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Bettina Tonn

Activity areas

  • Grassland
  • Pasture management
  • Forage production

Training / professional career

  • Since August 2021 Scientific collaborator at the Department of Livestock Sciences, FiBL
  • 2011 - 2021 Senior scientist in the Grassland Science group, University of Göttingen, Germany
  • 2007 - 2011 Scientific collaborator at Landwirtschaftliches Zentrum Baden-Württemberg (LAZBW), Aulendorf, Germany
  • 2006 - 2011 PhD studies at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
  • 2000 - 2005 Studies in agricultural biology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany, and University of Aberdeen, UK

Publications

Publications in the Organic Eprints archive

Publications that are not in the Organic Eprints archive

Peer-reviewed publications

  • Hamidi, D., Komainda, M., Tonn, B., Harbers, J., Grinnell, N.A. (2021): The effect of grazing intensity and sward heterogeneity on the movement behavior of suckler cows on semi-natural grassland. Frontiers in Veterinary Science 8, 639096
  • Nölke, I., Komainda, M., Tonn, B., Feuerstein, U., Isselstein, J. (2021): Including chicory and selecting white clover varieties as strategies to improve temporal stability of forage yield and quality in white-clover-based temporary grassland. European Journal of Agronomy 130, 126362
  • Nölke, I., Tonn, B., Isselstein, J. (2021): Seasonal plasticity more important than population variability in effects on white clover architecture and productivity. Annals of Botany 128, 73-82
  • Schmiedgen, A., Komainda, M., Kowalski, K., Hostert, P., Tonn, B., Kayser, M., Isselstein, J. (2021): Impacts of cutting frequency and position to tree line on herbage accumulation in silvopastoral grassland reveal potential for grassland conservation based on land use and cover information. Annals of Applied Biology 179, 75-84
  • Tonn, B., Komainda, M., Isselstein, J. (2021): Results from a biodiversity experiment fail to represent economic performance of semi-natural grasslands. Nature Communications 12, 2125
  • Ebeling, D., Tonn, B., Isselstein, J. (2020): Primary productivity in patches of heterogeneous swards after 12 years of low-intensity cattle grazing. Grass and Forage Science 75, 398-408
  • Heshmati, S., Tonn, B., Isselstein, J. (2020): White clover population effects on the productivity and yield stability of mixtures with perennial ryegrass and chicory. Field Crops Research 252, 107802
  • Hüppe, C., Schmitz, A., Tonn, B., Isselstein, J. (2020): The role of socio-economic determinants of horse farms for grassland management, vegetation composition and ecological value. Sustainability 12, 10641
  • 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 6, 381-398
  • Schmitz, A., Tonn, B., Schöppner, A.-K., Isselstein, J. (2020): Using a citizen science approach with German horse owners to study the locomotion behaviour of horses on pasture. Sustainability 12, 1835
  • 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
  • Riede, S., Lindig, C., Abel, H., Tonn, B., Isselstein, J., Breves, G. (2019): Effects of drought stressed temperate forage legumes on the degradation and the rumen microbial community in vitro. Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition 103, 436-446
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Becker, T., Kayser, M., Tonn, B., Isselstein, J. (2018): How do German dairy farmers perceive advantages and disadvantages of grazing and how it relates to their milk production system. Livestock Science 214, 112-119
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Dickeduisberg, M., Laser, H., Tonn, B., Isselstein, J. (2017): Tall wheatgrass (Agropyron elongatum) for biogas production: Crop management more important for biomass and methane yield than grass provenance. Industrial Crops and Products 97, 653-663
  • Nüsse A., Linsler, D., Kaiser, M., Tonn, B., Ebeling D., Isselstein, J., Ludwig, B. (2017): Effect of grazing intensity and soil characteristics on soil organic carbon and nitrogen stocks in a temperate long term grassland. Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science 63, 1776-1783
  • Tonn, B., Thumm, U., Lewandowski, I., Claupein, W. (2012): Leaching of biomass from semi-natural grasslands – effects on chemical composition and ash high-temperature behavior. Biomass and Bioenergy 36, 390-403
  • Tonn, B., Dengler, V., Thumm, U., Piepho, H.-P., Claupein, W. (2011): Influence of leaching on the chemical composition of grassland biomass for combustion. Grass and Forage Science 66, 464-473
  • Tonn, B., Thumm, U., Claupein, W. (2010): Semi-natural grassland biomass for combustion, influence of botanical composition, harvest date and site conditions on fuel composition. Grass and Forage Science 65, 383-397
  • Tonn, B., Thumm, U. und Claupein, W. (2008): Verbrennungseignung von Landschafts-pflegeheu. Pflanzenbestand und Schnittzeitpunkt als Einflussfaktoren auf die chemische Brennstoffqualität. Naturschutz und Landschaftsplanung 40, 367-372