Die Gesamtfilterwirkung ist ein Kennwert zur Bewertung des Bodens als Filter für sorbierbare Stoffe und wird über das mechanische und physiko-chemische Filtervermögen bewertet. Unter sorbierbare Stoffe fallen insbesondere Stoffgruppen wie die Kationen der Nährstoffe, Schwermetalle und Organika, die entweder im Bodenwasser gelöst sind oder an kleinen Partikeln haften bzw. selbst in Partikelform vorliegen. In gelöster Form werden die genannten Stoffe an den Austauschern (Bodenmaterial) gebunden und so der Bodenlösung entzogen. In Partikelform werden sie im Boden gefiltert, wenn sie aufgrund mechanischer Hindernisse, wie z. B. am Ende von Wurmröhren, mit dem Sickerwasser nicht mehr weiter transportiert werden können. Die Gesamtfilterwirkung kann in Abhängigkeit von der Kationenaustauschkapazität und der Luftkapazität geschätzt werden. Das Schätzergebnis besteht aus insgesamt 11 Stufen, von denen in Schleswig-Holstein nur 8 relevant sind. Je höher die Stufe ist, desto höher ist die Gesamtfilterwirkung. Sie ist in feinkörnigem Bodenmaterial mit geringer Luftkapazität am größten, wie z. B. in der Marsch und im Östlichen Hügelland, und in grobkörnigem Bodenmaterial mit hoher Luftkapazität am geringsten, wie z. B. in der Vorgeest. Mit der Gesamtfilterwirkung wird eine natürliche Bodenfunktionen nach § 2 Abs. 2 BBodSchG bewertet und zwar nach Punkt 1.c) als Abbau-, Ausgleichs- und Aufbaumedium für stoffliche Einwirkungen auf Grund der Filter-, Puffer- und Stoffumwandlungseigenschaften, insbesondere auch zum Schutz des Grundwassers. Das hierfür gewählte Kriterium ist das mechanische und physiko-chemische Filtervermögen des Bodens mit dem Kennwert Gesamtfilterwirkung. Die Karten liegen für die folgenden Maßstabsebenen vor: - 1 : 1.000 - 10.000 für hochaufgelöste oder parzellenscharfe Planung, - 1 : 10.001 - 35.000 für Planungen auf Gemeindeebene, - 1 : 35.001 - 100.000 für Planungen in größeren Regionen, - 1 : 100.001 - 350.000 für landesweit differenzierte Planung, - 1 : 350.001 - 1000.000 für landesweite bis bundesweite Planung.
In forest ecosystems ectomycorrhizal fungi are responsible for the mobilization of mineral nutrients from soil organic matter (SOM) resulting in a marked increase in productivity of their symbiotic host plants. In return the fungi obtain a significant amount of photosynthetic products from these plants, allowing the formation of an extensive hyphal system. These hyphae constitute a major part of soil biomass and, ultimately, a major source for SOM formation. While plant-fungal nutrient exchange has been analyzed extensively, this proposal is focused on the fungal contribution to SOM formation and on the processes leading to the acquisition of nutrients by the fungi. These two processes will be studied separately and in a quantitative way using isotopic labeling in soil bioreactors. Analysis of the fate of 13C labeled fungal material (Laccaria bicolor) in soil bioreactors will tell how fast and to what extent the various fractions of hyphal biomass are transformed into non-living SOM. As potential molecular or structural markers for SOM formation from fungal hyphae we will analyze characteristic remnants of fungal hyphae in SOM using scanning electron microscopy, DNAfragments using a PCR approach for the fungal rRNA internal transcribed spacerregions and biochemical markers like fatty acids and ergosterol. The impact of ectomycorrhizal mycelia supported by Pinus sylvestris plantlets on 13C- and 15N-labeled SOM and on microbial biomass will be analyzed in separate soil bioreactor experiments.
