Dr. Manfred Finckh

Biodiversity

• Vegetation monitoring in southern Morocco and Angola
• Transect analyses at desert margins
• Vegetation mapping
• Diversity in plant-animal interactions (bird communities, pollinator networks)

Acacia wadis in southern Morocco (photo: M. Finckh)

Ecology

• Syndroms of land use change in the Miombo region
• Ecology of thorny cushionshrubs in the High Atlas
• Transhumant pastoralism in southern Morocco
• The role of frost and fire for timberlines in the Angolan Highlands
• Purgatories – Fire experiments in Angolan suffrutex-grasslands

Work break in the thorny cushionshrubs in the High Atlas (poto: P. Zigelski)

Evolution

• Evolution of geoxylic suffrutices in the Zambesian Floristic Region

Syzygium guineense ssp. huillense, a geoxylic suffrutice in the Zambesian Floristic Region (photo: M. Finckh)

Journals

2024

Clements, H.S., Do Linh San, E., Hempson, G., Linden, B., Maritz, B., [...], Finckh, M., [...], Woodhouse, G.M. (2024) The bii4africa dataset of faunal and floral population intactness estimates across Africa’s major land uses. Scientific Data, 11, 191. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02832-6

Hähn, G.J.A., Damasceno, G., Alvarez-Davila, E., Aubin, I., Bauters, M. , [ ], Finckh, M., [...], Bruelheide, H. (2024) Global decoupling of functional and phylogenetic diversity in plant communities. Nature Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02589-0

Guuroh, R.T., Brown, L., Alvarez, M., Finckh, M., Schmiedel, U., Tsheboeng, G., Dengler, J. (accepted) African vegetation studies: introduction to a Special Collection. Vegetation Classification and Survey. https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS.143360

Oelze, V., Wang, X., Bocksberger, G., Arandjelovic, M., Agbor, A., [...], Finckh, M., [...], Christophe Boesch (accepted) Strontium isoscape of sub-Saharan Africa allows tracing origins of victims of the transatlantic slave trade. Nature Communications.

2023

Wang, X., Bocksberger, G., Lautenschläger, T., Finckh, M., Meller, P., O'Malley, G.E., Oelze, V.M. (2023) A bioavailable strontium isoscape of Angola with implications for the archaeology of the transatlantic slave trade. Journal of Archaeological Science, 154, 105775. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2023.105775

Meller, P., Lages, F., Finckh, M., Gomes, A.L., Goyder, D. (2023) Diversity and endemism of geoxylic plants on the Angolan Planalto. Namibian Journal of Environment, 8, 93-109.

Goyder, D.J., Davies, N., Finckh, M., Gomes, A., Gonçalves, F.M.P., Meller, P., Paton, A.J. (2023) New species of Asclepias (Apocynaceae), Baphia (Leguminosae), Cochlospermum (Bixaceae) and Endostemon (Lamiaceae) from the Kalahari sands of Angola and NW Zambia, with one new combination in Vangueria (Rubiaceae). PhytoKeys, 232, 145-166. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.232.110110

Davies, R.W., Ryan, C.M., Harrison, R.D., Dexter, K.G., Ahrends, A., [...], Finckh, M., [...] Edwards, D.P. (2023) Precipitation gradients drive high tree species turnover in the woodlands of eastern and southern Africa. Ecography, 2023: e06720. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06720

2022

Lautenschläger, T., Göhre, A., Ditsch, B., Baumgärtel, C., Monizi, M., [...], Finckh, M., Meller, P. (2022) Sixty-seven species newly recorded for the flora of Angola: recent findings from vegetation surveys and herbarium collections. Check List 18(6), 1203-1230. https://doi.org/10.15560/18.6.1203

Lembrechts, J.J., van den Hoogen, J., Aalto, J., Ashcroft, M.B., De Frenne, P., [...], Finckh, M., [...], Lenoir, J. (2022) Global maps of soil temperature. Global Change Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/GCB.16060

Meller, P., Frazão, R., Lages, F., Jürgens, N., Finckh, M. (accepted) Tipping the scales: How fire controls the balance among functional groups in Angolan grasslands. African Journal of Range & Forage Science, 39(1), 56–69. https://doi.org/10.2989/10220119.2021.2012822

Meller, P., Stellmes, M., Fidelis, A., Finckh, M. (2022) Correlates of geoxyle diversity in Afrotropical grasslands. Journal of Biogeography, 49, 339–352. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14305

