Articles | Volume 22, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-2425-2025
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-2425-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Reviews and syntheses
| 
30 May 2025
Reviews and syntheses |
| 30 May 2025
| 30 May 2025
Reviews and syntheses: Current perspectives on biosphere research 2024–2025 – eight findings from ecology, sociology, and economics
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
BAM Nachhaltigkeit Beratung Medien, Berlin, Germany
Ana Bastos
Institute for Earth System Science and Remote Sensing, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
Romina Martin
Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Anja Rammig
TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany
Niak Sian Koh
Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Giles B. Sioen
Future Earth Global Secretariat, Tokyo, Japan
Sustainable Society Design Center, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwanoha, Japan
Bram Buscher
Sociology of Development and Change, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Louise Carver
Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
Fabrice DeClerck
Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT, Montpellier, France
Moritz Drupp
Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Robert Fletcher
Sociology of Development and Change, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Matthew Forrest
Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt, Germany
Alexandros Gasparatos
Institute for Future Initiatives, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Alex Godoy-Faúndez
Sustainability Research Center, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile
Gregor Hagedorn
Museum für Naturkunde – Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung (MfN), Berlin, Germany
Martin C. Hänsel
Institute for Infrastructure and Resource Management, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
Jessica Hetzer
Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt, Germany
Thomas Hickler
Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt, Germany
Institute of Physical Geography, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Cornelia B. Krug
Faculty of Economics and Management Science, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
Stasja Koot
Sociology of Development and Change, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Department of Geography, Environmental Management and Energy Studies, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Xiuzhen Li
Synthesis and Solutions Labs, Senckenberg Society for Nature Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Amy Luers
Microsoft, Redmond, Washington, USA
Shelby Matevich
Sociology of Development and Change, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands
H. Damon Matthews
Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Ina C. Meier
Functional Forest Ecology, Universität Hamburg, Barsbüttel, Germany
Mirco Migliavacca
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra (VA), Italy
Awaz Mohamed
Functional Forest Ecology, Universität Hamburg, Barsbüttel, Germany
Sungmin O
Department of AI Software, Kangwon National University, Samcheok, South Korea
David Obura
CORDIO East Africa, Mombasa, Kenya
Ben Orlove
School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
Rene Orth
Modelling of Biogeochemical Systems, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Laura Pereira
Global Change Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Markus Reichstein
Department of Biogeochemical Integration, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Lerato Thakholi
Sociology of Development and Change, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Peter H. Verburg
Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Yuki Yoshida
Center for Climate Change Adaptation, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Ibaraki, Japan
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Statistics on the authors of the 'Current perspectives on biosphere research 2024–2025' Friedrich J. Bohn https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.29092712
Short summary
An interdisciplinary collaboration of 36 international researchers from 35 institutions highlights recent findings in biosphere research. Within eight themes, they discuss issues arising from climate change and other anthropogenic stressors and highlight the co-benefits of nature-based solutions and ecosystem services. Based on an analysis of these eight topics, we have synthesized four overarching insights.
An interdisciplinary collaboration of 36 international researchers from 35 institutions...
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