933308 Soil fertility and soil ecology in organic agriculture
- Type
- Lecture and exercise
- Semester hours
- 2
- Lecturer (assistant)
- Friedl, Johannes , Tiefenbacher, Alexandra
- Organisation
- Offered in
- Sommersemester 2025
- Languages of instruction
- Englisch
- Content
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Introduction Soil fertility: Definition and components, significance in organic farming
Effects of organic farming on the soils: Results of comparative experiments
Selected components of soil fertility and assessment methods
Exercise and practice: Practice in field, application of methods, protocol
- Objective (expected results of study and acquired competences)
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Graduates of this course can
- Identify components of soil fertility (“soil functions”) that are significant in organic farming
- List and apply methods to assess these functions
- Understand dependence of soil functions on soil properties
- Understand interactions between soil minerals, soil organic matter, soil organisms and plants: feedback loops, soil food web, "microbial loop", "active nutrient mobilisation" by plants
- Deduce site-specific particularities and weak points of soil functions
- Understand how they are affected by soil management
- Develop management methods to further soil functions under site-specific conditions
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