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Department of Soil Biology and Plant Nutrition (BBP)
Institution
Section overview
Description
The Department Soil Biology and Plant Nutrition is part of the Organic Agricultural Sciences Faculty at the University of Kassel. Research and teaching focuses on soil microbiology, soil zoology, soil ecology and plant nutrition.
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Coordinated projects
- Amino sugar-specific delta13C analysis for determining the formation and use of microbial residues
- GRK 1397 C1: Decomposition and microbial colonization of double-labelled litter in litter bags or mixed with soil in soils from temperate and tropical climates from organic farming systems
- GRK 1397 C2: Interactions between soil characteristics, above-ground biomass and soil microbial properties
- Soil functions: decomposition, diversity, pathogen suppression
Involved in research projects
- E-HERB-RLP - Implementation of the Electroherb-procedure into the Rhineland-Palatinate agriculture for the environmental improvement of cultivation methods
- GRK 1397 B2: Modelling of ion dynamics in field experiments under different tillage systems
- KURZUM II - Dynamics of soil carbon fractions and plant productivity during the transfer of short rotation forestry into cropland and grassland - short rotation forestry conversion
- Rhizodeposition and turnover of carbon and nitrogen in the soil, depending on the distance to the root surface
Contact
Department of Soil Biology and Plant Nutrition
(BBP)
Nordbahnhofstraße 1a
D-37213 Witzenhausen
Hesse
Germany
Phone: +49 5542 98-1592
Fax: +49 5542 98-1596
Email: sbeck(@)wiz.uni-kassel.de