Tobias Plieninger - Selected Publications#

Beery, T., Stahl Olafsson, A., Gentin, S., Maurer, M., Stålhammar, S., Albert, C., Bieling, C., Buijs, A., Fagerholm, N., Garcia-Martin, M., Plieninger, T. & M. Raymond, C. (2023). Disconnection from nature: Expanding our understanding of human–nature relations. People and Nature 5(2), 470-488.

Hansen, P., Tiebel, M., Plieninger, T. & Mölder, A. (2023). Owner attitudes and landscape parameters drive stand structure and valuable habitats in small-scale private forests of Lower Saxony (Germany). European Journal of Forest Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10342-023-01571-y.

Knauber, L., Lakner, S. & Plieninger, T. (2023). Umsetzungs- und Betreuungsmodelle der Fauna-Flora-Habitat-Richtlinie. Naturschutz und Landschaftsplanung 55, 30-37.

Nikinmaa, L., Lindner, M., Cantarello, E., Gardiner, B., Jacobsen, J.B., Jump, A. S., Parra, C., Plieninger, T., Schuck, A., Seidl, R., Timberlake, T., Waring, K., Winkel, G. & Muys, B. (2023). A balancing act: Principles, criteria and indicator framework to operationalize social-ecological resilience of forests. Journal of Environmental Management 331, 117039.

Plieninger, T., Abunnasr, Y., D’Ambrosio, U., Guo, T., Kizos, T., Kmoch, L., Topp, E. & Varela, E. (2023). Biocultural conservation systems in the Mediterranean region: the role of values, rules, and knowledge. Sustainability Science 18, 823-838.

Plieninger, T., Shamohamadi, S., García-Martín, M., Quintas-Soriano, C., Shakeri, Z. & Valipour, A. (2023). Community, pastoralism, landscape: Eliciting values and human-nature connectedness of forest-related people. Landscape and Urban Planning, 233, 104706.

Svobodova, K., Plieninger, T. & Sklenicka, P. (2023). Place re-making and sense of place after quarrying and social-ecological restoration. Sustainable Development, https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.2503.

Torralba, M., Nishi, M., Cebrián-Piqueras, M.A., Quintas-Soriano, C., García-Martín, M., & Plieninger, T. (2023). Disentangling the practice of landscape approaches: a Q-method analysis on experiences in socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes. Sustainability Science, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01307-2.

Baumeister, C., Gerstenberg, T., Plieninger, T. & Schraml, U. (2022). Geography of disservices in urban forests: Public participation mapping for closing the loop. Ecosystems and People 18: 44-63.

Boćkowski, M.D., Raymond, C.M., Plieninger, T. & Grodzińska-Jurczak, M. (2022). Towards forward-looking nature governance to meet conservation goals of Natura 2000 sites in the European Union: Experts’ perspectives. Environment, Development and Sustainability, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-022-02813-6.

Bürgi, M., Celio, E., Diogo, V., Hersperger, A.M., Kizos, T., Lieskovsky, J., Pazur, R., Plieninger, T., Prishchepov, A.V. & Verburg, P.H. (2022). Advancing the study of driving forces of landscape change. Journal of Land Use Science 17: 540-555.

Fagerholm, N., García-Martín, M., Torralba, M., Bieling, C. & Plieninger. T. (2022). Public participation geographical information systems (PPGIS): Participatory research methods for sustainability. GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society 31: 46-48.

Flinzberger, L., Zinngrebe, Y., Bugalho, M. N. & Plieninger, T. (2022). EU-wide mapping of ‘Protected Designations of Origin’ food products (PDOs) reveals correlations with social-ecological landscape values. Agronomy for Sustainable Development 42: 43.

García-Martín, M., Huntsinger, L., Ibarrola-Rivas, M.J., Penker, M., D’Ambrosio, U., Dimopoulos, T., Fernández-Giménez, M.E., Kizos, T., Muñoz-Rojas, J., Saito, O., Zimmerer, K.S., Abson, D.J., Liu, J., Quintas-Soriano, C., Sørensen, I.H., Verburg, P.H. & Plieninger, T. (2022). Landscape products for sustainable agricultural landscapes. Nature Food 3: 814-821.

