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Institute of Biodiversity (TI-BD)
Institution
Section overview
Description
The objective of our research is to assess the role of biodiversity in agricultural landscapes. We focus on agrobiodiversity, which denotes a part of the overall biodiversity with high economic and ecological importance. The aim of our research is to better understand the functional role of biodiversity and to assist its protection in order to contribute to a sustainable use of agroecosystems. This requires a more profound knowledge of the interactions between agrobiodiversity, management measures and environmental factors. Particularly, we investigate how changes in land use and land use intensity, changes of climatic factors, input of substances and the use genetically modified crops may affect biodiversity in agroecosystems and landscapes, respectively.
We are addressing structural and functional aspects of biodiversity from the scale of microhabitats to the field and landscape scale using methodological approaches ranging from molecular biology tools, ecosystem manipulation experiments to GIS-based landscape assessments. With these research activities we contribute to the understanding and protection of mechanisms of self regulation of agricultural production systems for a sustainable land use in the future.
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Coordinated projects
- Abundance and diversity of clostridia in agricultural biogas plants with particular attention to Clostridium botulinum
- Agroecological assessment of the cup plant (Silphium perfoliatum L.) as a biomass plant of the future
- Agroecology for Europe
- Agroecology for Europe - Strengthening the European agro-ecological research and innovation ecosystem
- Assessing and monitoring the impacts of genetically modified plants on agro-ecosystems
- Assessing and monitoring the Impacts of Genetically Modified Plants on Agro-ecosystems. Soil fertility
- Biodiversity of soil fauna in agroecosystems
- CC LandStraD, Subproject 1.3: Analysing the relationship between landscape and land-use parameters and High Nature Value (HNV) farmland
- Characterization and localization of High Nature Value (HNV) farming in Germany
- Climate Impacts and Sustainability of organic operating systems - an investigation of a network of pilot farms
- Comparative lifecycle assessment of anaerobic digestion - WP6: Ecosystem service assessment
- Concept of soil bioindicators for arable soils
- Conserving grasslands in the Thuringian Forest Nature Park by optimized, whole-farm management concepts
- Cultivation of legumes and catch crop mixtures as ecological focus areas within the greening of the CAP: Literature review on the effects on biodiversity in agricultural landscapes
- Development and verification of indicators and monitoring concepts to measure and evaluate the current status of plant diversity in agro-ecosystems at different spatial scales
- Development of standardised, nonlethal sampling methods for cavity-nesting wild bees
- Development of targeted and efficient schemes to increase biodiversity in agricultural landscapes
- Diversification through Rotation, Intercropping, Multiple Cropping, Promoted with Actors and value-Chains towards Sustainability
- Diversified cropping systems for optimized multifunctional production of biomass on marginal land (DIVERSYMASS)
- Effects of elevated atmospheric CO2-concentration on fluxes of carbon and water vapour of a crop rotation
- Experiments for improving model based recommendation for adaptation of agriculture to regional climate changes: feed back effects of future atmospheric CO2 concentrations on water balance in agroecosystems
- Field experiments on processes of the interaction of nitrogen fertilisation and elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations on concentration and composition of grain protein of wheat
- Interactions between soil fauna and energy crops in phytocosms under greenhouse conditions
- Investigation of interactive effects of water supply and elevated CO2 on winter barley genotypes
- Microbial diversity and functions of soil microhabitats
- Quantification of Cry proteins in soil and influence on the microbial colonization of maize roots
- Regionally differentiated effects of agricultural land-use change on farmland birds in Lower Saxony
- Regulating ecosystem services in crop rotations with faba beans (Vicia faba) and peas (Pisum sativum): Quantification, evaluation and realisation
- Response of ant assemblages to changing management practices in permanent grasslands of Central Germany
- Response of soil biological and soil chemical parameters of a field soil to atmospheric CO2-enrichment (FACE)
- Screening of Sorghum-genotypes in terms of growth and resource use efficiency under future climatic conditions
- Soil organisms and their performance in an agroecosystem influenced by elevated atmospheric CO2 and different N-fertilisation
- SPP 1315: Partitioning of organic chemicals into soil micro-sites - Analyses of their fate and interactions with the resident microbial communities
- Towards safe applications of recycled water in agriculture: Effects of soil properties on the survival of wastewater bacteria and their potential to colonize vegetables
- What works and why in grassland restoration in Germany? A multi-region social-ecological assessment and pilot implementation of successful approaches
Involved in research projects
- AgroEcological solutions for Safe and fair Operating Spaces of agricultural systems in the urban-rural transition zone
- 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
- Experimental and modeling studies on the interaction of drought and elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations on root growth of maize and sorghum
- Further development, update und quality management of online-database 'KLIMAPS JKI' with important facts of the consequences of climate change on plant protection. (KLIMAPS)
- Impact of reduced precipitation and N-fertilizer injection techniques on emission of greenhouse gases from arable soils
- Impacts of climate change on the feed value of selected plants and feed intake, performance and physiological parameters of dairy cows and beef cattle
- Influence of climatical factors on fungal infections of maize and sorghum (e.g. Fusarium diseases, Northern leaf blight, smut)
- Interdependencies between Land use and Climate Change – Strategies for a sustainable land use management in Germany
- Joint project: Sustainable production of energy wood in agroforestry systems, sub-project 3: Structural diversity and biodiversity
- National monitoring of biological diversity on farmlands. Subproject 'Monitoring the diversity of habitats - small landscape structures and landscape elements'
- SPP 1315: Impact of pesticides and oxygen on microbial cellulose degradation in aerated agricultural soils: A microscaled analysis of processes and prokaryotic populations
- WatEff_ZALF - Arable crop production with efficient use of water and nutrients considering changing rainfall patterns in northeast Germany
Contact
Institute of Biodiversity
(TI-BD)
Bundesallee 50
38116 Braunschweig
Lower Saxony
Germany
Phone: 0531 / 596-2501
Fax: 0531 / 596-2599
Email: bd(@)thuenen.de