Background: An increasing frequency of massive flooding along the lower Yangtse River in China ended in a disastrous catastrophe in summer 1998 leaving several thousand people homeless, more than 3.600 dead and causing enormous economic damage. Inappropriate land-use techniques and large scale timber felling in the water catchment of the upper Yangtse and its feeder streams were stated to be the main causes. Immediate timber cutting bans were imposed and investigations on land use patterns were initiated by the Chinese Government. The Institute for World Forestry of the Federal Research Centre for Forestry and Forest Products was approached by the Yunnan Academy of Forestry in Kunming to exchange experiences and to cooperate scientifically in the design and application of appropriate afforestation and silvicultural management techniques in the water catchment area of the Yangtse. This cooperation was initiated in 1999 and is based on formal agreements in the fields of agrarian research between the German and Chinese Governments. Objectives: The cooperation was in the first step focussing on the identification of factors which caused the enormous floodings. After their identification measures of prevention were determined and put into practice. In this context experiences made in past centuries in the alpine region of central Europe served as an incentive and example for similar environmental problems and solutions under comparable conditions. Relevant key questions of the cooperation project were: - Analysis of forest related factors influencing the recent floodings of the Yangtse, - Analysis and evaluation of silvicultural management experiences from central Europe for know-how transfer, - Evaluation of rehabilitation measures for successful application in Yunnan, - Dissemination of knowledge through vocational training. Results: - Frequent wild grazing of husbandry is a key factor for forest degeneration beyond unsustainable timber harvests, forest fires and insect calamities leading to increased water run-off in the mountainous region of Yunnan; - Browsing of cattle interrupts succession thus avoiding natural regeneration and leaving a logging ban ineffective; - Mountain pasture in the Alps had similar effects in the past in central Europe. The introduction of controlled grazing has led to an ecologically compatible coexistence of pasture and ecology. Close-to-nature forestry can have positive effects in this sensitive environment. - Afforestation with site adopted broadleaves and coniferous tree species was implemented on demonstration level using advanced techniques in Yunnan.
The development of sustainable and efficient energy conversion processes at interfaces is at the center of the rapidly growing field of basic energy science. How successful this challenge can be addressed will ultimately depend on the acquired degree of molecular-level understanding. In this respect, the severe knowledge gap in electro- or photocatalytic conversions compared to corresponding thermal processes in heterogeneous catalysis is staggering. This discrepancy is most blatant in the present status of predictive-quality, viz. first-principles based modelling in the two fields, which largely owes to multifactorial methodological issues connected with the treatment of the electrochemical environment and the description of the surface redox chemistry driven by the photo-excited charges or external potentials.Successfully tackling these complexities will advance modelling methodology in (photo)electrocatalysis to a similar level as already established in heterogeneous catalysis, with an impact that likely even supersedes the one seen there in the last decade. A corresponding method development is the core objective of the present proposal, with particular emphasis on numerically efficient approaches that will ultimately allow to reach comprehensive microkinetic formulations. Synergistically combining the methodological expertise of the two participating groups we specifically aim to implement and advance implicit and mixed implicit/explicit solvation models, as well as QM/MM approaches to describe energy-related processes at solid-liquid interfaces. With the clear objective to develop general-purpose methodology we will illustrate their use with applications to hydrogen generation through water splitting. Disentangling the electro- resp. photocatalytic effect with respect to the corresponding dark reaction, this concerns both the hydrogen evolution reaction at metal electrodes like Pt and direct water splitting at oxide photocatalysts like TiO2. Through this we expect to arrive at a detailed mechanistic understanding that will culminate in the formulation of comprehensive microkinetic models of the light- or potential-driven redox process. Evaluating these models with kinetic Monte Carlo simulations will unambiguously identify the rate-determining and overpotential-creating steps and therewith provide the basis for a rational optimization of the overall process. As such our study will provide a key example of how systematic method development in computational approaches to basic energy sciences leads to breakthrough progress and serves both fundamental understanding and cutting-edge application.
Dieser Dienst stellt für das INSPIRE-Thema Geologie aus der geologischen Karte im Maßstab 1:25000 umgesetzte Daten, des Landesamt für Umwelt- und Arbeitsschutz bereit.:Spröde bis zähe Strukturen, an denen eine Verschiebung stattgefunden hat.
Auswertung der Abfallbilanzen der öffentlich-rechtlichen Entsorgungsträger und der Betreiberberichte der Abfallentsorgungsanlagen des Landes M-V (z.B. Darstellung der getrennt erfassten Abfälle zur Verwertung, des Aufkommens an Restabfällen aus privaten Haushaltungen sowie der Zusammensetzung der Abfälle).
