The local impacts of climate change in the Ferlo, Western Sahel (2009)
Hein, L.G., Metzger, M.J., Leemans, R.
Recent increases in the accuracy of climate models have enhanced the possibilities for analyzing the impacts of climate change on society. This paper explores how the local, economic impacts of...
Reidsma, P., Ewert, F., Leemans, R.
Climate change will affect crop yields and consequently farmers¿ income. The underlying relationships are not well understood, particularly the importance of crop management and related factors at...
The local impacts of climate change in the Ferlo, Western Sahel (2009)
Hein, L.G., Metzger, M.J., Leemans, R.
Recent increases in the accuracy of climate models have enhanced the possibilities for analyzing the impacts of climate change on society. This paper explores how the local, economic impacts of...
Climate Change: global risks challenges and decisions (2009)
Richardson, K., Steffen, W., Schellnhuber, H.J., Alcamo, J., Barker, T., Kammen, D., ...
The 2008 Evaluation of SYKE (2009)
Leemans, R., Hordijk, L., Horvat, M., Johansson, T.B., Leroy, P., Peterson, K.
Reidsma, P., Ewert, F., Leemans, R.
Climatic conditions and hence climate change influence agriculture. Most studies that addressed the vulnerability of agriculture to climate change have focused on potential impacts without...
Leemans, R., Asrar, G., Canadell, J.G., Ingram, J., Larigauderie, A., Mooney, H., ...
The Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP) was established in 2001 by four global environmental change (GEC) research programmes: DIVERSITAS, IGBP, IHDP and WCRP. ESSP facilitates the study of the...
Modelling spatial-temporal dynamics of landscape functions (2009)
Willemen, L., Veldkamp, A., Leemans, R., Verburg, P.H., Hein, L.G.
Hydrogen-powered road vehicles : the health benfits and drawbacks of a new fuel (2009)
Passchier, W.F., Erisman, J.W., Heederik, D., Leemans, R., Legler, J., ...
Huettner, M., Leemans, R., Kok, K., Ebeling, J.
Background A mechanism for emission reductions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) is very likely to be included in a future climate agreement. The choice of REDD baseline methodologies will...
Werners, S.E., Fachner, Z., Matczak, P., Falaleeva, M., Leemans, R.
This paper discusses a recently proposed conceptualisation of ‘earth system governance’ by applying it to floodplain management in the Hungarian Tisza river basin. By doing so it aims to improve...
Impacts and vulnerabilities to climate change (2009)
Leemans, R., Kuikman, P.J., Hutjes, R.W.A., Verhagen, J.H.G.
Dumont, E.L., Bakker, E.J., Bouwman, L., Kroeze, C., Leemans, R., Stein, A.
We describe a framework (FAMOS) to identify the appropriate spatial and temporal scales for nitrogen (N) flow models. FAMOS has been developed for models of N export from large watersheds. With...
Metzger, M.J., Schröter, D., Leemans, R., Cramer, W.
Environmental change alters ecosystem functioning and may put the provision of services to human at risk. This paper presents a spatially explicit and quantitative assessment of the corresponding...
Projected environmental shifts under climate change: European trends and regional impacts (2008)
Metzger, M.J., Bunce, R.G.H., Leemans, R., Viner, D.
Potential impacts of climate change on ecosystems and the environment are generally assessed by summarizing climate change scenarios for broad regions (for example countries), or by specific...
Reidsma, P., Ewert, F., Leemans, R.
Climate change will affect crop yields and consequently farmers¿ income. The underlying relationships are not well understood, particularly the importance of crop management and related factors at...
Training future experts in "biodiversity and ecosystem services": a progress report (2008)
Cramer, W., Fritsch, U., Leemans, R., Lütkemeier, S., Schröter, D, Watt, A.
Biodiversity is essential for multiple aspects of human life and well-being, but many current assessments of the functioning of biodiversity and ecosystems, understanding of risks posed by...
