Bernhard Lucke

PD Dr. Bernhard Lucke

Department Geographie und Geowissenschaften
Institut für Geographie

Sprechstunde

nur nach Vereinbarung

 

seit 2023 Bodenwissenschaftler am Bayerischen Landesamt für Umwelt, Hof.

2021-2023 Wissenschaftler für Forschungsdaten-Management am Max Rubner-Institut für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft, Karlsruhe.

2020-2021 Forschungsreferent an der Katholischen Universität (KU) Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

2019 Zertifizierter Bodenkundlicher Baubegleiter.

2016-2019 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Geographie, Friedrich-Alexander Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg (DFG eigene Stelle).

2010-2016 Akademischer Rat auf Zeit am Institut für Geographie, Friedrich-Alexander Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg.
2009-2010 Assistant Professor an der Deutsch-Jordanischen Hochschule, Amman, Jordanien.
2006-2009 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der BTU Cottbus, Koordination eines DFG-Projekts zur Dynamik und den Ursachen historischen Landschaftswandels im Hochland Jordaniens (SCHM 2107/2-1, BA 1637/4-1).

2016 Habilitation in Physischer Geographie an der FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.

2007 Promotion im internationalen PhD-Programm Environmental and Resource Managment, Brandenburgische Technische Universität (BTU) Cottbus.
2004-2005 Research scholar an der Pennsylvania State University, USA, im Rahmen eines Fulbright-Stipendiums.
2002 Diplom in Umweltingenieurwesen, BTU Cottbus.

In preparation (draft ready)

With peer-review

  1. Lucke, B., Birk, J. J., Hunt, C. O., Laparidou, S., Keilholz, P., Kouki, P., Abu-Jaber, N., Bäumler, R., Fiedler, S., Deckers, K., Abudanah, F. The terraces of Petra, Jordan: environmental archives of a lost agricultural hinterland. Geoarchaeology.

  2. Lucke, B., Hag Hussein, H., Sahwan, W., Bäumler, R. Soils and Sediment distribution in the Dead Cities Region, Northwestern Syria: natural and anthropogenic patterns. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.

Submitted

  1. Sahwan, W., Bachmann, M., Lucke, B., Okeke, A., Bäumler, R. , Schütt, B. (submitted). Digital soil mapping using hyperspectral and multispectral imaging (case study). ICES 2023, Springer.

In press

With peer-review

  1. Lucke, B., in press. Apollo’s necklace. Or: how came the ancient pottery onto agricultural fields? Propylaeum-eBOOKS (edited volume).

  2. Lucke, B., in press. Questioning models of land degradation in northern Jordan. 3rd conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG), November 2-5, 2020.

  3. Lucke, B., Bäumler, R., in press. Archaeological ruins in desert fringes: archives of Holocene dust dynamics. 3rd conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG), November 2-5, 2020.

  4. Lucke, B., Kouki, P., Abu-Jaber, N., Bäumler, R., in press. Sediments in Ancient Ruins in Jordan as Archives of Dust Deposition and Land Use. Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan (SHAJ) 14, Department of Antiquities of Jordan, Amman.

Without peer-review

  1. Erickson-Gini, T., Lucke, B., Bruins, H. J. in press. Horbat Haluqim: Soil Sampling. Preliminary Report. Excavations and Surveys in Israel.

2024

With peer-review

  1. Husein, H. H., Bäumler, R., Lucke, B., Sahwan, W., 2024. Black Soils in the Eastern Mediterranean: Genesis and Properties. Geographies, 4, 168-181. https://doi.org/10.3390/geographies4010011

  2. Lucke, B., Birk, J., Schörner, G., Kouki, P., Abu-Jaber, N., 2024. Traces of ancient land use in cultural landscapes of desert fringes: a neglected heritage and archive. In: Lucci, F., Doronzo, J.K., Travé, A., Grab, S., Kallel, A., Panda, S., Chaminé, H., Rodrigo-Comino, J., Khomsi, S., Banerjee, S., Merkel, B., Chenchouni, H. (eds.), Selected Studies in Geomorphology, Sedimentology, and Geochemistry, Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation, Proceedings of the 3rd Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-3), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43744-1_22, Springer, Cham, 105-107.

  3. Alsawaeir, D., Abu-Jaber, N., Lücke, A., Mayr, C., Lucke, B. (2024). Groundwater in the Na’ur area, Jordan: movement and pollution under changes in landscape uses. Environmental Earth Sciences, 83(9), 296.