Hernández-Morcillo, M., Torralba, M., Baiges, T., Bernasconi, A., Bottaro, G., Brogaard, S., Bussola, F., Díaz-Varela, E., Geneletti, D., Grossmann, C.M., Kister, J., Klingler, M., Loft, L., Lovric, M., Mann, C., Pipart, N., Roces-Díaz, J.V., Sorge, S., Tiebel, M., Tyrväinen, L., Varela, E., Winkel, G. & Plieninger, T. (2022). Scanning the solutions for the sustainable supply of forest ecosystem services in Europe. Sustainability Science 17: 2013-2029.

Jacobs, S., Santos-Martín, F., Primmer, E., Boeraeve, F., Morán-Ordóñez, A., Proença, V., Schlaepfer, M., Brotons, L., Dunford, R., Lavorel, S., Guisan, A., Claudet, J., Harmáčková, Z.V., Liekens, I., Hauck, J., Kok, K., Zinngrebe, Y., Pedde, S., Czúcz, B., Solidoro, C., Cantele, M., Rixen, C., Heck, A., Desair, J., Plieninger, T. & Harrison, P.A. (2022). Transformative change needs direction. Sustainability 14: 14844.

Kmoch, L. M., Bou-lahriss, A., Øhlers, M.P., Plieninger, T., Topp, E. & Torralba, M. (2022). “It keeps eating at you, little by little”: A photo essay on drought experiences across Morocco's agro-pastoral landscapes. Disaster Prevention and Management 31: 581-591.

Mann, C., Loft, L., Hernández-Morcillo, M., Primmer, E., Bussola, F., Falco, E., Geneletti, D., Dobrowolska, E., Grossmann, C. M., Bottaro, G., Schleyer, C., Kluvankova, T., Garcia, G., Lovrić, M., Torralba, M., Plieninger, T. & Winkel, G. (2022). Governance innovations for forest ecosystem service provision – Insights from an EU-wide survey. Environmental Science & Policy 132: 282-295.

Meacham, M., Norström, A.V., Peterson, G.D., Andersson, E., Bennett, E.M., Biggs, R., Crouzat, E., Cord, A.F., Enfors, E., Felipe-Lucia, M.R., Fischer, J., Hamann, M., Hanspach, J., Hicks, C., Jacobs, S., Lavorel, S., Locatelli, B., Martín-López, B., Plieninger, T. & Queiroz, C. (2022). Advancing research on ecosystem service bundles for comparative assessments and synthesis. Ecosystems and People 18(1): 99-111.

Nölke, N., Fehrmann, L., Plieninger, T. & Kleinn, C. (2022). Categorization of green and grey infrastructure complexity in the rural–urban interface of Bengaluru, India: An unsupervised volumetric approach with relevance for urban quality. Urban Ecosystems, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-022-01300-0.

Plieninger, T., Thapa, P., Bhaskar, D., Nagendra, H., Torralba, M. & Zoderer, B.M. (2022). Disentangling ecosystem services perceptions from blue infrastructure around a rapidly expanding megacity. Landscape and Urban Planning 222: 104399.

Quintas-Soriano, C., Buerkert, A. & Plieninger, T. (2022). Effects of land abandonment on nature contributions to people and good quality of life components in the Mediterranean region: A review. Land Use Policy 116: 106053.

Raymond, C.M., Cebrián-Piqueras, M.A., Andersson, E., Andrade, R., Schnell, A.A., Battioni Romanelli, B., Filyushkina, A., Goodson, D.J., Horcea-Milcu, A., Johnson, D.N., Keller, R., Kuiper, J.J., Lo, V., López-Rodríguez, M.D., March, H., Metzger, M., Oteros-Rozas, E., Salcido, E., Sellberg, M., Stewart, W., Ruiz-Mallén, I., Plieninger, T., van Riper, C.J., Verburg, P.H. & Wiedermann, M.M. (2022). Inclusive conservation and the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework: Tensions and prospects. One Earth 5(3): 252-264.

Roux, J.-L., Konczal, A. A., Bernasconi, A., Bhagwat, S. A., De Vreese, R., Doimo, I., Marini Govigli, V., Kašpar, J., Kohsaka, R., Pettenella, D., Plieninger, T., Shakeri, Z., Shibata, S., Stara, K., Takahashi, T., Torralba, M., Tyrväinen, L., Weiss, G. & Winkel, G. (2022). Exploring evolving spiritual values of forests in Europe and Asia: a transition hypothesis toward re-spiritualizing forests. Ecology and Society 27(4): art. 20.

