Georg-August-University Göttingen- Department for Cropscience

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JI has many years of experience in studying the ecology of grasslands (Isselstein et al. 2005). His group carries out long-term grazing experiments on permanent grassland with different livestock species (Isselstein et al. 2007). One focus is on the importance of the grazing system and the grazing intensity for grassland biodiversity (Klimek et al. 2007, Jerrentrup et al. 2015). The studies also deal with the agronomy and livestock performance of the systems (Cuchillo-Hilario et al. 2017). The idea is that the biodiversity objectives and ecosystem services can best be achieved if it is possible to design the use in such a way that the management is also attractive from an agronomic point of view. JI has been part of several interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary consortia that have worked on the further development of agri-environmental schemes for grassland (Ulber et al. 2010). Recent selected publications Cuchillo Hilario, M., Wrage-Mönnig, N., Isselstein, J., 2018. Forage selectivity by cattle and sheep co-grazing swards differing in plant species diversity. Grass and Forage Science 73, 320-329. https://doi.org/10.1111/gfs.12339 Gerling, C., Wätzold, F., Theesfeld, I., Drechsler, M., Nixdorf, B., Isselstein, J., Pirscher, F., Rücker, J., Sturm, A. (2019): Modeling the co-evolution of natural, economic and governance subsystems in integrated agri-ecological systems: Perspectives and challenges. Ecological Complexity, 40 , art. 100792 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecocom.2019.100792 Hoffmann, M., Isselstein, J., Rötter, R.P., Kayser, M., 2018. Nitrogen management in crop rotations after the break-up of grassland: Insights from modelling. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 259, 28-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2018.02.009 Isselstein J., 2018. Protecting biodiversity in grasslands. In: Marshall, A. and Collins, R. (ed.), Improving grassland and pasture management in temperate agriculture. Chapter 16, Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, Cambridge, UK (ISBN: 978 1 78676 200 9; www.bdspublishing.com), p. 1-17. Jerrentrup J.S., Komainda M., Seither M., Cuchillo H.M., Wrage-Mönnig N., Isselstein J., Diverse swards and mixed-grazing of cattle and sheep for improved productivity. Front Sust Food Syst, 2020, 3, 125. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2019.00125. Kayser, M., Müller, J., Isselstein, J., 2018. Grassland renovation has important consequences for C and N cycling and losses. Food and Energy Security, e00146, 1-12. .https://doi.org/10.1002/fes3.146 Komainda, M., Küchenmeister, K., Küchenmeister, F., Breitsameter, L., Wrage-Mönnig, N., Kayser, M., Isselstein, J., 2019. Forage legumes for future dry climates: Lower relative biomass losses of minor forage legumes compared to Trifolium repens under conditions of periodic drought stress. Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science 2019, 1-10. DOI: 10.1111/jac.12337 Manning, P., Loos, J., Barnes, A., Batary, P., Bianchi, F.J.J.A., Buchmann, N., Deyn, G.B., Ebeling, A., Eisenhauer, N., Fischer, M., Fründ, J., Grass, I., Isselstein, J. Jochum, M., Klein, A., Klingenberg, E. Landis, D., Lepš, J., Lindborg, R., Tscharntke, T., 2019. Transferring biodiversity-ecosystem function research to the management of ‘real-world’ ecosystems. Advances in Ecological Research, Academic Press, 2019, ISSN 0065-2504, https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aecr.2019.06.009.10.1016 Paesel, H., Isselstein, J., 2018. Literature database GrassCOPS (Grassland Conference Paper Search): making better use of the potential of conference book literature. Berichte über Landwirtschaft 96, 1-17, ISSN 2196-5099, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12767/buel.v96i2.218 Paesel, H., Schmitz, A., Isselstein, J., 2018. Heterogeneity and diversity of orchard grassland vegetation in Central Germany: role of tree stock, soil parameters and site management. Agroforestry Systems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10457-017-0178-2 Pauler, C.M., Isselstein, J., Braunbeck, T., Schneider, M.K., 2019: Influence of Highland and production-oriented cattle breeds on pasture vegetation: A pairwise assessment across broad environmental gradients. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 284 (2019) 106585. Pauler, C.M., Isselstein, J., Suter, M., Bérard, J., Braunbeck, T., Schneider, M.K., 2020: Choosy grazers: Dependence of forage selection by three cattle breeds on plant traits. Functional Ecology, accepted for publication Raab, C., Riesch, F., Tonn, B., Barrett, B., Meißner; m., Balkenhol, N., Isselstein, J., 2020. Target-oriented habitat and wildlife management: estimating forage quantity and quality of semi-natural grasslands with Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, doi: 10.1002/rse2.149, 1-18. Raab, C., Tonn, B., Meißner, M., Balkenhol, N., Isselstein, J., 2019: Multi-temporal RapidEye Tasselled Cap data for land cover classification. European Journal of Remote Sensing 52, 653-666, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2019.1701560 Raab, R., Stroh, H. G., Tonn, B., Meißner, M., Rohwer, N., Balkenhol, N., Isselstein, J. 2018. Mapping semi-natural grassland communities using multi-temporal RapidEye remote sensing data. International Journal of Remote Sensing 39, 5638-5659. doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2018.1504344 Richter, L., Balkenhol, N., Raab, C., Reinecke, H., Meißner, M., Herzog, S., Isselstein, J., Signer, J., 2020: So close and yet so different: The importance of considering temporal dynamics to understand habitat selection. Basic and Applied Ecology, DOI 10.1016/j.baae.2020.02.002, accepted for publication. Riesch, F., Stroh, H.G., Tonn, B., Isselstein, J., 2018. Soil pH and phosphorus drive species composition and richness in semi-natural heathlands and grasslands unaffected by twentieth-century agricultural intensification. Plant Ecology & Diversity 11, 239-253. https://doi.org/10.1080/17550874.2018.1471627. Riesch, F., Tonn, B., Meißner, M., Balkenhol, N., Isselstein, J., 2019. Grazing by wild red deer: Management options for the conservation of semi-natural open habitats. Journal of Applied Ecology 56, 1311–1321. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13396. Scheile, T., Isselstein, J., Tonn, B., 2018. Herbage biomass and uptake under low-input grazing as affected by cattle and sheep excrement patches. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems 112, 277-289. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10705-018-9945-3 Schmitz, A., Tonn, B., Schöppner, A.K., Isselstein, J., 2020: Using a citizen science methodology with German horse owners to study the locomotion behaviour of horses on pasture. Sustainability, accepted for publication Stein, S., Steinmann, H.-H., Isselstein, J., 2019. Linking Arable Crop Occurrence with Site Conditions by the Use of Highly Resolved Spatial Data. Land 2019, 8, 65; doi:10.3390/land8040065. Tonn, B., Densing, E.M., Gabler, J., Isselstein, J., 2019. Grazing‐induced patchiness, not grazing intensity, drives plant diversity in European low‐input pastures. Journal of Applied Ecology 56, 1624–1636. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13416 Tonn, B., Porath, I., Lattanzi, F.A., Isselstein, J., 2019. Urine effects on grass and legume nitrogen isotopic composition: Pronounced short-term dynamics of δ15N. PLoS ONE 14, e0210623. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210623 Tonn, B., Raab, C., Isselstein, J., 2019. Sward patterns created by patch grazing are stable over more than a decade. Grass and Forage Science 74, 104-114. https://doi.org/10.1111/gfs.12389 Van den Pol-van Dasselaar, A., Hennessy, D., Isselstein, J., 2020: Grazing of dairy cows in Europe—An In-depth analysis based on the perception of grassland experts. Sustainability 2020, 12, 1098; doi:10.3390/su12031098, p. 1-18.