Publikationen

2023

Chen, R.S., Berthelsen, A.L., Lamartinière, E.B., Spangenberg, M.C., and Schmoll, T. 2023. Recognizing and marshalling the pre-publication error correction potential of open data for more reproducible science. Nature Ecology and Evolution 7, 1597-1599.

 

Mullakkalparambil-Velayudhan, S., Sejian, V., Devaraj, C., Ruban, W., Kadam, V., König, S. 2023. Novel insights to assess climate resilience in goats using a holistic approach of skin-based advanced NGS technologies. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 24, 10319. doi: 10.3390/ijms241210319

 

Mullakkalparambil-Velayudhan, S., Alam, S., Yin, T., Brügemann, K., Sejian, V., Schlecht, E., König, S. 2023. Unravelling the genomic association for milk production traits and signatures of selection of cattle in a harsh tropical environment. Biology 12, 1483. doi:10.3390/biology12121483.

 

Mullakkalparambil-Velayudhan, S.M., Alam, S., Yin, T., Brügemann, K., Buerkert, A., Sejian, V., Bhatta, R., Schlecht, E., and König, S. 2023. Selective sweeps in cattle genomes in response to the influence of urbanization and environmental contamination. Genes 14(11), 2083. DOI: 10.3390/genes14112083.

 

Marcacci, G., Westphal, C., Rao, V.S., Kumar, S.S., Tharini, K.B., Belavadi, V.V., Nölke, N.,
Tscharntke, T., and Grass, I., and 2023. Urbanization alters the spatiotemporal dynamics of plant-pollinator networks in a tropical megacity. Ecology Letters, DOI: 10.1111/ele.14324.

 

Marcacci, G., Devy, S., Wenzel, A., Rao, V.S., Kumar, S.S., Nölke, N., Belavadi, V.V., Tscharntke, T., Grass, I., and Westphal, C. 2023. Direct and indirect effects of urbanization, pesticides and wild insect pollinators on mango yield. Journal of Applied Ecology, DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.14476.

 

Nölke, N., Fehrmann, L., Plieninger, T., and Kleinn, C. 2023. Categorization of green and grey infrastructure complexity in the rural–urban interface of Bengaluru, India: an unsupervised volumetric approach with relevance for urban quality. Urban Ecosystems 26, 161-172.

 

Alam, S. Mullakkalparambil Velayudhan, S. Kumar Dey, D. Adilieme, C., Malik, P.K., Bhatta, R., König, S., and Schlecht, E. 2023. Urbanisation threats to dairy cattle health: Insights from Greater Bengaluru, India. Tropical Animal Health and Production 55, 350. DOI: 10.1007/s11250-023-03737-7.

 

Sourav, S.K., Subbarayappa C.T., Hanumanthappa D.C., Mudalagiriyappa, Vazhacharickal, P.J., Mock, A., Ingold, M., and Buerkert, A. 2023. Soil respiration under different N fertilization and irrigation regimes in Bengaluru, S‑India. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems. DOI: 10.1007/s10705-023-10311-y

 

Buerkert, A., Piepho, H.-P., Sourav, S.K., Hoffmann, E., Vazhacharickal, P.S., Subbarayappa, C.T. and Wachendorf, M. 2023. Agricultural intensification effects on spatial growth variability of staple crops in South India. Field Crops Research. DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2023.109032.

 

Hoffmann, E.M., Schareika, N., Dittrich, C., Schlecht, E., Sauer, D., and Buerkert, A. 2023. Rurbanity: A concept for the interdisciplinary study of rural-urban transformation. Sustainability Science 18, 1739-1753. DOI: 10.1007/s11625-023-01331-2

 

Wenzel, A., Grass, I., Raj, V., Nölke, N., Subramanya, S.R., and Tscharntke, T. 2023. High losses of farmland birds and potential biocontrol along an urbanization gradient in a tropical megacity. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 354(3), 108571.

 

Lakshmisha, A. and Thiel, A. 2023. Legitimacy, shared understanding and exchange of resources: Co-managing lakes along an urban-rural gradient in Greater Bengaluru Metropolitan Region, India. Environmental Management 71, 523-537. DOI: 10.1007/s00267-023-01795-z

 

Thapa, P., Torralba, M., Bhaskar, D., Nagendra, H., and Plieninger, T. 2023. Green in grey: ecosystem services and disservices perceptions from small- scale green infrastructure along a rural-urban gradient in Bengaluru, India, Ecosystems and People 19(1), 2223307. DOI: 10.1080/26395916.2023.2223307

 

Jiang, T., Freudenberg, M., Kleinn, C., Ecker, A., and Nölke, N. 2023. The impacts of quality-oriented dataset labeling on tree cover segmentation using U-Net: A case study in WorldView-3 imagery. Remote Sensing 15(6), 1691.

