Project vehicles for the "Exploratories for large-scale and long-term functional biodiversity research"

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Markus Fischer
• Subject Area: Ecology and Biodiversity of Plants and Ecosystems
• Term: from 2009 to 2011
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 108215840

We propose to acquire three low-budget vehicles for the local management teams of the three exploratories to support the plot maintenance and transport of research personnel and their work materials. The previously granted Toyota Hilux pickups have been extensively used by the local management team to support the inventorying of the 1000 study plots and the establishment of the 100 experimental plots within each exploratory. However, due to larger distances and more frequent parallel actions than anticipated this was not sufficient to conduct all work tasks that needed to be accomplished simultaneously. Therefore, private cars of the manager, forester and technical staff were used frequently. One additional vehicle per exploratory is mandatory for ensuring plot maintenance and transportation tasks and will also substantially reduce the costs for privately used cars.

• DFG Programme: Infrastructure Priority Programmes
• Subproject of: SPP 1374: Biodiversity Exploratories