Stahl Olafsson, A., Purves, R.S., Wartmann, F.M., Garcia-Martin, M., Fagerholm, N., Torralba, M., Albert, C., Verbrugge, L.N.H., Heikinheimo, V., Plieninger, T., Bieling, C., Kaaronen, R., Hartmann, M. & Raymond, C.M. (2022). Comparing landscape value patterns between participatory mapping and geolocated social media content across Europe. Landscape and Urban Planning 226: 104511.

Tiebel, M., Mölder, A. & Plieninger, T. (2022). Conservation perspectives of small-scale private forest owners in Europe: A systematic review. AMBIO 51: 836-848.

Torralba, M., García-Martín, M., Bieling, C. & Plieninger, T. (2022). Participatory research methods for sustainability. GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society 31: 1.

Verbrugge, L. N. H., Bjarnason, G., Fagerholm, N., Magnussen, E., Mortensen, L., Olsen, E., Plieninger, T., Raymond, C. M. & Olafsson, A. S. (2022). Navigating overgrazing and cultural values through narratives and participatory mapping: a socio-cultural analysis of sheep grazing in the Faroe Islands. Ecosystems and People 18: 289-302.

Winkel, G., Lovrić, M., Muys, B., Katila, P., Lundhede, T., Pecurul, M., Pettenella, D., Pipart, N., Plieninger, T., Prokofieva, I., Parra, C., Pülzl, H., Roitsch, D., Roux, J.-L., Thorsen, B. J., Tyrväinen, L., Torralba, M., Vacik, H., Weiss, G. & Wunder, S. (2022). Governing Europe's forests for multiple ecosystem services: Opportunities, challenges, and policy options. Forest Policy and Economics 145: 102849.

Wolpert, F., Quintas-Soriano, C., Pulido, F., Huntsinger, L. & Plieninger, T. (2022). Collaborative agroforestry to mitigate wildfires in Extremadura, Spain: Land manager motivations and perceptions of outcomes, benefits, and policy needs. Agroforestry Systems 96: 1135-1149.

Elbakidze, M., Surová, D., Muñoz-Rojas, J., Persson, J.O., Dawson, L., Plieninger, T. & Pinto-Correia, T. (2021). Perceived benefits from agroforestry landscapes across North-Eastern Europe: What matters and for whom? Landscape and Urban Planning 209: 104044.

García-Martín, M., Torralba, M., Quintas-Soriano, C., Kahl, J. & Plieninger, T. (2021). Linking food systems and landscape sustainability in the Mediterranean region. Landscape Ecology 36: 2259-2275.

Guo, T., García-Martín, M. & Plieninger, T. (2021). Recognizing indigenous farming practices for sustainability: a narrative analysis of key elements and drivers in a Chinese dryland terrace system. Ecosystems and People 17: 279-291.

Hermans, K., Berger, E., Biber-Freudenberger, L., Bossenbroek, L., Ebeler, L., Groth, J., Hack, J., Hanspach, J., Hintz, K.S., Ndzifon Kimengsi, J., Kwong, Y.M., Oakes, R., Pagogna, R., Plieninger, T., Sterly, H., van der Geest, K., van Vliet, J. & Wiederkehr, C. (2021). Crisis-induced disruptions in place-based social-ecological research as opportunity for redirection. GAIA-Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society 30: 72-76.

Mölder, A., Tiebel, M. & Plieninger, T. (2021). On the interplay of ownership patterns, biodiversity, and conservation in past and present temperate forest landscapes of Europe and North America. Current Forestry Reports 7: 195-213.

Mupepele, A.-C., Bruelheide, H., Brühl, C., Dauber, J., Fenske, M., Freibauer, A., Gerowitt, B., Krüß, A., Lakner, S., Plieninger, T., Potthast, T., Schlacke, S., Seppelt, F., Stützel, H., Weisser, W., Wägele, W., Böhning-Gaese, K. & Klein, A.-M. (2021). Biodiversity in European agricultural landscapes - transformative societal changes needed. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 36: 1067-1070.

Plieninger, T., Fagerholm, N. & Bieling, C. (2021). How to run a sustainability science research group sustainably? Sustainability Science 16: 321-328.

