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Dynamic (redox) interfaces in soil - Carbon turnover in microbial biomass and flux into soil organic matter

Existing models of soil organic matter (SOM) formation consider plant material as the main source of SOM. Recent results from nuclear magnetic resonance analyses of SOM and from own incubation studies, however, show that microbial residues also contribute to a large extent to SOM formation. Scanning electron microscopy showed that the soil mineral sur-faces are covered by numerous small patchy fragments (100 - 500 nm) deriving from microbial cell wall residues. We will study the formation and fate of these patchy fragments as continuously produced interfaces in artificial soil systems (quartz, montmorillonite, iron oxides, bacteria and carbon sources). We will quantify the relative contributions of different types of soil organisms to patchy fragment formation and elucidate the effect of redox con-ditions and iron mineralogy on the formation and turnover of patchy fragments. The develop-ment of patchy fragments during pedogenesis will be followed by studying soil samples from a chronosequence in the forefield of the retreating Damma glacier. We will characterize chemical and physical properties of the patchy fragments by nanothermal analysis and microscale condensation experiments in an environmental scanning electron microscope. The results will help understanding the processes at and characteristics of biogeochemical interfaces.

Fragmentation of the international forest regime complex: multi-dimensional descriptions, explanations, steering consequences and polital options; The production and utilisation of forest regime fragmentation by bureaucratic politics

This project aims at analysing the influence of competing national and international bureaucracies on the fragmentation of the international forest regime complex (IFRC). Its objectives are: - describing the political dimension of fragmentation of the IFRC programme- explaining the political dimension of fragmentation based on the model of bureaucratic politics- analysing the steering consequences resulting from fragmentation - trans-disciplinary design of solutions for coping with political aspects of fragmentationBuilding on the bureaucratic politics approach these objectives will be pursued by testing the linking hypothesis: Interest and influence of the bureaucracies cause a fragmented programme of the IFRC. This programme supports the goal of profitable timber production but keeps the decision about biodiversity and CO2 sequestration open hindering the effective steering by the IFRC. The project develops an analytical framework consisting of the following independent variables: competing national and competing international bureaucracies, elected politicians, national and international non-state actors and media discourses. The fragmentation of the political programme of the IFRC is the overall dependent variable. This project will analyse the influence of bureaucracies and their coalitions on fragmentation at the international level as well as in national case studies in Sweden, Poland and Germany. The other independent variables will be covered by sub-projects 2, 3 and 4. The findings will be linked to the other political and to the economic and technic-ecological sub projects in order to contribute to the multi-disciplinary description and explanation of fragmentation and its steering consequences.

GTS Bulletin: SMVX21 EDZW - Surface data (details are described in the abstract)

The SMVX21 TTAAii Data Designators decode as: T1 (S): Surface data T1T2 (SM): Main synoptic hour (Remarks from Volume-C: SHIP)

GTS Bulletin: SNLV11 UMRR - Surface data (details are described in the abstract)

The SNLV11 TTAAii Data Designators decode as: T1 (S): Surface data T1T2 (SN): Non-standard synoptic hour A1A2 (LV): Latvia (Remarks from Volume-C: NilReason)

Spatial heterogeneity and substrate availability as limiting factors for subsoil C-turnover

In subsoils, organic matter (SOM) concentrations and microbial densities are much lower than in topsoils and most likely highly heterogeneously distributed. We therefore hypothesize, that the spatial separation between consumers (microorganisms) and their substrates (SOM) is an important limiting factor for carbon turnover in subsoils. Further, we expect microbial activity to occur mainly in few hot spots, such as the rhizosphere or flow paths where fresh substrate inputs are rapidly mineralized. In a first step, the spatial distribution of enzyme and microbial activities in top- and subsoils will be determined in order to identify hot spots and relate this to apparent 14C age, SOM composition, microbial community composition and soil properties, as determined by the other projects within the research unit. In a further step it will be determined, if microbial activity and SOM turnover is limited by substrate availability in spatially distinct soil microsites. By relating this data to root distribution and preferential flow paths we will contribute to the understanding of stabilizing and destabilizing processes of subsoil organic matter. As it is unclear, at which spatial scale these differentiating processes are effective, the analysis of spatial variability will cover the dm to the mm scale. As spatial segregation between consumers and substrates will depend on the pore and aggregate architecture of the soil, the role of the physical integrity of these structures on SOM turnover will also be investigated in laboratory experiments.

Schwerpunktprogramm (SPP) 1374: Biodiversitäts-Exploratorien; Exploratories for Long-Term and Large-Scale Biodiversity Research (Biodiversity Exploratories), Teilprojekt: Funktionale Partitionierung der prokaryotischen Diversität unter verschiedenen Landnutzungsregimes

Die Kopplung zwischen drei dominanten Gruppen von Bodenbakterien (Acidobacteria, Actinobacteria, Alphaproteobacteria), Pflanzen, Bodenbedingungen und Landnutzung soll aufgeklärt werden. Die Untersuchungen konzentrieren sich auf (1) die Dynamik der funktionellen Kopplung zwischen aktiven Rhizosphärenbakterien und Pflanzen, (2) die spezifischen Funktionen von individuellen Bakterien beim Abbau von Wurzelexsudaten, Pflanzenstreu und Tierkadavern/Dung sowie (3) der zeitlichen Stabilität von mikrobiellen Gemeinschaften in der Rhizosphäre und nicht-durchwurzeltem Boden der Exploratorien. Die funktionelle Koppelung der Bakterien über den Kohlenstofffluss soll zeitlich hochaufgelöst mittels 13C-Pulsmarkierung von Wurzelexsudaten durch Captured RNA Isotope Probing (CARIP), sowie durch den Vergleich der Exsudatprofile mit der Zusammensetzung der Bakteriengemeinschaften mittels Hochdurchsatzsequenzierung aufgeklärt werden. Die individuelle funktionelle Rolle der Bakterien wird anhand der Aufnahme 13C-markierter Substrate mit nachfolgender Identifizierung der aktiven Phylotypen durch Stabile Isotopenbeprobung von RNA (SIP) sowie metagenomische und metatranskriptomische Ansätze untersucht. Die kurzfristigen Veränderung in der Zusammensetzung der Rhizosphärenbakterien und die jeweiligen Einflussgrößen werden analysiert. Langfristigere Effekte werden anhand von Hochdurchsatzsequenzierungen von 3 Probensätzen, die einen Zeitraum von 6 Jahren abdecken, ermittelt. Dies bietet die Gelegenheit, langfristigere Trends mit Änderungen in den Umweltparametern und in der Landnutzung zu analysieren.

Schwerpunktprogramm (SPP) 1488: Planetary Magnetism (PlanetMag), Structure and electronic transport properties of metallic liquids at conditions of planetary cores

Electrical conductivity is a key parameter in models of magnetic field generation in planetary interiors through magneto-hydrodynamic convection. Measurements of this key material parameter of liquid metals is not possible to date by experiments at relevant conditions, and dynamo models rely on extrapolations from low pressure/temperature experiments, or more recently on ab-initio calculations combining molecular dynamics and linear response calculations, using the Kubo-Greenwood formulation of transport coefficients. Such calculations have been performed for Fe, Fe-alloys, H, He and H-He mixtures to cover the interior of terrestrial and giant gas planets. These simulations are computationally expensive, and an efficient accurate scheme to determine electrical conductivities is desirable. Here we propose a model that can, at much lower computational costs, provide this information. It is based on Ziman theory of electrical conductivity that uses information on the liquid structure, combined with an internally consistent model of potentials for the electron-electron, electron-atom, and atom-atom interactions. In the proposal we formulate the theory and expand it to multi-component systems. We point out that fitting the liquid structure factor is the critical component in the process, and devise strategies on how this can be done efficiently. Fitting the structure factor in a thermodynamically consistent way and having a transferable electron-atom potential we can then relatively cheaply predict the electrical conductivity for a wide range of conditions. Only limited molecular dynamics simulations to obtain the structure factors are required.In the proposed project we will test and advance this model for liquid aluminum, a free-electron like metal, that we have studied with the Kubo-Greenwood method previously. We will then be able to predict the conductivities of Fe, Fe-light elements and H, He, as well as the H-He system that are relevant to the planetary interiors of terrestrial and giant gas planets, respectively.

Bodenschutz- und Altlasteninformationssystem

Das Landesamt für Umweltschutz führt nach § 11 Ausführungsgesetz des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt zum Bundes-Bodenschutzgesetz (BodSchAG LSA) ein Bodenschutz- und Altlasteninformationssystem. Das Bodenschutz- und Altlasteninformationssystem (ST-BIS) enthält beschreibende Informationen (Metainformationen) über Daten, deren Kenntnis für die Erfüllung bodenschutz- und altlastengesetzlicher Aufgaben von Bedeutung sein kann. Dieses Metainformationssystem gibt Auskunft darüber, wer Daten besitzt, wie man Sie erhält und um was für Daten es sich handelt. Das ST-BIS wird im Internet geführt. Die Informationen für das ST-BIS stellen die Behörden dem LAU auf Anforderung gebührenfrei zur Verfügung.

GTS Bulletin: ISNI01 EDZW - Observational data (Binary coded) - BUFR (details are described in the abstract)

The ISNI01 TTAAii Data Designators decode as: T1 (I): Observational data (Binary coded) - BUFR T1T2 (IS): Surface/sea level T1T2A1 (ISN): Synoptic observations from fixed land stations at non-standard time (i.e. 01, 02, 04, 05, ... UTC) A2 (I): 0° - 90°W southern hemisphere(The bulletin collects reports from stations: 89011;89047;) (Remarks from Volume-C: SYNOP)

GTS Bulletin: ISND82 AMDN - Observational data (Binary coded) - BUFR (details are described in the abstract)

The ISND82 TTAAii Data Designators decode as: T1 (I): Observational data (Binary coded) - BUFR T1T2 (IS): Surface/sea level T1T2A1 (ISN): Synoptic observations from fixed land stations at non-standard time (i.e. 01, 02, 04, 05, ... UTC) A2 (D): 90°E - 0° northern hemisphere (Remarks from Volume-C: NATIONAL AUTOMATIC SYNOP)

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