Diversity Turn in Land Use Science

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Dröge, Saskia, Dominic Andreas Martin, Rouvah Andriafanomezantsoa, Zuzana Burivalova, Thio Rosin Fulgence, Kristina Osen, Eric Rakotomalala, et al. 2020. “Listening to a Changing Landscape: Acoustic Indices Reflect Bird Species Richness and Site-Scale Vegetation Structure in the Biodiversity Hotspot of North-Eastern Madagascar.” Ecological Indicators, no. 120: 106929. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106929.

Fulgence, Thio Rosin, Dominic A. Martin, Holger Kreft, Fanomezana Mihaja Ratsoavina, and Aristide Andrianarimisa. 2020. “Spiders Systematically Trap Amphibians in North-Eastern Mad.” Authorea (Preprint). https://doi.org/10.22541/au.158921510.01204219

Kunz, Stefanie, Hendrik Hänke, and Eva Schlecht. 2020. “Income Diversification Trough Animal Husbandry for Smallholder Vanilla Farmers in Madagascar.” Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics 121 (1): 63–75. https://doi.org/10.17170/kobra-202004061143.

Martin, Dominic Andreas, Annemarie Wurz, Kristina Osen, Ingo Grass, Dirk Hölscher, Thorien Rabemanantsoa, Teja Tscharntke, and Holger Kreft. 2020. “Shade-Tree Rehabilitation in Vanilla Agroforests Is Yield Neutral and May Translate into Landscape-Scale Canopy Cover Gains.” EcoEvoRxiv Preprints. https://doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/63fc2.

Martin, Dominic Andreas, Rouvah Andriafanomezantsoa, Saskia Dröge, Kristina Osen, Eric Rakotomalala, Annemarie Wurz, Aristide Andrianarimisa, and Holger Kreft. 2020. “Bird Diversity and Endemism along a Land-Use Gradient in Madagascar: The Conservation Value of Vanilla Agroforests.” Biotropica. https://doi.org/10.1111/BTP.12859.

Martin, Dominic Andreas, Kristina Osen, Ingo Grass, Dirk Hölscher, Teja Tscharntke, Annemarie Wurz, and Holger Kreft. 2020. “Land-Use History Determines Ecosystem Services and Conservation Value in Tropical Agroforestry.” Conservation Letters. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12740.

Neimark, B., Osterhoudt, S., Blum, L., & Healy, T. (2019). Mob justice and ‘The civilized commodity.’ Journal of Peasant Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2019.1680543

Niens, Janna, Lisa Richter-Beuschel, and Susanne Bögeholz. 2020. “Land-Use and Health Issues in Malagasy Primary Education—A Delphi Study.” Sustainability 12 (15): 6212. https://doi:10.3390/su12156212.

Schwab, Dominik, Annemarie Wurz, Ingo Grass, Anjaharinony A. N. A. Rakotomalala, Kristina Osen, Marie Rolande Soazafy, Dominic Andreas Martin, and Teja Tscharntke. 2020. “Decreasing Predation Rates and Shifting Predator Compositions along a Land-Use Gradient in Madagascar’s Vanilla Landscapes.” Journal of Applied Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13766.

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Conference „Sustainable Land Use“

Viviana Uruena and Kristina Osen will present the Diversity Turn Project on Friday, 15.11.2019 at 15:30 at the conference "Sustainable Land Use". Further information can be found here. You can watch the presentation as a video here.


Aktionstag "WISSENSWERT - Science goes City" 26.10.2019

The project will be represented on 26.10.2019 in the context of the action day „WISSENSWERT - Science goes City“. We will present ourselves to the public with a poster, discussions with researchers* and a video presentation. Further information and photos of the event can be found here.

Our location: Contigo Göttingen, Lange-Geismar-Strasse 51
Time: 10:30 -16:00 o'clock

We are looking forward to many interested visitors!


Gender Matters

As part of the lecture series "Gender Matters - 10 minutes for a change of perspective", two PhD students from the Diversity Turn project will present their work in the Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude (ZHG), room 003, from 11:55-12:05 a.m..

22.10.2019: Annette Witherspoon
„Gender: Accentuating the Social in Stustainability Research“

17.12.2019: Lloyd Bloom
„Globale Wertschöpfungsketten und Gender: Unterschiedliche Wahrnehmung von Frauen und Männern in der Umsetzung von Nachhaltigkeitsstandards im Vanilleanbau in Madagaskar“ („Gobal value chains and Gender“)


Press reports

  • Vanille-Krise auf Madagaskar - Hohe Preise, bessere Häuser? (Sep 2018) – for this German report about our project published by detektor.fm please click here.
  • Kreisheimatbund Peine: Umwelt als Aufgabe für alle (Apr 2018) – for this German article about our project published in Peiner Allgemeine Zeitung please click here.
  • Ein Traum von Vanille. Auf der Suche nach dem gerechten Aroma (Apr 2018) – for this German report about our project published by Deutschlandfunk please click here.
  • Verpuffte Entwicklungshilfe. Madagaskar und der Geldregen aus dem Ausland (Nov 2017) – for this German report about our project published by Deutschlandfunk please click here.
  • Madagaskar: Nachhaltiger Vanilleanbau und gesellschaftliche Veränderungen. Wissenschaftler der Universität Göttingen untersuchen Landnutzung mit Diversitätsperspektive (Oct 2016) – for this German article about our project published in Agrar aktuell please click here (p.31).