Dear colleagues,

Today, you receive Issue 12 of our regular Quarterly Letter. With this issue we would like to draw your attention to numerous interesting news and many new publications that have been produced within the individual regional projects of the Sustainable Land Management programme. We also list several upcoming events that are of interest to the research programme.

Furthermore, we would like to inform you about the currently ongoing redesign of the Sustainable Land Management overarching website. We are intensely working on incorporating some new features and making the website clearer and more user-friendly. We hope to be finished with this process at the end of the summer. In the meantime, we apologize for any inconvenience this process may bring.

We hope you will find a wide range of interesting scientific readings in this Quarterly Letter issue and we wish everybody nice and relaxed summer days!

Kindest regards,
The GLUES Scientific Coordination Team

CC-LANDSTRAD PROJECT

Klimek, S., Lohss, G., Gabriel, D. (2014): Modelling the spatial distribution of species-rich farmland to identify priority areas for conservation actions. Biological Conservation 174: 65-74.

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Elsasser, P., Weller, P. (2013): Aktuelle und potentielle Erholungsleistung der Wälder in Deutschland: Monetärer Nutzen der Erholung im Wald aus Sicht der Bevölkerung. Allgemeine Forst- und Jagdzeitung 184 (3/4): 84-96.

COMTESS PROJECT

Koch, S., Jurasinski, G., Koebsch, F., Koch, M., Glatzel, S. (2014): Spatial variability of annual estimates of methane emissions in a Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud. dominated restored coastal brackish fen. Wetlands: online early.

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Baumgärtner, S. and Strunz, S. (2014): The economic insurance value of ecosystem resilience. Ecological Economics 101: 21–31.
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Karrasch, L., Klenke, T., Woltjer, J. (2014): Linking the ecosystem services approach to social preferences and needs in integrated coastal land use management – A planning approach. Land Use Policy 38: 522-532.
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GLUES PROJECT

Beckmann, M., Václavík, T., Manceur, A. M., Šprtová, L., von Wehrden, H., Welk, E., Cord, A. F. (2014): glUV: a global UV-B radiation data set for macroecological studies. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
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INNOVATE PROJECT

Rodorff, V., Siegmund-Schultze, M., Gottwald, S., Meckel, U., Sobral, M.C. (2014): Effektivität von Staudamm-"Follow-up"-Programmen - 25 Jahre nach dem Bau des Itaparica-Reservoirs in Nordost-Brasilien. UVP-report, 13(4+5): 216–223.

LEGATO PROJECT

Settele, J. et al. (2013): Cultural Landscape Research in Southeast‐Asia – the LEGATO‐Project. Berichte. Geographie und Landeskunde 87(3): 315‐323. Selbstverlag Deutsche Akademie für Landeskunde e.V., Leipzig.
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Spangenberg, J.H., Görg, C., Thanh Truong, D., Tekken, V., Bustamante, J.V., and Settele, J. (2014): Provision of ecosystem services is determined by human agency, not ecosystem functions. Four case studies. International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management, 10(1): 40-53.
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SASCHA PROJECT

Degefie, T.D., Fleischer, E., Klemm, O., Soromotin, A.V., Soromotina, O.V., Tolstikov, A.V., Abramov, N.V. (2014): Climate extremes in South Western Siberia: past and future. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (available online)

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SURUMER PROJECT

Niu, Z.Q., Oremek, P., Zhu, C.D. (2014): First record of the bee genus Homalictus Cockerell for China with description of a new species (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Halictini). Zootaxa: 3746(2): 393-400.

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Aenis, T., Hofmann-Souki, S., Nagel, U.J., Wang Jue, T.L. (Eds.) with contributions by Cruz Moreno, S.I., Cutler,J., Larson, M., Liebig, G., Longanecker, J., Kinkel, C., Kübke, L., Martin, F., Ohlendorf, K., Ridder, R., Rodriguez Jardines, K., and Mei, S.L. (2014): Rubber cultivation and livelihood - a stakeholder analysis in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Online: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-100216241.

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THE FUTURE OKAVANGO PROJECT

Baumberg, V., Helmschrot, J., Steudel, T., Göhmann, H., Fischer, C., and Flügel, W.A. (2014): Assessing basin heterogeneities for rainfall-runoff modelling of the Okavango River and its transboundary management. In: Evolving Water Resource Systems: Understanding, Predicting and Managing Water - Society Interactions. Proceedings of the ICWRS2014, Bologna, Italy, June 2014 (IAHS Publ. 364, 2014)

7.7.14 - 11.7.14
FROM PAST TO PRESENT: Changing Climates, Ecosystems and Environments of Arid Southern Africa
Location: Bloemfontein, South Africa
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17.9.14 - 19.9.14
Tropentag 2014: Bridging the gap between increasing knowledge and decreasing resources
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
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29.10.14 - 31.10.14
Biodiversity and Food Security – From Trade-offs to Synergies
Location: Aix-en-Provence, France
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BMBF-Research Programme „Sustainable Land Management”
Scientific Coordination and Synthesis (GLUES)

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Daniela Narr | daniela.narr(at)ufz.de | +49 (0) 341-235 1058 or

Andreas Werntze | andreas.werntze(at)ufz.de | +49 (0) 341-235 1816 

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