 

Purushotham, A., Aiyar, A., and von Cramon-Taubadel, S. 2023. Processed foods, socio-economic status, and peri-urban obesity in India. Food Policy 117, 102450. DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102450.

2022

Simpkins, C.E., Hanß, S., Spangenberg, M.C., Salecker, J., Hesselbarth, M.H.K., and Wiegand, K. 2022. spectre: An R package to estimate spatially-explicit community composition using sparse data. Ecography 12, e06272.

 

Mullakkalparambil-Velayudhan, S., Brügemann, K., Shahin, A., Yin, T., Devaraj, C., Sejian, V., Schlecht, E., König, S. 2022. Molecular, physiological and hematological responses of crossbred dairy cattle in a tropical savanna climate. Biology 12(1), 26. doi: 10.3390/biology12010026.

 

Alam, S., Schlecht, E. and Reichenbach, M. 2022. Impacts of COVID-19 on small-scale dairy enterprises of an Indian megacity – insights from Bengaluru. Sustainability 14.4, 2057. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14042057


Marcacci, G., Grass, I., S Rao, V., Kumar, S., Tharini, K.B., Belavadi, V., Nölke, N., Tscharntke, T. and Westphal, C. 2022. Functional diversity of farmland bee communities across rural-urban landscapes in a tropical megacity. Ecological Application e2699, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2699


Steinhübel, L., Wenzel, A., Hulamani, P., von Cramon-Taubadel, S. and Mason, N.M. 2022. Effects of local farm management on wild bees through temporal and spatial spillovers: evidence from Southern India. Landscape Ecology 37.10, 2635-2649. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-022-01507-8


Yousefian, N., Wenninger, E. and Dittrich, C. 2022. Shifts in food consumption practices among middle-class households in Bengaluru, India. Sustainability 14.13557. https://doi.org/10.3390/su142013557


Reiner, D., Spangenberg, M.C., Grimm, V., Groeneveld, J. and Wiegand, K. 2022. Chronic and acute effects of imidacloprid on a simulated BEEHAVE honeybee colony. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 41.9. 2318-2327. https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.5420


Wijesingha, J., Astor, T., Nautiyal, S. and Wachendorf, M. 2022. Features and spatial patterns of an agricultural landscape along an urban-rural gradient. Research Square. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2102208/v1

 

Wegmann, J., Hermann, D., and Musshoff, O. 2022. Assessing risk attitudes and time preferences on the rural–urban interface of Bengaluru, India. Agricultural Finance Review 82(5), 828-846. https://doi.org/10.1108/AFR-04-2021-0040

Moran-Rodas, V.E., Preusse, V. and Wachendorf, C. 2022. Agricultural Management Practices and Decision-Making in View of Soil Organic Matter in the Urbanizing Region of Bangalore. Sustainability 14.10, 5775. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14105775


Wenzel, A., Grass, I., Pannure, A., Nölke, N. andTscharntke, T. 2022. Wild bees benefit from low-level urbanization and suffer from pesticides in a tropical megacity. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 336, 108019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2022.108019


Divakara, B.N., Nikhitha, C.U., Nölke, N., Tewari, V.P. and Kleinn, C. 2022. Tree Diversity and Tree Community Composition in Northern Part of Megacity Bengaluru, India. Sustainability 14.3, 1295. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14031295

 

Plieninger, T., Thapa, P., Dhanya, B., Nagendra, H., Torralba, M. and Zoderer, B. 2022. Disentangling ecosystem services perceptions from blue infrastructure around a rapidly expanding tropical megacity . Landscape and Urban Planning 222, 104399.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2022.104399


Nölke, N., Fehrmann, L., Plieninger, T. and Kleinn, C. 2022. Categorization of Green and Grey Infrastructure Complexity in the Rural-Urban Interface of Bengaluru, India; an unsupervised volumetric approach with relevance for urban quality. Research Square. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1155273/v1


Mullakkalparambil Velayudhan , S., Brügemann , K., Pinto, A., Yin, T., Reichenbach, M., Sejian, V.,  Bhatta, R., Schlecht, E. and König, S. 2022. Effects of heat stress across the rural-urban interface on phenotypic trait expressions of dairy cattle in a tropical savannah region. Sustainability 14.9, 458. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14084590


