Rzanny, M.; Seeland, M.; Wäldchen, J.; Mäder, P.: Acquiring and preprocessing leaf images for automated plant identification: understanding the tradeoff between effort and information gain. Plant Methods 13, 97 (2017)
Seeland, M.; Rzanny, M.; Alaqraa, N.; Wäldchen, J.; Mäder, P.: Plant species classification using flower images—A comparative study of local feature representations. PLoS One 12 (2), e0170629 (2017)
Begehold, H.; Rzanny, M.; Winter, S.: Patch patterns of lowland beech forests in a gradient of management intensity. Forest Ecology and Management 360, pp. 69 - 79 (2016)
Wäldchen, J.; Thuille, A.; Seeland, M.; Rzanny, M.; Schulze, E. D.; Boho, D.; Alaqraa, N.; Hofmann, M.; Mäder, P.: Flora Incognita – Halbautomatische Bestimmung der Pflanzenarten Thüringens mit dem Smartphone. Landschaftspflege und Naturschutz in Thüringen 53 (3), pp. 121 - 125 (2016)
Winter, S.; Lüderitz, M.; Rzanny, M.: Unterirdische Kontinuität und Pilzvielfalt alter Waldstandorte. Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Forstwesen 166 (2), pp. 83 - 90 (2015)
Seeland, M.; Rzanny, M.; Alaqraa, N.; Thuille, A.; Boho, D.; Wäldchen, J.; Mäder, P.: Description of flower colors for image based plant species classification. In: 22nd German Color Workshop (FWS), Ilmenau, Germany, pp. 145 - 154 (Ed. Franke, K.-H.). (2016)
The BIOMASS satellite was successfully launched into orbit on 29 April 2025. The BIOMASS mission is designed to map and monitor global forests. It will map the structure of different forest types and provide data on above-ground biomass.
Extreme climate events endanger groundwater quality and stability, when rain water evades natural purification processes in the soil. This was demonstrated in long-term groundwater analyses using new analytical methods.
More frequent strong storms are destroying ever larger areas of the Amazon rainforest. Storm damage was mapped between 1985 and 2020. The total area of affected forests roughly quadrupled in the period studied.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina will hold a joint conference on the challenges of achieving carbon neutrality in Berlin on October 29-30, 2024.
The Chapter of the Order has elected the writer, philosopher and filmmaker Alexander Kluge and the mathematician Gerd Faltings as domestic members of the Order and the geologist Susan Trumbore and the literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt as foreign members.
The 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting was dedicated to physics and was held from June 30 to July 5, 2024. It brought together around 40 Nobel Laureates and 635 young scientists from more than 90 nations.
On June 24, Prof. Dr. Henrik Hartmann, head of the Julius Kühn Institute for Forest Protection and former group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, received an important award for his scientific achievements in the field of forestry. Our warmest congratulations!