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Yousefian, N., Alam, S., Ramappa, K.B., Schlecht, E., and Dittrich, C. 2024. Cows in the city: How consumer demands sustain urban dairying in the IT capital of India. Urban Agriculture and Regional Food Systems 9, e20070. DOI: 10.1002/uar2.20070.
Alam, S., Mullakkalparambil Velayudhan, S., Bateki, C.A., Malik, P.K., Bhatta, R., Buerkert, A., König, S., and Schlecht, E. 2024. Seasonal variation in heavy metal intake and excretion by dairy cattle in an Indian megacity. Livestock Science, 105520. DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2024.105520.
Chawla, S., Morrison, T.H., and Cumming, G.S. 2024. Actor Resistance Influences Effectiveness of Ostrom's Design Principles for Governing Contested Landscapes. International Journal of the Commons 18(1), 351-368. DOI: 10.5334/ijc.1242.
Preusse, V., Nölke, N., Wollni, M. 2024. Urbanization and adoption of sustainable agricultural practices in the rural-urban interface of Bangalore, India. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics. DOI: 10.1111/cjag.12355.
Preusse, V., Santos-Silva, M., Steinhübel, L., Wollni, M. 2024. Covid-19 and agricultural labor supply: Evidence from the rural-urban interface of an Indian mega-city. Agribusiness: An International Journal. DOI: 10.1002/agr.2189.3.
Almawazreh, A., Uteau, D., Subbarayappa, C.T., Buerkert, A., Lehmann, S., and Peth, S., 2024. Modeling N fertilization impact on water cycle and water use efficiency of maize, finger-millet and lablab crops in S-India. Vadose Zone Journal, 17923584. DOI: 10.1002/vzj2.20319.
2023
Michels, M. and Mußhoff, O. 2023. Drip Irrigation in Bengaluru: Evaluating gender's moderating effect on farmers' intention to adopt drip irrigation. Applied Economics Letters, DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2024.2328725
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. Urbanization 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
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. 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 characterization of vegetable crops at different levels of nitrogen. Biosystem Engineering 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
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 systems 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. 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 stores 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., Nautiya.l, 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 and C. Butsch (eds.): Current research contributions on Southasia. 9th Annual Conference of the South Asia Working Group. Heidelberg, January 25-26, 2019. Heidelberg, Geographies of South Asia 11, pp. 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. urbanization 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. and Dittrich, C. 2017. food and nutrition behaviors of urban middle classes 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