Die Kompostierung der organischen Haushaltsabfaelle erfolgt auf speziell dafuer eingerichteten Plaetzen. Waehrend des Kompostierungsvorganges werden regelmaessige Messungen von Temperatur und pH-Wert vorgenommen. Das Kompostierungsprodukt wird chemischen Analysen unterzogen, wobei die quantitative Bestimmung von Schadstoffen und von verschiedenen Naehrstoffen wie Stickstoff, Kohlenstoff u.a. im Vordergrund steht. Als Ziel wird die zukuenftige sinnvolle Verwertung der organischen Abfaelle aus den Haushalten in Gartenbau und Landwirtschaft angestrebt.
Comprehension of belowground competition between plant species is a central part in understanding the complex interactions in intercropped agricultural systems, between crops and weeds as well as in natural ecosystems. So far, no simple and rapid method for species discrimination of roots in the soil exists. We will be developing a method for root discrimination of various species based on Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR)-Attenuated Total Reflexion (ATR) Spectroscopy and expanding its application to the field. The absorbance patterns of FTIR-ATR spectra represent the chemical sample composition like an individual fingerprint. By means of multivariate methods, spectra will be grouped according to spectral and chemical similarity in order to achieve species discrimination. We will investigate pea and oat roots as well as maize and barnyard grass roots using various cultivars/proveniences grown in the greenhouse. Pea and oat are recommendable species for intercropping to achieve superior grain and protein yields in an environmentally sustainable manner. To evaluate the effects of intercropping on root distribution in the field, root segments will be measured directly at the soil profile wall using a mobile FTIR spectrometer. By extracting the main root compounds (lipids, proteins, carbohydrates) and recording their FTIR-ATR spectra as references, we will elucidate the chemical basis of species-specific differences.
Ziel dieses Forschungsvorhabens ist es, den in Gebietskoerperschaften anfallenden Gewerbeabfall im Hinblick auf seine stofflichen und thermischen Verwertungspotentiale zu untersuchen. Hierzu werden umfangreiche Studien in verschiedenen Bundeslaendern durchgefuehrt.
Mofetten sind natürliche Gasaustritte, an denen CO2 entlang von Störungszonen aus dem Erdmantel aufsteigt und stellen als solche natürliche Fenster zu magmatischen/vulkanischen Prozessen in der Tiefe dar. Ziel der vorgeschlagenen Untersuchungen an Mofetten ist der physikalische Zusammenhang zwischen Fluideigenschaften, ihrer Migrationspfade und Erdbeben. Der Einsatz modernste Fluidmesstechnik stellt einen komplett neuen Ansatz dar im Vergleich zur Strategie diskreter Probennahmen während der letzten Jahrzehnte. Zusammensetzung und isotopische Signatur der Gase werden kontinuierlich in-situ in verschiedenen Tiefen analysiert. Weltweit einmalig, lassen sich so die aufsteigenden Mantelfluide entlang eines vertikalen Geradienten aus einer Tiefe von mehreren Hundert Metern bis an die Erdoberfläche verfolgen. Dies kann Hinweise auf die Ursache zeitlicher Veränderungen geben, die in Zusammenhang mit der Öffnung von fault-valves, der Zumischung krustaler Fluide zu einer stetigen Mantelentgasung, oder einer möglichen Freisetzung von Wasserstoff bei Bruchvorgängen stehen. Als Untersuchungsobjekt wurde die Hartousov Mofette ausgewählt. Detaillierte Messungen vor, während und nach der Bohrung eines 300 m tiefen Bohrlochs geben Aufschluss über einen möglichen Einfluss der Bohrtätigkeiten auf das lokale und regionale Fluidregime. Periodisch werden Proben zur Edelgasanalytik und detaillierten Isotopenanalyse entnommen. Die Arbeiten stehen in direktem Zusammenhang mit der für 2019 geplanten Fluidbohrung im Rahmen ICDP Projektes 'Drilling the Eger Rift: Magmatic fluids driving the earthquake swarms and the deep biosphere'.
In the last decades agricultural policy has gained increasingly in complexity. Nowadays it influences the food and agricultural sector from the global market down to the farm level. Widespread research questions, like the impact of the WTO negotiations on the farm structure, most often require comprehensive modeling frameworks. Thus, different types of models are utilized according to their comparative advantages and combined in a strategically useful way to more accurately represent micro and macro aspects of the food and agricultural sector. Consequently, in recent years we have seen an increase in the development and application of model linkages. Given this background, the overall objective of this subproject is a systematic sensitivity analysis of model linkages that gradually involves more and more characteristics of the linkage and the corresponding transfer of results between models. In addition, the project aims to answer the following specific question: How does structural change at the farm level influence aggregate supply and technical progress? Under which conditions is it possible to derive macro-relationships from micro-relationships? How does the aggregation level influence the model results and how can possible problems be overcome? This procedure is used to quantify the effects and to derive conditions for optimal interaction of the connected models. The analysis is based on the general equilibrium model GTAP (Global Trade Analysis Project) and the farm group model FARMIS (Farm Modelling Information System) which are employed in conjunction to analyze the effects of WTO negotiations on the farm level.
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