Ziel der Studie ist es, an Probanden nach inhalativer Exposition gegenueber Fein- und Ultrafeinpartikeln in Schweissrauchen das Auftreten entzuendlicher Reaktionen der oberen und unteren Atemwege zu untersuchen. Die Untersuchung soll an 40 gesunden Probanden erfolgen, die sich je zur Haelfte aus Berufsschweissern sowie Kontrollpersonen zusammensetzen. Auswertungen dieser Ergebnisse sollen Hinweise darueber liefern, inwiefern die in der Literatur beschriebenen und kausal mit Schweissrauchexposition in Zusammenhang gebrachten Krankheitsbilder des Atemtrakts mit entzuendlichen Reaktionen einhergehen.
Methane emissions from inland water bodies are of growing global concern since surveys revealed high emissions from tropical reservoirs and recent studies showed the potential of temperate water bodies. First preliminary studies at the River Saar measured fluxes that exceed estimates used in global budgets by one order of magnitude. In this project we will investigate the fluxes and pathways of methane from the sediment to the surface water and atmosphere at the River Saar. In a process-based approach we will indentify and quantify the relevant environmental conditions controlling the potential accumulation of dissolved methane in the water body and its release to the atmosphere. Field measurements, complemented by laboratory experiments and numerical simulations, will be conducted on spatial scales ranging from the river-basin to individual bubbles. We will further quantify the impact of dissolved methane and bubble fluxes on water quality in terms of dissolved oxygen. Special emphasize will be put on the process of bubble-turbation, i.e. bubble-mediated sediment-water fluxes. The project aims at serving as a reference study for assessing methane emissions from anthropogenically altered river systems.
Entfernung der Restkontaminationen von Oberflächen mit der Möglichkeit zur Anwendung im nuklearen, biotechnologischen und medizinischen Bereich.
Soil organic matter is considered to become an increasingly important source of bioavailable phosphorus (P) with depletion of inorganic P within primary minerals. Current concepts on P cycling and mobilization of organic P largely ignore the formation of mineral-organic associations. This project aims to link processes occurring at the nanoscale on mineral surfaces with the bioavailability of organic P, with particular focus on the influence of biodiversity and establishment of functional niches by microbial communities on P recycling in soils. Along a soil P availability gradient the proportion of mineral-associated P as well as its composition (31P NMR and X-ray absorption near edge structure spectroscopy) will be determined and related to mineralogical soil properties. Based on adsorption and desorption experiments using both, monomeric and polymeric P sources, the recycling potential of mineral-bound organic P by various biotic communities (plants, mycorrhiza, bacteria) will be determined in mesocosm and field experiments. We expect to assess the relevance of mineral-associated organic P for the P recycling of forest ecosystems and to identify the major controlling abiotic and biotic variables.
This project focuses on the long-term stability (or otherwise) of vegetation, based on a series of multi-proxy records in southern South America. We will build a network of sites suitable for high-resolution reconstructions of changes in vegetation since the Last Glacial Maximum, and use these to test a null hypothesis that changes in vegetation over the past 14,000 years are driven by internal dynamics rather than external forcing factors. The extent to which the null hypothesis can be falsified will reveal the degree to which we can expect to be able to predict how vegetation is affected by external events, including future climate change. The southern fringes of the South American landmass provide a rare opportunity to examine the development of moorland vegetation with sparse tree cover in a wet, cool temperate climate of the Southern Hemisphere. We present a record of changes in vegetation over the past 17,000 years, from a lake in extreme southern Chile (Isla Santa Inés, Magallanes region, 53°38.97S; 72°25.24W; Fontana, Bennett 2012: The Holocene), where human influence on vegetation is negligible. The western archipelago of Tierra del Fuego remained treeless for most of the Lateglacial period. Nothofagus may have survived the last glacial maximum at the eastern edge of the Magellan glaciers from where it spread southwestwards and established in the region at around 10,500 cal. yr BP. Nothofagus antarctica was likely the earlier colonizing tree in the western islands, followed shortly after by Nothofagus betuloides. At 9000 cal. yr BP moorland communities expanded at the expense of Nothofagus woodland. Simultaneously, Nothofagus species shifted to dominance of the evergreen Nothofagus betuloides and the Magellanic rain forest established in the region. Rapid and drastic vegetation changes occurred at 5200 cal. yr BP, after the Mt Burney MB2 eruption, including the expansion and establishment of Pilgerodendron uviferum and the development of mixed Nothofagus-Pilgerodendron-Drimys woodland. Scattered populations of Nothofagus, as they occur today in westernmost Tierra del Fuego may be a good analogue for Nothofagus populations during the Lateglacial in eastern sites. Climate, dispersal barriers and/or fire disturbance may have played a role controlling the postglacial spread of Nothofagus. Climate change during the Lateglacial and early Holocene was a prerequisite for the expansion of Nothofagus populations and may have controlled it at many sites in Tierra del Fuego. The delayed arrival at the site, with respect to the Holocene warming, may be due to dispersal barriers and/or fire disturbance at eastern sites, reducing the size of the source populations. The retreat of Nothofagus woodland after 9000 cal. yr BP may be due to competitive interactions with bog communities. Volcanic disturbance had a positive influence on the expansion of Pilgerodendron uviferum and facilitated the development of mixed Nothofagus-Pilgerodendron-Drimys woodland.
For surface soils, the mechanisms controlling soil organic C turnover have been thoroughly investigated. The database on subsoil C dynamics, however, is scarce, although greater than 50 percent of SOC stocks are stored in deeper soil horizons. The transfer of results obtained from surface soil studies to deeper soil horizons is limited, because soil organic matter (SOM) in deeper soil layers is exposed to contrasting environmental conditions (e.g. more constant temperature and moisture regime, higher CO2 and lower O2 concentrations, increasing N and P limitation to C mineralization with soil depth) and differs in composition compared to SOM of the surface layer, which in turn entails differences in its decomposition. For a quantitative analysis of subsoil SOC dynamics, it is necessary to trace the origins of the soil organic compounds and the pathways of their transformations. Since SOM is composed of various C pools which turn over on different time scales, from hours to millennia, bulk measurements do not reflect the response of specific pools to both transient and long-term change and may significantly underestimate CO2 fluxes. More detailed information can be gained from the fractionation of subsoil SOM into different functional pools in combination with the use of stable and radioactive isotopes. Additionally, soil-respired CO2 isotopic signatures can be used to understand the role of environmental factors on the rate of SOM decomposition and the magnitude and source of CO2 fluxes. The aims of this study are to (i) determine CO2 production and subsoil C mineralization in situ, (ii) investigate the vertical distribution and origin of CO2 in the soil profile using 14CO2 and 13CO2 analyses in the Grinderwald, and to (iii) determine the effect of environmental controls (temperature, oxygen) on subsoil C turnover. We hypothesize that in-situ CO2 production in subsoils is mainly controlled by root distribution and activity and that CO2 produced in deeper soil depth derives to a large part from the mineralization of fresh root derived C inputs. Further, we hypothesize that a large part of the subsoil C is potentially degradable, but is mineralized slower compared with the surface soil due to possible temperature or oxygen limitation.
The energetic efficiency of C4 photosynthesis is strongly affected by bundle sheath leakiness, which is commonly assessed with the 'linear version' of the Farquhar model of 13C discrimination, and leaf gas exchange and 13C composition data. But, the linear Farquhar model is a simplification of the full mechanistic theory of ? in C4 plants, potentially generating errors in the estimation of leakiness. In particular, post-photosynthetic C isotope fractionation could cause large errors, but has not been studied in any detail. The present project aims to improve the understanding of the ecological and developmental/physiological factors controlling discrimination and leakiness of the perennial grass Cleistogenes squarrosa. C. squarrosa is the most important member of the C4 community which has spread significantly in the Mongolia grasslands in the last decades. It has an unusually high and variable discrimination, which suggests very high (and potentially highly variable) leakiness. Specifically, we will conduct the first systematic study of respiratory 13C fractionation in light and dark at leaf- and stand-scale in this C4 species, and assess its effect on discrimination and estimates of leakiness. These experiments are conducted in specialized 13CO2/12CO2 gas exchange mesocosms using ecologically relevant scenarios, testing specific hypotheses on effects of environmental drivers and plant and leaf developmental stage on discrimination and leakiness.