A stakeholder dialogue on European vulnerability (2008)
Schröter, D., Leemans, R., Fritsch, U., Pluimers, J.C.
A stakeholder dialogue was embedded in the ATEAM project to facilitate the development and dissemination of its European-wide vulnerability assessment of global change impacts. Participating...
Schaepman, M.E., Leemans, R., ...
The Nha Trang Bay (Vietnam) is an international marine protected area with significant economic, natural and recreational values. Considerable economic development is expected in particularly for...
Emerging scientific findings, key uncertainties and research needs (2008)
Leemans, R., Noone, K., Reckhemmer, A., Lagigauderie, A., Henderson-Sellers, A., Rice, M.
Integrating tools to assess changes in semi-enclosed marine systems (2008)
Kroeze, C., Middelburg, J., Leemans, R., Escobar Briones, E., Fennel, W., Glaser, M., ...
Passchier, W.F., Erisman, J.W., Heederik, D.J.J., Leemans, R., Legler, J., ...
De afhankelijkheid van fossiele brandstoffen – met zijn politieke, maatschappelijke en milieunadelen – zorgt ervoor dat alternatieve energiebronnen volop in de belangstelling staan. Het gebruik...
Emerging Scientific Findings and Activities Relevant to UNFCCC (2008)
Leemans, R., Rice, M., Mooney, H., Larigauderie, A., Young, O., Schmidt, F., ...
Costanza, R., Graumlich, L.J., Steffen, W., Crumley, C.L., Dearing, J.A., Hibbard, K., ...
Understanding the history of how humans have interacted with the rest of nature can help clarify the options for managing our increasingly interconnected global system. Simple, deterministic...
Evolution of the human-environment relationship (2007)
Costanza, R., Steffen, W., Hibbard, K., Crumley, C., Leemans, R., Graumlich, L., ...
Future scenarios of human environment systems (2007)
Young, M.N., Leemans, R., Boumans, R.M.J., Constanza, R., Vries, B.J.M., Finnigan, J., ...
The albedo climate impacts of biomass and carbon plantations compared with the CO2 impact (2007)
Schaeffer, M., Eickhout, B., Hoogwijk, M., Strengers, B., Leemans, R., ...
Global desertification: building a science for dryland development (2007)
Reynolds, J.F., Smith, D.M.S., Lambin, E.F., Turner, B.L., Mortimore, M., Batterbury, S.P.J., ...
In this millennium, global drylands face a myriad of problems that present tough research, management, and policy challenges. Recent advances in dryland development, however, together with the...
Het IPCC-rapport en de betekenis voor Nederland (2007)
Janssen, B., Drijfhout, S., Haak, H., Haarsma, R., ...
International review of the Globio model version 3 (2007)
Leemans, R., Gaston, K.J., Dixon, J., Harrison, J., Cheatle, M.E.
In April 2005, a review committee gathered to assess the scientifically validity and policyrelevance of the GLOBIO3 model as part of the International Biodiversity project. Four members of the...
Spatial characterization of landscape functions in a multifunctional rural region (2007)
Willemen, L., Verburg, P.H., Hein, L.G., Veldkamp, A., Leemans, R.
Spatial characteristics of landscape functions (2007)
Willemen, L., Verburg, P.H., Hein, L.G., Veldkamp, A., Leemans, R.
Ecosystems, their properties, goods and services (2007)
Fischlin, A., Midgley, G.F., Price, J., Leemans, R., Gopal, B., Turley, C., ...
Land use change scenarios for Europe (2007)
Reginster, I., Rounsevell, M., Kamphorst, E., Audsley, E., Carter, T., Giupponi, C., ...
Evolution of the human-environment relationship (2007)
Costanza, R., Steffen, W., Hibbard, K., Crumley, C., Leemans, R., Graumlich, L., ...
Costanza, R., Graumlich, L., Steffen, W., Crumley, C., Dearing, J., Hibbard, K., ...