Lakshmisha, A. and Thiel, A. 2022. Bridging actors and their role in co-managing lakes: Cases from Greater Bengaluru Metropolitan Region (GBMR). Sustainability 14.10, 5865. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14105865


Goswami, M. and Nautiyal, S. 2022. Role of traditional ecological knowledge on field margin vegetation in sustainable development; a study in a rural-urban interface of Bengaluru. Trees, Forests and People 8, 100207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tfp.2022.100207

Nidmanuri R.R., Jayakumari R., Ramiya A.M., Astor T., Wachendorf M., and Bürkert A. 2022. High-resolution multispectral imagery and LiDAR point cloud fusion for the discrimination and biophysical characterisation of vegetable crops at different levels of nitrogen. Biosystem Enginieering 222, 177-195. doi:10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2022.08.005.

Nguyen, T.T., Hoffmann, E. and Buerkert, A. 2022. Spatial patterns of urbanising landscapes in the North Indian Punjab show features predicted by fractal theory. Scientific Reports 12, 1819. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05906-4

Purushotham, A., Mittal, N., Ashwini, B.C., Umesh, K.B., von Cramon- Taubadel, S. and Vollmer, S. 2022. A quantile regression analysis of dietary diversity and anthropometric outcomes among children and women in the rural–urban interface of Bangalore, India. Food Policy 107, 102216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2021.102216

2021

Mullakkalparambil-Velayudhan, S., König, S., Sejian, V., Malik, P.K., Nair, M.R.R., De França Carvalho Fonsêca, V., Campos Maia, A. S., Bhatta, R. 2021. Climate resilient dairy cattle production: Applications of genomic tools and statistical models. Frontiers Veterinary Science 8, doi: 10.3389/fvets.2021.625189

 

Marcacci, G., Westphal, C., Wenzel, A., Raj, V., Nölke, N., Tscharntke, T. and Grass, I. 2021. Taxonomic and functional homogenization of farmland birds along an urbanization gradient in a tropical megacity. Global change biology 27.20, 4980-4994. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15755

Pinto, A., May, K., Yin, T., Reichenbach, M., Malik, P.K., Roessler, R., Schlecht, E. and König, S. 2021. Gastrointestinal nematode and Eimeria spp. infections in dairy cattle along a rural-urban gradient. Veterinary Parasitology: Regional Studies and Reports 100600. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vprsr.2021.100600

Reichenbach, M., Pinto, A., König, S., Bhatta, R. and Schlecht, E. 2021. Dairy production in an urbanizing environment: typology and linkages in the megacity of Bengaluru, India. Plos one 16.8, e0255791.  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0255791

Reichenbach, M., Pinto, A., Malik, P.K., Bhatta, R., König, S. and Schlecht, E. 2021.Dairy feed efficiency and urbanization – A system approach in the rural-urban interface of Bengaluru, Inida. Livestock Science253, 104718. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.livsci.2021.104718

Kulkarni, T., Gassmann, M., Kulkarni, C.M., Khed, V. and Buerkert, A. 2021. Deep drilling for groundwater in Bangalore: A case study on the city's over-exploited hard-rock aquifers. Sustainibility 13(21), 12149     https://doi.org/10.3390/su132112149

Buerkert, A., Ganeshaiah, K.N. and Siebert, S. 2021. Water use in human civilizations: An interdisciplinary analysis of a perpetual social-ecological challenge. Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering, doi.org/10.15302/J-FASE-2021393.

Jayakumari, R., Nidamanuri, R.R., Anandakumar, M., Astor, T., Wachendorf, M. and Buerkert, A. 2021. Multi-temporal estimation of vegetable crop biophysical parameters with varied nitrogen fertilization using terrestrial laser scanning. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 184, 106051. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2021.106051

Nölke N. Continuous urban tree cover mapping from Landsat imagery in Bengaluru, India. Forests. 2021; 12(2), 220. https://doi.org/10.3390/f12020220

Thapa, P., Torralba, M., Buerkert, A., Dittrich, C. and Plieninger, T. 2021. Ecological and social outcomes of urbanization on regional farming systems: A global synthesis. Ecology and Society 26(3), 24. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12579-260324.