  4. Husein, H. H., Kalkha, M., Baladia, R., al-Sarem, A., Bäumler, R., Sahwan, W., Lucke, B., 2024. Soil erosion assessment in the rainy mountainous areas of the eastern Mediterranean. A case study of the El‐Sarout watershed. Environment, Development and Sustainability, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-024-05744-6

2023

With peer-review

  1. Lucke, B., 2023. Arid and semi-arid subtropical and tropical ecozone (II). In: Oliver, M., Goss, M. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Soils in the Environment, 2nd edition. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 332-342.

  2. Lucke, B., 2023. Ancient agricultural landscapes in Jordan – a neglected heritage. In: Hayajneh, H. (ed.), Cultural Heritage. At the Intersection of the Humanities and the Sciences. Proceedings of the International Humboldt-Kolleg (Jordan, 16-18 April 2019). Lit Verlag, Berlin, 169-182.

2021

With peer-review

  • Lucke, B., Bäumler, R., 2021 Holocene dust dynamics archives in archaeological ruins in arid and semi-arid environments in the southern Levant. Arabian Journal of Geosciences 14, 2663.

  • Husein, H. H., Lucke, B., Bäumler, R., Sahwan, W., 2021. A Contribution to Soil Fertility Assessment for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands. Soil Systems 5(3), 42.

    Without peer-review

  • Lucke, B., Quaternary influx of proximal coarse-grained dust altered circum-Mediterranean soil productivity and impacted early human culture: COMMENT. Geology, 49(11), e539-e539.

2020

With peer-review

  • Abu-Jaber, N., Rambeau, C., Hamarneh, C., Lucke, B., Inglis, R., Alqudah, M., 2020. Development, distribution and palaeoenvironmental significance of terrestrial carbonates in the Petra region, southern Jordan. Quaternary International 545, 3-16.

  • Sahwan, W., Lucke, B., Sprafke, T., Vanselow, K. A., Bäumler, R., 2020. Relationships between spectral features, iron oxides and colors of surface soils in northern Jordan. European Journal of Soil Sciences 72(1), 80-97, DOI: 10.1111/ejss.12986.

    Without peer-review

  • Bäumler, R., Lucke, B., Birk, J. J., Keilholz, P., Hunt, C. O., Laparidou, S., Abu-Jaber, N., Kouki, P., Fiedler, S., 2020. The terraces of Petra, Jordan: archives of a lost agricultural hinterland. EGU General Assembly 2020-306, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-306.

  • Husein, H. H. M., Sahwan, W., Lucke, B., Bäumler, R., 2020. Genesis and Evolution of Black Soil in the Eastern Mediterranean. EGU General Assembly 2020-370, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-370.

  • Lucke, B., Sandler, A., Vanselow, K. A., Bruins, H., Abu-Jaber, N., Bäumler, R., 2020. Soils in archaeological structures of the southern Levant: archives of Holocene dust dynamics. EGU General Assembly 2020-270, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-270.

  • Lucke, B., 2020. Questioning models of land degradation in arid and semi-arid regions: a re-assessment based on evidence from northern Jordan. EGU General Assembly 2020-9275, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-9275.

  • Roskin, J., Lucke, B., Vanselow, K.-A., Bruins, H. J., Abu-Jaber, N., Porat, N., Bäumler, R., 2020. Environmental Significance of Holocene Dust Accumulation in Archaeological Hilltop Ruins in the Southern Levant. EGU General Assembly 2020-862, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-862.

2019

With peer-review

  1. Lucke, B.; Sandler, A.; Vanselow, K.A.; Bruins, H. J.; Abu-Jaber, N.; Bäumler, R.; Porat, N.; Kouki, P., 2019. Composition of Modern Dust and Holocene Aeolian Sediments in Archaeological Structures of the Southern Levant. Atmosphere 10, 762, 1-84, doi: 10.3390/atmos10120762.

  2. Lucke, B., Roskin, J., Vanselow, K., Bruins, H. J., Abu-Jaber, N., Deckers, K., Lindauer, S., Porat, N., Reimer, P., Bäumler, R., Erickson-Gini, T., Kouki, P., 2019. Character, rates, and environmental significance of dust accumulation in archaeological hilltop ruins in the southern Levant. Geosciences 9, 190, 1-60, doi:10.3390/geosciences9040190.