Understanding the history of how humans have interacted with the rest of nature can help clarify the options for managing our increasingly interconnected global system. Simple, deterministic...
Assessing dangerous climate impacts for the Netherlands (2007)
Gupta, J., Amelung, B., Bessembinder, J., Bogaardt, M.J., Bolwidt, L., ...
Nature: the many benefits of ecosystem services (2006)
Reid, WV, Mooney, HA, Capistrano, D, Carpenter, SR, Chopra, K, Cropper, A, ...
Copyright: 2006 Nature Publishing Group
The seminar will focus on the assessment process and findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, which assessed the conditions, trends and responses and developed future scenarios for...
Technology development and climate change as drivers of future agricultural land use (2006)
Ewert, F., Rounsevell, M., Reginster, I., Metzger, M.J., Leemans, R.
The vulnerability of ecosystem services to land use change (2006)
Metzger, M.J., Rounsevell, M.D.A., Acosta-Michlik, L., Leemans, R., Schroter, D.
Terrestrial ecosystems provide a number of vital services for people and society, such as biodiversity, food, fibre, water resources, carbon sequestration, and recreation. The future capability of...
A coherent set of future land use change scenarios for Europe (2006)
Rounsevell, M.D.A., Reginster, I., Araujo, M.B., Carter, T.R., Dendoncker, N., Ewert, F., ...
This paper presents a range of future, spatially explicit, land use change scenarios for the EU15, Norway and Switzerland based on an interpretation of the global storylines of the Intergovernmental...
CO2 and albedo climate impacts of extratropical carbon and biomass plantations (2006)
Schaeffer, M., Eickhout, B., Hoogwijk, M., Strengers, B., Leemans, R., ...
We explored the climate impacts for two land-use change scenarios, aimed at mitigating the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Using the integrated assessment model IMAGE 2.2, we found...
Ecological impacts of climate change in The Netherlands (2006)
Temperature in The Netherlands has increased substantially. In the last 20 years the annual temperature was 1°C higher than normal while the first months of the years were up to 2°C warmer than...
Letter to the editor: Nature: the many benefits of ecosystems services (2006)
Reid, W., Mooney, H.A., Capistrano, D., Carpenter, S.R., Chopra, K., Cropper, A., ...
Ecosystem service supply and vulnerability to global change in Europe (2005)
Schröter, D, Cramer, W, Leemans, R, Prentice, I. C, Araújo, M. B., Arnell, N.W, ...
Global change will alter the supply of ecosystem services that are vital for human well-being. To investigate ecosystem service supply during the 21st century, we used a range of ecosystem models and...
Ewert, F., Rounsevell, M.D.A., Reginster, I., Metzger, M.J., Leemans, R.
The future of agricultural land use in Europe is unknown but is likely to be influenced by the productivity of crops. Changes in crop productivity are difficult to predict but can be explored by...
Rounsevell, M.D.A., Ewert, F., Reginster, I., Leemans, R., Carter, T.R.
This paper presents the development of quantitative, spatially explicit and alternative scenarios of future agricultural land use in Europe (the 15 European Union member states, Norway and...
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Synthesis Report (2005)
Reid, W.V., Mooney, H.A., Cropper, A., Capistrano, D., Carpenter, S.R., Chopra, K., ...
Responses of species to changes in climate determine climate protection targets (2005)
Widespread ecological impacts of climate change are visible everywhere. Plants and animals respond rapidly to the ongoing changes. Responses significantly differ from species to species and from year...
Effecten van klimaatverandering in Nederland (2005)
Bresser, A.H.M., Berk, M.M., Ligtvoet, W., ...
Het klimaat verandert: de zeespiegel stijgt, de afvoeren van de rivieren nemen toe. De natuur reageert al op de opgetreden temperatuurveranderingen. De waarneembare effecten in Nederland zijn beperkt...
A multidisciplinary multi-scale framework for assessing vulnerabilities to global change (2005)
Metzger, M.J., Leemans, R., Schroter, D.