In structured soils, the interaction of percolating water and reactive solutes with the soil matrix is mostly restricted to the surfaces of preferential flow paths. Flow paths, i.e., macropores, are formed by worm burrows, decayed root channels, cracks, and inter-aggregate spaces. While biopores are covered by earthworm casts and mucilage or by root residues, aggregates and cracks are often coated by soil organic matter (SOM), oxides, and clay minerals especially in the clay illuviation horizons of Luvisols. The SOM as well as the clay mineral composition and concentration strongly determine the wettability and sorption capacity of the coatings and thus control water and solute movement as well as the mass exchange between the preferential flow paths and the soil matrix. The objective of this proposal is the quantitative description of the small-scale distribution of physicochemical properties of intact structural surfaces and flow path surfaces and of their distribution in the soil volume. Samples of Bt horizons of Luvisols from Loess will be compared with those from glacial till. At intact structural surfaces prepared from soil clods, the spatial distribution (mm-scale) of SOM and clay mineral composition will be characterized with DRIFT (Diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform) spectroscopy using a self-developed mapping technique. For samples manually separated from coated surfaces and biopore walls, the contents of organic carbon (Corg) and the cation exchange capacity (CEC) will be analyzed and related to the intensities of specific signals in DRIFT spectra using Partial Least Square Regression (PLSR) analysis. The signal intensities of the DRIFT mapping spectra will be used to quantify the spatial distribution of Corg and CEC at these structural surfaces. The DRIFT mapping data will also be used for qualitatively characterizing the small scale distribution of the recalcitrance, humification, and microbial activity of the SOM from structural surfaces. The clay mineral composition of defined surface regions will be characterized by combining DRIFT spectroscopic with X-ray diffractometric analysis of manually separated samples. Subsequently, the spatial distribution of the clay mineral composition at structural surfaces will be determined from the intensities of clay mineral-specific signals in the DRIFT mapping spectra and exemplarily compared to scanning electron microscopic and infrared microscopic analysis of thin sections and thin polished micro-sections. The three-dimensional spatial distribution of the total structural surfaces in the volume of the Bt horizons will be quantified using X-ray computed tomography (CT) analysis of soil cores. The active preferential flow paths will be visualized and quantified by field tracer experiments. These CT and tracer data will be used to transfer the properties of the structural surfaces characterized by DRIFT mapping onto the active preferential flow paths in the Bt horizons.
SP0 is conceived for coordination of the ICON research, for internal and external scientific exchange as well as for investigating development pathways of land use on the Philippines. The SP0 team will supervise the project activities as a whole, including reporting and final synthesis. It will design the ICON homepage, establish and maintain a web-based database and present the project and its results in scientific forums and public media. It will organize collaboration and scientific exchange with international networks dealing with atmospheric processes, global carbon, nitrogen, water and energy cycles, and long-term ecological research. Specifically, SP0 is devoted to ensuring a sound integration of the ICON project within the scientific communities of Germany and SE Asia. Supported by the ICON local research coordinator based at and employed by IRRI, it will coordinate with the IRRI farm management to assist other ICON subprojects with field setup, routine data collection and technical backstopping.
Background: An increasing frequency of massive flooding along the lower Yangtse River in China ended in a disastrous catastrophe in summer 1998 leaving several thousand people homeless, more than 3.600 dead and causing enormous economic damage. Inappropriate land-use techniques and large scale timber felling in the water catchment of the upper Yangtse and its feeder streams were stated to be the main causes. Immediate timber cutting bans were imposed and investigations on land use patterns were initiated by the Chinese Government. The Institute for World Forestry of the Federal Research Centre for Forestry and Forest Products was approached by the Yunnan Academy of Forestry in Kunming to exchange experiences and to cooperate scientifically in the design and application of appropriate afforestation and silvicultural management techniques in the water catchment area of the Yangtse. This cooperation was initiated in 1999 and is based on formal agreements in the fields of agrarian research between the German and Chinese Governments. Objectives: The cooperation was in the first step focussing on the identification of factors which caused the enormous floodings. After their identification measures of prevention were determined and put into practice. In this context experiences made in past centuries in the alpine region of central Europe served as an incentive and example for similar environmental problems and solutions under comparable conditions. Relevant key questions of the cooperation project were: - Analysis of forest related factors influencing the recent floodings of the Yangtse, - Analysis and evaluation of silvicultural management experiences from central Europe for know-how transfer, - Evaluation of rehabilitation measures for successful application in Yunnan, - Dissemination of knowledge through vocational training. Results: - Frequent wild grazing of husbandry is a key factor for forest degeneration beyond unsustainable timber harvests, forest fires and insect calamities leading to increased water run-off in the mountainous region of Yunnan; - Browsing of cattle interrupts succession thus avoiding natural regeneration and leaving a logging ban ineffective; - Mountain pasture in the Alps had similar effects in the past in central Europe. The introduction of controlled grazing has led to an ecologically compatible coexistence of pasture and ecology. Close-to-nature forestry can have positive effects in this sensitive environment. - Afforestation with site adopted broadleaves and coniferous tree species was implemented on demonstration level using advanced techniques in Yunnan.
Various species of pest insects cause substantial damage to agriculture every year, or transmit deadly diseases to animals and humans. A successful strategy to control pest insect populations is based on the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT), which uses the release of mass-reared, radiation sterilized male insects to cause infertile matings and thus reduce the pest population level. However, irradiation is not applicable to every insect species. Thus, new strategies based on genetic modifications of pest insects have been developed or are currently under investigation.The goal of the proposed research is to improve the development and ecological safety of genetically engineered (GE) insects created for enhanced biological control programs, including the SIT and new strategies based on conditional lethality. A major concern for GE insect release programs is transgene stability, and maintenance of their consistent expression. Transgene loss or intra-genomic movement could result in loss of strain attributes, and may ultimately lead to interspecies movement resulting in ecological risks. To address potential transgene instability, a new transposon vector that allows post-integration immobilization will be tested in the Mediterranean, Mexican and Oriental fruit fly tephritid pest species. In addition, the system will be established in the mosquito species Aedes and Anopheles - carriers of dengue and malaria.Random genomic insertion is also problematic for GE strain development due to genomic position effects that suppress transgene expression, and insertional mutations that negatively affect host fitness and viability. Diminished transgene expression could result in the unintended survival of conditional lethal individuals, or the inability to identify them. To target transgene vectors to defined genomic insertion sites having minimal negative effects on gene expression and host fitness, a recombinase-mediated cassette exchange (RMCE) strategy will be developed that. RMCE will also allow for stabilization of the target site, will be tested in tephritid and mosquito species, and will aid to the development of stabilized target-site strains for conditional lethal biocontrol. This will include a molecular and organismal evaluation of an RNAi-based lethality approach. Lethality based on an RNAi mechanism in the proposed insects would increase the species specificity and having multiple targets for lethality versus one target in existing systems. By seeking to improve transgene expressivity and stabilization of transposon-based vector systems, this proposal specifically addresses issues related to new GE insects by reducing their unintended spread after field release, and by limiting the possibilities for transgene introgression.
