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Publications in journals ranked in the ISI Web of Science

2024

  • Amputu, V., Männer, F., Tielbörger, K.,Knox, N. (2024). Spatio-Temporal Transferability of Drone-Based Models to Predict Forage Supply in Drier Rangelands. Remote Sensing, 16, 1842. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16111842
  • Zimmer, K., Amputu, V., Schwarz, L.-M., Linstädter, A., Sandhage-Hofmann, A. (2024). Soil characteristics within vegetation patches are sensitive indicators of savanna rangeland degradation in central Namibia. Geoderma Regional, e00771. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geodrs.2024.e00771

2023

  • Amputu, V., Braun, A., Heshmati, S., Retzlaff, R., Röder, A., Knox, N., Tielbörger, K. (2023). Unmanned Aerial Systems accurately map rangeland condition indicators in a dryland savannah. Ecological Informatics, 102007. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2023.102007
  • Brinkmann, K., Menestrey Schwieger, D.A., Grieger, L., Heshmati, S., Rauchecker, M. (2023): How and why do rangeland changes and their underlying drivers differ across Namibia's two major land tenure systems? The Rangeland Journal, 45(3):123-139. https://doi.org/10.1071/RJ23007
  • Heita, H.T.N., Dressler, G., Menestrey Schwieger, D., Mbidzo, M. (2023) Pastoralists’ perceptions on the future of cattle farming amidst rangeland degradation: A case study from Namibia’s semiarid communal areas. Rangelands, 10001. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rala.2023.10.001
  • Menestrey Schwieger, D.A. (2023). Overcoming Namibia’s worst drought in the last 40 years: Ethnographic insights from Okakarara constituency. Journal of Namibian Studies, 33, 31-56. https://doi.org/10.59670/jns.v33i.272

2022

  • Anderies, J.M., Cumming, G.S., Clements, H.S., Lade, S.J., Seppelt, R., Chawla, S., Müller, B. (2022). A framework for conceptualizing and modeling social-ecological systems for conservation research. Biological Conservation, 275, 109769. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109769
  • Dressler, G., Groeneveld, J., Hetzer, J., Janischewski, A., Nolzen, H., Rodig, E., Schwarz, N., Taubert, F., Thober, J., Will, M., Williams, T., Wirth, S.B., Müller, B. (2022). Upscaling in socio-environmental systems modelling: Current challenges, promising strategies and insights from ecology. Socio-Environmental Systems Modelling, 4, 18112. https://doi.org/10.18174/sesmo.18112
  • Koch, F., Tietjen, B., Tielbörger, K., Allhoff, K. T. (2022). Livestock management promotes bush encroachment in savanna systems by altering plant–herbivore feedback. Oikos, e09462. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.09462
  • Menestrey Schwieger D.A. (2022). Exploring pastoralists’ perceptions of desertification tipping points in Namibia’s communal drylands: An ethnographic case study from Okakarara constituency. Pastoralism, 12(3). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13570-022-00231-x

2021

  • Will, M., Dressler, G., Kreuer, D., Thulke, H.H., Grêt‐Regamey, A., Müller, B. (2021). How to make socio‐environmental modelling more useful to support policy and management? People and Nature, 3, 560-572. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10207
  • Williams, T.G., Dressler, G., Stratton, A.E., Müller, B. (2021). Ecological and financial strategies provide complementary benefits for smallholder climate resilience: Insights from a simulation model. Ecology and Society, 26(2):14. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12207-260214

2020

  • Menestrey Schwieger, D.A., Mbidzo, M. (2020). Socio-historical and structural factors linked to land degradation and desertification in Namibia's former Herero 'homelands.' Journal of Arid Environments, 178, 104151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2020.104151