Terrestrial ecosystems provide a number of vital services for people and society, such as food, fibre, water resources, carbon sequestration, and recreation. The future capability of ecosystems to...
Ecosystem Service Supply and Vulnerability to Global Change in Europe (2005)
Schröter, D., Cramer, W., Leemans, R., Prentice, I.C., Araujo, M.B., Arnell, N.W., ...
Global change will alter the supply of ecosystem services that are vital for human well-being. To investigate ecosystem service supply during the 21st century, we used a range of ecosystem models and...
Environmental problems, such as air quality, pollution and toxicity, have historically strongly been linked with health issues. The earliest environmental policies were targeted to negate health...
Living beyond our means : natural assets and human well-being, statement form the board (2005)
Reid, W.V., Cropper, A., Mooney, H., Capistrano, D., Carpenter, S., Chopra, K., ...
Interpretation of the key messages emerging from the Millenium Ecosystem Assessment 2005
Summary Response options and strategies (2005)
Brown, K., Chambers, B.J., Chopra, K., Cropper, A., Duriappah, A.K., Faith, D., ...
Ecosystem service supply and vulnerability to global change in Europe. (2005)
Schröter, D., Cramer, W., Leemans, R., Prentice, I.C., Araujo, M.B., Arnell, N.W., ...
Science, 310(2005) S.1333-37
Re-evaluation of the Netherlands' long-term climate targets (2004)
Gupta, J., Amelung, B., Berk, M., Buiteveld, H., Dalenoord, E., ...
Modelling agricultural land use change in relation to primary productivity (2004)
Ewert, F., Rounsevell, M.D.A., Reginster, I., Metzger, M.J., Kamphorst, E., Leemans, R.
A Multidisciplinary multi-scale framework for assessing vulnerability to global change (2004)
Metzger, M.J., Leemans, R., Schöter, D.
Terrestrial ecosystems provide a number of vital services for people and society, e.g. biodiversity, food, fibre, water resources, carbon sequestration, and recreation. The future capability of...
Klimaatverandering en de arealen van boomsoorten (2004)
Rik Leemans (Wageningen Universiteit) reageert op het artikel van Kramer over de beuken, de te verwachten klimaatverandering en de gevolgen voor bossen en boomsoorten samen
Advanced terrestrial ecosystem analysis and modelling (ATEAM) (2004)
Schröter, D., Acosta-Michlik, L., Arnell, A.W., Araújo, M.B., Badeck, F., Bakker, M., ...
Strengers, B., Leemans, R., Eickhout, B., Bouwman, L.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) developed a new series of emission scenarios (SRES). Six global models were used to develop SRES but most focused primarily on energy and industry...
Wang, H, Pitman, A. J, Zhao, M, Leemans, R
A series of simulations was conducted using a regional climate model with a domain covering mainland China. Simulations were conducted for a single June using estimated land cover for 1700, 1750,...
Climate change and biodiversity (2002)
Watson, R.T., Gitay, H., Suarez, A., Dokken, D.J., Leemans, R.
Bakkenes, M., Alkemade, J.R.M., Ihle, F., Leemans, R., Latour, J.B.
The rapidly increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases may lead to significant changes in regional and seasonal climate patterns. Such changes can strongly influence the diversity and...
Drivers of Change in Ecosystems and their Services (2002)
Leemans, R., Lambin, E., McCalla, A., Nelson, G., Pingali, P., Simons, H., ...
The causes of land-use and land-cover change: moving beyond the myths (2001)
Lambin, E.F., Turner, B.L., Geist, H.J., Agbola, S.B., Angelsen, A., Bruce, J.W., ...
Developing and applying scenarios (2001)
Carter, T.R., La Rovere, E.L., Jones, R.N., Leemans, R., Mearns, L.O., Nakicenovic, N., ...
Climate scenario development (2001)
Mearns, L.O., Hulme, M., Carter, T.R., Leemans, R., Lal, M., Whetton, P., ...
