Dr. Stephen Boahen Asabere

Akademische Rat a.Z. | Non-tenured Assistant Professor

To effectively confront urgent environmental issues like urban sprawl, unsustainable agriculture, and global change stressors, it is important to comprehend the processes that underlie landscape and soil patterns. This entails studying the interactions and feedback loops between biogeochemical cycles, including those of carbon (C), nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and silicon (Si), alongside processes like soil formation and transformation. Such analyses are essential for refining predictive models of how human activities influence ecosystem services and functions. My research adopts an interdisciplinary approach, spanning various ecosystems, and utilizing techniques such as geospatial modeling, field data collection, and laboratory testing of soil and plant samples. The scope of my work includes both tropical and temperate environments, covering urban areas, resource-limited agroecosystems, forests, grasslands, and alpine mountain regions.

Research interests

  • Environmental soil biogeochemistry
  • Applied remote sensing and GIS
  • Land use and landscape ecological science
  • Spatial and temporal time-series, and network modelling
  • Urbanization, urban form, urban greenspaces, urban heat
  • Ecosystem services and natural resource impact assessment

  • Current projects
  • "SOC dynamics in tropical agroecosystems" Funding by DFG
  • Mechanisms of temperature regulation by urban greenspaces in temperate and tropical cities
  • Silicon controls on nutrient availability in oil-palm fields
  • Spatial patterns of soil properties under Alpine meadows

  • Community service and memberships
  • Selection committee (Geography), Faculty of Geoscience and Geography (Since 2023)
  • EGUsphere preprint moderator (Since 2022)
  • European Geosciences Union (EGU) (Since 2018)
  • German Soil Science Society (DBG) (Since 2017)
  • International Association of Landscape Ecology – Germany sector (IALE-D) (Since 2013)