Plieninger, T., Flinzberger, L., Hetman, M., Horstmannshoff, I., Reinhard-Kolempas, M., Topp, E., Moreno, G. & Huntsinger, L. (2021). Dehesas as high nature value farming systems: A social-ecological synthesis of drivers, pressures, state, impacts, and responses. Ecology and Society 26(3): art. 23.

Rolo, V., Roces-Diaz, J.V., Torralba, M., Kay, S., Fagerholm, N., Aviron, S., Burgess, P., Crous-Duran, J., Ferreiro-Dominguez, N., Graves, A., Hartel, T., Mantzanas, K., Mosquera-Losada, M.R., Palma, J., Sidiropoulou, A., Szerencsits, E., Viaud, V., Herzog, V., Plieninger, T. & Moreno, G. (2021). Mixtures of forest and agroforestry alleviate trade-offs between ecosystem services in European rural landscapes. Ecosystem Services 50: 101318.

Shakeri, Z., Mohammadi-Samani, K., Bergmeier, E. & Plieninger, T. (2021). Spiritual values shape taxonomic diversity, vegetation composition, and conservation status in woodlands of the Northern Zagros, Iran. Ecology and Society 26: art. 30.

Sørensen, I. H., Torralba, M., Quintas-Soriano, C., Muñoz-Rojas, J. & Plieninger, T. (2021). Linking cork to cork oak landscapes: Mapping the value chain of cork production in Portugal. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 5: 87045.

Thapa, P., Torralba, M., Buerkert, A., Dittrich, C. & Plieninger, T. (2021). Ecological and social outcomes of urbanization on regional farming systems: A global synthesis. Ecology and Society 26(3): art. 24.

Tiebel, M., Mölder, A. & Plieninger, T. (2021). Small-scale private forest owners and the European Natura 2000 conservation network: Perceived ecosystem services, management practices and nature conservation attitudes. European Journal of Forest Research 140: 1515-1531.

Baumeister, C.F., Gerstenberg, T., Plieninger, T. & Schraml, U. (2020). Exploring cultural ecosystem service hotspots: Linking multiple urban forest features with public participation mapping data. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening 48: 126561.

Bieling, C., Eser, U. & Plieninger, T. (2020). Towards a better understanding of values in sustainability transformations: ethical perspectives on landscape stewardship. Ecosystems & People 16: 188-196.

Cebrián-Piqueras, M.A., Filyushkina, A., Johnson, D.N., Lo, V.B., López-Rodríguez, M.D., March, H., Oteros-Rozas, E., Peppler-Lisbach, C., Quintas-Soriano, C., Raymond, C.M., Ruiz-Mallén, I., van Riper, C.J., Zinngrebe, Y. & Plieninger, T. (2020). Scientific and local ecological knowledge, shaping perceptions towards protected areas and related ecosystem services. Landscape Ecology 35: 2549–2567.

Fagerholm, N., Martín-López, B., Torralba, M., Oteros-Rozas, E., Lechner, A., Bieling, C., Stahl Olafsson, A., Albert, C., Raymond, C., García Martín, M., Gulsrud, N. & Plieninger, T. (2020). Perceived contributions of multifunctional landscapes to human wellbeing: Evidence from 13 European sites. People and Nature 2: 217-234.

Flinzberger, L., Zinngrebe, Y. & Plieninger, T. (2020). Labelling in Mediterranean agroforestry landscapes: a Delphi study on relevant sustainability indicators. Sustainability Science 15: 1369-1382.

Gerstenberg. T., Baumeister, C.F., Schraml., U. & Plieninger, T. (2020). Hot routes in urban forests: The impact of multiple landscape features on recreational use intensity. Landscape and Urban Planning 203: 103888.

Hanspach, J., Haider, L.J., Oteros-Rozas, E., Olafsson, A.S., Gulsrud, N.M., Raymond, C.M., Torralba, M., Martín-López, B., Bieling, C., García-Martín, M., Albert, C., Beery, T.H. Fagerholm, N., Díaz-Reviriego, I., Drews-Shambroom, A. & Plieninger, T. (2020). Biocultural approaches to sustainability: A systematic review of the scientific literature. People and Nature 2: 643-659.

Hölting, L., Jacobs, S., Felipe-Lucia, M.R., Maes, J., Norström, A.V., Plieninger, T. & Cord, A.F. (2020). Measuring ecosystem multifunctionality across scales. Environmental Research Letters 14: 124083.

