Thünen: Projects National Forest Soil Survey

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WO Forest Ecosystems

Scattering and deposition meters on the investigation area of the Integrated Monitoring Program at Stechlinsee, Neuglobsow (Brandenburg).

Continuation of the Integrated Monitoring Program at the Neuglobsow Station (Brandenburg)

The "Integrated Monitoring" (ICP-IM) is an international cooperative program under the Geneva Air Quality Convention that examines the effects of long-range transported air pollutants on ecosystems across multiple locations in Europe. Since June ...

ESP Secretariat

Since 2021, the ESP Secretariat is hosted at the Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries (Thuenen Institute, Germany). The European Soil Partnership is part of a global network of eight regional soil partnerships.

BBZE- Forest

Development of a method to estimate the condition of forest soil properties by a sampling based survey and by regionalisation.

Measuring point with trenching for analysis of soil respiration without root respiration of the trees, Ore Mountains, Saxony

Holistic management practices, modelling and monitoring for European forest soils

Improve and harmonize methods for estimating soil carbon and nitrogen stocks and fluxes in relation to forest management practices, land use history, and their influence on greenhouse gas balance in Europe.

Validation of the national modelling of critical loads

In this project, denitrification and the weathering were evaluated in terms of the critical loads calculation basis.

Validation of the national modelling of critical loads

In this project, denitrification and the weathering were evaluated in terms of the critical loads calculation basis.

A dead beech tree lies in a beech forest (Grumsiner primeval forest).

Carbon and nutrient storage of forest sites

Carbon and nutrient storage of forest sites within the forest monitoring (BZE) of Rhineland-Palatinate

Various structures such as protruding bark pockets, tree hollows, hollow cavities and fungal consoles can be seen on a tree trunk.

Harmonized stand inventory on National Soil Inventory: stand structure, dead wood and biodiversity

Soil characteristics and forest conditions are direct associated. With the harmonized stand inventory standardized information of forest growth, deadwood and forest regeneration are collected for the first time on Soil Inventory Plots in Germany.

Brown earth hillside soil from Rhineland-Palatinate

National Forest Soil Inventory

The BZE characterises the condition of forest soils, identifies changes in forest condition since the first inventory and answers any new research questions, e.g., about carbon inventory.

National Forest Soil Inventory in Germany - Data quality and data management

National Forest Soil Inventory in Germany – Data harmonization, evaluation and quality management

Dead biomass, such as leaf litter, accumulates carbon in forest soils, which is broken down and converted by chemical and biological processes, allowing it to be bound in the short to long term.

Soil Carbon in Forest Soils

Organic carbon stocks and their changes in forest soils

Humus recordings on transects in Saxon forests.

RAVESA II - method to estimate the condition of forest soil properties of waterlogged soils

Development of a method to estimate the condition of forest soil properties of waterlogged soils

Sampling of humus layer and topsoil according to the methodology of the National Forest Soil Inventory in three Saxon test areas.

RAVESA I - Sampling based survey of the soil conditions of forest sites

Development of a method to estimate the condition of forest soil properties by a sampling based survey and by regionalisation.

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