  3. Lucke, B., 2019. Climate, land use, and landscape change in Southern Bilad al-Sham (Northern Jordan) during the Islamic periods. Journal of Islamic Archaeology 5.2, 203-223, doi.org/10.1558/jia.36954 .

  4. Lucke, B., al-Karaimeh, S., Schörner, G., 2019. Channels, terraces, pottery, and sediments – a comparison of past irrigation systems along a climatic transect in northern Jordan. Journal of Arid Environments 160, 56-73.

  5. Kemnitz, H., Lucke, B., 2019. Quartz grain surfaces – a potential microarchive for sedimentation processes and parent material identification in soils of Jordan. Catena 176, 209-226.

  6. Husein, H. H., Mousa, M., Sahwan, W., Bäumler, R., Lucke, B., 2019. Spatial Distribution of Soil Organic Matter and Soil Organic Carbon Stocks in Semi-Arid Area of Northeastern Syria. SCIRP Natural Resources, 10, 415-432

  7. Lucke, B., Sauer, D., Bronnikova, M., Hirsch, F., McDonald, E., 2019. Editorial. Quaternary International 502, Special Issue on Landforms, Sediments, Soils and Paleosols as Records of Present and Former Environmental Conditions and Human-Environment Interactions, edited by Bernhard Lucke, Daniela Sauer, Maria Bronnikova, Florian Hirsch, and Eric Mc Donald, 179-180.

Without peer-review

  1. Lucke, B., Birk, J.J., Kouki, P., Bäumler, R., Abu-Jaber, N., 2019c. Soils of ancient terraces in the southern Levant: archives of desert agriculture? Mitteilungen der DBG. http://eprints.dbges.de/1830/

2018

With peer-review

  1. Sahwan, W., Lucke, B., Kappas, M., Bäumler, R., 2018. Assessing the spatial variability of soil surface colors in northern Jordan using satellite data from Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2. European Journal of Remote Sensing 51:1, 850-862, https://doi.org/10.1080/22797254.2018.1502624.

    Without peer-review

  2. Vitzethum, S., Lucke, B., 2018. Comparative Analysis of a Paleosol in Shir. In: Bartl, K. (ed.), The Late Neolithic Site of Shir/Syria. Vol. 1, The Excavations at the South Area 2006-2009, Damaszener Forschungen 18, wbg-Phillip von Zabern, Darmstadt, 17-24.

  3. Lucke, B., Schörner, G., Walker, B., Smejda, L., 2018. Northern Jordan Project. Archaeology in Jordan Newsletter: 2016 and 2017 Seasons, edited by John D.M. Green, Barbara A. Porter, and China P. Shelton, ACOR – The American Center of Oriental Research, p. 18.

  1. Lucke, B., Kouki, P., Abu-Jaber, N., 2018. Petra Region Geoarchaeological Survey. Archaeology in Jordan Newsletter: 2016 and 2017 Seasons, edited by John D.M. Green, Barbara A. Porter, and China P. Shelton, ACOR – The American Center of Oriental Research, p. 73.

2017

With peer-review

  1. Lucke, B., Vitzethum, S., Kemnitz, H., 2017. Isovolumetric replacement and aeolian deposition contributed to Terrae calcis genesis in Franconia (central Germany). SOIL Discuss., doi:10.5194/soil-2017-4.

  2. Lucke, B., Schmidt, C., 2017. Debris flows, soil creep, and heavy rains in the Wadi Queilbeh, northern Jordan. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, Vol. 61, Suppl. 1, 159-201.

  3. Lucke, B., 2017. Landscape trans­formations in the context of soil development, land use, and climate: a comparison of marrginal areas in Jordan, Mexico, and Germany. Relief Boden Paläoklima 26, Gebrüder Bornträger.

  4. Cassitti, P., Lucke, B., Bugla, B., Regelous, A., Hofbauer, G., Dix, A., 2017. The archaeological survey project in Fatschenbrunn, municipality of Oberaurach, Germany – A case study for the reconstruction of past farming regimes in the late medieval and post-medieval era. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 21(2), 389-419.

Without peer-review

  1. Lucke, B., Kouki, P., 2017. Ancient terraces as environmental archives in the southern Levant. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 19, EGU2017-13706.

