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Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture (TI-AK)
Institution
Section overview
Description
The Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture focuses on issues relating to agricultural production and climate change. An interdisciplinary team of scientists investigates the formation and emission of greenhouse gases and trace gases in five focal research areas. The main aims of the research are: to assess the climate impact of different agricultural production systems and land uses and evaluate related policy measures; to develop scientifically sound solutions for climate mitigation; to prepare national reports for the sectors agriculture and land use as part of the German National Greenhouse Gas Inventory and to further develop the methods used; and to develop guidance and recommendations on climate mitigation in the agricultural sector for the Federal Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection.
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Coordinated projects
- : Monitoring of vertical fluxes of energy, water vapour and trace gases above an arable field including improvements of the methodology applied
- A novel approach to investigate effects of atmospheric nitrogen deposition on ecosystem productivity and greenhouse gas exchange
- Adaptive Resilience in Southern African Ecosystems. Subproject 1: Coordination
- Application of solid and liquid products of hydrothermal carbonisation (HTC) in agricultural soils and assessment of the potential of carbon sequestration in soils
- Application of stable Carbon-, Nitrogen- and Sulphur isotopes to characterise and indicate fluxes in agricultural systems under different land use and environmental conditions
- Application of the EO-LDAS Prototype (Earth Observation - Land Data Assimilation System) and Data Base to Prepare Sentinel-2 Assimilation
- Application package 'Soil and Environment Research' TP11: Effects of elevated CO2 concentrations on carbon turnover in crop rotations studied in a Chinese and a German free air carbon dioxide enrichment (FACE) approach (1)
- Assessment of the fluxes of reactive trace gases, aerosol constituents and sedimenting particles between the atmosphere and agro-ecosystems
- Atmospheric nitrogen dynamics in Hesse
- Burial of organic matter for carbon sequestration: Potentials, processes and long-term effects
- Climate Smart Agriculture on Organic Soils
- Climate-smart adaptation strategies for agriculture II - gas emission work package
- Collaborative project: GHG mitigation through model based optimisaiton and evaluation of cropping systems for renewable ressources
- Collaborative project: Improved assessment of the greenhouse gas emission reduction by catch crops in arable crop production and development of an advisory tool for more precise nitrogen fertilization after catch crop cultivation – subproject 5
- Collaborative project: Innovative and model-based agricultural tool to support subfield-specific soil organic carbon management to enhance the soil´s CO2 sink. Subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Measuring and Modelling Greenhouse- Gas Emissions and nitrate leaching of raw material crop rotations
- Collaborative project: Mitigation of ammonia and greenhouse gas emission and improving nitrogen use efficiency by innovative slurry and digestate application techniques for growing crops. Subproject 1
- Combined application of the natural abundance stable isotope and 15N tracing methods to quantify denitrification in agricultural soils in field studies
- Coordination Action Carbon Observing System (COCOS)
- Development of measures of an efficient climate protection policy for agriculture
- Effects of application of fermentation residues from biogas production systems on carbon and nitrogen transformation in agricultural soils
- Effects of tillage and fertilization on nitrogen transformations and N2O emission from arable soils
- Factors controlling concentrations and losses of dissolved carbon and nitrogen from semi-natural, agricultural and re-wetted bogs in Lower Saxony (Germany)
- German agricultural soil inventory
- Greenhouse gas effects of nature conservation measures
- Greenhouse gas emissions from a landfill of mechanical-biologically treated waste
- Greenhouse gas emissions from application of biogas slurries in Emilia-Romagna
- Greenhouse gas emissions in crop rotations with gras-clover in organic farming systems
- Greenhouse gas management in European land use systems
- Impact of agricultural management on emissions of greenhouse gases and reactive nitrogen in carbon-rich cropland and grassland systems
- Impact of erosion on nitrogen turn-over and storage in the soil
- Impact of grassland renovation/conversion on greenhouse gas emissions, water pollution and need-oriented fertilization
- Impact of reduced precipitation and N-fertilizer injection techniques on emission of greenhouse gases from arable soils
- Improving assessment tools for political consulting and implementation through local validation of air pollution models
- In-depth review of the outputs of DEFRA`s programme of research on measurements and control of ammonia emissions from agriculture (1998-2002)
- Influence of land-use change on soil carbon stocks of temperate and tropical agrar ecosystems
- Influence of ploughing up grassland soils on carbon and nitrogen transformation and their assessment in context of environmental impacts
- Integrated Carbon Observation System – Co-ordination of the German contribution
- Integrated Carbon Observation System – Preparatory Phase (EU)
- Integrated systems to enhance sequestration of carbon, producing energy crops by using organic residues
- INTERREG - Determination of nitrogen loads from animal husbandry to formulate innovative approaches for sustainable agriculture and peatland protection (ERNST)
- Joint project: reducing greenhouse gas emissions in rapeseed cultivation with special reference to nitrogen fertilization; Project coordination, building a network and transnational data analysis and evaluation