2021

Biurrun, I., Pielech, R., Dembicz, I., Gillet, F., Kozub, Ł., [...], Finckh, M., [...], Dengler, J. (2021) Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats. Journal of Vegetation Science, 32 (4), e13050. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13050

Finckh, M., Wendefeuer, J., Meller, P. (2021) Frost-driven lower treelines in Angola and their implications for tropical forest-grassland mosaics. Journal of Vegetation Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13084

Godlee, J., Ryan, C., Bauman, D., Bowers, S., Carreiras, J., [...] Finckh, M., [...], Dexter, K. (2021) Structural diversity and tree density drives variation in the biodiversity-ecosystem function relationship of woodlands and savannas. New Phytologist, 232 (2), 579-594.  https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17639

Gomes, A.L., Revermann, R., Gonçalves, F.M.P., Lages, F., Aidar, M.P.M., Sanguino Mostajo, G.A., Finckh, M. (2021) Belowground biomass, root structure, soil characteristics and vegetation dynamics of the “underground forests of Africa”. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 37(3), 136-146. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467421000298

Gomes, A.L., Revermann, R., Meller, P., Gonçalves, F.M.P., Aidar, M.P.M., Lages, F., Finckh, M. (2021) Functional traits and symbiotic associations of geoxyles and trees explain the dominance of detarioid legumes in miombo ecosystems. New Phytologist, 230, 510-520. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17168

Gonçalves, F.M.P., Chisingui, A.V., Luís, J.C., Rafael, M.F.F., Tchamba, J.J., [...], Finckh, M., Meller, P., Revermann, R. (2021) First Vegetation-Plot Database of Woody Species from Huíla Province, SW Angola. Vegetation Classification and Survey, 2, 109-116.  https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS/2021/68916

Sabatini, F.M., Lenoir, J., Hattab, T., Arnst, E., Chytry, M., [...], Finckh, M., [...], Jürgens, N., [...], Bruelheide, H. (2021) sPlotOpen – An environmentally-balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30, 1740-1764. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13346

Testolin, R., Attore, F., Borchardt, P., Brand, R.F., Bruelheide, H., Chytrý, M., [...], Finckh, M., [...] Jiménez-Alfaro, B. (2021) Global patterns and drivers of alpine plant diversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30, 1218-1231. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13297

Testolin, R., Carmona, C.P., Attore, F., Borchardt, P., Bruelheide, H., Dolezal, J., Finckh, M, [...] Jiménez-Alfaro, B. (2021) Global functional variation in alpine vegetation. Journal of Vegetation Science, 32, e13000. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13000

 Teutloff, N., Meller, P., Finckh, M., Cabalo, A.S., Ramiro, G.J., Neinhuis, C., Lautenschläger, T., (2021) Hunting techniques and their harvest as indicators of mammal diversity and threat in northern Angola. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 67:101. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-021-01541-y

2020

The SEOSAW partnership [..., Finckh, M., ..., Gonçalves, F.M.P., ..., Revermann R., ...] (2020) A network to understand the changing socio-ecology of the southern African woodlands (SEOSAW): Challenges, benefits, and methods. Plants, People, Planet, 3, 249-267. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10168

Aleman, JC, Fayolle, A, Favier, C, Staver, AC, Dexter, KG, Ryan, CM, Azihou, AF, Bauman, D, te Beest, M, Chidumayo, EN, Comiskey, JA, Cromsigt, JPGM, Dessard, H, Doucet, J-L, Finckh, M, Gillet, J-F, Gourlet-Fleury, S, Hempson, GP, Holdo, RM, Kirunda, B, Kouame, FN, Mahy, G, Gonçalves, FMP, McNicol, I, Quintano, PN, Plumptre, AJ, Pritchard, RC, Revermann, R, Schmitt, CB, Swemmer, AM, Talila, H, Woollen, E, Swaine, MD. 2020. Floristic evidence for alternative biome states in tropical Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: 202011515. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.2011515117

Baptista, N.L., Tolley, K.A., Bluhm, M., Finckh, M., Branch, W.R. (2020) Rediscovery, range extension, habitat and phylogenetic relation of the endemic Scaled Sandveld Lizard Nucras scalaris Laurent, 1964 (Sauria: Lacertidae) in the central Angolan plateau. African Journal of Herpetology 69(1), 12-28. DOI:10.1080/21564574.2020.1778108

2019

Bruelheide, H., Dengler, J., Jiménez-Alfaro, B., [...], Finckh, M., [...], Jürgens, N., [...], Revermann, R., [...], Schmiedel, U. [...] & Zverev, A.A. (2019) sPlot – a new tool for global vegetation analyses. Journal of Vegetation Science. DOI: 10.1111/jvs.12710

Gomes, A.L., Revermann, R., Goncalves, F.M.P., Lages, F., Aidar, M.P.M., Finckh, M., Jürgens, N. (2019) Tree or not a tree: Differences in plant functional traits among geoxyles and closely related tree species. South African Journal of Botany 127, 176-184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2019.08.044

Marcenò, C., Guarino, R., Mucina, L., Biurrun, I., Deil, U., Shaltout, K., Finckh, M., Font, X. and Loidi, J. (2019) A formal classification of the Lygeum spartum vegetation of the Mediterranean Region. Applied Vegetation Science, 22, 593-608. DOI: 10.1111/avsc.12456

Zigelski, P., Rudolph, B., Oldeland, J., Lages, F., Jürgens, N., Finckh, M. (2019). The Tough, the Wet and the Hidden: Evolutionary Strategies of a Polyploid Tropical Tree in a Changing Environment. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 38, 1-12. DOI: 10.1016/j.ppees.2019.03.001

Fayolle, A., Swaine, M.D., Aleman, J., [...], Finckh, M., Gonçalves, F.M.P., [...], Revermann, R., [...] & Woollen, E. (2019) A sharp floristic discontinuity revealed by the biogeographic regionalization of African savannas. Journal of Biogeography 46(2), 454-465. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13475

2018

Dengler, J., Wagner, V., Dembicz, I.,  [...], Finckh, M. et al. (2018) GrassPlot – a database of multi-scale plant diversity in Palaearctic grasslands. Phytocoenologia Vol. 48(3), 331–347. https://doi.org/10.1127/phyto/2018/0267

Revermann, R., Oldeland, J., Goncalvess, F.M., Luther-Mosebach, J., Gomes, A.L., Jürgens, N., Finckh, M. (2018) Dry tropical forests and woodlands of the Cubango Basin in southern Africa - A first classification and assessment of their woody species diversity. Phytocoenologia, 48, 23-50. https://doi.org/10.1127/phyto/2017/0154

2017

Schwarz, K., Finckh, M. & Stolter, C. (2017) Influence of differently managed bush-encroached sites on the large herbivore distribution in the Namibian Savannah. African Journal of Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/aje.12451.

Gonçalves, F.M.P, Revermann, R., Gomes, A.L., Aidar, M.P.M., Finckh, M., & Juergens, N. (2017) Tree Species Diversity and Composition of Miombo Woodlands in South-Central Angola: A Chronosequence of Forest Recovery after Shifting Cultivation. International Journal of Forestry Research 71. DOI: 10.1155/2017/6202093.

Revermann, R., Gonçalves, F.M.P., Gomes, A.L. & Finckh, M. (2017) Woody species of the Miombo woodlands and geoxylic grasslands of the Cusseque area, south-central Angola. Check List 13. DOI: 10.15560/13.1.2030.

2016

Finckh, M., Revermann, R. & Aidar, M.P.M. (2016) Climate refugees going underground – a response to Maurin et al. (2014). New Phytologist 209, 904–909. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.13567

Revermann, R., Gomes, A.L., Gonçalves, F.M., Wallenfang, J., Hoche, T., Jürgens, N. & Finckh, M. (2016) Vegetation Database of the Okavango Basin. Phytocoenologia 46(1), 103-104. DOI: 10.1127/phyto/2016/0103

Revermann, R., Finckh, M., Stellmes, M., Strohbach, B.J., Frantz, D. & Oldeland, J. (2016) Linking Land Surface Phenology and Vegetation-Plot Databases to Model Terrestrial Plant α-Diversity of the Okavango Basin. Remote Sensing 8(5). DOI: 10.3390/rs8050370

Revermann, R., Wallenfang, J., Oldeland, J. & Finckh, M. (2016) Species richness and evenness respond to diverging land-use patterns - a cross-border study of dry tropical woodlands in southern Africa. African Journal of Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/aje.12333.

