Upscaling spatio-temporal patterns of crop processes (B05)

• Subject Area: Plant Cultivation, Plant Nutrition, Agricultural Technology
• Term: from 2010 to 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 15232683

The effect of soil heterogeneity and management practices on the dynamic change of growth ecophysiology patterns of major crop types cultivated in the Rur catchment will be characterized. Experimental, modeling and scaling approaches are applied to improve the vegetation surface characterization in TerrSysMP. Coupling shoot-root models, effects of land-use change and management on flux patterns, and the inclusion of remote-sensing approaches for quantifying plant functional type parameters are particularly emphasized.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 32: Patterns in Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere Systems: Monitoring, Modelling and Data Assimilation
• Applicant Institution: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Frank Ewert; Professor Dr. Matthias Langensiepen; Dr. Mark Van Wijk, until 12/2014; Professor Dr. Björn Waske, until 12/2014