Einleitung: Die Sommerwurzgewächse (Orobanchaceae) sind parasitische Blütenpflanzen, die sich über ein Kontaktorgan (Haustorium) an die Wurzel der Wirtspflanze anhaften und von ihr Wasser, Nährstoffe und Assimilate aufnehmen. Zu den Wirtspflanzen einiger Orobanche-Arten zählen auch wichtige Nutzpflanzen, wie etwa Bohnen, Sonnenblumen oder Tabak. Je nach Befallsintensität kann es zu signifikanten Ertragsminderungen oder sogar zu kompletten Ertragsverlusten kommen. Insbesondere im Mittelmeergebiet, Asien und Nordafrika steigt die Bedrohung der Nutzpflanzenproduktion durch Orobanche stetig an. Die Kontrolle von Orobanche mit Hilfe von Herbiziden ist teuer, schwierig handhabbar und nicht ausreichend effektiv. Resistenzzüchtungen der Nutzpflanzen werden aufgrund des Vorkommens verschiedenster Orobanche-Rassen (mit verschiedenen Pathogenitätsfaktoren) schnell durchbrochen. Leider fehlen bislang ausreichende Informationen zur Interaktion von Orobanche mit den jeweiligen Wirten. Anhand derartiger grundlegender Erkenntnisse könnten alternative oder verbesserte Kontrollmaßnahmen entwickelt werden. Stärkung der Resistenz der Nutzpflanzen (induzierte Resistenz) oder die Verwendung Orobanche-spezifischer Antagonisten (wie etwa des Hyperparasiten F. oxysporum f.sp. orthoceras) als biologisches Kontrollagens stellen wirksame Möglichkeiten der Kontrolle des Pathogens dar. Ziele: Als Modell zum Verständnis der Interaktion der Sommerwurz mit seinen Wirten wird die Assoziation von Orobanche cumana Wallr. und der Sonnenblume (Helianthus annuus L.) verwendet. Die Ziele des Projektes sind: - grundlegender Erkenntniszuwachs zur Interaktion von O. cumana und H. annuus. - Wirkungsweise des Hyperparasiten F. oxysporum f.sp. orthoceras auf seinen Wirt O. cumana (Biochemie, Histologie), - Auswirkung von Pflanzenstärkungsmitteln als Resistenzaktivatoren der Sonnenblume auf den Befall mit O. cumana.
Entwicklung und Bau einer Verladeeinrichtung fuer Fluessiggas einschliesslich Schnelltrennkupplung (Lieferung und Montage von Zusatzeinrichtungen fuer eine Dichtheitspruefung/Dichtheitsueberwachung beim Ladevorgang an der loesbaren Verbindung, fuer die Einbindung des Bodenventils am Strassentankwagen in das anlagenseitige Not-Aus-System und eine Ablaufsteuerung. Standort der Anlage ist bei Messer Griesheim in Dortmund.
Ökologisch erzeugte Speisekartoffeln werden häufig durch Larvenfraß verschiedener Schnellkäferarten, Drahtwürmer genannt, geschädigt. Dieser Sachverhalt kann zu erheblichen Sortierverlusten führen. Untersucht werden Kontrollmaßnahmen auf Basis differenzierter Bodenbearbeitung und Terminierung der Kartoffelernte sowie die Nutzung von Repellent-Pflanzen. Weiterhin findet ein intensives Monitoring des Verhaltens der männlichen Käfer durch Einsatz von Pheromonfallen statt. Das Monitoring erfolgt seit 2004, die Feldversuche werden seit 2005 durchgeführt.
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