  1. Lucke, B., 2017. Soil creep and historic landscape changes. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 19, EGU2017-12906.

2016

Without peer-review

  1. Lucke, B., Regelous, A., Hofbauer, G., Cavallaro, A.-M., Eiselt, K.-U., Feifer, F., Maier, C., Ruppert, H., 2016. Bodenentwicklung im Kontext der historischen Landnutzung und Geologie der Gemarkung Fatschenbrunn im Steigerwald. Mitteilungen der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft, 71-82.

  2. Lucke, B., 2016. Soil creep as factor of landscape change. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 18, EGU2016-10174.

  3. Lucke, B., 2016. Rapid landscape change in 6th century northern Jordan: interdisciplinary geoarchaeological perspectives. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 18, EGU2016-10133.

  4. Lucke, B., 2016. Soils and climate: redness and weathering as indicators of mean annual precipitation. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 18, EGU2016-10263.

  5. Lucke, B., 2016. Landscape development in the context of soil distribution in Jordan. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 18, EGU2016-10339.

2015

With peer-review

  1. Lucke, B., Hussein, H. H., Sahwan, W., Bäumler, R., 2015. Preliminary survey of soils and sediments in the Dead Cities region, northwestern Syria. In: Riis, T. (ed.), The „Dead Cities“ of Northern Syria and Their Demise. Verlag Ludwig, Kiel, 33-59.

  1. Kemnitz, H., Lucke, B., 2015. Quartz grain surface analysis – micro world on a quartz grain. An example from Red Mediterranean Soils in northern Jordan. In: Lucke, B., Bäumler, R., Schmidt, M. (eds.), Soils and Sediments as Archives of Environmental Change. Geoarchaeology and Landscape Change in the Subtropics and Tropics. Fränkische Geographische Gesellschaft, Erlangen, 111-118.

  1. Buggle, B., Wiesenberg, G., Eglington, T., Lucke, B., 2015. Molecular proxies in Late Holocene soils and sediments of Jordan – Principles, Potentials and Perspectives. In: Lucke, B., Bäumler, R., Schmidt, M. (eds.), Soils and Sediments as Archives of Environmental Change. Geoarchaeology and Landscape Change in the Subtropics and Tropics. Fränkische Geographische Gesellschaft, Erlangen, 163-182.

  1. Lucke, B., Schmidt, U., Krumm, S., 2015. Comparing geochemical properties of soils on carbonate rock With bedrock residue, using aqua regia dissolution, portable PXRF, and stationary XRF: some methodical considerations. In: Lucke, B., Bäumler, R., Schmidt, M. (eds.), Soils and Sediments as Archives of Environmental Change. Geoarchaeology and Landscape Change in the Subtropics and Tropics. Fränkische Geographische Gesellschaft, Erlangen, 99-109.

  1. Lucke, B., Schmidt, U., 2015. Grain size analysis of soils in semi-arid regions: With or Without calcium carbonate removal, and which device should be chosen? In: Lucke, B., Bäumler, R., Schmidt, M. (eds.), Soils and Sediments as Archives of Environmental Change. Geoarchaeology and Landscape Change in the Subtropics and Tropics. Fränkische Geographische Gesellschaft, Erlangen, 83-96.

  1. Lucke, B., Sprafke, T., 2015. Correlation of soil color, redness ratings, and weathering indices of Terrae Calcis along a precipitation gradient in northern Jordan. In: Lucke, B., Bäumler, R., Schmidt, M. (eds.), Soils and Sediments as Archives of Environmental Change. Geoarchaeology and Landscape Change in the Subtropics and Tropics. Fränkische Geographische Gesellschaft, Erlangen, 53-68.

  1. Lucke, B., Müller, A., 2015. Air photos as tool to trace mass movements in Wadi Queilbeh from 1978 – 2009 as compared to Wadi Ziqlab in the context of record levels of daily rainfall in Jordan. In: Lucke, B., Bäumler, R., Schmidt, M. (eds.), Soils and Sediments as Archives of Environmental Change. Geoarchaeology and Landscape Change in the Subtropics and Tropics. Fränkische Geographische Gesellschaft, Erlangen, 23-32.

