ZALF

Working Group II

Understanding the relationships between spatiotemporal patterns of soil properties and processes is a prerequisite for predicting the effects of climate and land use change on landscape functioning. Soil landscape modelling applies statistical and process-based models in order to describe these relationships.

Our research in soil landscape modelling focuses on the topics:

phenomenological modelling of relationships between soil properties, terrain and land use parameters
process-based modelling of carbon dynamics in landscapes especially with regard to soil erosion processes, including feedback mechanisms to climate and land use changes
modelling of soil landscape development.

Another focus of our research is landscape ecological modelling, since our modelling techniques represent a key approach in quantitative landscape ecology and conservation biology. Here, we apply species distribution models to predict the effects of climate and land use change on the spatiotemporal distribution of species and the composition of communities.

Directorate
Institutes
	Landscape Systems Analysis
	Land Use Systems
	Socio-Economics
	Landscape Hydrology
	Soil Landscape Research
	Landscape Matter Dynamics
	Deutsches Entomologisches Institut
Junior Scientists
Administration
Central Services
ZALF Staff
Promotion of Young Academics-Persons