Vulnerability to climate change and reasons for concern: a synthesis (2001)
Smith, J.B., Schellnhuber, H.J., Fankhauser, S., Leemans, R., Erda, L., ...
The future of biodiversity in a changing world (2001)
Stuart Chapin, F., Sala, O.E., Huber-Sannwald, E., Leemans, R.
Modelling land degradation in IMAGE 2 (2001)
Hootsman, R., Bouwman, A.F., Leemans, R., Kreileman, E.
Achteruitgang van de kwaliteit van land voor landbouwproductie als gevolg van land degradatie kan een bedreiging vormen voor de voedselproductie. Erosie veroorzaakt door oppervlakkige afstroming van...
The causes of land-use and land-cover change: moving beyond the myths (2001)
Lambin, E.F., Turner, B.L., Geist, H.J., Agbola, S.B., Angelsen, A., Bruce, J.W., ...
The causes of land-use and land-cover change : moving beyond the myths (2001)
Lambin, E.F., Turner, B.L., Geist, H.J., Agbola, S.B., Angelsen, A., Bruce, J.W., ...
Common understanding of the causes of land-use and land-cover change is dominated by simplifications which, in turn, underlie many environment-development policies. This article tracks some of the...
Land use, climate and biogeochemical cycles: feedbacks and options for emission reduction (2001)
Hutjes, R.W.A., Dolman, A.J., Nabuurs, G.J., Schelhaas, M.J., Kabat, P., ...
Biodiversity - Global biodiversity scenarios for the year 2100 (2000)
Sala, OE, Chapin, FS, Armesto, JJ, Berlow, E, Bloomfield, J, Dirzo, R, ...
Scenarios of changes in biodiversity for the year 2100 can now be developed based on scenarios of changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide, climate, vegetation, and Land use and the known sensitivity of...
Saevels, J, Decolin, D, Quaglia, MG, ...
An interlaboratory study was performed on two high-performance liquid chromatographic methods to determine tylosin. The first method is a reversed-phase HPLC on a C-18 column, while the second is a...
Land use and cover change (LUCC). Open science meeting. (1997)
Fresco, L.O., Leemans, R., Turner Ii, B.L., Skole, D., Haarmann, V.
Land-use and land-cover change. Science/Research plan. (1995)
Turner Ii, B.L., Skole, D., Sanderson, S., Fischer, G., Fresco, L., Leemans, R.
Leemans, R, Remaut, E, Fiers, W
We report the construction of a broad-host-range expression vector based on an RSF1010-derived replicon. The vector carries the strong leftward promoter (pL) of coliphage lambda as well as the cI857...
Leemans, R, Manson, W, Snijder, J A, Smit, J W, Klasen, H J, The, T H, ...
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate features of general immune function, in particular the restoration of the humoral immune response to pneumococcal capsular polysaccharides, in humans undergoing a spleen...
The risk of severe infections after splenectomy, even after many years, is now well established. In attempts to prevent these infections, spleen-saving techniques, including autotransplantation of...
Leemans, R, Remaut, E, Fiers, W
We report the construction of a broad-host-range expression vector based on an RSF1010-derived replicon. The vector carries the strong leftward promoter (pL) of coliphage lambda as well as the cI857...
Leemans, R, Manson, W, Snijder, J A, Smit, J W, Klasen, H J, The, T H, ...
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate features of general immune function, in particular the restoration of the humoral immune response to pneumococcal capsular polysaccharides, in humans undergoing a spleen...
The risk of severe infections after splenectomy, even after many years, is now well established. In attempts to prevent these infections, spleen-saving techniques, including autotransplantation of...
Leemans, R, Harms, G, Rijkers, G T, Timens, W
After splenectomy, patients have an increased risk of overwhelming post-splenectomy infection (OPSI) or sepsis involving encapsulated bacteria such as pneumococs. The value of spleen...