  1. Ziadat, F., Taylor, J., Brewer, T., Lucke, B., 2015. Soil maps and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as information sources: pitfalls, limitations, detection and correction of errors. In: Lucke, B., Bäumler, R., Schmidt, M. (eds.), Soils and Sediments as Archives of Environmental Change. Geoarchaeology and Landscape Change in the Subtropics and Tropics. Fränkische Geographische Gesellschaft, Erlangen, 1-12.

  1. Lucke, B., Bäumler, R., Schmidt, M. (eds.), 2015. Soils and Sediments as Archives of Environmental Change. Geoarchaeology and Landscape Change in the Subtropics and Tropics. Fränkische Geographische Gesellschaft, Erlangen.

Without peer-review

  1. Lucke, B., & Schörner, G. (2015): Soil development in the context of historical land use of northern Jordan. Mitteilungen der DBG. http://eprints.dbges.de/1126/ [27.11.2015]

2014

With peer-review

  1. Lucke, B., Kemnitz, H., Bäumler, R., Schmidt, M., 2014. Red Mediterranean Soils in Jordan: new insights in their origin, genesis, and role as environmental archives. Catena 112, 4-24.

    Without peer-review

  2. Lucke, B., 2014. Rapid landscape change in 6th century Jordan: driven by climate or man-made? Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 16, EGU2014-5967.

     

  3. Lucke, B., Kemnitz, H., 2014. Red Mediterranean Soils in the Levant: archives of landscape change. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 16, EGU2014-6107.

  4. Buggle, B., Wiesenberg, G., Eglington, T., Lucke, B., 2014. Molekulare Marker im geoarchäologischen Kontext – Eine Pilotstudie an späthlozänen Böden und Sedimenten in Jordanien. Book of abstracts, annual meeting of the working groups Geoarchaeology and Paleo­pedology, 29.-31.05.14. in Aachen, 14.

2013

With peer-review

  1. Lucke, B., Nikolskii, I., Bäumler, R., 2013. Soils in Semi-Arid Regions: The Past as Key for the Future. In: Shahid, S., Tahal, F., Abdelfattah, M. (eds.), Developments in Soil Classification, Land Use Planning and Policy Implications: Innovative Thinking of Soil Inventory for Land Use Planning and Management of Land Resources. Springer Science+Business Media, Dordrecht, 269-284.

  2. Lucke, B., Ziadat, F., Taimeh, A., 2013. The Soils of Jordan. In: Ababsa, M. (ed.), Atlas of Jordan. History, Territories and Society. Institut Français du Proche-Orient, Beirut, 72-76.

Without peer-review

  1. Lucke, B., 2013. Landschaftswandel der Levante im Kontext von Talverfüllungen und Landnutzung. In: Raab, T., Hirsch, F., Raab, A., Schopper, F., Freytag, K. (eds.), Tagungsband und Exkursionsführer, Arbeitskreis Geoarchäologie Jahrestagung 02. – 04.05.2013, Geopedology and Landscape Development Research Series Vol. 02, BTU Cottbus, 28.

2012

With peer-review

  1. Lucke, B., Shunnaq, M., Walker, B., Shiyab, A., Muheisen, Z., Sabahba, H., Bäumler, R., Schmidt, M., 2012. Questioning Transjordan’s Historic Desertification: a Critical Review of the Paradigm of ‚Empty Lands‘. Levant 44/1, 101-126.

  2. Lucke, B., Kemnitz, H., Bäumler, R., 2012. Evidence for isovolumetric replacement in Terrae Rossae of Jordan. Boletin de la Sociedad Geologica Mexicana 64/1, 21-35.

Without peer-review

  1. Lucke, B., Shunnaq, M., Walker, B., Bäumler, R., Schmidt, M., 2012. Climate and landscape change in 6th century Jordan. In: Tinapp, C., and Zielhofer, C. (eds.), Bodenarchive im geoarchäologischen Kontext, Book of abstracts, joint meeting of working group Geoarchaeology and working group Paleopedology in Leipzig, 17. – 20.05.2012, zimodruck Leipzig, 29.

  2. Lucke, B., Kemnitz, H., Bäumler, R., 2012. Metasomatism in Terra Rossa genesis. In: Tinapp, C., and Zielhofer, C. (eds.), Bodenarchive im geoarchäologischen Kontext, Book of abstracts, joint meeting of working group Geoarchaeology and working group Paleopedology in Leipzig, 17. – 20.05.2012, zimodruck Leipzig, 61.

