Afforestation or intense pasturing improve the ecological and economic value of abandoned tropical farmlands

Ecosystem services: Challenges and opportunities for hydrologic modeling to support decision making

(2014) Andrew J. Guswa et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Food production and climate protection—What abandoned lands can do to preserve natural forests

(2013) Thomas Knoke et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Bracken fern frond status classification in the Andes of southern Ecuador: combining multispectral satellite data and field spectroscopy

(2013) G.F. Curatola Fernández et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Ecosystem Restoration is Now a Global Priority: Time to Roll up our Sleeves

(2013) James Aronson et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

In an Ecuadorian pasture soil the growth of Setaria sphacelata, but not of soil microorganisms, is co-limited by N and P

(2012) Karin Potthast et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Nutrient stocks and phosphorus fractions in mountain soils of Southern Ecuador after conversion of forest to pasture

(2012) Ute Hamer et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Global food security, biodiversity conservation and the future of agricultural intensification

(2012) Teja Tscharntke et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Simulating canopy photosynthesis for two competing species of an anthropogenic grassland community in the Andes of southern Ecuador

(2012) Brenner Silva et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Agriculture and Deforestation: Is REDD+ Rooted In Evidence?

(2012) Romain Pirard et al.   FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS

How can climate policy benefit from comprehensive land-use approaches?

(2012) Thomas Knoke et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Linking water quality and well-being for improved assessment and valuation of ecosystem services

(2012) B. L. Keeler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Contributions of cultural services to the ecosystem services agenda

(2012) T. C. Daniel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Integrating ecosystem-service tradeoffs into land-use decisions

(2012) J. H. Goldstein et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Soil biodiversity, biological indicators and soil ecosystem services—an overview of European approaches

(2012) Mirjam Pulleman et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Near surface air humidity in a megadiverse Andean mountain ecosystem of southern Ecuador and its regionalization

(2011) Andreas Fries et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Cost-effective compensation to avoid carbon emissions from forest loss: An approach to consider price–quantity effects and risk-aversion

(2011) Thomas Knoke et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

CMF: A Hydrological Programming Language Extension For Integrated Catchment Models

(2011) Philipp Kraft et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE

A quantitative review of ecosystem service studies: approaches, shortcomings and the road ahead

(2011) Ralf Seppelt et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Improving canopy processes in the Community Land Model version 4 (CLM4) using global flux fields empirically inferred from FLUXNET data

(2011) Gordon B. Bonan et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Global land use change, economic globalization, and the looming land scarcity

(2011) Eric F. Lambin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Effectiveness and distributional impacts of payments for reduced carbon emissions from

(2010) Thomas Knoke et al.   Erdkunde

Hydrometeorology of tropical montane cloud forests: emerging patterns

(2010) L. A. Bruijnzeel et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Toward a whole-landscape approach for sustainable land use in the tropics

(2010) R. DeFries et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Are Socioeconomic Benefits of Restoration Adequately Quantified? A Meta-analysis of Recent Papers (2000-2008) inRestoration Ecologyand 12 Other Scientific Journals

(2010) James Aronson et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Short- and long-term effects of weed control on pastures infested with Pteridium arachnoideum and an attempt to regenerate abandoned pastures in South Ecuador

(2010) K ROOS et al.   WEED RESEARCH

Growth of Tropical Bracken (Pteridium arachnoideum): Response to Weather Variations and Burning

(2010) Kristin Roos et al.   Invasive Plant Science and Management

Urea fertilisation affected soil organic matter dynamics and microbial community structure in pasture soils of Southern Ecuador

(2009) Ute Hamer et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Neotropical Forest Conservation, Agricultural Intensification, and Rural Out-migration: The Mexican Experience

(2009) Luis García-Barrios et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Determinants for successful reforestation of abandoned pastures in the Andes: Soil conditions and vegetation cover

(2009) Sven Günter et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Modeling multiple ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, commodity production, and tradeoffs at landscape scales

(2009) Erik Nelson et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Model parameterization to simulate and compare the PAR absorption potential of two competing plant species

(2009) Jörg Bendix et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY

Land‐cover classification in the Andes of southern Ecuador using Landsat ETM+ data as a basis for SVAT modelling

(2009) D. Göttlicher et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Soil organic matter and microbial community structure in set-aside and intensively managed arable soils in NE-Saxony, Germany

(2008) Ute Hamer et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Tropical farmers need productive alternatives

(2008) Thomas Knoke et al.   NATURE

Biomass energy: the scale of the potential resource

(2008) C FIELD et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION