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Institute for Land Use Systems (ZALF-LSE)
Institution
Section overview
Description
The Institute has a permanent staff of 13 scientists and 18 technicians. Additional staff is employed on temporary basis.
The scientific focus of the Institute of Land Use Systems is the development of sustainable land use schemes. Emphasis is put on the analysis of options and keeping future options open, which includes the analyses of scenarios, e.g. a closer adaptation of land use to specific site conditions, the continuation of technological progress, or even the abandonment of agriculture in marginal areas. Based on this, the Institute conducts integrated development of long term environmentally sound land use concepts.
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Coordinated projects
- Amphibians protection in the agricultural landscape
- Amphibians protection in the agricultural landscape (after grant)
- Analysis of the status quo of bloodfeeding Diptera (Culicidae, Ceratopogonidae, Simuliidae) with respect to renaturation and irrigation in the Sernitz-lowlands
- Aquatic Warbler - Conservation and restoration of habitats of aquatic warbler through new ways of managing wet grassland
- Collaborative project: Optimizing agricultural cropping strategies and measures for climate adaptation – analysis and assessment at the landscape level with special regard to their interactions with plant protection, productivity, cropping structure and greenhouse gas emissions - subproject 2
- Concept and content elaboration of a program of measures for insect protection in Brandenburg
- CP HIS_ECO - Cross-sector project Historical Ecology - Effects of long-termed LUCC on actual abiotic and biotic patterns and processes in the Uckermark region
- Crop Yields of the North German Lowland under impact of Climate Change: Land of Plenty or Zone of Death?
- Development and comparison of optimized cropping systems for the arable prodcution of energy crops for the varying site conditions in Germany - Phase III (EVA III); Modul 2: Ecological effects, Part: Biotic effects
- Development and comparison of optimized cultivation systems for agricultural production of energy crops under different site conditions in Germany - Phase II (EVA II). Subproject 2: Environmental impacts of energy crop cultivation
- DFG Extinction dept - Using historical data to determine the interactive effects of historical land-cover changes and recent environmental changes on herb-layer plant diversity in temperate forests
- Energy maize cultivation for high yield and biodiversity
- Habitat preference of biting midges (Ceratopogonidae) as vectors for Schmallenberg-Virus
- Impact of climate on yield steadiness in grain legumes
- Implementing innovative processing technologies for nutrient-dense plant foods (African indigenous vegetables and legumes) to safeguard perennial nutrition security – an East African and Southeast African country comparison
- Implementing innovative processing technologies for nutrient-dense plant foods (African indigenous vegetables and legumes) to safeguard perennial nutrition security– an East African and Southeast African country comparison - subproject 1
- Influence of biomass, land use intensity and productivity on the floristic and microbial diversity in grassland ecosystems (Potentials for the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions at the energy crop cultivation for the biogas production)
- Integrated crop management in precision farming as the central level of the information driven plant production
- Interaction between herbivores and habitat structure (multi-species concept)
- Landscape genetics of insect-pollinated forest soil plants in changing agricultural landscapes
- Legume Futures - Increase the share of legume in European crop rotations
- Model testing of keeping the sheep breed 'Skudden' aorund the year on pastures to maintain the biological diversity of grassland
- Monitoring of indigenous mosquitoes and biting midges (Diptera; Culicidae & Ceratopodonidae) at selected sites in Nordrhein-Westfalen and screening for pathogenic viruses
- Monitoring of vegetation on permanent plots in the Lower Havel area – evaluation of success/effects in the context of nature conservation by contracts
- MUD Soja - Exemplary demonstration network for expanding and improving cultivation and utilisation of soy beans in Germany - Subproject ZALF
- Naturschutz-APP - Development of a Smartphone based documentation of cultivation measures on ecological focus areas in arables and pastures
- New media in the Landscape Planning (Lenné3D)
- Quantification and modelling of the occurrence and distribution of haematophagous arthropods and their roles as potential vectors in various kinds of Landscapesstructures in northeastern Germany with special reference to small water bodies (kettle holes/ Sölle)
- smallFOREST - Biodiversity and ecosystem services of small forest fragments in European landscapes
- SOLID - Sustainable Organic and Low-Input Dairying, Subproject ZALF
- Subproject 2: Environmental impacts of energy crop cultivation (ecological research)
- Sustainable Land Management in the North German lowlands under changing environmental, ecological and social conditions (NaLaMa-nT). Subproject L3: development of agricultural production
- Sustainable Land Management in the North German lowlands under changing environmental, ecological and social conditions (NaLaMa-nT). Subproject L7: agriculture economics
- Systems of cropping energy plants - impacts on soil microbial properties and soil carbon dynamics
- Use strategies for calcareous fen grasslands
- WatEff_ZALF - Arable crop production with efficient use of water and nutrients considering changing rainfall patterns in northeast Germany
- Web-based nutrient management in organic farming
- WWF/Biopark – Agriculture for biodiversity – Development and implementation of a nature conservation standard for organic farms for enhancing biodiversity on farm level
- Year-round pasture keeping of Bentheimer Landschaf and Skudde for the preservation of species-rich grassland
Work package leader of collaborative projects
Involved in research projects
- Characterisation of chemical properties of soil humus (FTIR Spectroscopy, Isotopic analysis) in soil landscapes related to land use changes and corresponding chronosequences
- Cross-sector project 'AgroScapeLabs – Biodiversity Exploratories for agricultural landscapes
- 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
- Development and comparison of optimized cropping systems for the arable prodcution of energy crops for the varying site conditions in Germany - Phase III (EVA III); Modul 2: Ecological effects, Part: Abiotic effects
- EVA II FNR FAL Braunschweig Energy plants irrigation. Subproject 5: Influence of additional irrigation on biogas yield of energy crops
- Further development of the hybrid model YIELDSTAT (Agricultural YIELD estimation based on STATistics) for spatial estimation of crop biomass and crop yield at arable and grasslands for different cropping systems as compatible module for integrated landsacpe models
- Implications of climate change on the sustainability goals in the use of pesticides - Study on the efficiency and adequacy of the measures taken by the Federal Government for the achievement of environmental objectives for a sustainable use of plant protection products
- In situ - Characterisation of soil organic matter on surfaces of preferential flow paths, soil aggregates, and bio pores
- Soil landscapes as sources and sinks for greenhouse gases
- Sustainable Land Use Strategies for Biosphere reserves
- Thematic Knowledge Collection 'Landscape Science' as a virtual centre for a scientific information management of landscape research. Title: 'openLandscapes - The Knowledge Collection for Landscape Science'
Contact
Institute for Land Use Systems
(ZALF-LSE)
Eberswalder Straße 84
15374 Müncheberg
Brandenburg
Germany
Phone: +49 33432 82310
Fax: +49 33432 82387
Email: awerner(@)zalf.de