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ACTUATE: climate Adaptation sCenariosTo redUcethe impActsof exTremeEvents:

In Actuate we employ a novel modelling approach to show the effects extreme events under climate change. We use LandscapeDNDC to estimate their effects on agriculture and assess how to mitigate yield losses through different adaption techniques.

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Funding period: 2025-2028

Contact at IMK-IFU:
Lioba Martin
Dr. Clemens Scheer

MinDen - Measures for the reduction of emissions from denitrification

Denitrification is an important nitrogen loss pathway in agriculture. In the MinDen project, the effects of crop protection measures (fertilization, soil tillage and crop rotation) on denitrification are investigated.

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Funding period: 2022-2026

Contact at IMK-IFU:
Dr. Kathrin Fuchs
Dr. Conor Simpson
Dr. Benjamin Wolf
Dr. Clemens Scheer

The project KUHMUS-Beweidung, funded by the Bavarian State Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Tourism (Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft, Forsten und Tourismus, StMELF), is the first in Bavaria to systematically analyse the influence of grazing on carbon storage in the soil. The aim is to assess its potential to reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint of Bavarian milk production.

Funding period: 2024-2025

Contact at IMK-IFU:
Dr. David Piatka
Dr. Elisabeth Ramm
PD Dr. Michael Dannenmann

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LiWeFor

The main aim of LiWeFor is to establish and develop a global network of Living Labs of wetland forest research, education and management. The project team consists of the University of Helsinki and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology as top-class research counterparts and the University of Tartu as the recipient.

As a driving vehicle of the project, four joint field campaigns to global greenhouse gas emission hotspots in tropical wetland forest regions (Peru and Malaysia) will enforce educational knowledge transfer. In addition to training, this exploratory research component binds together other activities from all partners.

Funding period: 2023-2025

Contact at IMK-IFU:
Dr. Elizabeth Wangari Gachibu
Dr. David Piatka
PD Dr. Ralf Kiese

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Storyline Scenarios of Extreme Weather, Climate, and Environmental Events along with their Impacts in a Warmer World

Using a novel storyline approach results of climate change should be made more tangible. It IMK-IFU, we use ecosystem modelling to assess the impacts on agricultural production as well as greenhouse gas fluxes.

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Funding: Helmholtz Innopool, Funding Period: 2022 – 2025

Contact at IMK-IFU:
Lioba Martin
Dr. Clemens Scheer

Mitigation Assessments for Rice produced in Southeast Asia (MARSA):
DFG Transfer Project
Development of a digital platform based on process-based modelling for quantification of greenhouse gas emissions from rice-based agricultural systems in Vietnam

Funding period: 2022 - 2025

Contact at IMK-IFU:
Dr. David Kraus
Dr. Ralf Kiese

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ITMS: The Integrated Greenhouse Gas Monitoring System – or in German: Integriertes Treibhausgas-Monitoringsystem (ITMS) – will enable Germany to monitor operationally the sources and sinks of the three most important long-lived greenhouse gases CO₂, CH₄, N₂O with the help of independent measurements.

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Funding period: 2023 - 2026

Contact at IMK-IFU:
Dr. Hannes Imhof
Dr. Andrew Smerald
PD Dr. Ralf Kiese
Dr. Clemens Scheer

The overall objective of CircAgric-GHG is to enhance circularity within and between farm typologies across an agro-ecological gradient, including farms located in the arctic, oceanic, continental, mediterranean and tropic climate. Solutions will be achieved by the combined efforts of scientists, stakeholders and use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) including satellite and drone remote sensing, flux-tower and GreenFeed monitoring of livestock and soil emissions, and state-of-the-art environmental modelling.

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Funding period: 2022 - 2025

Contact at IMK-IFU:
Anna-Lena Müller
Dr. Clemens Scheer

Functional rhizosphere traits are of fundamental importance to increase resistance and resilience of yields to future climate change. Future agroecosystems in South Germany will suffer from increasing abiotic stress such as summer droughts. Are key rhizosphere traits capable of increasing the resistance and resilience of crops under drought in order to secure yields? To answer this question, a comparative approach is chosen in this project.
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Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research

duration: 2020 - 2027

Contact at IMK-IFU:
Dr. Carolin Boos
PD Dr. Ralf Kiese

MINCA: MItigation of Nitrogen pollution at CAtchment scale

Funded by: German Research Foundation (DFG)
Funding period: 2019 – 2022

Contact at IMK-IFU:
Dr. David Kraus
Dr. Elizabeth Wangari Gachibu

Cooperation:
Department of Landscape Ecology and Resources Management, Justus-Liebig University, Gießen

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SUSALPS: Sustainable USe of ALPine and pre-alpine grassland Soils in a changing climate

The aim of the SUSALPS project is to improve our knowledge on the effects of current and future climate and management on ecosystem functions performed by grasslands.

Funding period: 2015 to 2025

Contact at IMK-IFU:
Dr. David Piatka
Dr. Elisabeth Ramm
PD Dr. Ralf Kiese
PD Dr. Michael Dannenmann

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Setup of automated measuring system at IBAN field site near Niederselters

IBAN: Integrative assessment of N turnover processes for optimizing nitrogen efficiency

IBAN project investigates the impact of nitrogen management on all environmentally relevant reactive nitrogen compounds, including N₂, providing a substantial increase in knowledge with the objective of improving nutrient efficiency.

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The Sino-German NIFROCLIM project aims at a holistic, process-based and functional understanding of the gross nitrogen turnover as well as associated nitrous oxide (N₂O) emissions regarding the main ecosystems in the permafrost region of Northeast China.

It is jointly funded by DFG and NSFC and involves several institutes and disciplines, including soil biogeochemistry (Michael Dannenmann, KIT-IMK/IFU), atmospheric physics (Chunyan Liu, IAP-CAS), soil science (Carsten W. Mueller, University of Copenhagen) and microbiology (Michael Schloter, TUM+Helmholtz Zentrum München).

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MOPGA: Make Our Planet Great Again: reactive Nitrogen

This project investigates the relationships between food production, fertilizer use and climate change. It particularly focusses on the effects of land use and farming on the exchange of greenhouse gases between soils, plants and the atmosphere. The aim is to develop strategies for producing larger volumes of food at a lower environmental cost.

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UPSCALERS project is an innovative research-for-development projected aimed at integrating climate, crop, and livestock systems to achieve the maximum benefits.

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NIVEP: Minimizing Nitrogen Environmental Impacts in Intensive Greenhouse Vegetable Production Systems of China

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ResidueGas will document an improved methodology to quantify N₂O emissions from agricultural crop residues management. ResidueGas will further identify and communicate best practice for crop residue management strategies with respect to their net greenhouse gas effect in terms of N₂O emissions and SOC storage.

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