2011

With peer-review

  1. Lucke, B., 2011. Demise of the Decapolis: past and present desertification in the context of soil development, land use, and climate. ARAM: The Decapolis, Proceedings of the ARAM Twenty Fifth International Conference 2008 at Oxford University, ARAM periodical by the ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies, Volume 23, No. 1&2, Peeters Publishers, Leuven, 585-599.

  2. Walker, B., Shunnaq, M., Byers, D., al-Bataineh, M., Laparidou, S., Lucke, B., Shiyab, A., 2011. Northern Jordan Project 2010 : the aṭ-Ṭurra survey. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan (ADAJ) 55, 509-536.

Without peer-review

  1. Lucke, B., Kemnitz, H., Bäumler, R., 2011. Isovolumetric replacement in Terrae Rossae of Jordan. In: Sauer, D., Jahn, R., Stahr, K. (eds.), Proceedings, Conference Landscapes & Soils through Time, Universität Hohenheim, 28.07. – 01.08.2013, published online https://ppsg2011.uni-hohenheim.de/fileadmin/einrichtungen/ppsg2011/ConferenceProceedings.pdf, 8-9.

2010

With peer-review

  1. Lucke, B., Nikolskii, I., Helbron, H., Palekov, D., 2010. Some Examples of Development in the Desert Belts. In: Issar, A. (ed.), Progressive Development: To mitigate the negative impact of global warming on the semi arid regions. Springer, Heidelberg, 89-92.

  2. Lucke, B., Nikolskii, I., Helbron, H., Palekov, D., 2010. Sustainability in the Deserts? In: Issar, A. (ed.), Progressive Development: To mitigate the negative impact of global warming on the semi arid regions. Springer, Heidelberg, 93-94.

  3. Lucke, B., Nikolskii, I., Helbron, H., Palekov, D., 2010. The Potential of Progressive Development. In: Issar, A. (ed.), Progressive Development: To mitigate the negative impact of global warming on the semi arid regions. Springer, Heidelberg, 95-96.

  4. Lucke, B., Nikolskii, I., Helbron, H., Palekov, D., 2010. The Feasibility of Progressive Development. In: Issar, A. (ed.), Progressive Development: To mitigate the negative impact of global warming on the semi arid regions. Springer, Heidelberg, 97-102.

  5. Lucke, B., Nikolskii, I., Helbron, H., Palekov, D., 2010. The Socio-Economic Framework: What Can be Learned from Earlier Failures? In: Issar, A. (ed.), Progressive Development: To mitigate the negative impact of global warming on the semi arid regions. Springer, Heidelberg, 115-119.

  6. Nikolskii, I., Lucke, B., Helbron, H., Palekov, D., 2010. Discussion and Conclusion: Progressive Development and Strategic Environmental Assessment. In: Issar, A. (ed.), Progressive Development: To mitigate the negative impact of global warming on the semi arid regions. Springer, Heidelberg, 131-133.

Without peer-review

  1. Lucke, B., 2010. Landscape Change and settlement in northern Jordan. Book of abstracts, Broadening Horizons 3, 3rd Conference of Young Researchers Working in the Ancient Near East, 19-21 July 2010.

  2. Lucke, B., 2010. Landscape and Settlement Patterns in Northern Jordan. Book of abstracts, ICHAJ XI – Changes and Challenges, Paris, 7-12 June 2010, 41.

  3. Lucke, B., 2010. The mechanisms of Holocene landscape changes in the Near East. Book of abstracts, 7ICAANE, 12-16 April 2010.

2009

With peer-review

  1. Kafafi, Z., Lucke, B., Bäumler, R., 2009. Environment and Architectural Change at the Neolithic Site ‘Ain Ghazal. Neo-Lithics 1/09, 24-33.

  2. Lucke, B., Schmidt, M., Bäumler, R., 2009. Desertification in Jordan in the Light of Paleosols and Past Environmental Change. In: Gabriels, D., Cornelis, W., Eyletters, M., Hollebosch, P. (eds.), Combating Desertification. Assessment, Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies, UNESCO Chair of Eremology and Belgian Development Cooperation, Ghent, 64-73.

Without peer-review

  1. Lucke, B., 2009. Predicting the Impact of Climate Change in Semi-Arid Regions. Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan, Newsletter of the Faculty of Archeaology and Anthropology 29, 25-27.

