses researchers. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

This open access book reports on a pilot project aiming at collecting information on the socio-ecological risks that could arise in the event of an uncontrolled spread of genetically engineered organisms into the environment. The researchers will, for instance, be taking a closer look at genetically engineered oilseed rape, genetically engineered olive flies as well as plants and animals with so-called gene drives. The book mainly adresses researchers. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

The investigations refer to the development of plant phenology since the 1960s in Germany. Spatiotemporal trends were assessed by means of regression kriging. It could be shown that there already is a distinct shift of phenological onset towards the beginning of the year of up to two weeks. In future, a shift of up to one month was calculated till 2080. Moreover, a prolongation of the vegetation period of up to three weeks was found. The findings are relevant for the development of mitigation measures to prevent from environmental, agricultural and economic issues due to climate change.

This book investigates the spatial distribution of potential temperature-driven malaria transmissions, using the basic reproduction rate (R0) to model the reproduction of the malaria pathogen Plasmodium vivax. The authors mapped areas at risk of an outbreak of tertian malaria in the federal state of Lower Saxony (pre-study) and for whole Germany (main-study) by means of geostatistics for past (1947-2007) and future periods. Projections based on predicted monthly mean air temperature data derived from the IPCC and regionally discriminated by two regional climate models (REMO, WettReg) for the countrywide study.

Daten iiber den aktuellen Zustand und die Veriinderungen der Umwelt, insbesondere Auswirkungen menschlicher Aktivitliten auf die Umwelt und okosystemare Prozesse, sind unverzichtbare wichtige Handlungsgrundlagen fUr die Umweltpolitik. Um problemadaquate MaBnahmen zur Vorsorge und Gefahrenabwehr ergreifen zu konnen, werden zuverUissige und aktuelle Informationen ebenso benotigt wie fUr die Diskussion iiber umweltpolitische Ziele und Prioritliten sowie zur Erfolgskon- trolle. Auch die in der Umweltpolitik permanent geforderte schwierige sachgerechte Abwiigung im Konflikt zwischen der Sicherung der Funktionsfiihigkeit des Naturhaushalts von Okosystemen und den gesellschaftlichen Nutzungsanforderungen mit ihren Belastungen fUr die Umwelt kann nur auf einer geeigneten umfassenden Informationsbasis erfolgen. Allerdings bestehen trotz des kontinuierlichen naturwissenschaftlichen Erkenntniszuwachses und der erheblichen Aktivitliten des Bundes und der Lander beim Auf- und Ausbau eines flachendek- kenden und medieniibergreifenden integrierten Umweltbeobachtungssystems noch groBe Liicken in der Informationsbasis, was uns in der tliglichen umweltpolitischen Praxis immer wieder deutlich vor Augen gefiihct wird. Und diese Liicken wachsen. Untersucht und beobachtet wird schlieBlich kein statisches System. Die Natur befindet sich in einem stiindigen VeriinderungsprozeB, die an- thropogenen Einfliisse nehmen qualitativ wie quantitativ fortlaufend zu. Dies ist eine Seite des Informationsproblems: die Komplexitlit okologischer Zusammenhiinge und die Dynamik der beobachteten Systeme. Das andere Problem betrifft die Bestimmung der erforderlichen Daten und deren Autbereitung.