Daniel Müller

Biographic Data

ID3590284
NAMEDaniel Müller
GIVEN NAMESDaniel
FAMILY NAMEMüller
SIGNATUREMULLER D
AFFILIATIONSHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin
ORCID0000-0001-8988-0718
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS83
TOTAL CITATIONS533
AUTHOR COUNT79
EDITOR COUNT4
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1931
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX13

  • Understanding multiple pathways of the impacts of socio‐economic shocks on large carnivores

    Open AccessRanjini Murali, Altynai Adabaeva et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2025

    Large carnivores are ecologically, economically and socially important, but they are also among the most threatened species worldwide. These species face numerous threats, most importantly habitat transformation, prey depletion and hunting. All of these threats could be exacerbated by socio‐economic shocks—such as financial crises, wars, pandemics or political regime shifts—that can cause sudden and structural changes in social‐ecological systems…

  • Revival of traditional agricultural systems – A multidisciplinary on‐farm survey of maize‐bean intercropping reveals unexpected competition effects on beans

    Open AccessNoa Vazeux‐Blumental, Laura Mathieu et al.ARTICLEPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET2025

    Societal Impact Statement Cereal‐legume intercropping is a promising strategy for sustainable agroecosystems, leveraging the biological complementarities between plant species to reduce the need for inputs while enhancing field biodiversity. Here, we focused on maize‐bean intercropping, which is experiencing a revival in conventional agricultural settings. In such settings, intercropping was characterized more by competition than synergy, primari…

  • Mapping human-nature archetypes to guide global biodiversity, food security, and land-use policy

    Open AccessDiana Sietz, Aidin Niamir et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2025

    Reconciling biodiversity conservation, food security, and sustainable agriculture at global scale requires a clear understanding of regional social-ecological opportunities and challenges. This understanding helps untap regional contributions to better achieve global policy targets, such as those framed in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). Yet previous global syntheses of social-ecological interlinkages remain limited in t…

  • Motorized Intramedullary Bone Transport Nail for Reconstruction of a Large Diaphyseal Bone Defect after Tumor Resection in a Child—A Case Report

    Open AccessFarah Selman, Valentine Schneebeli et al.ARTICLEChildren2025

    The use of IMBTN for large bone defect reconstruction following tumor resection in pediatric patients is a safe and effective technique. It enables stable bone transport while preserving alignment, maintaining limb length, and is less invasive than traditional reconstructive approaches

  • Reallocating crops raises crop diversity without changes to field boundaries and farm-level crop composition

    Open AccessMaximilian Wesemeyer, Daniel Müller et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Higher crop diversity can enhance biodiversity and ecosystem services; however, it remains unclear to what extent and where crop diversity can be increased. We use spatially explicit multiscale optimization to determine potential and attainable crop diversity with field-level land use data for case studies in Brandenburg, Germany. Our model maximizes crop diversity at the landscape scale while reassigning crop types over multiple years to existin…

  • What is still at stake in the Gran Chaco? Social-ecological impacts of alternative land-system futures in a global deforestation hotspot

    Open AccessChristian Levers, María Piquer-Rodríguez et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Commodity agriculture continues to spread into tropical dry forests globally, eroding their social-ecological integrity. Understanding where deforestation frontiers expand, and which impacts this process triggers, is thus important for sustainability planning. We reconstructed past land-system change (1985–2015) and simulated alternative land-system futures (2015–2045) for the Gran Chaco, a 1.1 million km 2 global deforestation hotspot with high …

  • An actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world’s tropical dry woodlands

    Open AccessMarie Pratzer, Patrick Meyfroidt et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2024Cited by: 2References: 9

    Land use is a key driver of the ongoing biodiversity crisis and therefore also a major opportunity for its mitigation. However, appropriately considering the diversity of land-use actors and activities in conservation assessments and planning is challenging. As a result, top-down conservation policy and planning are often criticized for a lack of contextual nuance widely acknowledged to be required for effective and just conservation action. To a…

  • Daniel Müller, Review of Lukas Vanhonnaeker. Shareholders’ Claims for Reflective Loss in International Investment Law

    Open AccessDaniel MüllerARTICLEEuropean Journal of International…2024Cited by: 1References: 1

  • Unraveling the complexity of land use change and path dependency in agri-environmental schemes for small farmers: A serious game approach

    Open AccessYair Asael Alpuche Álvarez, Martin Rudbeck Jepsen et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2024Cited by: 1References: 55

    This study investigates how Maya farmers in Mexico respond to agri-environmental subsidies aimed at promoting sustainable land use decisions. We do so through a serious games approach, using a tailor-designed board game to identify the land use behaviors of Maya farmers. The game simulated three different subsidy programs promoting mechanized agriculture, forest conservation, and agroforestry. We find that farmers tend to clear forested areas in …

  • Revealing agricultural land ownership concentration with cadastral and company network data

    Open AccessClemens Jänicke, Daniel MüllerARTICLEAgriculture and Human Values2024Cited by: 1References: 7

    In many high-income countries, agricultural land is highly concentrated in a few hands, but detailed knowledge of ownership structures is limited. We examined land ownership structures and agricultural land concentration for the entire state of Brandenburg, Germany (1.3 million ha), using cadastral and company network data. Our aim was to characterise all landowners, analyse the degree of ownership concentration, and examine the role of the large…

  • Exploring the emergence and changing dynamics of a new integrated rice-crawfish farming system in China

    Open AccessYanbing Wei, Daniel Müller et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Crop-aquaculture systems are widely adopted around the world as they can provide high protein and energy outputs per unit of land and raise farm incomes, particularly for smallholder farmers. Recently, a new crop-aquaculture system, which combines rice production with crawfish breeding (integrated rice-crawfish farming), has emerged and rapidly expanded in China. However, the spatial extent and temporal dynamics of this integrated farming system …

  • Heterogeneous effects of weather extremes on different dimensions of poverty in Kyrgyzstan

    Open AccessBarchynai Kimsanova, Atabek Umirbekov et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Weather extremes become more frequent and intense with climate change, but how weather extremes impact household wealth in the Global South remains elusive in many regions. We combined nationally representative quarterly household panel data with climate data to evaluate the impact of weather extremes on household poverty in Kyrgyzstan between 2013 and 2020. We evaluated multiple dimensions of poverty by quantifying changes in nutrition, educatio…

  • Land degradation and migration

    Open AccessKathleen Hermans, Daniel Müller et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2023Cited by: 1References: 4

  • Research priorities for global food security under extreme events

    Open AccessZia Mehrabi, Ruth Delzeit et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2022

    Extreme events, such as those caused by climate change, economic or geopolitical shocks, and pest or disease epidemics, threaten global food security. The complexity of causation, as well as the myriad ways that an event, or a sequence of events, creates cascading and systemic impacts, poses significant challenges to food systems research and policy alike. To identify priority food security risks and research opportunities, we asked experts from …

  • Frontier metrics for a process-based understanding of deforestation dynamics

    Open AccessMatthias Baumann, Ignacio Gasparri et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Agricultural expansion into tropical and subtropical forests often leads to major social-ecological trade-offs. Yet, despite ever-more detailed information on where deforestation occurs, how agriculture expands into forests remains unclear, which is hampered by a lack of spatially and temporally detailed reconstruction of agricultural expansion. Here, we developed and mapped a novel set of metrics that quantify agricultural frontier processes at …

  • Post-Soviet changes in cropping practices in the irrigated drylands of the Aral Sea basin

    Open AccessPhilippe Rufin, Mayra Daniela Peña‐Guerrero et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Water withdrawals for irrigated crop production constitute the largest source of freshwater consumption on Earth. Monitoring the dynamics of irrigated crop cultivation is crucial for tracking crop water consumption, particularly in water-scarce areas. We analyzed changes in water-dependent crop cultivation for 650 000 km 2 of Central Asian drylands, including the entire basin of the Amu Darya river, once the largest tributary to the Aral Sea befo…

  • Adaptive approaches to Redd+ are needed for countries with high forest cover and low deforestation rates

    Open AccessMelanie Schweikart, Ole Mertz et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) aims to maintain forest carbon stocks above benchmark reference levels through financial compensation. However, countries with high forest cover and low deforestation (HFLD) are unlikely to be compensated fairly if REDD+ initiatives fail to conserve existing forests and to incentivize low deforestation rates. Here we analyze the submissions of forest reference levels (FRLs) of f…

  • Regionalization of climate teleconnections across Central Asian mountains improves the predictability of seasonal precipitation

    Open AccessAtabek Umirbekov, Mayra Daniela Peña‐Guerrero et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Mountains play a critical role in water cycles in semiarid regions by providing for the majority of the total runoff. However, hydroclimatic conditions in mountainous regions vary considerably in space and time, with high interannual fluctuations driven by large-scale climate oscillations. Here, we investigated teleconnections between global climate oscillations and the peak precipitation season from February to June in the Tian-Shan and Pamir Mo…

  • Subnational institutions and power of landholders drive illegal deforestation in a major commodity production frontier

    Open AccessDaniel Blum, Sebastián Aguiar et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2022Cited by: 3References: 4

  • Market proximity and irrigation infrastructure determine farmland rentals in Sichuan Province, China

    Open AccessKristin Leimer, Christian Levers et al.ARTICLEJournal of Rural Studies2022Cited by: 4References: 3

  • Resource frontiers and agglomeration economies: The varied logics of transnational land-based investing in Southern and Eastern Africa

    Open AccessDilini Abeygunawardane, Angela Kronenburg García et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2022Cited by: 1References: 67

    Actor-level data on large-scale commercial agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa are scarce. The peculiar choice of transnational investing in African land has, therefore, been subject to conjecture. Addressing this gap, we reconstructed the underlying logics of investment location choices in a Bayesian network, using firm- and actor-level interview and spatial data from 37 transnational agriculture and forestry investments across 121 sites in Mozamb…

  • Social Class and (Un)Ethical Behaviour: Causal and Correlational Evidence

    Open AccessElisabeth Gsottbauer, Daniel Müller et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal2022Cited by: 5References: 4

    Are individuals of higher socio-economic status less ethical than those of lower status? Highly popularised research findings claim that this is the case. This paper provides evidence against this claim, based on data from two large survey experiments with more than 11,000 participants. We prime social status in two heterogeneous samples of the German population and then elicit ethical behaviour in an incentivised experimental task. Thus, our dat…

  • Language Politics, Language Situations and Conflicts in Multilingual Societies. Case Studies from Contemporary Russia, Ukraine and Belarus

    Open AccessDaniel Müller, Monika WingenderBOOKLanguage Politics, Language…2021

    From the middle of the last century, there has been a continuous growth in sociolinguistic research on bi-and multilingualism and language conflicts.PETER NELDE's statement that there can be no language contact without language conflict 1 stands for the longstanding incorporation of language conflict research into the discipline of contact linguistics.Clearly, the research field regarding language conflicts is much broader than the scope of langu…

  • Grassland greening on the Mongolian Plateau despite higher grazing intensity

    Open AccessLijuan Miao, Zhanli Sun et al.ARTICLELand Degradation and Development2021

    Changes in land management and climate alter vegetation dynamics, but the determinants of vegetation changes often remain elusive, especially in global drylands. Here we assess the determinants of grassland greenness on the Mongolian Plateau, one of the world's largest grassland biomes, which covers Mongolia and the province of Inner Mongolia in China. We use spatial panel regressions to quantify the impact of precipitation, temperature, radiatio…

  • Fairness views and political preferences: Evidence from a large and heterogeneous sample

    Open AccessDaniel Müller, Sander ReneARTICLESocial Choice and Welfare2021

    We elicit distributional fairness ideals of impartial spectators using an incentivized experiment in a large and heterogeneous sample of the German population. We document several empirical facts: (i) egalitarianism is more popular than efficiency- and maxi-min ideals; (ii) females are more egalitarian than men; (iii) men are relatively more efficiency minded; (iv) left-leaning voters are more likely to be egalitarians, whereas right-leaning vote…