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Balancing of CO2 storage while restoration of moor forests taking the example of the National Park Hunsrück-Hochwald - MoorWaldBilanz
Project
Project code: 28WA4096
Contract period: 01.05.2016
- 30.04.2019
Budget: 688,503 Euro
Purpose of research: Inventory & Assessment
The aim of MoorWaldBilanz is the comprehensive balancing of CO2 storage while restoration of moor forests taking the example of the National Park Hunsrück-Hochwald. The CO2 balance of moor forests is not yet sufficiently investigated. Therefore MoorWaldBilanz plays an important model role. It delivers a contribution both to quantify the carbon fluxes from moor forest ecosystems as well as for monitoring of carbon balances in total. As the project area the newly founded National Park Hunsrück-Hochwald was selected. Worth protecting moors with its moor forests ('Hunsrück Brücher') are characteristic elements of nature in the Hunsrück as moors with a permanent interflow. In order to achieve the project aim, a GIS-based moor register will be created firstly. This moor register informs about the distribution of peat soils and their recent land use, the development of the moors, environmental characterizations and hydrochemical properties. Using the analysis of peat cores and biomass inventories, carbon stocks will be determined for different degradation stages of moors, one hand at a proper time series along current moor restoration activities, and secondly in a “wrong” time series by investigating moors in different degra-dation stages, or after different renaturation dates in the past. The main aim of a comprehensive carbon balancing will be achieved based upon the moor register and upscaling of carbon stocks from moors at different restoration/degradation scenarios.
Section overview
Subjects
- Silviculture
- Soil science
- Climate Change
- Computer science
Funding programme
Excutive institution
Research Institute for Forest Ecology and Forestry Rheinland-Pfalz (FAWF)
