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Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)
Institution
Section overview
- Description
- Activities
- Subordinate institutions
- Networks
- Coordinated projects
- Coordinated collaborative projects
- Work package leader of collaborative projects
- Coordinated projects of subordinate institutions
- Coordinated collaborative projects of subordinate institutions
- Subordinate institutions as work package leader of collaborative projects
- Involved in research projects
- Contact
Description
At the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ scientists research the causes and consequences of far-reaching environmental changes. Their task is to deliver knowledge, instruments and policies concerning the complex systems and relationships in the environment within limited timeframe for use by politicians, industry and society, in order to help them to make decisions and solve specific environmental problems. Apart from practical needs, environmental research must also meet general scientific needs. This is a two-fold challenge with the requirement that todayŽs environmental research dominated by natural sciences is increasingly interlinked with human and social sciences as well as environmental law.
Activities
- Research
- Funding
Subordinate institutions
- Department of Environmental Biotechnology
- Department of Ecosystem Services
- Department of Soil Ecology
- Department Economy
- Division of Water and Soil Sciences
- Center for Environmental Biotechnology
- Department of Soil Physics
- Lysimeter Falkenberg
- Department of Community Ecology
- Department of Monitoring and Exploration Technologies
Coordinated projects
- A drought-tolerant synthetic bacterial community for barley
- Agrosystem for future: SUSKULT
- Antibiotics at soil-plant interface: High-resolution insights into bacterial biotransformation, effects on bacterial metabolic activities and consequences for plant health
- Aquatic macrophytes - ecologically and economically optimized utilization; subproject 1: use of aquatic macrophytes - potential estimation of stand waters, analysis and conservation
- BioCreative 1 - BioPV4H2: Biophotovoltaics for the production of biohydrogen from water, carbon dioxide as well as sunlight
- Biodiversity parameters and landscape dynamics in European cultural landscapes
- BonaRes (Module A, Phase 3): ORDIAmur - overcoming the post-harvest disease using an integrated approach, TP F
- BonaRes (Module B, Phase 3): BonaRes Centre for Soil Sciences, Subproject A
- Bridging biochemical gradients to elucidate key processes governing root -microbiome-soil interactions
- Collaborative Project BioTip (2): Understanding and Managing Desertification Tipping Points – A Namibian Perspective. Subproject 4: Scenario development and modelling of management options
- Collaborative project: Bee-based biomonitoring to unlock the synergetic mechanisms of agriculture and pollinator insects - subproject E
- Collaborative project: BIOLOG joint project DIVA Jena III: Functional importance and mechanisms of biodiversity conservation using the ecosystem, subprojects: STOFF/MYCO und PHYTO
- Collaborative project: Development of integrated sensor systems for research and monitoring of bee health and environmental influences - subproject D
- Collaborative project: Evaluation of the humus- and nutrient-fertilizer value of organic residues, subproject 3
- Collaborative project: Innovative and model-based agricultural tool to support subfield-specific soil organic carbon management to enhance the soil´s CO2 sink. Subproject 3
- Collaborative project: Monitoring of soil organic carbon with remote and proximal soil sensing methods. Subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Satellite-based information for grassland management. Subproject 5
- Education and communication for butterfly species in Leipzig
- Floodplains as hotspots for the (co-)proliferation of antibiotic and metal resistance genes in environments
- FOR 918: Symbiotic and saprobic fungi as link between plant derived carbon and soil food webs
- Genetic diversity and landscape structure
- GLOWA Elbe III - Subproject 5: Socio-economic analysis of the water management
- Impact of land management on supply and distribution of ecosystem performances
- Interaction of abiotic stressors including food limitation on bee health and colony development under field conditions - UFZ
- Soil biodiversity and soil suppression of plant diseases and insect pests
- SpaceMic - composition of soil microorganisms over spatial scales, landscape, and land use
- SpaceMic- Composition of soil microorganisms across spatial scales, landscape and land use
- SPP 1090 AG 2: Influence of laccase production by fungi and mycorrhiza on formation and stability of organic matter in agricultural and forest soils
- SPP 1315: Quantification of active interfaces with respect to dissolved chemicals in unsaturated structured soil
- Substance outputs of agricultural land by drainage, preferential ground water flow, surface flow: model and experimental validation
- Use of hydrothermal carbonisation (HTC) for the sustainable treatment and recovery of fractions of the urban water sector the sense of a Biochar / Sewchar concept (CARBOWERT) - Subproject 1
Coordinated collaborative projects
Work package leader of collaborative projects
Coordinated projects of subordinate institutions
- BonaRes (Modul B, Phase 2): BonaRes - Center for Soil Science - subproject A
- Collaborative project: Establishing digital indicators of bee vitality in agricultural landscapes. Subproject 4
- Collaborative project: experiment field for data-driven networking and digitalization in agriculture. Subproject 2
- Collaborative project: Site-adapted nitrogen management based on subarea specific data processing – sytem-, hard- and software solution - subproject 3
- Experimental exploration of denitrification in multiscale porous media and soil
- GLOWA Elbe II - Subproject 5: Application of an integrative methodological approach
