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A timber truck fully loaded with logs drives over a very simple wooden bridge in a forest.
A timber truck fully loaded with logs drives over a very simple wooden bridge in a forest.
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A stronger consideration of cross-scale dynamics in models of socio-ecological systems (SESs) is of increasing importance, but this is fundamentally difficult to do.

Graph: Modelling cross-scale feedbacks, tipping points, and cascades in socio-ecological system

On Friday 9 May Klaus Zimmermann defended his PhD thesis at Hamburg University successful.

Klaus Zimmermann with doctor's hat

Mathew Tello joined the Thünen Institute of Forestry on April 1, 2025, for his compulsory internship working in the GEOS-EUDR project.


In Germany, 24% of the forest area is owned by small private forest owners (SPFOs), each possessing less than 20 hectares of forest. In addition to structural deficits, SPFOs often lack the expertise to achieve their goals and sustainably manage their forests. Professional foresters can provide…

2 people in a forest

The article evaluates the prediction and forecasting of bilateral trade flows in international wood product markets using two models:

Schematic depiction of global trade flows and neural networks

is immigration from other rural regions and in some cases from urban areas. A new study examines the relationship between in-migration, deforestation and land-use change using data from 1123 households in landscapes of the Miombo Forest Region.

Deforestation Zambia | African-American man working soil at his smallholding between vegetable seedlings


In a joint report, six research institutes, including the Thünen Institutes of Forestry and Market Analysis, present scientific data and considerations on the potential of biomass use in Germany.


Sonja Holler successfully completed her doctoral degree on February 21, 2025

Laforet Schriftzug, Landschaftsbilder und 2 Fotos des Doktorhutes

Frank Mintah is a doctoral researcher from the Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland.


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