2008

With peer-review

  1. Lucke, B., al-Saad, Z., Schmidt, M., Bäumler, R., Lorenz, S.-O., Udluft, P., Heußner, K.-U., Walker, B., 2008. Soils and Land Use in the Decapolis Region (Northern Jordan). Implications for Landscape Development and the Impact of Climate Change. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 124/2, 171-188.

  2. Lucke, B., Nikolskii, I., Schmidt, M., Bäumler, R., Nowaczyk, N., al-Saad, Z., 2008. The impact of drought in the light of changing soil properties. In: Sánchez, J. (ed.), Droughts: Causes, Effects, and Predictions, Nova Science Publishers, New York, 69-102.

  3. Pietsch, D., Lucke, B., 2008. Soil substrate classification and the FAO and World Reference Base systems: examples from Yemen and Jordan. European Journal of Soil Science 59, 824-834.

  4. Lucke, B., 2008. Wasser oder Boden – welches war der Schlüssel für die Blüte der Dekapolis-Region? Cura Aquarum in Jordanien, Schriften der DWhG, Band 12, 177-188.

  5. Lucke, B., Schmidt, M., al-Saad, Z., Bäumler, R., 2008. Water Systems of the Decapolis (Northern Jordan) and their Relation to the Landscape during the Hellenistic and Roman Periods. In: E. Hermon (ed.), L’eau comme patrimoine. De la Méditerranée à l’Amérique du Nord. Québec, Collection „Patrimoine en mouvement“, Presses de l’Université Laval, 223-236.

    Without peer-review

  6. Lucke, B., Schmidt M., Bäumler R., 2008. Böden, Sedimente und Paläoböden als Archive der Auswirkungen von Klimaveränderungen. 5. Marktredwitzer Bodenschutztage – Boden und Klima im Wandel. Stadt Marktredwitz, 60-65.

  7. Lucke, B., Schmidt, M., Bäumler, R., 2008. Paleosols and „debris“ in Jordan – neglected archives of environmental change? Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 10, EGU2008-A-01223.

  8. Lucke, B., Schmidt, M., Bäumler, R., 2008. Does land use or climate dominate desertification in the Levant? A critical re-examination from Northern Jordan. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 10, EGU2008-A-01219.

  9. Lucke, B., Schmidt, M., Bäumler, R., 2008. Paleosols in Jordan as indicators for the timing and character of environmental change. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 10, EGU2008-A-01217.

  10. Lucke, B., 2008. Demise of the Decapolis. Past and Present Desertification in the Context of Soil Development, Land Use, and Climate. Verlag Dr. Mueller, Saarbrücken. First published online in 2007, dissertation at BTU Cottbus, http://se6.kobv.de:8000/btu/volltexte/2007/343/ (URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:co1-opus-3431).

2007

With peer-review

  1. Lucke, B., Bäumler, R., 2007. Soils and Paleosols at Ba’ja. Neo-Lithis 02/07, 43-50.

  2. Walker, B., Kenney, E., Holzweg, L., Caroll, L., Boulogne, S., Lucke, B., 2007. Village Life in Mamluk and Ottoman Hubras and Saham: Northern Jordan Project-Report on the 2006 Season. Annuals of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 52, 429-470.

  3. Lucke, B., Bäumler, R., Schmidt, M., al-Saad, Z., 2007. Landscape Transformation in the Decapolis Region (Northern Jordan) – A Critical Re-examination of a Paradigm. In: Ooghe, B., Verhoeven, G. (eds.), Broadening Horizons, Multidisciplinary Approaches to Landscape Study, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, 30-49.

Without peer-review

  1. Lucke, B., Schmidt, M., 2007. Past and Present Desertification in the Context of Climate Change – a Case Study from Jordan. Forum der Forschung, BTU Cottbus, 85-88.

  2. Lucke, B., 2007. Der Niedergang der Dekapolis-Region (Nordjordanien) – Ergebnis von Naturkatastrophen und Klimwandel? In: Leopold, M., Völkel, J., Tagungsband der 3. Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreis für Geoarchäologie im Verband der deutschen Gesellschaft für Geographie (DGfG) und der Gesellschaft für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie (GNAA), 10.-12.05.2007, Regensburg, online: http://www.akgeoarchaeologie.de/download/Abstracts.pdf, 5.

