Prof. Dr. Christine Schmitt

Laufende Forschungsprojekte

LIFE PROGNOSES: LIFE PRotection of Old Growth Forests in Europe: Natural heritage, Outline, Synthesis and Ecosystem Services - Strengthening primary and old growth forest protection in Europe by capitalising on World Heritage sites. (2021-2024, involved in work packages 1 and 2, with Northwest German Forest Research Institute (NW-FVA) and many other partners)

BioCult:Culture and Biodiversity – Harnessing synergies between cultural traditions and biodiversity protection (2021-2024, leader vegetation group, with Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and many other partners)

Improving dietary quality and livelihoods using farm and wild biodiversity through an integrated community-based approach in Kenya (2019-2022, leader wild edible plants group, with Bioversity International, Nairobi, Kenya, and many other partners)

Ausgewählte abgeschlossene Forschungsprojekte

Reconciling human livelihood needs and nature conservation in East African forest biodiversity hotspots(2016-2019, leader vegetation group)

BiomassWeb - Improving food security in Africa through increased system productivity of biomass-based value webs(2015-2018, project coordinator)

Floristic composition and affinities of the Ethiopian coffee forest vegetation(2009-2013, project lead)

The protection of forests under global biodiversity and climate policy (2009-2013, sub-project lead)

Aktuelle Publikationen

Brackhane S, Reif A, Zin E & Schmitt CB. 2021. Are natural disturbances represented in strictly protected areas in Germany? Global Ecology and Conservation, e01436: 21. (Open Access)

Akoto DS, Partey ST, Denich M, Kwaku M, Borgemeister C & Schmitt CB.  2020. Towards bamboo agroforestry development in Ghana: evaluation of crop performance, soil properties and economic benefit. Agroforestry Systems, 94: 1759-1780. (Open Access)

Akoto DS, Partey ST, Denich M, Kwaku M, Borgemeister C & Schmitt CB. 2020. Environmental and financial assessment of producing bioenergy from Bambusa balcooa, Anogeissus leiocarpa and Senna siamea in Ghana. Journal of Cleaner Production, 275: 123147.

Aleman JC & 32 co-authors, including Schmitt CB. 2020. Floristic evidence for alternative biome states in tropical Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(45): 28183-28190.

Avilés-Irahola D, Beuchelt T, Schmitt CB, Nischalke S, Youkhana E & Geiger F. 2020. Gender inequalities show and deepen in times of pandemic. ZEF blog post.

Callo-Concha D, Jaenicke H, Schmitt CB & Denich M. 2020. Food and non-food biomass production, processing and use in sub-Saharan Africa: Towards a regional bioeconomy, Editorial. Sustainability, 12(5): 2013. (Open Access)

Callo-Concha D, Jaenicke H, Schmitt CB & Denich M (Eds.). 2020. Advances in Food and Non-Food Biomass Production, Processing and Use in Sub-Saharan Africa: Towards a Basis for a Regional Bioeconomy. Edited book (434 pages), MDPI. Basel, Switzerland. (Open Access)

Habel JC, Nzau JM, Apfelbeck B, Bendzko T, Fischer C, Kimatu JN, Mwakumanya MA, Maghenda M, Mulwa RK, Rieckmann M, Shauri H, Teucher M & Schmitt CB. 2020. Land scarcity, communication gaps and institutional confusions influence the loss of biodiversity in south-eastern Kenya. Biodiversity and Conservation, 29: 3835-3841. (Open Access)

Muscarella R & 222 co-authors, including Schmitt CB. 2020. The global abundance of tree palms. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29(9): 1495-1514. (Open Access)

Schmitt CB, Börner J & Luedeling E. 2020. Planting trees - no all-round solution for climate change mitigation. ZEFNews 41. Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany, p. 10. (Open Access) 

Teucher M, Schmitt CB, Wiese A, Apfelbeck B, Maghenda M, Pellikka P, Lens L & Habel JC. 2020. Behind the fog: Forest degradation despite logging bans in an East African cloud forest. Global Ecology and Conservation, 22: e01024. (Open Access)

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Laufende Arbeiten

Su Mon San: Managing forest encroachment with an integrated approach of remote sensing and social science: A case study in Myanmar. (mit Universität Bonn)

Wyclife A. Oluoch: Availability and sustainable harvesting of wild edible plants in Turkana County, Kenya. (mit Universität Bonn)

Karen Veridiano: Policy, practice and people: towards science-based climate-adaptive tropical forest management in the Philippines. (mit Universität Bonn)

Sebastian Brackhane: Potential for wilderness areas to meet the German National Biodiversity Strategy goals. (mit Universität Freiburg)

Abgeschlossene Arbeiten

Dr. Daniel Akoto-Sarfo (2020): Bamboo agroforestry for household energy and food security in Ghana: An exploratory study. (mit Universität Bonn)

Dr. María Jeaneth Delgado-Aguilar (2017): Integration of remote sensing techniques and information on ecosystem services to measure tropical forest degradation: a case study from Ecuador. (mit Universität Freiburg)