Schneibel, A., Stellmes, M., Röder, A., Finckh, M., Revermann, R., Frantz, D. & Hill, J. (2016) Evaluating the trade-off between food and timber resulting from the conversion of Miombo forests to agricultural land in Angola using multi-temporal Landsat data. Science of The Total Environment 548–549, 390-401. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.12.137

2015

Wallenfang, J., Finckh, M., Oldeland, J. & Revermann, R. (2015) Impact of shifting cultivation on dense tropical woodlands in southeast Angola. Tropical Conservation Science 8(4), 863-892. https://doi.org/10.1177/194008291500800402

2014

Freier, K.P., Finckh, M. & Schneider, U.A. (2014) Adaptation to New Climate by an Old Strategy? Modeling Sedentary and Mobile Pastoralism in Semi-Arid Morocco. Land 3, 917-940. https://doi.org/10.3390/land3030917

2012

Akasbi, Z., Oldeland, J., Dengler, J. & Finckh, M. (2012) Analysis of GPS trajectories to assess goat grazing pattern and intensity in southern Morocco. The Rangeland Journal 34, 415–427. DOI: 10.1071/RJ12036

Akasbi, Z., Oldeland, J., Dengler, J. & Finckh, M. (2012) Volume-biomass functions reveal the effect of browsing on three Moroccan dwarf shrubs. African Journal of Range & Forage Science 29, 31–36. https://doi.org/10.2989/10220119.2012.687074

Akasbi, Z., Oldeland, J., Dengler, J. & Finckh, M. (2012) Social and ecological constraints for decision making by transhumant pastoralists: a case study from the Moroccan Atlas Mountains. Journal of Mountain Science 9, 307–321.

Freier, K. P., Brüggemann, R., Scheffran, J., Finckh, M. & Schneider, U. A. (2012) Assessing the predictability of future livelihood strategies of pastoralists in semi-arid Morocco under climate change. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 79, 371–382.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2011.07.003

Jürgens, N., Schmiedel, U., Haarmeyer, D. H., Dengler, J., Finckh, M., Goetze, D., Gröngröft, A., Hahn, K., Koulibaly, A., Luther-Mosebach, J., Muche, G., Oldeland, J., Petersen, A., Porembski, S., Rutherford, M.C., Schmidt, M., Sinsin, B., Strohbach, B. J., Thiombiano, A., Wittig, R. & Zizka, G. (2012) The BIOTA Biodiversity Observatories in Africa – A standardized framework for large-scale environmental monitoring. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 184, 655–678.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-011-1993-y

2011

Dengler, J., Jansen, F., Glöckler, F., Peet, R. K., De Cáceres, M., Chytrý, M., Ewald, J., Oldeland, J., Finckh, M., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Mucina, L., Rodwell, J. S., Schaminée, J. H. J. & Spencer, N. (2011) The Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD): a new resource for vegetation science. Journal of Vegetation Science 22, 582–597. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1654-1103.2011.01265.x

Freier, K. P., Schneider, U. & Finckh, M. (2011) Dynamic interactions between vegetation and land use in semi-arid Morocco: Using a Markov process for modeling rangelands under climate change. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 140, 462–472. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2011.01.011

Rupprecht, F., Oldeland, J. & Finckh, M. (2011) Modelling potential distribution of the threatened tree species Juniperus oxycedrus: how to evaluate the predictions of different modelling approaches? Journal of Vegetation Science 22, 647–659. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1654-1103.2011.01269.x

Books
2019

Revermann, R. & Finckh, M. (2019) Vegetation survey, classification and mapping in Angola. In Biodiversity of Angola (ed. by Huntley B., Russo V., Lages F. & Ferrand N.), pp. 97-107, Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03083-4_6

Zigelski P., Gomes A., Finckh M. (2019) Suffrutex Dominated Ecosystems in Angola. In Biodiversity of Angola (ed. by Huntley B., Russo V., Lages F. & Ferrand N.), pp. 109-121, Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03083-4_7

2018

Jürgens, N., Strohbach, B., Lages, F., Schmiedel, U., Finckh, M., Sichone, P., Hahn, M.L., Zigelski, P. (2018) Biodiversity observation – an overview of the current state and first results of biodiversity monitoring studies. In: Climate change and adaptive land management in southern Africa – assessments, changes, challenges, and solutions (ed. by Revermann, R., Krewenka, K.M., Schmiedel, U., Olwoch, J.M., Helmschrot, J., Jürgens, N.), pp. 382-396, Biodiversity & Ecology, 6, Klaus Hess Publishers, Göttingen & Windhoek. DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00350

Muche, G., Schmiedel, U., Finckh, M., Jürgens, N. (2018) BIOTABase – a unique software to handle complex biodiversity observation data and environmental data. In: Climate change and adaptive landmanagement in southern Africa – assessments, changes, challenges, and solutions (ed. by Revermann, R., Krewenka, K.M., Schmiedel, U., Olwoch, J.M., Helmschrot, J., Jürgens, N.), pp. 458-459, Biodiversity & Ecology, 6, Klaus Hess Publishers, Göttingen & Windhoek. DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00359

Sichone, P., De Cauwer, V., Chissungui, V., Goncalves, F., Finckh, M., Revermann, R. (2018) Patterns of above-ground biomass and its environmental drivers: an analysis based on plot-based surveys in the dry tropical forests and woodlands of southern Africa. In: Climate change and adaptive landmanagement in southern Africa – assessments, changes, challenges, and solutions (ed. by Revermann, R., Krewenka, K.M., Schmiedel, U., Olwoch, J.M., Helmschrot, J., Jürgens, N.), pp. 309-316, Biodiversity & Ecology, 6, Klaus Hess Publishers, Göttingen & Windhoek. DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00338

Zigelski, P., Lages, F., Finckh, M. (2018) Seasonal changes of biodiversity patterns and habitat conditions in a fl ooded savanna – The Cameia National Park Biodiversity Observatory in the Upper Zambezi catchment, Angola. In: Climate change and adaptive landmanagement in southern Africa – assessments, changes, challenges, and solutions (ed. by Revermann, R., Krewenka, K.M., Schmiedel, U., Olwoch, J.M., Helmschrot, J., Jürgens, N.), pp. 438-447, Biodiversity & Ecology, 6, Klaus Hess Publishers, Göttingen & Windhoek. DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00356

2013

Oldeland, J., Erb, C., Finckh, M., Jürgens, N. (2013) Environmental Assessments in the Okavango Region. Biodiversity & Ecology 5, 418. Biocentre Klein Flottbek and Botanical Garden, Hamburg. DOI: 10.7809/b-e.vol_05

2012

Dengler, J., Oldeland, J., Jansen, F., Chytrý, M., Ewald, J., Finckh, M., Glöckler, F., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Peet, R.K. & Schaminée, J.H.J. (2012) Vegetation databases for the 21st century. Biodiversity & Ecology 4, 145 pp. Biocentre Klein Flottbek and Botanical Garden, Hamburg.

2010

Jürgens, N., Haarmeyer, D. H., Luther-Mosebach, J., Dengler, J., Finckh, M., Schmiedel, U. (2010) [Eds.]:  Biodiversity in southern Africa. Volume 1: Patterns at local scale - the BIOTA Observatories. XX + 801 pp. Klaus Hess Publishers, Göttingen & Windhoek.

 Book chapters

 2022

Schmiedel, U. & Finckh, M. (2022) The role of termites as ecosystem engineers in southern African drylands: overlooked, underestimated , and misinterpreted. in: Jürgens, N., et al. (2022) Fairy circles of the Namib Desert – Ecosystem engineering by subterranean social insects, p.8-9. 376 pp., Klaus Hess Publishers, Göttingen & Windhoek.

2013

Domptail, S. E., Nuppenau, E.-A., Azebaze, N., Brown, L. D., Falk, T., Finckh, M., Große, L. M., Kowalski, B., Pröpper, M., Stellmes, M. & Overmann, J. (2013) Using trade-offs and synergies in ecosystem services for resource management. In: Oldeland, J., Erb, C., Finckh, M. & Jürgens, N. (2013) Environmental Assessments in the Okavango Region. Biodiversity & Ecology 5, 185-193. Biocentre Klein Flottbek and Botanical Garden, Hamburg. , DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00274.

Finckh, M. & Revermann, R. (2013) Okavango Basin - Vegetation. In: Oldeland, J., Erb, C., Finckh, M. & Jürgens, N. Environmental Assessments in the Okavango Region. Biodiversity & Ecology 5, 29-35. Biocentre Klein Flottbek and Botanical Garden, Hamburg. DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00240.

