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3.8 Million Euro for German-Russian Research Project
Landscape Ecologists from Münster coordinate research on the impact of climate and land use change in Western Siberia
press release WWU
Münster (upm), 26. September 2011 (german)
The project is part of the BMBF-Funding Measure “Sustainable Land Management“ Module A "Interaction between Land Management, Climate Change and Ecosystem Services".
SASCHA as a German-Russian research project aims to provide basic knowledge and practical management tools to cope with recent and future ecological change and landscape transformation in Western Siberia. The interface between the steppe and the northern forest zone is of global significance in terms of carbon sequestration, food production, and biodiversity. All these subject matters have been and will continue to be affected by climate change and rapid socioeconomic development. Climate-induced agricultural expansion and increasing cultivation of energy plants in this region will trigger fundamental changes in land use. Negative impact on the budgets of greenhouse gases (GHGs), on sustainable soil and water resources management, and on biodiversity are anticipated. The impact of different agricultural land-use types and intensities on various ecosystem goods and services such as carbon sequestration, soil fertility, water resources, and biodiversity in the Tyumen region will be assessed and evaluated. The gained information will be used for (i) developing optimized, long-term, sustainable agricultural land-use practices at farm level, and (ii) for the definition of priority areas for different land-use types and intensities under various scenarios of climate change at landscape level. To apply the project results in an operational planning framework, implementation and monitoring tools will be developed under strict consideration of institutional structures of governance and other socio-economical needs and constraints.
| Sub- project |
Title | Involved German Institutions |
| SP100 | Project Coordination | University of Münster Working Group Ecosystem Research |
| SP200 | Analysis and Monitoring of land cover and current land use change | EFTAS Remote Sensing Transfer of Technology |
| SP300 | Hydrology: Modelling of water and matter balances under global change | Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel Hydrology and Water Resources Management |
| SP400 | Quantification of Greenhouse Gas Fluxes | University of Münster Working Group Climatology |
| SP500 | Sustainable agricultural management and adaptation strategies to climate change | University of Osnabrück Geoecology and Agricultural Ecology and University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück Vegetation Ecology and Botany and Research Group Sustainable Agriculture |
| SP600 | Assessment of carbon stocks and biodiversity values in non-arable ecosystems | University of Münster Working Groups Ecosystem Research and Community Ecology |
| SP700 | Landscape planning for a successful implementation of sustainable management within the Tyumen region | University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück Landscape planning/Landscape management |
| SP800 | Institutions, property rights, governance structures and implementation capacities | Humboldt University Berlin Division of Resource Economics |
Tyumen State University (TSU)
Tyumen State Agricultural Academy (TSAA)
stakeholders from the regional governmental Departments
