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Tobias Plieninger

Tobias Plieninger

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
74
Citations
19755
World Ranking
1124
National Ranking
74

Overview

Tobias Plieninger is affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany and conducts research primarily within Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their scholarly work encompasses several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Insect Science, and Ecology.

Their research focuses on topics such as Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Forest Management and Policy, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, Urban Green Space and Health, Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems, and Urban Agriculture and Sustainability.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Tobias Plieninger include the following:

  • Disconnection from nature: Expanding our understanding of human-nature relations, 2023, People and Nature
  • Governing Europe's forests for multiple ecosystem services: Opportunities, challenges, and policy options, 2022, Forest Policy and Economics
  • Agroforestry for sustainable landscape management, 2020, Sustainability Science
  • Effects of land abandonment on nature contributions to people and good quality of life components in the Mediterranean region: A review, 2022, Land Use Policy
  • Scientific and local ecological knowledge, shaping perceptions towards protected areas and related ecosystem services, 2020, Landscape Ecology

Frequent co-authors in Tobias Plieninger's research include Mario Torralba, Cristina Quintas-Soriano, Malin Tiebel, Andreas Mölder, and Emmeline Topp.

Their work has been published repeatedly in several venues, notably Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), People and Nature, Sustainability Science, Landscape and Urban Planning, and Ecosystems and People.

Best Publications

  • Assessing, mapping, and quantifying cultural ecosystem services at community level

    Tobias Plieninger;Tobias Plieninger;Sebastian Dijks;Elisa Oteros-Rozas;Claudia Bieling

  • An empirical review of cultural ecosystem service indicators

    Mónica Hernández-Morcillo;Tobias Plieninger;Claudia Bieling

  • Do European agroforestry systems enhance biodiversity and ecosystem services? A meta-analysis

    Mario Torralba;Nora Fagerholm;Nora Fagerholm;Paul J. Burgess;Gerardo Moreno

  • Rewilding complex ecosystems.

    Andrea Perino;Henrique M. Pereira;Henrique M. Pereira;Laetitia M. Navarro;Néstor Fernández

  • The driving forces of landscape change in Europe: a systematic review of the evidence

    Tobias Plieninger;Hélène Draux;Nora Fagerholm;Nora Fagerholm;Claudia Bieling

  • Traditional land-use and nature conservation in European rural landscapes

    Tobias Plieninger;Franz Höchtl;Theo Spek

  • Using social media photos to explore the relation between cultural ecosystem services and landscape features across five European sites

    Elisa Oteros-Rozas;Elisa Oteros-Rozas;Berta Martín-López;Nora Fagerholm;Nora Fagerholm;Claudia Bieling

  • Participatory scenario planning in place-based social-ecological research: insights and experiences from 23 case studies

    Elisa Oteros-Rozas;Elisa Oteros-Rozas;Elisa Oteros-Rozas;Berta Martín-López;Tim M. Daw;Erin L. Bohensky

  • The role of cultural ecosystem services in landscape management and planning

    Tobias Plieninger;Claudia Bieling;Nora Fagerholm;Nora Fagerholm;Anja Byg

  • Linking Ecosystem Services with Cultural Landscape Research

    Harald Schaich;Claudia Bieling;Tobias Plieninger

  • Wood-pastures of Europe: Geographic coverage, social–ecological values, conservation management, and policy implications

    Tobias Plieninger;Tibor Hartel;Berta Martín-López;Berta Martín-López;Guy Beaufoy

  • Current extent and stratification of agroforestry in the European Union

    Michael den Herder;Gerardo Moreno;Rosa M. Mosquera-Losada;João H.N. Palma

  • Socio-cultural valuation of ecosystem services in a transhumance social-ecological network

    Elisa Oteros-Rozas;Elisa Oteros-Rozas;Berta Martín-López;José A. González;Tobias Plieninger

  • Archetypical patterns and trajectories of land systems in Europe

    Christian Levers;Daniel Müller;Daniel Müller;Karlheinz Erb;Helmut Haberl;Helmut Haberl

  • Resilience and the cultural landscape : understanding and managing change in human-shaped environments

    Tobias Plieninger;Claudia Bieling

  • Comparing instrumental and deliberative paradigms underpinning the assessment of social values for cultural ecosystem services

    Christopher M. Raymond;Christopher M. Raymond;Jasper O. Kenter;Tobias Plieninger;Nancy J. Turner

  • The impact of land abandonment on species richness and abundance in the Mediterranean Basin: A meta-analysis

    Tobias Plieninger;Cang Hui;Mirijam Gaertner;Lynn Huntsinger

  • Linkages between landscapes and human well-being: An empirical exploration with short interviews

    Claudia Bieling;Tobias Plieninger;Heidemarie Pirker;Christian R. Vogl

  • Effects of land-use history on size structure of holm oak stands in Spanish dehesas: implications for conservation and restoration

    Tobias Plieninger;Fernando J. Pulido;Werner Konold

  • Land use, biodiversity conservation, and rural development in the dehesas of Cuatro Lugares, Spain

    T. Plieninger;C. Wilbrand

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher M. Raymond
Christopher M. Raymond University of Helsinki
Berta Martín-López
Berta Martín-López Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Gerardo Moreno
Gerardo Moreno University of Extremadura
Tibor Hartel
Tibor Hartel Babeș-Bolyai University
Lynn Huntsinger
Lynn Huntsinger University of California, Berkeley
Paul J. Burgess
Paul J. Burgess Cranfield University
Tobias Kuemmerle
Tobias Kuemmerle Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Peter H. Verburg
Peter H. Verburg Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Reinhard F. Hüttl
Reinhard F. Hüttl Brandenburg University of Technology
Matthias Bürgi
Matthias Bürgi Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

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