Frantz, D., Schneibel, A., Stellmes, M., Revermann, R. & Finckh, M. (2013) Caiundo - Earth Observation. In: Oldeland, J., Erb, C., Finckh, M. & Jürgens, N. Environmental Assessments in the Okavango Region.Biodiversity & Ecology 5, 87-89. Biocentre Klein Flottbek and Botanical Garden, Hamburg. DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00254.

Gröngröft, A., Luther-Mosebach, J., Landschreiber, L., Revermann, R., Finckh, M. & Eschenbach, A. (2013) Cusseque - Landscape. In: Oldeland, J., Erb, C., Finckh, M. & Jürgens, N. Environmental Assessments in the Okavango Region. Biodiversity & Ecology 5, 43-44. Biocentre Klein Flottbek and Botanical Garden, Hamburg. DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00242.

Gröngröft, A., Luther-Mosebach, J., Landschreiber, L., Revermann, R., Finckh, M. & Eschenbach, A. (2013) Caiundo - Landscape. In: Oldeland, J., Erb, C., Finckh, M. & Jürgens, N. Environmental Assessments in the Okavango Region. Biodiversity & Ecology 5, 83-84. Biocentre Klein Flottbek and Botanical Garden, Hamburg. DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00252.

Gröngröft, A., Luther-Mosebach, J., Landschreiber, L., Revermann, R., Finckh, M.&  Eschenbach, A. (2013) Mashare - Landscape. In: Oldeland, J., Erb, C., Finckh, M. & Jürgens, N. Environmental Assessments in the Okavango Region. Biodiversity & Ecology 5, 101-102. Biocentre Klein Flottbek and Botanical Garden, Hamburg. DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00257.

Murray-Hudson, M., Finckh, M., Revermann, R. (2013) Seronga - Vegetation. In: Oldeland, J., Erb, C., Finckh, M. & Jürgens, N. Environmental Assessments in the Okavango Region. Biodiversity & Ecology 5, 143-146. Biocentre Klein Flottbek and Botanical Garden, Hamburg. DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00269.

Revermann, R. & Finckh, M. (2013) Cusseque - Micro-climatic Conditions. In: Oldeland, J., Erb, C., Finckh, M., Jürgens, N. Environmental Assessments in the Okavango Region. Biodiversity & Ecology 5, 47-50. Biocentre Klein Flottbek and Botanical Garden, Hamburg. DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00244.

Revermann, R. & Finckh, M. (2013) Caiundo - Vegetation. In: Oldeland, J., Erb, C., Finckh, M. & Jürgens, N. Environmental Assessments in the Okavango Region. Biodiversity & Ecology 5, 91-96. Biocentre Klein Flottbek and Botanical Garden, Hamburg. DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00255.

Revermann, R., Maiato, F., Gomes, A., Lages, F. & Finckh, M. (2013) Cusseque - Vegetation. In: Oldeland, J., Erb, C., Finckh, M. & Jürgens, N. Environmental Assessments in the Okavango Region. Biodiversity & Ecology 5, 59-63. Biocentre Klein Flottbek and Botanical Garden, Hamburg. DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00247.

Röder, A., Stellmes, M., Domptail, S., Eschenbach, A., Finckh, M., Helmschrot, J., Pröpper, M., Schneibel, A. & Stoffels, J. (2013) Cumulative effects of policy and management actions on ecosystem services. Challenges and methodological approaches in The Future Okavango project. In: Oldeland, J., Erb, C., Finckh, M. & Jürgens, N. Environmental Assessments in the Okavango Region. Biodiversity & Ecology 5, 167-183. Biocentre Klein Flottbek and Botanical Garden, Hamburg. DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00273.

Schneibel, A., Stellmes, M., Frantz, D., Finckh, M. & Revermann, R. (2013) Cusseque - Earth Observation. In: Oldeland, J., Erb, C., Finckh, M. & Jürgens, N. Environmental Assessments in the Okavango Region. Biodiversity & Ecology 5, 55-57. Biocentre Klein Flottbek and Botanical Garden, Hamburg. DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00246.

Schneibel, A., Stellmes, M., Frantz, D., Revermann, R. & Finckh, M. (2013) Seronga - Earth Observation. In: Oldeland, J., Erb, C., Finckh, M. & Jürgens, N. Environmental Assessments in the Okavango Region. Biodiversity & Ecology 5, 139-141. Biocentre Klein Flottbek and Botanical Garden, Hamburg. DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00268.

