Perspectives of the TERENO-SoilCan lysimeter to improve knowledge of changing climate effects on the prediction of key agro-ecosystems

Key goal of the project is to improve knowledge of changing climate effects on the prediction of key agro-ecosystems outcomes such as yield, biomass, groundwater recharge, ET. Step-1: Crop growth and soil water fluxes at erosion-affected arable sites: Using weighing lysimeter data for model inter-comparison Step-2: How can we predict key agronomic and environmental variables with calibrated crop models – a simulation of the space-for-time approach?” Step-3: “How good can we calibrate soil and crop models based on precision lysimeter data?””

Partners

This activity is organized by a group of the crop-soil modelling initiatives from different research centers as:

• Leibniz Centre for agricultural landscape research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany
• Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, agrosphere, Institute of Bio- and Geoscience IBG-3, Jülich, Germany
• Department of plant and environmental science, university of copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Helmholtz Zentrum München‐German research center for environmental health, Neuherberg, Germany
• Institute of biological and rnvironmental science, university of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
• Institute of soil science and land evaluation, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany