Dirk Hölscher

Biographic Data

ID3708818
NAMEDirk Hölscher
GIVEN NAMESDirk
FAMILY NAMEHölscher
SIGNATUREHÖLSCHER D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Göttingen
ORCID0000-0002-7097-3102
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS7
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Forest Aboveground Biomass in the Annapurna Region, Himalaya, Derived From Ground-Based and Spaceborne Laser Scanning

    Open AccessSmita Das, Prakash Basnet et al.ARTICLEMountain Research and Development2026

    Mountain forests encompass heterogeneous environmental conditions and are potentially highly dynamic because of climatic and socioeconomic changes. Although mountain forests are often difficult to access, spaceborne monitoring approaches offer new opportunities for assessing key forest characteristics at high spatial and temporal resolution. The objectives of our study were to compare relative canopy heights (eg 60th and 98th relative height perc…

  • Drivers of Forest Structural Complexity in Mountain Forests of Nepal

    Open AccessPrakash Basnet, Smita Das et al.ARTICLEMountain Research and Development2025

    Forests in the Himalayan region are crucial for maintaining the region's ecological balance, conserving biodiversity, and supporting the livelihoods of local people. However, because of limited accessibility and an adverse climate, scientific studies on how forest functions in this region depend on ecological drivers are rare. We used a handheld mobile laser scanner to assess the forest structural complexity (FSC) in the Annapurna Conservation Ar…

  • Complementary ecosystem services from multiple land uses highlight the importance of tropical mosaic landscapes

    Open AccessEstelle Raveloaritiana, Annemarie Wurz et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2023Cited by: 1References: 59

    Tropical agricultural landscapes often consist of a mosaic of different land uses, yet little is known about the spectrum of ecosystem service bundles and materials they provide to rural households. We interviewed 320 households on the different benefits received from prevalent land-use types in north-eastern Madagascar (old-growth forests, forest fragments, vanilla agroforests, woody fallows, herbaceous fallows, and rice paddies) in terms of eco…

  • Flooding and land use change in Jambi Province, Sumatra

    Open AccessJennifer Merten, Christian Stiegler et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2020Cited by: 1

    Merten, J., C. Stiegler, N. Hennings, E. S. Purnama, A. Röll, H. Agusta, M. A. Dippold, L. Fehrmann, D. Gunawan, D. Hölscher, A. Knohl, J. Kückes, F. Otten, D. C. Zemp, and H. Faust. 2020. Flooding and land use change in Jambi Province, Sumatra: integrating local knowledge and scientific inquiry. Ecology and Society 25(3):14. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11678-250314

  • Water scarcity and oil palm expansion

    Open AccessJennifer Merten, Alexander Röll et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2016Cited by: 3

    Merten, J., A. Röll, T. Guillaume, A. Meijide, S. Tarigan, H. Agusta, C. Dislich, C. Dittrich, H. Faust, D. Gunawan, J. Hein, . Hendrayanto, A. Knohl, Y. Kuzyakov, K. Wiegand, and D. Hölscher. 2016. Water scarcity and oil palm expansion: social views and environmental processes. Ecology and Society 21(2):5.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08214-210205

  • Medicinal Plants and Forest Transformations in NW Pakistan

    Open AccessMuhammad Adnan, Dirk HölscherARTICLEEthnobotany Research and…2014

    In the Pakistani Himalaya, local people use medicinal plants for healthcare and income generation. Medicinal plants have historically been collected below the tree line from near natural old-growth forests. However, such forests have almost disappeared today. In addition to the few remaining degraded forest remnants, some areas have become subject to restorative land-use approaches including agroforestry, reforestation, and natural re-growth. We …

  • Diversity of Medicinal Plants among Different Forest-use Types of the Pakistani Himalaya

    Open AccessMuhammad Adnan, Dirk HölscherARTICLEEconomic Botany2012Cited by: 2References: 36

    Diversity of Medicinal Plants among Different Forest-use Types of the Pakistani Himalaya Medicinal plants collected in Himalayan forests play a vital role in the livelihoods of regional rural societies and are also increasingly recognized at the international level. However, these forests are being heavily transformed by logging. Here we ask how forest transformation influences the diversity and composition of medicinal plants in northwestern Pak…

  • Multifunctional shade-tree management in tropical agroforestry landscapes - a review

    Open AccessTeja Tscharntke, Yann Clough et al.ARTICLEJournal of Applied Ecology2011

    1. Agricultural intensification reduces ecological resilience of land-use systems, whereas paradoxically, environmental change and climate extremes require a higher response capacity than ever. Adaptation strategies to environmental change include maintenance of shade trees in tropical agroforestry, but conversion of shaded to unshaded systems is common practice to increase short-term yield. \n \n2. In this paper, we review the short-term and lon…

  • Medicinal Plant Abundance in Degraded and Reforested Sites in Northwest Pakistan

    Open AccessMuhammad Adnan, Dirk HölscherARTICLEMountain Research and Development2010

    Forest resources in northwest Pakistan are under severe threat, negatively affecting local people aiming to meet their subsistence needs through different types of forest use. In addition to uses such as fodder and fuelwood, medicinal plants play an important role in the livelihoods of local people. To reduce pressure and dependency on remaining old-growth forests, some deforested and degraded sites have been reforested. The objectives of the pre…