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Livestock enclosures in drylands of Sub-Saharan Africa are overlooked hotspots of N₂O emissions

Africa houses approximately one third of the global cattle, sheep and goat population. Here the authors show that manure accumulation in livestock enclosures can emit significant quantities of the greenhouse gas N₂O for decades after abandonment, totaling 5% of continental anthropogenic N₂O emissions.

Klaus Butterbach-Bahl
Gretchen Gettel
Lutz Merbold
ResearchOpen Access15 Sept 2020
Nature Communications

Volume: 11, P: 1-6
Biofuel production on the margins

An analysis shows that fuel made from wild, herbaceous vegetation grown on land currently unsuitable for cultivating field crops could contribute substantially to the United States' targets for biofuel production. See Letter p.514

Klaus Butterbach-Bahl
Ralf Kiese
News & Views16 Jan 2013
Nature

Volume: 493, P: 483-484
Advancing sustainable agricultural transformation through the synergy of automated experimental platforms and living labs

Transforming agricultural landscapes to be more sustainable and resilient requires integrated and multidisciplinary approaches. Linking automated experimental platforms with living labs can accelerate knowledge gain, enhance interdisciplinary collaboration, and support real-world change by addressing key challenges in current agricultural systems.

Mathias Hoffmann
Cheng Chen
Maren Dubbert
Comments & OpinionOpen Access25 Sept 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-5
Integrated biochar solutions can achieve carbon-neutral staple crop production

Chinese agricultural production is key to achieve the country’s 2060 carbon neutrality target. Combining meta-analysis and life-cycle assessment, this study estimates the climate change mitigation potential of straw, biochar, and an integrated biomass pyrolysis and electricity generation system.

Longlong Xia
Liang Cao
Xiaoyuan Yan
Research09 Feb 2023
Nature Food

Volume: 4, P: 236-246
Species richness is more important for ecosystem functioning than species turnover along an elevational gradient

The authors measure numerous ecosystem functions across an elevational gradient on Mt Kilimanjaro and find that species richness impacts function more than species turnover across sites. They also show that variation in species richness impacts ecosystem functioning more strongly at the landscape scale than at the local scale.

Jörg Albrecht
Marcell K. Peters
Matthias Schleuning
Research20 Sept 2021
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 5, P: 1582-1593
Climate–land-use interactions shape tropical mountain biodiversity and ecosystem functions

Elevational trends in biodiversity and ecosystem functions across natural and anthropogenic habitats on Mount Kilimanjaro show that the effects of land use are strongly mediated by climate.

Marcell K. Peters
Andreas Hemp
Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter
Research27 Mar 2019
Nature

Volume: 568, P: 88-92
A redistribution of nitrogen fertiliser across global croplands can help achieve food security within environmental boundaries

Current cereal crop production levels could be sustained with significantly reduced total global fertilisation if nitrogen fertiliser use is evenly distributed across global croplands, according to an analysis of simulations from the LandscapeDNDC biogeochemical model

Andrew Smerald
David Kraus
Clemens Scheer
ResearchOpen Access28 Sept 2023
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 4, P: 1-11
Disentangling gross N₂O production and consumption in soil

Yuan Wen
Zhe Chen
Marife D. Corre
ResearchOpen Access04 Nov 2016
Scientific Reports

Volume: 6, P: 1-8
Carbon footprints of European dairy farming: the role of drained peatlands in GHG assessments

Anna-Lena Müller
Ralf Kiese
Clemens Scheer
ReviewsOpen Access04 Aug 2025
npj Sustainable Agriculture

Volume: 3, P: 1-13
Vegetation traits of pre-Alpine grasslands in southern Germany

Anne Schucknecht
Alexander Krämer
Ralf Kiese
ResearchOpen Access28 Sept 2020
Scientific Data

Volume: 7, P: 1-11

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