OEKB301888 Carbon sequestration and nutrient turnover (in Eng.)

Art
Vorlesung und Übung
Semesterstunden
2
Vortragende/r (Mitwirkende/r)
Hasenauer, Hubert , Hood-Nowotny, Rebecca , Keiblinger, Katharina
Organisation
Bodenforschung
Angeboten im Semester
Wintersemester 2025/26
Unterrichts-/ Lehrsprachen
Englisch
Lehrinhalt

Lectures on Core Topics:
Introduction to the carbon cycle and nitrogen dynamics of ecosystems
Impact of anthropogenic and natural nutrient input on (forest) soils, microbial diversity and soil carbon pools, including EU policies
Nutrient acquisition strategies in forests soils
Experimental approaches to investigate carbon storage in soils
Above ground carbon estimation – What options do we have?
The role of forests in the global carbon cycle
Excursion to the Rosalia and hands on analyses in the field
Seminar on SOC and nutrient measurements as well as calculations
Lehrziel

After successfully completing the course students will be familiar with the fundamentals of biogeochemical cycling of carbon and nutrients. Students understand how these systems work and how different environmental conditions alter element cycles. Students appreciate linkages between carbon and other nutrients. Students make out the physiological process of carbon storage and distribution within biomass. How is carbon storage calculated? There are different ways in assessing the carbon storage of plants and especially for forests. These different procedures are rationalized and how they are used for carbon modeling and its interactions with water, energy and nutrients (BGC Modeling).
When are forests turning from a carbon sink into a carbon source? To solve this question students can design data collection studies and calculation schemes as well as modeling the carbon sequestration of forests. Understanding the challenges of carbon sequestration is supported by the ability to distinguish well-managed forests and soils. Students can design field experiments, they can measure biogenic carbon and nutrient turnover.
Students are able to plan and implement measures that lead to the successful protection of existing organic carbon pools and to biological carbon sequestration. Students can assess climate-smart carbon and nutrient and water management in agriculture and forestry under regional pedoclimatic constraints.
Students know the difficulty in designing collecting and calculating carbon relevant measures for agricultural land and for forests. Which systems are currently in use, why do we have different assessment methods? The role of deadwood. The interaction of above-ground with below-ground carbon processes. The effect of degradation and what methods currently exist for large scale carbon assessment (e.g. from a forest stand to the whole continent).
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