- Joint research project 'Organic soils': Improvement and operationalisation of quality assurance and uncertainty analysis for the emission reporting for the sector Agriculture and LULUCF
- Joint research project “Organic soils” – Acquisition and development of methods, activity data and emission factors for the climate reporting under LULUCF/AFOLU
- Joint research project: Regional Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in Systems with Grass-Clover and Wheat Crop Sequence
- Lachgas(N2O)-emission und Kohlenvorrätestoffe landwirtschaftlicher Böden: Messungen und Inventar-Erstellung incl. Systemvergleich ökologische/konventionelle Bewirtschaftung
- Land use change in German peatlands since 1990
- Long-term climate mitigation policies for the agri-food sector
- LULUCF Implementation Guidelines and policy options
- Methodology and quantification of the woody biomass in systems outside forests
- Modelling of greenhouse gas emissions from land use in Germany
- Modelling of the water and matter balance of peatlands and quantification of DOC losses
- Modelling the impact of liquid organic fertilizers and its application technique on N2O and N2 emissions from agricultural land
- N2O isotope fractionation method to estimate N2 fluxes from soils – methodical development and validation
- National Contribution to the Integrated Carbon Observation System
- National implementatiom of the UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (Effects): ICP Modelling&Mapping NFC; Heavy Metals (Critical Loads/Deposition); Nitrogen and Acidity (Deposition); Nitrogen (Effects); Material corrosion; critical Ozone fluxes
- NitroEurope - The nitrogen cycle and its influence on the European greenhouse gas balance
- Optimization of nitrogen management and improvement of ecological efficiency of rapeseed by sensor controlled subarea-specific nitrogen fertilizing
- Ouantification of uncertainties of land use mapping by high resoluted CIR - air born pictures for improvement of the German LULUC inventory
- Passammoni - Passive sampler measurements for the determination of a representative ammonia background contamination
- Pathways of N2O production and associated isotope effects in arable and grassland soils with special emphasis on the distinction between fungal and bacterial denitrification
- Peatland protection in Germany
- Position-specific 15N signatures and delta-18O of N2O from denitrification in aquatic systems and hydromorphic soils as indicators of process dynamics
- Product chains from biomass from rewetted fen peatlands in Lower Saxony
- Quantification of the carbon stocks and carbon sequestration in urban trees
- Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Effectiveness through the GRA (Global Research Alliance) Croplands Greenhouse Gas Network
- Regionalisation of organic carbon quality and quantity in agricultural soils using near infra-red spectroscopy
- Risk assessment for soil organic carbon stocks of European croplands - Model driven data synthesis across scales
- Role of fungal denitrification for N2O fluxes from soils
- Role of fungal denitrification from N2O fluxes in soil
- Sequestration of carbon in soils: Mechanisms and type of fixation
- Soil incubations for model validation data sets and experiments to quantify the anaerobic soil volume fraction – Subproject P6 of the research unit 'Denitrification in Agricultural Soils: Integrated control and Modelling at various scales'
- Soil properties, carbon and nitrogen turnover in deciduous forest soils with different tree species diversity
- SPP 1090 AG 4: Distribution and stability of carbon during the degradation of 14C-labelled wheat straw in the different compartments of a soil with a different agricultural fertilization practice
- Stable S isotopes as indicators for Sulphur immission and turnover in ecosystems
- Strengthening bioenergy-regions - new system solutions in the field of ecological, economic and social requirements. Subproject 3: climate protection achievements of bioenergy
- Sustainable subsoil management
- The evapotranspiration of wetlands in Germany – A comparison of methods for estimation and the impact of evapotranspiration on greenhouse gas emissions
- The Forgotten Part of Carbon Cycling: Organic Matter Storage and Turnover in Subsoils
- The impact of climate change on agricultural yields and cropland
- Trace gas fluxes from tropical montane forest soil
- Unification of area and land use designation of reporting systems LULUC and Forestry with regard to Art. 3.3 and 3.4 Kyoto protocol
- Use of chars from pyrolysis and hydrothermal carbonization in agriculture
- Validation of modeled nitrate reduction by the direct measurement of denitrification in groundwater in Northwest German river basins
Involved in research projects
- Assessment and forecast of environmentally relevant emissions from German agriculture and analysis of mitigation strategies
- CC-LandStraD: Climate Change - Land Use Strategies Germany; Subproject: Economic valuation of various forestry land use options with regard to their carbon storage under different environmental conditions
- Climate oriented adaptation strategies in agriculture
- Development of an online tool for humus preservation and buildup in Bavaria
- Further development, update und quality management of online-database 'KLIMAPS JKI' with important facts of the consequences of climate change on plant protection. (KLIMAPS)
- Interdependencies between Land use and Climate Change – Strategies for a sustainable land use management in Germany
- Large-scale peat moss cultivation in Lower Saxony as a result of using black peat and its potential for climate change and biodiversity
- Protection of bogs and fens in Germany
- Reducing NH3 losses from application of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers and increasing nitrogen use efficiency of fertilization
- SWAMPS - possibilities and limits of water level regulation from the perspective of agriculture
Contact
Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture
(TI-AK)
Bundesallee 50
38116 Braunschweig
Lower Saxony
Germany
Phone: 0531 / 596-2601
Fax: 0531 / 596-2699
Email: ak(@)thuenen.de