When released into surface waters, engineered inorganic nanoparticles (EINP) can be subject to multiple transformations. The objectives of MASK are to understand under which conditions EINP in aquatic systems will attach to suspended matter, under which conditions and in which time scale EINP are coated by NOM present in freshwater systems, how these coated colloidal particles are stabilized in the aquatic system and to which extent the aquatic aging processes are reversible. Homo-aggregation, coating changes, biological interactions and hetero-aggregation are hypothesized as key processes governing EINP aging in water bodies. In process orientated laboratory incubation experiments (50 ml to 6 l) with increasing complexity, MASK unravels the relevance and the interplay of inorganic colloids, aquagenic and pedogenic organic matter and solution physicochemistry for stability of EINP. These systems will successively approach situations in real waters. MASK thus provides information on EINP fluxes in the aquatic compartment, their time scales, reversibility and relative relevance. EINP will be analysed by standard light scattering techniques, ICP-MS, ESEM/EDX, WetSTEM and AFM. A method coupling hydrodynamic radius chromatography (HDC) with ICPMS recently developed by K. Tiede for nAg0 will be optimized and developed for further EINP analysis, MASK is further responsible for the virtual subproject ANALYSIS, the development and optimization of joint research unit methods of EINP analysis, sample preparation and sample storage, the exchange of methods and coordinates the joint analyses and the central EINP database.
This project will explore the interplay between soil water, tracer and soil heat budgets depending on the prevailing context and develop advanced approaches for their coupled treatment within the subsurface domains of an EFU (the least entity of the CAOS model). Based on an improved understanding of the fingerprints of vertical preferential flow in the water, mass and heat transport in the unsaturated zone we will derive suitable closure relations that account for these fingerprints in the unsaturated subsurface domain of an EFU during rainfall driven conditions. We will furthermore derive descriptions for water, mass and heat budgets in the unsaturated subsurface domain during energy driven conditions and derive the necessary constitutive relations that account for the effect of soil heterogeneity on storage of water, mass and energy based on virtual experiments. Next we will explore coupled water and heat transport in the saturated subsurface domain with special emphasis on groundwater surface water exchange and derive process descriptions of minimum adequate complexity. Furthermore we will contribute to an optimal combination of soil physical and geophysical methods for exploring near subsurface lateral structures at the hillslope scale in joined work task with Project F.
Accurate prediction of wind, turbulence and their interactions with wind turbines and wind farms is of great importance for the optimal design (turbine siting) of wind energy projects. It can also provide valuable quantitative insight into the effects of wind farms on the local meteorology. Computational fluid dynamics has the potential to provide the wealth of data required to understand the dynamics of the highly turbulent atmospheric flow at all the scales of interest to wind energy studies (ranging from kilometers down to meters). The accuracy of computer models, however, hinges on our ability to parameterize the dynamics of the flow that cannot be explicitly resolved in the simulations, because they occur at scales smaller than the grid scale. A novel computational framework is proposed here to simulate the interaction between the turbulent wind and wind turbines. The new computer models will be carefully validated using data collected in a wind tunnel and in the field inside a large wind farm. We will use miniature wind turbines (single turbines and multiple turbines in different wind-farm configurations) placed in a wind tunnel to isolate and study the effects on the flow of different atmospheric conditions (as affected by land-surface characteristics such as roughness and temperature) and wind turbine characteristics and arrangements (separation between turbines, alignment, etc.). In the field experiments, vertical and horizontal transects of the mean wind velocity and turbulence will be measured using sonic anemometers and lidars. Both wind-tunnel and field measurements will be used to validate the computational framework and guide the development of improved models. Finally, after the computational framework has been carefully validated, numerical experiments will be carried out to study the interaction between atmospheric flow and wind farms under different thermal conditions typical of nighttime and characterized by high shear and strong wind at relatively low altitudes. This situation is of particular interest due to its high wind-energy potential, but also because of the well-known difficulties associated with its prediction. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the effects of wind farms on the local meteorology through their impact on the wind velocity and temperature distributions as well as the exchange rates of heat between the land surface and the atmosphere.
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