Wijesingha, J., Dayananda, S., Wachendorf, M., and Astor, T. 2021. Comparison of spaceborne and UAV‐borne remote sensing spectral data for estimating monsoon crop vegetation parameters. Sensors 21, 2886. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21082886

Yousefian, N., Soubadra Devy, M., Geetha, K. and Dittrich, C., 2021. Lockdown of farmers markets in Bengaluru: Direct marketing activities and potentials for rural-urban linkages in the food system. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development 10, 2. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2021.102.034

2020

Zihui, Z., Kleinn, C. and Nölke, N. 2020. Assessing tree crown volume—a review. Forestry 94(1), 18-35.https://doi.org/10.1093/forestry/cpaa037

Astor, T., Dayananda, S., Nidamanuri, R.R., Nautiyal, S. and Wachendorf, M. 2020. Vegetable crop biomass estimation using hyperspectral in situ and RGB 3D UAV data. Agronomy 10(10), 1600. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10101600

Bareuther, M., Klinge, M. and Buerkert, A. 2020. Spatio-temporal dynamics of algae and macrophyte cover in urban lakes: A remote sensing analysis of Bellandur and Varthur wetlands in Bengaluru, India. Remote Sensing 12, 3843. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12223843

Bettin, J. and Wollni, M. 2020. Environmental concern and urbanization in India: Towards psychological complexity. Sustainability 12, 10402. https://doi.org/10.3390/su122410402

Brinkmann, K., Hoffmann, E. and Buerkert, A. 2020. Spatial and temporal dynamics of urban wetlands along a rural-urban gradient in an Indian megacity over the past 53 years. Remote Sensing 12, 662. DOI:10.3390/rs12040662

Erler, M. and Dittrich, C. 2020. Middle class, tradition and the Desi-realm discourses of Alternative Food Networks in Bengaluru, India. Sustainability, 12(7):2741. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12072741

Erler, M., Keck, M., Dittrich, C. 2020. The changing meaning of millet: Organic shops and distinctive consumption practices in Bengaluru, India. Journal of Consumer Culture. 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/1469540520902508

Mittal, N. and Vollmer, S. 2020. Double burden of malnutrition in Bangalore, India. Hidden Hunger and the Transformation of Food Systems. Biesalski, H.K. (Ed.), World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics 121,138-148. https://doi.org/10.1159/000507521

Nautiyal, S., Goswami, M., Nidamanuri, R.R., Hoffmann, E., Buerkert, A. 2020. Structure and composition of field margin vegetation in the rural-urban interface of Bengaluru, India: A case study on an unexplored dimension of agroecosystems. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 192, 520. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-020-08428-6

Pinto, A., Yin, T., Reichenbach, M., Bhatta, R., Malik, K.P., Schlecht, E. and König, S. 2020. Enteric methane emission of dairy cattle along rural-urban gradients in the rising megacity Bangalore in India. Agriculture 10(12), 628. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture10120628

Pinto, A., Yin, T., Reichenbach, M., Bhatta, R., Schlecht, E. and König, S. 2020. Phenotypic dairy cattle trait expressions in dependency of social-ecological characteristics along rural-urban gradients. Sustainability 12(21), 9021. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12219021

Schroeder, J., Jannoura, R., Beushcel, R., Pfeiffer, B., Dyckmans, J., Murugan, R., Channavar, S., Wachendorf, C., and Joergensen, R.G. 2020. Carbon use efficiency and microbial functional diversity in a temperate Luvisol and a tropical Nitisol after millet litter and N addition. Biology and Fertility of Soils 56, 1139-1150. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-020-01487-4

Steinhübel, L. and von Cramon-Taubadel, S. 2020. Somewhere in between towns, markets and jobs – Agricultural intensification in the rural–urban interface. The Journal of Development Studies 57(4), 669-694. doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2020.1806244

Steinhübel, L., Wegmann, J., Musshoff, O. 2020. Digging deep and running dry – The adoption of borewell technology in the face of climate change and urbanization. Agricultural Economics. https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12586

Wenzel, A., Grass, I., Belavadi, V.V., Tscharntke, T. 2020. How urbanization is driving pollinator diversity and pollination - a systematic review. Biological Conservation 241, 108321. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.108321

Zhu, Z., Kleinn, C., Nölke, N. 2020. Towards tree green crown volume: A methodological approach using terrestrial laser scanning. Remote Sensing 12(11),1841. https://doi:10.3390/rs12111841

2019

Bettin, J. and Wollni, M. 2019. Environmental concern, income, and nature experience in India . Sustainability 11, 346. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11020346

Jha, R.K., Nils Nölke, B.N. Diwakara, V.P. Tewari and Christoph Kleinn. 2019. Differences in Tree Species Diversity along the Rural-Urban Gradient in Bengaluru, India. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening 46, 126464.

