Spatio-temporal scaling of the impacts of land-use and climate change in land transformation systems in Indonesia (A07)

• Subject Area: Ecology and Biodiversity of Plants and Ecosystems
• Term: from 2016 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 192626868

In this project we aim to investigate the impact of land transformation and climate change on biogeochemical cycles using the Community Land Model. After developing new components for oil palm and rubber in Phase 2, we use now CLM5-EFForTS to focus on management and plantation age effects as well as on spatio-temporal scaling. In WP1, we perform leaf gas exchange measurements within the Landscape Assessment to improve model parameterisation. In WP2, we incorporate findings from the Oil Palm Management Experiment on N fertilisation. In WP3, we assess how carbon, water and nitrogen fluxes vary in space and time. In WP4, we will quantify how land-use and climate change affect biogeochemical fluxes in Indonesia.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 990: Ecological and Socioeconomic Functions of Tropical Lowland Rainforest Transformation Systems (Sumatra, Indonesia)
• Applicant Institution: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Alexander Knohl; Professor Dr. Edzo Veldkamp