Vulnerabilität und Resilienz von Böden unter unterschiedlichem Rangeland Management

• Antragsteller: Professor Dr. Wulf Amelung; Professor Dr. Jörg Löffler
• Mitantragsteller: Professor Dr. Chris C. du Preez
• Fachliche Zuordnung: Bodenwissenschaften
• Förderung: Förderung von 2010 bis 2017
• Projektkennung: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 165405448

This project aims to elucidate how sensitive and to which extent soil properties respond to different rangeland management in the grassland and savannah biome of semiarid South Africa, and to figure out to which degree changes of the ecosystems are perceived and caused by farmers’ decisions. We hypothesise that both ecosystems respond differently to rangeland degradation: in the savannah biome bush encroachment leads to an improvement of the soil quality, whereas in grasslands degradation of the soils proceeds with intensified management.

• DFG-Verfahren: Forschungsgruppen
• Teilprojekt zu: FOR 1501: Resilience, Collapse and Reorganisation in Social-Ecological Systems of East- and South Africa’s Savannahs
• Internationaler Bezug: Südafrika