Dayananda, S., Astor, T., Wijesingha, J., Thimappa, S.C., Chowdappa, H.D., Mudalagiriyappa, Nidamanuri, R.R., Nautiyal, S. and Wachendorf, M. 2019. Multi-temporal monsoon crop biomass estimation using hyperspectral imaging. Remote Sensing 11, 1771. DOI

Erler, M. 2019. Food transition and Bengaluru’s organic movement. A pathway to sustainable consumption practices? In: J. Müller, J. Dame und C. Butsch (Hg.): Aktuelle Forschungsbeiträge zu Südasien. 9. Jahrestagung des AK Südasien. Heidelberg, 25.-26. Januar 2019. Heidelberg, Geographien Südasiens 11, S. 14–17.

Freudenberg, M., Nölke, N., Agostini, A., Urban, K., Wörgötter, F. and Kleinn, C. 2019. Large scale palm tree detection in high resolution satellite images using u-net. Remote Sensing 11(3), 312. DOI

Hoffmann, E.M., Konerding, V., Nautiyal, S. and Buerkert, A. 2019. Is the push-pull paradigm useful to explain rural-urban migration? A case study in Uttarakhand, India. PloS one 14(4), e0214511. DOI

Ludwig, B., Murugan, R., Parama, V.R.R., Vohland, M., 2019. Accuracy of estimating soil properties with mid-infrared spectroscopy: Implications of different chemometric approaches and software packages related to calibration sample size. Soil Science Society of America Journal 83(5),1542-1552. https://doi.org/10.2136/sssaj2018.11.0413

Mukherjee, R., Deb, R. and Soubadra Devy, M. 2019. Diversity matters: Effects of density compensation in pollination service during rainfall shift. Ecology and Evolution 9.17, 9701-9711.DOI

Murugan, R., Parama, V.R.R., Madan, B., Muthuraju and Ludwig, B. 2019. Short-term effect of nitrogen intensification on aggregate size distribution, microbial biomass and enzyme activities in a semi-arid soil under different crop types. Pedosphere 29(4), 483-491. DOI

Prasad, C.S., Anandan, S., Gowda, N.K.S., Schlecht, E. and Buerkert, A. 2019. Managing nutrient flows in Indian urban and peri-urban livestock systems. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems. 115(2):159-172. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10705-018-9964-0.

Wegmann, J. and Mußhoff, O., 2019. Groundwater management institutions in the face of rapid urbanization – Results of a framed field experiment in Bengaluru, India. Ecological Economics 166, 106432. DOI

2018

Awuah, K , Nölke, N., Freudenberg, M., Diwakara, B.N., Tewari, V.P. and Kleinn C. 2018. Spatial resolution and landscape structure along an urban-rural gradient: Do they relate to remote sensing classification accuracy? - A case study in the megacity of Bengaluru, India. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment 12, 89-98. DOI

Cumming, G.S. 2018. A review of social dilemmas and social-ecological traps in conversation and natural resource management. Conversation Letters 11, 1-15. DOI

Cumming, G.S. and von Cramon-Taubadel, S. 2018. Linking economic growth pathways and environmental sustainability by understanding development as alternate social-ecological regimes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 115, 9533-9538. DOI

Möckel, T., Dayananda, S., Nidamanuri, R.R., Nautiyal, S., Narayanagowda, N.G., Buerkert, A. and Wachendorf, M. 2018. Estimation of vegetable crop parameter by multi-temporal UAV-borne images. Remote Sensing 10(5), 805. DOI

Patil, S., Dhanya, B., Raghvendra, S.V. and Purushothaman, S. 2018. Urbanisation and new agroecologies – The story of Bengaluru’s peripheries. Review of Environment and Development 41, 71-77.

Sciaini, M., Fritsch, M., Scherer, C. and Simpkins, C.E. 2018. NLMR and landscapetools: An Integrated environment for simulating and modifying neutral landscape models in R. Methods in Ecolology and Evolution 9(11), 2240-2248. DOI

2017

Erler, M. und Dittrich, C. 2017. Nahrungs- und Ernährungsverhalten urbaner Mittelschichten in Bangalore. Geographische Rundschau 12, pp26.

Hoffmann, E.M., Jose, M., Nölke, N., Möckel, T. 2017. Construction and use of a simple index of urbanisation in the rural–urban interface of Bangalore, India. Sustainability 9(11), 2146. DOI

Ludwig, B., Murugan, R., Parama, V.R. and Vohland, M. 2017. Use of different chemometric approaches for an estimation of contents of soil properties in an Indian arable field with near infrared  near infrared spectroscopy. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 181, 704-713. DOI