Open AccessResearch at the Agrosphere Institute: From the Process Scale to the Catchment Scale
Author(s) -
Vereecken H.,
Burauel P.,
Groeneweg J.,
Klumpp E.,
Mittelstaedt W.,
Narres H.-D.,
Pütz T.,
Kruk J.,
Vanderborght J.,
Wendland F.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
vadose zone journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.036
H-Index - 81
ISSN - 1539-1663
DOI - 10.2136/vzj2008.0143
Subject(s) - terrestrial ecosystem , biogeochemical cycle , environmental science , scale (ratio) , catchment hydrology , vadose zone , soil water , earth science , ecosystem , hydrology (agriculture) , portfolio , environmental resource management , geography , ecology , soil science , engineering , geology , business , cartography , geotechnical engineering , finance , biology
Global change is increasingly affecting our terrestrial ecosystem, including the filtering and buffering capacity of soils, the supply of clean water, and the production of food, feed, and fiber. This article introduces a portfolio of papers in a special section of Vadose Zone Journal addressing flow, transport and biogeochemical processes of terrestrial ecosystems. The articles document research at the Agrosphere Institute, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany. They are organized along three major themes of research at Agrosphere: functional analysis of soils and sediments, development of sensing methods to explore terrestrial systems, and modeling of flow and transport processes of terrestrial systems.