- Impact of effluent irrigation on soil water dynamics and sustainable land use: Synergistic effects of altered soil structure and wettability
- Joint project: development of a biotechnological process for the production of itaconic acid with genetically modified yeast of the genus Pseudozyma from renewable raw materials, sub-project 2: Process
- Joint project: identification of humus demand coefficients for energy crops and their production systems; Subproject 3: Dependence of humus demand coefficient of site conditions
- KULUNDA: How to prevent the next »Global Dust Bowl«? Ecological and economic strategies for sustainable land management in the Russian steppes: A potential solution to climate change. Subproject 2: soil water, lysimeters
- Legal instruments for an increased environmentalism in agriculture
- Relating N transformation and transport to microbial activities in forest soils
- SPP 1090 AG 2: Mass balance of microbial biomass contribution to the formation of refractory soil organic matter using isotope tracer techniques – (cells, cell components,CO2, and NH4)
- SPP 1090 AG 4: Quantification and modeling of carbon turnover of arable soils as related to soil texture
- SPP 1315: Dynamic (redox) interfaces in soil - Carbon turnover in microbial food webs and impact on soil organic matter
Coordinated collaborative projects of subordinate institutions
Subordinate institutions as work package leader of collaborative projects
Involved in research projects
- Alteration of soil hydraulic properties at the soil-root interface - impact on soil water balance at the field scale
- Application of stable Carbon-, Nitrogen- and Sulphur isotopes to characterise and indicate fluxes in agricultural systems under different land use and environmental conditions
- Bacterial abiotic cellular stress and survival improvement network (BACSIN)
- Biochemical-bioinformatic analysis of reactive hepatotoxic substances in a hepatic co-culture system
- CarboZALF - Carbon Dynamics of arable Landscape under Climate Change
- Climate tolerance in barley - from induction to gene function
- Collaborative project: Innovative characterisation and improvement of the feeding value of cereal grains (GrainUp) – Subproject 7
- cological effectiveness of perennial wildflower strips in Saxony-Anhalt for bees (Apidae)
- Determination of vegetation cover, leaf area index LAI and real evapotranspiration using remote sensing data and experimental field data obtained from e.g. the TERENO (Terrestrial Environmental Observatories) -project
- Ecological, genetic and climatic determinants of range expansion: a case study on Ceratocapnos claviculata in the native and invaded range
- Efficient irrigation in orchards and vineyards
- Eutrophication related deficits in lowland rivers - cause and effect relationships - including the results of the mid-mountain projects
- Gross ammonification, gross nitrification and N net mineralization in temperate forest soils at low temperatures
- Identification of genetic factors influencing replant disease in apple
- Improvement of the nitrogen efficiency of the organic and mineral N fertilization by application of the slurry strip-till-method as well as the N-injection
- Integrated analyses of impacts of global change on the environment and society in the Elbe catchment - Analyses of impacts of agricultural and environmental measures regarding the implementation of the EU water framework directive.
- Mechanical analysis of liver-toxic substances in a hepatic co-culture model
- Overcoming Replant Disease by an Integrated Approach: Nematodes involved in Apple Replant Disease, and as indicators of soil quality
- Plant induced weathering of minerals in the subsoil - release of 'non-exchangeable' potassium from 2:1 layer minerals (TransMinK)
- Prevalidation for testing the toxic effects of inhaled active substances (gases) after direct exposure of lung cells of people in the Luft-/Flüssigkeitsgrenzschicht
- PROTECTOR - Recycling and upgrading of bone meal for environmentally friendly crop protection and nutrition
- Proteomic analysis of cellular changes after treatment with contact allergens in human monocytic cell lines and in primary dendritic cells. 2017: Transcriptomic and proteomic Analysis of T cells and monocyte-derived dendritic cells
- Relevance of root growth and related soil structure formation for spatiotemporal patterns of chemical and biological properties and emergent system functions
- SECTOR: Production of Solid Sustainable Energy Carriers from Biomass by Means of Torrefaction
- SPP 1090 AG 2: The role of root debris from growing maize plants for the formation of stabilized soil organic soil matter – enlightenment and quantification
- SPP 1315: Bioavailability of hexadecane during the degradation of litter from C3 and C4 plants in different soil compartments and its influence on the induction of alkane degrading genes from prokaryotes
- SPP 1315: Biogeochemical interface formation in soils as controlled by different components
- SPP 1315: Detection and imaging of selected organic chemicals on soil interfaces in the millimeter- to micrometer-range by micro GC/LC- and DESI mass spectrometry
- SPP 1315: Highly-resolved imaging in aggregated soils: Which are the interfaces formed by interaction of water flow oxygen transport and biodegradation?
- SPP 1315: Modification of pore surface physicochemistry in unsaturated media by formation of biogeochemical interfaces - Contact angle analysis and relevance for sorption and transport of solutes and colloids
- SPP 1315: The Detritusphere as Biogeochemical Interface for Bacterial and Fungal Degradation of MCPA and Phenanthrene
- SPP 1315: Visualization and quantification of processes at biogeochemical interfaces with magnetic resonance imaging
Contact
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
(UFZ)
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig
Saxony
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)341 235-1800
Fax: +49 (0)341 235-1388
Email: info(@)ufz.de