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Institute for Landscape Biogeochemistry (ZALF-LBG)
Institution
Section overview
Description
At the institute of Landscape biogeochemistry we characterize and quantify biogeochemical transformations across the landscape. We focus primarily on the fluxes and cycles of carbon and nitrogen as well as their interaction with the water cycle. In addition, we characterise interactions between biodiversity, physiology and the activities of key organisms and the material and energy flows in anthropogenic landscapes. Understanding the processes that drive and regulate biogeochemical cycles and biotic interactions at different scales is of central importance to our work. Only with this understanding can we assess and predict shifts in the function of landscapes that are undergoing fundamental changes in the prevailing environmental conditions (climate, land use).
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Coordinated projects
- Biodiversity of Nitrate-Reducing Microbes in Grassland Soils by Massive Cultivation and Genomics
- CarboZALF - Carbon Dynamics of arable Landscape under Climate Change
- Collaborative project: Development of a biological control system for the regulation of the pathogen of ash drive dying Hymenoscyphus fraxineus; Subproject 1: Screening and characterization of antagonistic microorganisms and microbial consortia to control of the pathogen of ash drive dying
- Collaborative project: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in rapeseed cultivation with special reference to nitrogen fertilization. Subproject 2: field trials to GHG emissions at the Dedelow site and analysis of humus effectiveness of rapeseed crop rotations
- Cross-sector project 'AgroScapeLabs – Biodiversity Exploratories for agricultural landscapes
- Effects of multi-drug resistant Bt maize on the structure and function of the straw-degrading microflora
- Investigation of dynamics of carbon, nitrogen and the starch pool from winter oilseed rape hybrids under drought stress for indication of genotypes with high stress compensation. Part 1: Investigation of carbon and nitrogen dynamics in the growth chamber and greenhouse
- Physiological investigations on photosynthetic capacity and water use efficiency of poplar clones of different ploidy
- Potentials for the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions at the energy crop cultivation for the biogas production. Subproject 1: Project coordination and investigation of climate impact on the sites Dedelow and Jena
- SPP 1090 AG 2: The role of root debris from growing maize plants for the formation of stabilized soil organic soil matter – enlightenment and quantification
Involved in research projects
- Contributions to the exploration of the energy, water, and element budgets within pine and beech forest ecosystems and projection of these budgets using mathematic modelling
- CP HIS_ECO - Cross-sector project Historical Ecology - Effects of long-termed LUCC on actual abiotic and biotic patterns and processes in the Uckermark region
- Effects of multiple stress on plant reactions
- In situ - Characterisation of soil organic matter on surfaces of preferential flow paths, soil aggregates, and bio pores
- Influence of biomass, land use intensity and productivity on the floristic and microbial diversity in grassland ecosystems (Potentials for the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions at the energy crop cultivation for the biogas production)
- Interaction between herbivores and habitat structure (multi-species concept)
- Joint research project “Organic soils” – Acquisition and development of methods, activity data and emission factors for the climate reporting under LULUCF/AFOLU
- Modelling of the water and matter balance of peatlands and quantification of DOC losses
- Peatland protection in Germany
- Soil landscapes as sources and sinks for greenhouse gases
- Systems of cropping energy plants - impacts on soil microbial properties and soil carbon dynamics
- Use strategies for calcareous fen grasslands
- WatEff_ZALF - Arable crop production with efficient use of water and nutrients considering changing rainfall patterns in northeast Germany
Contact
Institute for Landscape Biogeochemistry
(ZALF-LBG)
Eberswalder Str. 84
15374 Müncheberg
Brandenburg
Germany
Phone: 033432 82240
Fax: 033432 82343
Email: steffen.kolb(@)zalf.de