Schneibel, A., Stellmes, M., Revermann, R. & Finckh, M. (2013) Agricultural expansion during the post-civil war period in southern Angola based on bi-temporal Landsat data. In: Oldeland, J., Erb, C., Finckh, M. & Jürgens, N. Environmental Assessments in the Okavango Region. Biodiversity & Ecology 5, 311–319. Biocentre Klein Flottbek and Botanical Garden, Hamburg. DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00285.

Stellmes, M., Frantz, D., Finckh, M. & Revermann, R. (2013) Okavango Basin - Earth Observation. In: Oldeland, J., Erb, C., Finckh, M. & Jürgens, N. Environmental Assessments in the Okavango Region.Biodiversity & Ecology 5, 23-27. Biocentre Klein Flottbek and Botanical Garden, Hamburg. DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00239.

Stellmes, M., Frantz, D., Finckh, M., Revermann, R. (2013) Fire frequency, fire seasonality and fire intensity within the Okavango region derived from MODIS fire products. In: Oldeland, J., Erb, C., Finckh, M. & Jürgens, N. Environmental Assessments in the Okavango Region. Biodiversity & Ecology 5, 351-362. Biocentre Klein Flottbek and Botanical Garden, Hamburg. DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00288.

2012

Dengler, J., Oldeland, J., Jansen, F., Chytrý, M., Ewald, J., Finckh, M., Glöckler, F., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Peet, R.K. & Schaminée, J.H.J. (2012) Facilitating access to vegetation data – Introduction to the Special Volume. In: Dengler, J., Oldeland, J., Jansen, F., Chytrý, M., Ewald, J., Finckh, M., Glöckler, F., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Peet, R.K. & Schaminée, J.H.J. [Eds.] Vegetation databases for the 21st century. Biodiversity & Ecology 4, 9–13. Biocenter Klein Flottbek and Botanical Garden, Hamburg. DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00055.

Finckh, M. (2012): Vegetation Database of Southern Morocco. Vegetation databases for the 21st century. Biodiversity & Ecology 4, 297. DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00094.

Jansen, F., Glöckler, F., Chytrý, M., De Cáceres, M., Ewald, J., Finckh, M., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Oldeland, J., Peet, R.K., Schaminée, J.H.J. & Dengler, J. (2012) News from the Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD): the metadata platform, available data, and their properties. In: Dengler, J., Oldeland, J., Jansen, F., Chytrý, M., Ewald, J., Finckh, M., Glöckler, F., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Peet, R.K. & Schaminée, J.H.J. [Eds.]: Vegetation databases for the 21st century. Biodiversity & Ecology 4, 77–82. Biocenter Klein Flottbek and Botanical Garden, Hamburg. DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00061.

Jürgens, N., Akasbi, Z., Finckh, M., Oldeland, J. & Schmiedel, U. (2012): Les Transects BIOTA de surveillance de la Biodiversité en Afrique- Une approche pur un suivi environnemental à grande echelle. Options Méditerranéennes Serie B 68, 113-127.

2010

Finckh, M. & Goldbach., H. (2010) Vegetation dynamics under climate stress and land use pressure in the Drâa catchment. In: Speth, P., Christoph, M. & Diekkrüger, B. [Eds.] Impacts of global change on the hydrological cycle in West and Northwest Africa, 274–281. Springer, Heidelberg.

Haarmeyer, D. H., Luther-Mosebach, J., Dengler, J., Schmiedel, U., Finckh, M., [...], Jürgens, N. (2010) The BIOTA Observatories. In: Jürgens, N., Haarmeyer, D. H., Luther-Mosebach, J., Dengler, J., Finckh, M. & Schmiedel, U. [Ed.] Biodiversity in southern Africa. Volume 1: Patterns at local scale - the BIOTA Observatories. p. 801. Klaus Hess Publishers, Göttingen & Windhoek.

Porembski, S., Finckh, M. & Orthmann, B. (2010) Flora and vegetation. In: Speth, P., Christoph, M. & Diekkrüger, B. [Eds.] Impacts of global change on the hydrological cycle in West and Northwest Africa, 66–69. Springer, Heidelberg.

Schulz, O., Finckh, M. & Goldbach, H. (2010) Hydro-meteorological measurements in the Drâa catchment. In: Speth, P., Christoph, M. & Diekkrüger, B. [Eds.] Impacts of global change on the hydrological cycle in West and Northwest Africa, 122–131. Springer, Heidelberg.

 

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