Lomba, A., Moreira, F., Klimek, S., Jongman, R., Sullivan, C., Moran, J., Poux, X., Honrado, J. P., Pinto-Correia, T., Plieninger, T. & McCracken, D. (2020). Back to the future: Rethinking socioecological systems underlying high nature value farmlands. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 18: 36-42.

Mölder, A., Schmidt, M., Plieninger, T. & Meyer, P. (2020). Habitat‐tree protection concepts over 200 years. Conservation Biology 34: 1444-1451.

Plieninger, T., Muñoz-Rojas, J., Buck, L.E. & Scherr, S.J. (2020). Agroforestry for sustainable landscape management. Sustainability Science 15: 1255-1266.

Plieninger, T., Quintas-Soriano, C., Torralba, M., Samani, M.K. & Shakeri, Z. (2020). Social dynamics of values, taboos, and perceived threats around sacred groves in Kurdistan, Iran. People and Nature 2: 1237-1250.

Torralba, M., Lovrić, M., Roux, J.L., Budniok, M.A., Mulier, A.S., Winkel, G. & Plieninger, T. (2020). Examining the relevance of cultural ecosystem services in forest management in Europe. Ecology & Society 25: art. 2.

Wolpert, F., Quintas-Soriano, C. & Plieninger, T. (2020). Exploring land-use histories of tree-crop landscapes: a cross-site comparison in the Mediterranean Basin. Sustainability Science 15: 1267-1283.

Xu, H., Zhao, G., Fagerholm, N., Primdahl, J. & Plieninger, T. (2020). Participatory mapping of cultural ecosystem services for landscape corridor planning: A case study of the Silk Roads corridor in Zhangye, China. Journal of Environmental Management 264: 110458.

Zinngrebe, Y., Borasino, E., Chiputwa, B., Dobie, P., Garcia, E., Gassner, A., Kihumuro, P., Komarudin, H., Liswanti, N., Makui, P., Plieninger, T., Winter, E. & Hauck, J. (2020). Agroforestry governance for operationalising the landscape approach: Connecting conservation and farming actors. Sustainability Science 15:1417-1434.

Fagerholm, N., Torralba, M., Moreno, G., Girardello, M., Herzog, F., Aviron, S., Burgess, P., Crous-Duran, J., Ferreiro-Domínguez, N., Graves, A., Hartel, T., Măcicăsan, V., Kay, S., Pantera, A., Varga, A. & Plieninger, T. (2019). Cross-site analysis of perceived ecosystem service benefits in multifunctional landscapes. Global Environmental Change 56: 134-147.

Martín-López, B., Felipe-Lucia, M.R., Bennett, E.M., Norström, A., Peterson, G., Plieninger, T., Hicks, C.C., Turkelboom, F., García-Llorente, M., Jacobs, S., Lavorel, S. & Locatelli, B. (2019). A novel telecoupling framework to assess social relations across spatial scales for ecosystem services research. Journal of Environmental Management 241: 251-263.

Mendes, M.P., Cherubini, P., Plieninger, T. Ribeiro, L. & Costa, A. (2019). Climate effects on stem radial growth of Quercus suber L.: Does tree size matter? Forestry 92: 73-84.

Perino, A., Pereira, H.M., Navarro, L.M., Fernández, N., Bullock, J.M., Ceausu, S., Cortés-Avizanda, A., van Klink, R., Kuemmerle, T., Lomba, A. Pe’er, G., Plieninger, T., Rey Benayas, J.M., Sandom, C., Svenning, J.-C. & Wheeler, H. (2019). Rewilding complex ecosystems. Science 364: eaav5570.

Plieninger, T., Torralba, M., Hartel, T. & Fagerholm, N. (2019). Perceived ecosystem services synergies, trade-offs, and bundles in European high nature value farming landscapes. Landscape Ecology 34: 1565-1581.

Xu, H., Plieninger, T. & Primdahl, J. (2019). A systematic comparison of cultural and ecological landscape corridors in Europe. Land 8(3): art. 41.

Xu, H., Plieninger, T., Zhao, G. & Primdahl, J. (2019). What difference does public participation make? An alternative futures assessment based on the development preferences for cultural landscape corridor planning in the Silk Roads area, China. Sustainability 11(22): art. 6525.