2006

With peer-review

  1. Schmidt, M., Lucke, B., Bäumler, R., al-Saad, Z., al-Qudah, B., Hutcheon, A., 2006. The Decapolis region (Northern Jordan) as historical example of desertification? Evidence from soil development and distribution. Quaternary International 151, Special Issue I, Dark nature: responses of humans and ecosystems to rapid environmental changes, 74-86.

  1. Al-Saad, Z., Lucke, B., Schmidt, M., Bäumler, R., 2006. The Past as a Key for the Future: Mutual Dependencies of Land Use, Soil Development, Climate and Settlement. In: Shouval, H., Dweik, H. (eds.), Water for Life in the Middle East, al-Jerashi press, Jerusalem, Vol. 1, 403-420.

Without peer-review

  1. Lucke, B., Schmidt, M., al-Saad, Z., Bäumler, R., 2006. Water Systems of the Decapolis (Northern Jordan) and their Relation to the Landscape during the Hellenistic and Roman Periods. Prés-actes, colloque international: La gestion intégrée de l’eau dans l’histoire environnementale – savoirs traditionnels et pratiques modernes, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada, 27.-29.10.2006, 275-279.

  1. Lucke, B., 2006. Review of Issar, A., Zohar, M., 2004, Climate Change – Environment and Civilization in the Middle East, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, in: Journal of Archaeological Science 33, 887-888.

2005

With peer-review

  1. Lucke, B., Schmidt, M., al-Saad, Z., Bens, O., Hüttl, R.F., 2005. The Abandonment of the Decapolis Region in Northern Jordan – Forced by Environmental Change? Quaternary International 135, Special issue: Geochronology and Environmental Reconstruction: a Tribute to Glenn A. Goodfriend, 65-81.

Without peer-review

  1. Lucke, B., Schmidt, M., Bäumler, R., al-Saad, Z., 2005. Die Dekapolis-Region (Nordjordanien) als Beispiel für historische Desertifikation? Mitteilungen der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 107 (1), 379-380.

  2. Schmidt, M., Lucke, B., al-Saad, Z. 2005. The Abandonment of Cultural Heritage Sites in Jordan. Proceedings of the 7th International Forum UNESCO Cultural Heritage Seminar, 16. – 20.12.2002., Amman, 1-5; published on CD.

2004

Without peer-review

  1. Lucke, B., Schmidt, M., al-Saad, Z., Bäumler, R., 2004. The Decapolis Region (Northern Jordan) as historical example of desertification. Mutual dependencies of land use, climate, soil genesis and settlement history. Extended abstract, first joint meeting of IGCP 490 and ICSU, http://atlas-conferences.com/c/a/m/u/06.htm.

2003

Without peer-review

  1. Lucke, B., 2003. The Abandonment of the Decapolis and the Question of Environmental Change. Occident & Orient, Newsletter of the German Protestant Institute of Archaeology in Amman, Vol. 8, No. 1, March 2003, 14-16.

2002

Without peer-review

  1. Lucke, B., 2002. Abila’s Abandonment. Anthology of Scientific Publications & Research Papers, RPR 14, Chair of Environmental Planning, BTU Cottbus, Cottbus.

Im Sommersemester: Vertiefte Methodik „Bodenkundliche Pofilansprache“, 3-tägiges Blockseminar zur vertieften Ansprache von Böden nach bodenkundlicher Kartieranleitung (KA5/KA6) und World Reference Base of Soil Resources (WRB)

Bodengeographie: Bodengenese im Kontext von Klima, Gestein, Landnutzung, und atmosphärischen Staubeinträgen; Archivfunktion von Böden für Umweltveränderungen.

Geoarchäologie: Landschaftsveränderungen im archäologisch-historischen Kontext: Modellierung der langfristigen Prozessdynamik.

Geomorphologie: Die Dynamik von Landschaftsveränderungen in verschiedenen Klimazonen und im Kontext von Extremereignissen (Erdbeben, Starkregen).

Landschaftsökologie: Bewertung von Landnutzungsstragien im Kontext empirischer Modelle anhand detaillierter Rekonstruktionen der historischen Landschafts­dynamik.

Terra calcis-Genese: Terra rossa- und Terra fusca-Bildung und ihre Bedeutung für die Interpretation dieser Böden als Archive für Umweltveränderungen.

Klimarekonstruktion: Rekonstruktion vergangener Klimaschwankungen und Vegetationswandel anhand von Böden und Sedimenten.