Sustainable Grassland Systems

 

The working group aims to develop strategies for a sustainable and balanced use of grassland systems by studying their functioning from mechanistic pot experiments, to plot, field and landscape scale. A focus is set on heterogeneous lowlands – supported by spatial proximity with EIP Paulinenaue – but studies expand over environmental gradients throughout Germany. The functional characterization of plant species and communities as elements linking above- and belowground biodiversity and ecosystem services under different management regimes is complemented with remote sensing, aiming to study grassland functioning from the finest root up to the landscape level. ​

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