B02

Evolution of Water and Matter Cycles within the Earth’s Critical Zone

Canopy

Image: Hildebrandt group

Project B02 investigates how vegetation-induced spatial heterogeneity of water and matter fluxes caused by canopies, root uptake, and soil properties affect in concert the partitioning of water fluxes between evapotranspiration and deep percolation, as well as export of nitrogen from the rooting zone. We seek to reveal the causes of underlying spatial input and output patterns and thus rendering them predictable. For this, we use a nested observation network with a design targeted at concerted evaluation of above- and belowground process.

Project Leader

Anke Hildebrandt Image: Sebastian Wiedling (UFZ)

Prof. Dr. Anke Hildebrandt

Chair of Terrestrial Ecohydrology
Institute of Geoscience
Friedrich Schiller University
Burgweg 11
07743 Jena
Phone: +49 (0)3641 948720
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Joint appointed professorship with the
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Department of Computational Hydrosystems
Permoser Str. 13
04318 Leipzig
Phone: +49 (0)3641 235-482238
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