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Institute of Soil Landscape Research (ZALF-BLF)
Institution
Section overview
Description
The Institute of Soil Landscape Research' studies structures, processes and functions of soil landscapes. We understand by soil landscapes soil associations, evolved over long time, in the recent landscape-ecological process structure. The priority of our work is put on the development of innovative methods and their cross-scale integration.
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Coordinated projects
- Application package 'Soil and Environment Research' TP1: Implications of land use depended soil structure dynamics on the preferential transfer of water and dissolved substances in paddy rice fields in the space scale (1)
- Characterisation of chemical properties of soil humus (FTIR Spectroscopy, Isotopic analysis) in soil landscapes related to land use changes and corresponding chronosequences
- Effects of soil organic matter different in spatial location (aggregate skin/biopore) on transport processes
- FOR 536 P9: Regional identification of sensitive areas for wind-driven matter fluxes and quantification of wind-driven matter fluxes across ecosystem boundaries
- Holocene de-/ silicification in terrestrial biogeosystems and identification of Si pools with stable isotopes
- In situ - Characterisation of soil organic matter on surfaces of preferential flow paths, soil aggregates, and bio pores
- SFB/TRR 38: Project A4 Phase1: Development and interactions of flow paths on the surface and in the soil
- Small waters rich arable landscape
- Soil landscapes as sources and sinks for greenhouse gases
- Spatiotemporal dynamics of biogenic Si (silicium) pools in initial soils and their relevance for desilication
- SPP 1090 AG 2: Characterisation of the sodium pyrophosphate extractable soil organic matter with FT-IR
Coordinated collaborative projects
Work package leader of collaborative projects
Involved in research projects
- CarboZALF - Carbon Dynamics of arable Landscape under Climate Change
- 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
- Cross-sector project 'AgroScapeLabs – Biodiversity Exploratories for agricultural landscapes
- KASSA - Knowledge Assessment and Sharing on Sustainable Agriculture
- Local disparities and related soil chemical and hydrological process dynamics as characteristics of the material budget of disturbed sites
- Microbial Si pools and transformations in soils
- Modelling of the water and matter balance of peatlands and quantification of DOC losses
- SFB/TRR 38: Project C5 Phase 1: Development of a structure and process model
- Si-dynamics in plant-soil system
- Subproject 2: Environmental impacts of energy crop cultivation (ecological research)
- Systems of cropping energy plants - impacts on soil microbial properties and soil carbon dynamics
- Use strategies for calcareous fen grasslands
Contact
Institute of Soil Landscape Research
(ZALF-BLF)
Eberswalder Straße 84
D-15374 Müncheberg
Brandenburg
Germany
Phone: +49 33432 82282
Fax: +49 33432 82280
Email: sommer(@)zalf.de